top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-12

“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/45588301/woolfe-the-red-hood-diaries/posts/1168409

11 years ago

645 upvotes – 374 comments

Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/aug/10/attack-on-the-pentagon-results-in-discovery-of-new-mathematical-tile

11 years ago

472 upvotes – 123 comments

GitHub Desktop is now available

https://github.com/blog/2046-github-desktop-is-now-available

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 241 comments

Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/12/ohm-is-a-smarter-lighter-car-battery-that-works-with-your-existing-car/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 256 comments

Projects and Companies

http://blog.samaltman.com/projects-and-companies

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 48 comments

IPython 4.0 Released

http://blog.jupyter.org/2015/08/12/first-release-of-jupyter/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 31 comments

An explosion in Tianjin, China [video]

http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:f2df4e43a94dc5caa90960ecf2b89c44

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 78 comments

Comparison of machine learning libraries used for classification

https://github.com/szilard/benchm-ml

11 years ago

★ 1.8k R MIT
193 upvotes – 34 comments

A Miserable Debt-Free Life

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=4316

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 180 comments

For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660919-only-second-time-our-history-ownership-economist-changes-new-chapter

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 143 comments

Russia bans Reddit

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/08/12/russia-bans-reddit

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 105 comments

How Cheap Can Solar Get?

http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/10/how-cheap-can-solar-get-very-cheap-indeed/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 130 comments

Squeak 5 is out

http://news.squeak.org/2015/08/12/squeak-5-is-out/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/removing-the-140-character-limit-from-direct-messages

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 126 comments

Deep Learning Courses

https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-courses

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 23 comments

ExDOS is developed by Omar, “almost 14 years old”

http://exdos.eu.pn/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 83 comments

AppHub – Update React Native Apps Without Re-Submitting to Apple

https://apphub.io/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 67 comments

Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service

https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2015/aug/12/open-sourcing-grid-image-service

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 25 comments

How I develop with Nix

https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-with-nixos.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux Assembly How To: “Hello, World”

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/hello.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person

http://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Niantic Labs splitting from Google

https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/GVvbYZzWyTT

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask PG: How is Arc coming along?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10048330

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 47 comments

2015 Engineering Salaries Reviewed

http://rivierapartners.com/engineering-salaries-reviewed-3/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 92 comments

Octopus’ sophistication driven by hundreds of previously unknown genes

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/octopus-sophistication-driven-by-hundreds-of-previously-unknown-genes/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 7 comments

An interactive Python profiler

https://github.com/what-studio/profiling

11 years ago

★ 2.9k Python BSD-3-Clause
108 upvotes – 8 comments

Docker 1.8 released

http://blog.docker.com/2015/08/docker-1-8-content-trust-toolbox-registry-orchestration/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Stronger Shell

http://m.odul.us/blog/2015/8/12/stronger-shell

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 77 comments

Integration over Invention

http://blog.convox.com/integration-over-invention

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

Introducing Docker Content Trust

https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/content-trust-docker-1-8/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

Netflix – Chasing 60fps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01dGsKbXOk

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 72 comments

Future Node.js releases will be from the io.js repo

https://github.com/nodejs/node#cnv

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
98 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Find a home close to work

https://www.openlistings.co/near

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

The San Francisco Rent Explosion Part III

http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-part-iii/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 104 comments

The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=535

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 90 comments

Remind HN: The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047898

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

A Minimal Architecture for General Cognition [pdf]

http://axon.cs.byu.edu/mrsmith/2015IJCNN_MANIC.pdf

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047444

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

The slinky machine: a slinky escalator

http://woodgears.ca/toys/slinky.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

BPMN 2.0 rendering toolkit and web modeler

http://bpmn.io/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

A Look at Embedded WiFi Development Boards

https://blog.fusiondigital.io/the-internet-of-things-a-look-at-embedded-wifi-development-boards-7abee1311711?source=your-stories

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Relaunched TrueCrypt site with original content and documentation

https://www.truecrypt71a.com

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

S3 and High Availability

https://blog.movableink.com/s3-and-high-availability/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

SourceDNA (YC S15) finds hidden security and quality flaws in apps

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/11/sourcedna-launches-searchlight-a-developer-tool-to-find-coding-problems-in-any-app/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

Commuting Kills

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2015/08/commuting-kills/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Why I'm Selling My Google Stock Grant

http://www.avesh.me/tech/2015/8/10/why-im-selling-my-google-stock

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 55 comments

Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)

http://github.com/ajvb/kala

11 years ago

★ 2.1k Go MIT
64 upvotes – 31 comments

Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 3

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

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Skin Microstructure Deformation with Displacement Map Convolution

http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SkinStretch/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Kodak’s First Digital Moment

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/kodaks-first-digital-moment/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure)

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/htc-is-now-essentially-worthless-and-insecure/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

Dalga: Job scheduler written in Go

https://github.com/cenkalti/dalga

11 years ago

★ 248 Go MIT
56 upvotes – 14 comments

What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? (2009)

http://nymag.com/news/features/56609/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Observational Signatures of Self-Destructive Civilisations

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08530

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33860778

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Startups.co to Acquire Zirtual, Service to Resume

https://www.startups.co/articles/acquire-zirtual-service-to-resume

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

The Last Kings of Donkey Kong

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-last-kings-of-donkey-kong-high-score/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments
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