top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-03

The Web We Have to Save

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

11 years ago

760 upvotes – 238 comments

The Unemployable Programmer

http://unemployable.pen.io/

11 years ago

513 upvotes – 449 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333

11 years ago

504 upvotes – 970 comments

LLVM for Grad Students

http://adriansampson.net/blog/llvm.html

11 years ago

439 upvotes – 50 comments

Postgres Guide

http://www.postgresguide.com/

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 51 comments

My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/03/life-unmasking-british-eavesdroppers/

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 106 comments

“Googles 'vertical center div css' for the 100th time. reads for 7 minutes”

http://www.bleonard.com/blog/2015/08/01/teaching-css/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 111 comments

Python Wheels

http://pythonwheels.com/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 103 comments

Hello Ruby – Almost there

http://blog.helloruby.com/post/123541664623/almost-there

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 122 comments

Joining a Different YC

http://blog.ycombinator.com/joining-a-different-yc

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 132 comments

The Fastest Blog in the World

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-fastest-blog-in-the-world

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 125 comments

Pixar Online Library

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 11 comments

New React DevTools Beta

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/08/03/new-react-devtools-beta.html

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 11 comments

Soylent 2.0

http://blog.soylent.com/post/125754565787/soylent-20-use-less-do-more

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 227 comments

A 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-390-year-old-tree-that-survived-an-atomic-bomb/2015/08/02/3f824dae-3945-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 40 comments

Disney's Hyperion Renderer

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/innovations/hyperion

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 44 comments

The Most Dangerous Code in the Web Browser

http://stefanheule.com/blog/posts/2015-06-28/the-most-dangerous-code-in-the-web-browser/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 64 comments

California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-03/california-regulator-mary-nichols-may-transform-the-auto-industry

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 204 comments

Automated reasoning in F#, Scala, Haskell, C++, and Julia

http://phdp.github.io/posts/2015-04-05-automated-reasoning.html

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/google-france-we-wont-forget-it-you-wholesale

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 142 comments

Tech industry's persistent claim of worker shortage may be phony

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150802-column.html#page=1

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 189 comments

The Post-Mac Interface

https://medium.com/@twomonthsoff/the-post-mac-interface-1031b94df77b

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 57 comments

GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science

http://gitxiv.com/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997643

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 87 comments

Why Write Python in Visual Studio?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/08/03/why-write-python-in-visual-studio.aspx

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 114 comments

Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part3/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 10 comments

How I Gave Up Alternating Current

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 137 comments

EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard

https://threatpost.com/eff-adblock-and-others-launch-new-do-not-track-standard/114121

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 121 comments

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

PagerDuty hacked. And finally comes clean 21 days later

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/31/incident_managers_pagerduty_pwned/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 17 comments

IBM to Open Source 50 Projects

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/07/ibm-developerworks-open?utm_source=hacker%20news&utm_medium=link&utm_content=ibm%20open%20source%20news&utm_campaign=external

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 16 comments

JavaScript is the C++ of the Web

http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/08/02/javascript-is-the-c-of-the-web/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 77 comments

Matchstick to refund everyone's money

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-the-streaming-stick-built-on-firefox-os/posts/1266549

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996335

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 170 comments

What the ad blocker debate reveals

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-debate-reveals/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 155 comments

Wind turbines in Denmark reached record level in 2014

http://energinet.dk/EN/El/Nyheder/Sider/Vindmoeller-slog-rekord-i-2014.aspx

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

8088 MPH: The final version

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/8088-mph-the-final-version/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

The Internet Archive Wants to Digitize 40,000 VHS and Betamax Tapes (2014)

http://www.fastcompany.com/3028069/the-internet-archive-is-digitizing-40000-vhs-tapes

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Cljs2go – A ClojureScript to Go compiler

https://github.com/hraberg/cljs2go

11 years ago

★ 211 Go EPL-1.0
98 upvotes – 13 comments

Mapping how the United States generates its electricity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

If we stand still, we go backwards

https://jakearchibald.com/2015/if-we-stand-still-we-go-backwards/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

RE: What's so cool about Scheme? (2003)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03277.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Modern ClojureScript

https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs

11 years ago

★ 2.9k Clojure
83 upvotes – 11 comments

Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing

http://sankho.github.io/web_log/2015/08/02/vim-8-takeaways-from-one-year-of-typing.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 96 comments

You May Have Seen My Face on BART

https://medium.com/@isisAnchalee/you-may-have-seen-my-face-on-bart-8b9561003e0f

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.3.3

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

Twitter’s stock falls toward IPO-level prices

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/twitter-collapses-5-tumbling-toward-ipo-level-prices/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Publicize – PR for Startups

http://publicize.co

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Feynman's concept of scientific integrity

http://paulromer.net/feynman-integrity/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Programming fonts

http://s9w.github.io/font_compare/?rp

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 69 comments

Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet

http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Cache-optimizing a priority queue

http://playfulprogramming.blogspot.com/2015/08/cache-optimizing-priority-queue.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

Organizing Files (2005)

http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6377

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Autodesk Stingray Game Engine

http://stingrayengine.com/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 52 comments

Garbage Collection, Without the Noise or the Smell

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/nyregion/garbage-collection-without-the-noise-or-the-smell.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996334

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 96 comments

Introducing Linodes in Frankfurt

https://blog.linode.com/2015/08/03/introducing-linodes-in-frankfurt/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

The Museum of Modern Art Research Dataset

https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/

11 years ago

★ 1.5k CC0-1.0
61 upvotes – 15 comments

What are SDF's origins and history?

http://sdf.org/?faq?BASICS?02

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon Cuts Down on Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/amazon-cuts-down-on-prime-members-sharing-their-benefits/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Checking a Claimed BQP=NP Algorithm

http://algorithmicassertions.com/quantum/2015/08/01/Checking-a-Claimed-BQP-NP-Algorithm.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 2 comments

Hackathon DevOps 101

http://blog.devpost.com/post/114493741397/hackathon-devops-101

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

A Scheme Interpreter for ARM Microcontrollers

http://armpit.sourceforge.net/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Saving Zelda (2012)

http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 51 comments
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