top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-23

Cat purr generator

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/catPurrNoiseGenerator.php

11 years ago

289 upvotes – 47 comments

What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?

http://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 68 comments

The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online

http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-makes-17000-tasty-recipes-available-online.html

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 94 comments

Up in the Air: Escaping from East Germany

http://www.damninteresting.com/up-in-the-air/#read-more

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 87 comments

Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians' deleted tweets

http://thenextweb.com/2015/08/23/speak-truth-to-power-just-not-on-twitter/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 86 comments

A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters

http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 61 comments

Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/08/porsche-911-52-years-of-staying-true-to-its-roots/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 126 comments

A collection of debugging stories

https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories

11 years ago

★ 3.8k
155 upvotes – 16 comments

A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communist-poland/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 87 comments

A Brief History of Intel CPU Microarchitectures (2013) [pdf]

https://people.apache.org/~xli/presentations/history_Intel_CPU.pdf

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 11 comments

Linux-insides: Introduction to system calls

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SysCall/syscall-1.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
115 upvotes – 4 comments

Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 83 comments

Polari, the Lost Gay English Dialect

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/07/28/polari_the_gay_dialect_can_be_heard_in_this_great_short_film_putting_on.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor

https://github.com/ritzyed/ritzy

11 years ago

★ 893 JavaScript Apache-2.0
100 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Why is HN not mobile friendly yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104853

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21661799-it-now-easy-edit-genomes-plants-animals-and-humans-age-red-pen

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 75 comments

MicroPython 1.4.5

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2015-August/010865.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Planck is a ClojureScript REPL and script execution environment

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-22-planck-works.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Dinner and Deception – Serving meals to the super-rich left me feeling empty

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/dinner-and-deception.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 72 comments
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