top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-24

John Carmack's son's game in Racket

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/racket-users/yjRuIxypUQc

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 169 comments

China Stock Market Drops 8.5%

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-shares-wipe-out-2015-gains-as-stocks-tumble-85-2015-08-24?dist=tcountdown

11 years ago

373 upvotes – 228 comments

Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

http://www.irishexaminer.com/technow/tech/windows-10-users-are-being-banned-from-torrent-sites-349932.html

11 years ago

363 upvotes – 347 comments

Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

http://www.hakspek.com/security/updates-make-windows-7-and-8-spy-on-you-like-windows-10/

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 274 comments

Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/business/dealbook/stocks-in-asia-fall-as-china-and-emerging-economies-lose-favor.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews&region=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=45821187&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 415 comments

Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-members-have.html

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 240 comments

A Salute to Solo Programmers

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/24/a-salute-to-solo-programmers/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 83 comments

Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs

https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/backdooring-js/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 36 comments

SIMD in Rust

http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/08/simd-in-rust/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 32 comments

Learn the Command Line

https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/learn-the-command-line?utm_campaign=lcl_release&utm_source=hackernews

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 105 comments

The Power of Power Cycling

http://growthalytics.com/troubleshooting/programming/2015/08/21/the-power-of-power-cycling

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 81 comments

Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of View

http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2015_why_python.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 93 comments

Why Introverts Make Great Entrepreneurs

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-introverts-make-great-entrepreneurs-1440381699?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 78 comments

Are Japanese Intestines Longer?

https://medium.com/unpublishable-elsewhere/are-japanese-intestines-longer-8a41ca3e7d89

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 79 comments

Elemental UI for React.js

http://elemental-ui.com/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 46 comments

You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/no-you-do-not-have-to-drink-8-glasses-of-water-a-day.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 125 comments

The Foo at bar.com

http://bar.com

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments

Indices Point Between Elements

https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-elements/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity

https://news.mit.edu/2015/pathway-controls-metabolism-underlying-obesity-0819

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 151 comments

Creating a Pluto flyby using unaligned New Horizons images

http://matthewearl.github.io/2015/08/11/pluto-flyby/?take=two

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan

http://archive.section9.co.uk/transsiberian/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Amazon's 401(k) Plan Is Pretty Brutal, Too

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-24/amazon-s-401-k-plan-is-pretty-brutal-too-idpw28hz

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 141 comments

LLVM Meets the Truly Alien: Mill CPU Architecture [video]

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

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 85 comments

Inferno, Part 3: Let's Make a Filesystem

http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-3-let-s-make-a-filesystem

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Chromebooks Gaining on iPads in School Sector

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/chromebooks-gaining-on-ipads-in-school-sector

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9196969/twitter-shuts-down-politwoops-diplotwoops/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Jungle – Simple CLI for AWS operations

https://github.com/achiku/jungle

11 years ago

★ 843 Python MIT
95 upvotes – 22 comments

Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music

http://poly-graph.co/timeless/?

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments

The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be (2003)

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

My Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food

http://www.rachellaudan.com/2015/07/great-grandmothers-industrially-processed-food.html?repost=hn_encouraged

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Which recruiters do you like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10111814

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Google Now’s Staff Exodus Reveals Hurdles for New CEO Pichai

http://recode.net/2015/08/24/after-staff-exodus-microsoft-apple-pressure-next-for-google-now/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

How to Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1

http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

'Suicides' over Ashley Madison hack

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: What do developers earn on toptal.com?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107448

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Robot that copies artist's exact strokes to replicate a painting in 3D

http://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/08/23/ai-painter/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Farewell to Flash

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/23/farewell-to-flash-what-it-means-for-digital-video-publishers/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

A size 8 dress today is nearly the equivalent of a size 16 dress in 1958

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/11/the-absurdity-of-womens-clothing-sizes-in-one-chart/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments

The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse's First Computer (2014) [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1886

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Having Won Over VCs, Y Combinator Turns to LPs

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/24/having-won-over-vcs-y-combinator-turns-to-lps/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

How a Ban on Plastic Bags Can Go Wrong

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-18/how-a-ban-on-plastic-bags-can-go-wrong

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

A 15-year-old weightlifting prodigy

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lebron-james-of-weightlifting-1440371008?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 67 comments

Freshplayerplugin – Powered by Chromium's Pepper Flash Player

https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

11 years ago

★ 726 C MIT
59 upvotes – 28 comments

Aluminum and strength

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/aluminum-and-strength/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: What's a good real-time stock trading platform?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10112146

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 54 comments

In defense of PowerShell

http://www.benwilson.me/2015/08/24/hn-doesnt-seem-to-get-powershell/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 78 comments

Why I’m dumping Google Chrome

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/210576-why-im-dumping-google-chrome

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Siderly – Get remote work with your side project

http://siderly.com/###

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Who Cares? – Professions in the NHS

http://www.whocares.io/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

C++ Hints

http://cpphints.com

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die (2010)

http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/03/i-cant-wait-for-nosql-to-die.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

Companies That May Be the Next $1B Startups

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/here-are-the-companies-that-may-be-the-next-50-start-up-unicorns/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 53 comments

The slumps that shaped modern finance

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21600451-finance-not-merely-prone-crises-it-shaped-them-five-historical-crises-show-how-aspects-today-s-fina

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Lock-Free Work Stealing, Part 1: Basics

http://blog.molecular-matters.com/2015/08/24/job-system-2-0-lock-free-work-stealing-part-1-basics/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

De-encapsulating integrated circuits with a laser cutter

http://www.jamiecraig.com/de-encapsulating-ics-with-a-laser-cutter/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Dual EC or the NSA's Backdoor: Explanations [video]

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/287/dual-ec-or-the-nsas-backdoor-explanations/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments
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