top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-20

Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-stockfighter-our-programming-game/

11 years ago

365 upvotes – 155 comments

The Post-YC Slump

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-post-yc-slump

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 169 comments

Imba – A new programming language for the web

http://imba.io/

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 171 comments

Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33977636

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 233 comments

Work Hard, Live Well

https://medium.com/@moskov/work-hard-live-well-ead679cb506d

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 160 comments

LLVM Foundation Granted 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status

http://blog.llvm.org/2015/08/llvm-foundation-granted-501c3-nonprofit.html

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 47 comments

July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201507

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 195 comments

Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virtual machines

http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 121 comments

Analysis of PS4's security and the state of hacking

http://cturt.github.io/ps4.html

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 47 comments

Banksy Dismaland Show Revealed at Weston's Tropicana

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-33999495

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 79 comments

Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-20/twitter-falls-below-ipo-price-as-concerns-mount-over-ceo-growth

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 202 comments

How Zapier Went from Zero to 600k Users

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/zapier-interview-with-wade-foster

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 39 comments

AirBNB why did you terminate my account? – An Open Letter to AirBNB

https://medium.com/airbnb-superhosting/airbnb-why-did-you-terminate-my-account-an-open-letter-to-airbnb-9631213f8a1b

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 71 comments

HTTP/2 technology demo

http://www.http2demo.io/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 96 comments

Lessons Learned from Reading Post Mortems

http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

Bonsai: Bulletproof contracts, simple e-signing, escrow for freelancers

https://www.hellobonsai.com/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.

http://nihongo-app.com

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 101 comments

Debugging Lisp, Part 5

http://malisper.me/2015/08/19/debugging-lisp-part-5-miscellaneous/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 10 comments

Lazy load responsive images

https://github.com/ivopetkov/responsively-lazy

11 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
124 upvotes – 53 comments

Create Your Own CPU on an FPGA

https://embeddedmicro.com/tutorials/lucid/basic-cpu

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Tig: text-mode interface for Git

http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Go, D, Erlang and C in real life: MQTT broker implementation shootout (2013)

https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/go-vs-d-vs-erlang-vs-c-in-real-life-mqtt-broker-implementation-shootout/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: After 20 years of programming, what do I do now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091903

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 82 comments

An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life

https://medium.com/@padlet/an-honest-guide-to-the-san-francisco-startup-life-6df13d23689

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

New Book: Clojure Algorithms and Data Structures Cookbook

http://www.clojure.tn/posts/20-08-2015-clojure-data-algos-book.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

Pando goes to, and is escorted out of, Y Combinator demo day

https://pando.com/2015/08/19/pando-goes-and-escorted-out-y-combinator-demo-day/a165d4eeb37178c1acdd45c80fa06f9c80af2093/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Michael Crichton and Computers

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/programmer/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python

http://spacy.io

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited importance and legislative options [pdf]

http://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HLL104_crop1.pdf

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 171 comments

Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/05/scaling-convnets/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

In search of performance – how we shaved 200ms off every POST request

https://gocardless.com/blog/in-search-of-performance-how-we-shaved-200ms-off-every-post-request/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model (2002)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/business/google-s-toughest-search-is-for-a-business-model.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/will-hollywoods-whining-thwart-better-tpp-copyright-rules

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

How to convince your friends vertical farming is the next big thing

https://urbanverticalproject.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/why-vertical-farms/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 122 comments

A New Aristocracy [pdf]

http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/News_&_Events/MarkovitsCommencementREV.pdf

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 86 comments

Build Your Own Git UI for Mac with GitUpKit

https://github.com/git-up/GitUp#gitupkit

11 years ago

★ 11.9k Objective-C GPL-3.0
76 upvotes – 15 comments

Stack Overflow Hits 10M Questions

http://stackoverflow.com/10m

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 1 comments

Zirtual Fired 400 Employees Right Before It Was Acquired. Now They’re Suing

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/08/14/zirtual_fired_400_employees_right_before_being_acquired_now_they_re_suing.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India

http://www.medianama.com/2015/08/223-google-iamai-net-neutrality-india/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Dependency parse tree visualization

http://spacy.io/displacy/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

The Handmade Manifesto

http://static.chronal.net/hmh/manifesto.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

Writing code that writes code – Hack Codegen

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1624644147776541/writing-code-that-writes-code-with-hack-codegen/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Making Robots [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcFOWIq3cIc

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Larry Ellison’s Cat Island

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewdalton/welcome-to-larry-ellisons-cat-island

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

The story behind Curiosity's self-portraits on Mars

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/08191059-curiosity-self-portrait-history-belly-pan.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-08-20/are-lawyers-getting-dumber-

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 101 comments

The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of left-brain dominance

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/the-curious-case-of-whistled-languages-and-their-lack-of-left-brain-dominance/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007)

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/sine-wave-speech/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

A GraphQL query parser in C++ with C and C++ APIs

https://github.com/graphql/libgraphqlparser

11 years ago

★ 1.1k C++ MIT
63 upvotes – 2 comments

Stop calling it the Sharing Economy – That isn’t what it is

http://olivierblanchard.net/stop-calling-it-the-sharing-economy-that-isnt-what-it-is

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

What is opensource and why do I feel so guilty? (2012) [video]

http://byfat.xxx/what-is-opensource-and-why-do-i-feel-so-guilty

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

Spotify Just Got Real Creepy with the Data It Collects on You

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/08/20/spotify-creepy-privacy-policy/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 61 comments

With $100M in Funding, Carbon3D Will Make 3D Manufacturing a Reality

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/with-100m-in-funding-carbon3d-will-make-3d-manufacturing-a-reality/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.3.51

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Statistical Anomaly Detection

http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2015/08/19/statistical-anomaly-detection/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Rb: A Redis parallelization toolkit for Python

http://blog.getsentry.com/2015/08/20/rb-redis-parallelization-toolkit.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

The Completely Different World of Python with IBM i

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/general/different-world-python

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments

Stripe Checkout in more languages

https://stripe.com/blog/checkout-in-more-languages

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark on Amazon EMR

http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx21LOP0UQ2ZA9N/Large-Scale-Machine-Learning-with-Spark-on-Amazon-EMR

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

The Teflon Toxin Part 3: How DuPont Slipped Past the EPA

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/19/here-are-the-52-startups-that-launched-at-y-combinator-summer-2015-demo-day-2/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 65 comments

Why you still get drunk drinking “session” beers

http://draftmag.com/science-session-abv-processing/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 47 comments

'More Ashley Madison' data leaked onto dark net

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34004741

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 80 comments

Parsing Mach-O files

http://lowlevelbits.org/parse-mach-o-files/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-performance/147-high-performance/847237-fluentd-a-high-performance-unified-logging-layer

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 39 comments
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