top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-09

Change Your Name

http://paulgraham.com/name.html

11 years ago

355 upvotes – 336 comments

VPaint: An experimental vector graphics editor

http://www.vpaint.org/

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030516

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 122 comments

Parallels Between Math and Software Engineering

https://beta.oreilly.com/ideas/striking-parallels-between-mathematics-and-software-engineering

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 90 comments

Nvidia Digits DevBox

https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 150 comments

Exploiting Android Users

http://www.codeword.xyz/2015/08/09/exploiting-android-users-for-fun-and-profit/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 63 comments

Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/08/why-you-should-be-reading-liu-cixin-chinas-hottest-science-fiction-writer

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 81 comments

The World's Finest Panama Hat

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/08/08/340682706/hes-just-woven-the-worlds-finest-panama-hat-but-who-will-buy-it

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

Deleting your browser history could land you in prison

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/13910/sox-browser-history-obstruction-justice/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

I’m Too Old for This

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/fashion/im-too-old-for-this.html?_r=0

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 136 comments

Hidden Injustice: County Counsel Works to Keep OC's Snitch Scandal Under Wraps

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/07/orange_county_sheriff_department_district_attorney_snitch_court_scandal.php

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

A Hacker's Guide to Risk [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/Speaker%20&%20Workshop%20Materials/Bruce%20Potter/DEFCON-23-Bruce-Potter-Hackers-Guide-to-Risk.pdf

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

The economics of a web-based book, year two

http://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Best Linux sandbox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030868

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Scientists have synthesized a new compound that ‘mimics’ exercise

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/07/27/scientists-have-synthesized-new-compound-that-mimics-exercise-could-a-workout-pill-be-far-behind/?wprss=rss_homepage

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 77 comments

Agda Tutorial

http://people.inf.elte.hu/divip/AgdaTutorial/Index.html#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: A toy ray tracer in Rust

https://github.com/Twinklebear/tray_rust

11 years ago

★ 521 Rust MIT
77 upvotes – 5 comments

Linux-insides: Introduction to deferred interrupts

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/interrupts/interrupts-9.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
75 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Tmux plugin manager

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm

11 years ago

★ 14.5k Shell MIT
73 upvotes – 21 comments

Porting LibreOffice to GTK3 [pdf]

http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/guadec2015/GUADEC-2015-GTK3.pdf

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

Seaweed-FS: simple distributed file system written in Go

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs

11 years ago

★ 19 Go Apache-2.0
67 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Las Vegas has coped well with drought so far

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21660546-why-las-vegas-has-coped-well-drought-so-far-concrete-oasis

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments

MQTT – machine-to-machine connectivity protocol

http://mqtt.org/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

How to make a book with Pollen

http://pollenpub.com/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/08/opera-software-ma-idUSL5N10J09C20150808

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 52 comments

Distributing files via DNS

http://www.cambus.net/distributing-files-via-dns

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

The Not-So-Universal Language of Laughter

https://research.facebook.com/blog/1605690073053884/the-not-so-universal-language-of-laughter/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 2

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part2/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Implementing a Sticky Input Field in iOS

https://medium.com/@meiwin/a-stickler-for-details-implementing-sticky-input-fields-in-ios-f88553d36dab

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

The man making puzzles for hackers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33817029

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

C++ Internals: STL Vector, Part 3

http://www.gahcep.com/cpp-internals-stl-vector-part-3/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

US Army Field Manual: Basic Cryptanalysis (1990)

http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Tracing JITs and modern CPUs part 3: A bad case

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/8

11 years ago

★ 566
51 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Pyexperiment

https://github.com/duerrp/pyexperiment

11 years ago

★ 183 Python MIT
49 upvotes – 26 comments

Nissan vs. Nissan (2008)

http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

PLEAC-Haskell

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_haskell/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Filesystem mounts in user namespaces

https://lwn.net/Articles/652468/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments
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