top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-16

I made a cell phone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRa-iH7PGw

11 years ago

487 upvotes – 79 comments

Understand 1,700 Mechanical Linkages with These Helpful Animations

http://makezine.com/2015/04/20/understand-1700-mechanical-linkages-helpful-animations/

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 65 comments

OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

https://github.com/kpwn/tpwn

11 years ago

★ 394 Objective-C
278 upvotes – 134 comments

The network is hostile

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/08/the-network-is-hostile.html

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 93 comments

GPS Trackers in Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/08/12/431908397/gps-trackers-in-fake-elephant-tusks-reveal-ivory-smuggling-route

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 66 comments

Beware of sudo on OS X

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/08/psa-beware-of-sudo-on-os-x.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 92 comments

Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015

http://www.p01.org/releases/BLCK4777/BLCK4777_safe.htm

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 64 comments

CPAN is 20

http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/08/cpan-is-20.html

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 37 comments

Inside Amazon

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/08/16/Working-at-Amazon

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 98 comments

Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 48 comments

Rust web framework, Iron

http://ironframework.io/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 111 comments

Why is Bitcoin forking?

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1?1

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 81 comments

Developers who can build things from scratch

http://www.aaronstannard.com/engineers-from-scratch/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 43 comments

A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest

http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 45 comments

Bash Pitfalls

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

The Interactive Way to Go

http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

Terminal Window Manager for OS X

https://github.com/apaszke/termtile

11 years ago

★ 1.2k AppleScript MIT
106 upvotes – 74 comments

Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence

http://www.nature.com/news/octopus-genome-holds-clues-to-uncanny-intelligence-1.18177

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Why did literate programming not catch on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10069748

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 98 comments

Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (2013)

http://neverstopbuilding.com/minimax

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

Bike Commuting to Work in Los Angeles

http://www.williamha.com/bike-commuting-to-work-in-los-angeles/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Heim – A real-time community platform

https://github.com/euphoria-io/heim

11 years ago

★ 868 Go
85 upvotes – 36 comments

A* Search

https://kartikkukreja.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/a-star-search/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Remove anti-privacy, anti-security, and general nuisance “features” from Win 10

https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

I No Longer Have Any Trust in the Nest Protect

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nest-Protect-Fail&ut

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition

https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/deep-learning-for-assisting-the-process-of-music-composition-part-1/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

An Amazonian's Response to the NYT's “Inside Amazon” Article

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazonians-response-inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-nick-ciubotariu

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

MergeShuffle: A Very Fast, Parallel Random Permutation Algorithm

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03167

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981)

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/us/changing-san-francisco-is-foreseen-as-a-haven-for-wealthy-and-childless.html?l=0

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 94 comments

Anna Mikusheva refines time-series econometrics tools to improve forecasting

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/timing-devices-anna-mikusheva-0813

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less

https://github.com/dfkt/firefox-tweaks/blob/master/firefox-tweaks.txt

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 64 comments

Marvin Minsky's Homepage

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

Why we travel

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f6653b82-4023-11e5-9abe-5b335da3a90e.html#slide0

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Will Unix become the next MS-DOS? (1985) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8G1qg99Kl4

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 53 comments

MovieLens – Non-Commercial, Personalized Movie Recommendation System

https://movielens.org/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

ReactJS for Stupid People (2014)

http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

A classic cracking challenge

http://3564020356.org/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Search-Script-Scrape: Web scraping exercises in Python 3 for data journalists

https://github.com/compjour/search-script-scrape/

11 years ago

★ 1.2k Python
61 upvotes – 12 comments

Point clouds in ThreeJS

http://potree.org/wp/demo/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Linux-Insides: Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, Part 10

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/interrupts/interrupts-10.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
60 upvotes – 1 comments
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