top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-08

Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks

http://www.hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/composing-music-with-recurrent-neural-networks/

11 years ago

443 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027102

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 200 comments

Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”

http://www.catchynet.com/2015/08/japanese-mini-segway-walkcar.html

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 133 comments

BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies

https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/eric-merritt-erlang-and-distributed-systems-expert-gives-his-views-on-beam-languages-hindley-a09b15f53a2f

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 86 comments

The website is unknown – How DNS works

https://howdns.works/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Best resources on webapp security?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027055

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

A collection of postmortems

https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

11 years ago

★ 12k
152 upvotes – 16 comments

Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer

http://www.paradeofrain.com/2015/08/06/five-years-of-being-a-full-time-indie/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 70 comments

Bringing Intel Xeon to notebook PCs

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2015/08/bringing-intel-xeon-to-notebook-pcs/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 116 comments

When would you choose Erlang? (2013)

http://blog.troutwine.us/2013/07/10/choose_erlang.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/ibm-adds-medical-images-to-watson-buying-merge-healthcare-for-1-billion/?ref=technology&_r=0

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 43 comments

Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2012)

http://deconcentration-of-attention.com

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-disappearance-of-the-worlds-greatest-free-diver

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

Distributed Hash Table Protocol (2008)

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

GitHub Puts Open Code of Conduct on Pause

https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/84

11 years ago

★ 229 HTML CC-BY-4.0
88 upvotes – 126 comments

Credit cards used on cvsphoto.com may have been compromised

http://www.cvsphoto.com/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Type-checked matrix operations in Rust

https://jadpole.github.io/rust/typechecked-matrix/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP

http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Frys-Electronics-Inc

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 111 comments

Krill: A terminal feed reader supporting RSS and Twitter

https://github.com/p-e-w/krill

11 years ago

★ 795 Python
69 upvotes – 19 comments

The dwarves of Auschwitz (2013)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/23/the-dwarves-of-auschwitz

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments
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