top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-22

“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#issuecomment-133630294

11 years ago

★ 8.1k Objective-C
1543 upvotes – 525 comments

On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)

http://daveshields.me/2012/09/02/on-being-the-maintainer-sole-developer-and-probably-the-sole-active-user-of-the-programming-language-spitbol/

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 95 comments

Startup Metrics

http://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 48 comments

Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot

https://hackertarget.com/hacker-tools-mr-robot//

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 85 comments

Trucks Are Killing Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/opinion/the-trucks-are-killing-us.html

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 240 comments

How to Fold a Julia Fractal

http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101229

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 68 comments

Modafinil for cognitive neuroenhancement: a systematic review

http://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S0924-977X(15)00249-7/abstract

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments

iOS 9 Ad Blocker Benchmarks

http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/8/22/crystal-benchmarks

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

Obama Administration Supports Privacy-Invasive “Cybersecurity” Bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/obama-administration-supports-privacy-invasive-cybersecurity-bills

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics

http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 20 comments

Lisp for the Web, Part III

http://vitovan.com/lispweb3.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

SQLite timeline items related to "json"

http://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?r=json

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Way

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/opinion/joe-nocera-jeff-bezos-and-the-amazon-way.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

“It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (1998)

http://gopher.quux.org:70/Humor%20and%20Fun/Microsoft_KSH.txt%7C/MBOX-MESSAGE/1

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

Russian parliament asks to prohibit Windows 10 use in state organizations

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//top.rbc.ru/politics/21/08/2015/55d7022b9a79472a7602e4e5

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Five Ways to Lie with Charts

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google search results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103545

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

China loves the lingo of games

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/21/chinese-gaming-multi-entry.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

Think Labyrinth: Maze Algorithms

http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Theremin

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

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

EasyOpenCL – The easiest way to get started with GPU programming

https://github.com/Gladdy/EasyOpenCL

11 years ago

★ 311 C++ GPL-3.0
60 upvotes – 30 comments

Hints on Programming Language Design (1973) [pdf]

http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

What a posthumous brain scan reveals about Leonardo Da Vinci's creativity?

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/leonardos-brain-leonard-shlain/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

GitLab 7.14 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/22/gitlab-7-14-released/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Jim Tcl – A Tcl Interpreter

http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

How Coursera Cracked the Chinese Market

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/21/how-coursera-cracked-the-chinese-market/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments
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