top 50% 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

Summernote – Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Bootstrap

http://summernote.org/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Is Everything Getting Fatter?

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/08/21/is-everything-getting-fatter

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

One-Time SSH Keys

http://fwei.ml/onetime-ssh-keys.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming Volume 1

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246981.html?Open

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/20/intuit-will-sell-off-quicken-its-once-core-30-year-old-personal-finance-software/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

What I learned from losing my Facebook internship

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-learned-from-losing-my-facebook-internship-2015-8?IR=T

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Underhanded C 2015

http://blog.mattbierner.com/underhanded-c-2015/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

FreeBSD x86 Assembly Language Programming: Using the FPU

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/x86-fpu.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

I accidentally had a popular political live stream

https://medium.com/@duggan/the-time-i-accidentally-had-a-popular-political-live-stream-7b50f43bf8e8?source=hn

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

SnoPy – Snobol Pattern Matching Extension for Python

http://snopy.sourceforge.net/user-guide.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

http://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon guy who wrote a rebuttal to NYT worked 100-hour week at another company

http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Amazon-employee-who-wrote-a-rebuttal-to-the-New-York-Times-once-worked-100-hour-weeks-at-a-different-tech-company/articleshow/48535271.cms

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Yale Library decided to preserve 3000 horror and exploitation movies on VHS

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/saving-the-scream-queens/401141/?single_page=true

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 37 comments

Matrices in Julia

http://alexhwoods.com/2015/08/22/linear-algebra-in-julia/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

NAND Flash: Dealing with a Flawed Medium

http://cushychicken.github.io/nand-pt6-dealing-with-flaws/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

It Isn’t Your Father’s Realtime Anymore: The Misuse of a Noble Term (2006)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1117409

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 47 comments

Neural Transformation Machine: Sequence-To-Sequence Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06442

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Scaling China’s Great Firewall

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/opinion/murong-xuecun-scaling-chinas-great-firewall.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Lively Kernel

http://www.lively-kernel.org/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: The prime knots in 3D

http://github.prideout.net/knotgl/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 17 comments

How Edison uses water to store excess power

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-big-creek-20150823-story.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments

OpenBSD's tame gets a path list parameter

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144027474117290&w=2

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

Use of Yammer by VA staff was a major security risk, investigation says

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/veterans-affairs-chat-network-major-security-risk

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 51 comments

Writing comments about pointer ownership

http://gpfault.net/posts/pointer-ownership-comments.txt.html

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Best and free resources to learn product management

http://yilunzh.com/pm

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 12 comments

Venezuela on Brink of Hyperinflation

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21659764-government-prints-money-hyperinflation-looms-crackers-caracas

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 75 comments

Python Continuous Documentation

https://github.com/icgood/continuous-docs/

11 years ago

★ 306 Python Unlicense
40 upvotes – 9 comments

Two Danes face up to six years in jail for explaining how to use Popcorn Time

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/two-danes-face-up-to-six-years-in-jail-for-explaining-how-to-use-popcorn-time/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 12 comments
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