top 50% 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

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

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

http://deconcentration-of-attention.com

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 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

The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33542392

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 91 comments

Vancouver’s high-tech hurdle: Attracting top-level talent

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/vancouver-tech-scene/article25885653/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 104 comments

Essentially contested concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially_contested_concept

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

How many lives does a doctor save?

https://80000hours.org/2012/08/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 56 comments

Plate IQ (YC S15) Turns Paper Invoices into Predictive Insights

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/08/plate-iq/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Python metaclasses

http://ivansmirnov.io/python-metaclasses

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

The Internet of Compromised Things

http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

User with Muslim name blocked from downloading Sophos AV for Mac

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/07/sophos_anti_muslim_name_filter/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 29 comments

Digital Bodleian Library

http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Reminiscences of Grothendieck and His School (2010) [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/201009/rtx100901106p.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots to a Mostly-Deliveries Company

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/08/05/sidecar-pivots-to-mostly-deliveries-company/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/tech-firm-ubiquiti-suffers-46m-cyberheist/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments
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