top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-21

Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p747PrxmZJ4

11 years ago

423 upvotes – 41 comments

Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/21/22

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 101 comments

It Is Done

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4728

11 years ago

329 upvotes – 38 comments

GCC is moving to git

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-08/msg00140.html

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 133 comments

Petition UK government to not ban encryption

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106369

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 106 comments

The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 295 comments

Hackpad source code

https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad

11 years ago

★ 3.5k Java
265 upvotes – 49 comments

The likely end of DownThemAll

http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 135 comments

Financial Misstatements

http://blog.samaltman.com/financial-misstatements

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 178 comments

Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads

http://www.geek.com/news/amazon-joins-in-on-killing-flash-stops-accepting-flash-ads-1631748/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 77 comments

Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 120 comments

Writing a Game Boy Advance Game

https://www.reinterpretcast.com/writing-a-game-boy-advance-game

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 49 comments

The Glium Library – Safe OpenGL in Rust

https://medium.com/@tomaka/the-glium-library-5be149d87dc1

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 26 comments

Don't be a UN intern

https://desertqueensarah.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/dont-be-a-un-intern/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 67 comments

A NASA Engineer Became an Astronaut After Being Rejected 14 Times

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/interviews/a16978/clayton-anderson-interview/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

The Bright Students Left Behind

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-bright-students-left-behind-1440024541-lMyQjAxMTA1NDI3MDkyNTAyWj

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 203 comments

An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/08/20/qft/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Oil Falls Below $40 for First Time Since 2009 as Glut Grows

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-20/oil-heads-for-longest-weekly-losing-streak-since-1986-amid-glut

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 171 comments

C# 6.0: An Introduction

https://booker.codes/csharp-6-an-introduction/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

Prune: A Tree-Based, Home-Row-Oriented Code Editor

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor-that-is-not-a-text-editor/1012061842160013

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 43 comments

The SQLite Query Planner

https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 22 comments

Tarsnap exploit bounty

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-21-tarsnap-1000-exploit-bounty.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 65 comments

The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-new-et-cm-why-i-reviewed-the-new-405-20150805-column.html

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Generate React forms from JSON form schemas

https://github.com/SteveVitali/react-form-generator

11 years ago

★ 608 JavaScript MIT
107 upvotes – 27 comments

AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-secret-of-airbnbs-pricing-algorithm

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

What Killed Smalltalk?

http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/08/20/what-killed-smalltalk/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 185 comments

Gopher Tricks

http://talks.golang.org/2015/tricks.slide#1

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Abandoning the Work I Hated

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/abandoning-the-work-i-hated/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Spotify's new privacy policy angers users

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34016658

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 83 comments

Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships

http://apprentice.at/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 79 comments

Hardware Reverse Engineering Course

http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/hwre-spring2014/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer

http://www.dwavesys.com/blog/2015/08/announcing-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Jailhouse: Linux-based partitioning hypervisor

https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse#jailhouse

11 years ago

★ 1.9k C
92 upvotes – 7 comments

The Fundamental Limits of Knowledge

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/throwback-thursday-the-fundamental-limits-of-knowledge-200b10b86c8

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: A collection of algorithmic art generated with POV-Ray

https://mscharrer.net/povray/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

You really don’t need to work so much

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 58 comments

JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones

http://www.blipsystems.com/jfk-displays-actual-wait-times-using-beacons-that-monitor-mobile-phones/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 98 comments

DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language

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

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 48 comments

What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth?

http://gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-a-massive-solar-storm-hit-the-eart-1724650105

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Uber Plans to Go Public in 18-24 Months, According to Leaked Presentation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/21/uber-plans-to-go-public-in-12-18-months-according-to-leaked-presentation/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Calculus on Graphs (2004)

http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0408028

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Is Working on a New Type of Algorithm Called “Thought Vectors”

https://wtvox.com/robotics/google-is-working-on-a-new-algorithm-thought-vectors/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster Assembly Tutorial

https://pocketcluster.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/free-schematic-raspberry-pi-2-cluster-assembly-tutorial/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

How the F.B.I. Made 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' the Arcade Motto of the '90s

https://www.inverse.com/article/5193-how-the-f-b-i-made-winners-don-t-use-drugs-the-arcade-motto-of-the-90s

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Daniel Ek and Minecraft creator Notch debate Spotify privacy policy

http://musically.com/2015/08/21/daniel-ek-minecraft-notch-spotify-privacy-policy/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 81 comments

Unraveling the enigma of Nintendo's Virtual Boy

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050016/unraveling-the-enigma-of-nintendos-virtual-boy-20-years-later

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

IBM System/360 Model 67

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_67

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Matlab’s internal memory representation (2012)

http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/matlabs-internal-memory-representation

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Accessing unaligned memory

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/08/accessing-unaligned-memory.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market [pdf]

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ddeming/files/deming_socialskills_august2015.pdf

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

There's More to Life Than Being Happy (2013)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/?single_page=true

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Errors and Exceptions

https://giantfublog.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/errors-and-exceptions/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Spotify apologizes for new terms and conditions roll-out

https://news.spotify.com/us/2015/08/21/sorry-2/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison

https://b3n.org/vmware-vs-bhyve-performance-comparison/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Exploring the Wreck of USS Macon, the Navy's Last Flying Aircraft Carrier

http://news.usni.org/2015/08/19/exploring-the-wreck-of-uss-macon-the-navys-last-flying-aircraft-carrier

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

In China, Women Hired to Motivate Computer Programmers

http://kotaku.com/in-china-women-hired-to-motivate-computer-programmers-1725573574

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments

Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

https://lwn.net/Articles/630074/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Guile: Types and the Web

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Types-and-the-Web.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

China factory activity shrinks to six and a half year low as orders tumble

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/21/us-china-economy-pmi-idUSKCN0QQ05H20150821

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 55 comments
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