top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-29

Hack: A typeface designed for source code

http://sourcefoundry.org/hack

11 years ago

521 upvotes – 243 comments

Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list

http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/08/29/why-is-windows/

11 years ago

390 upvotes – 100 comments

Linear Algebra: What matrices are

https://nolaymanleftbehind.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/linear-algebra-what-matrices-actually-are/

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 83 comments

FCC considering a proposal to lock down devices with a “modular wireless radio”

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/Individual_Comments

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 133 comments

The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam

https://www.benhorrix.com/Read/the-grid-is-a-scam

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 78 comments

Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/29/minecraft-creator-notch-shares-the-darker-side-of-life-after-a-big-exit/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 154 comments

Android-x86 Project – Run Android on Your PC

http://www.android-x86.org/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 23 comments

Tufte in R

http://motioninsocial.com/tufte/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 17 comments

Why telephone keypads are arranged the way they are

http://datagenetics.com/blog/august32015/index.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

NASA starts year-long isolation to prepare astronauts for Mars

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34092770

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

Reliably measuring IQ through commercial puzzle games

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961500104X

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 60 comments

Genode – Operating System Framework

http://genode.org/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Slack, the Ultimate Workday Distractor

http://www.guilded.co/blog/2015/08/29/slack-the-ultimate-distractor.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Using DTrace to measure Erlang dirty scheduler overhead

https://medium.com/@jlouis666/erlang-dirty-scheduler-overhead-6e1219dcc7

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Effectful Haskell: IO, Monads, Functors

http://slpopejoy.github.io/posts/Effectful01.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

Assembly Gems

http://dflund.se/~john_e/fr_gems.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Factor – A Practical Stack Language

http://factorcode.org

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

The ncurses licensing saga

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

YouTube is preparing to launch two subscription services

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/28/9220377/youtube-as-you-know-it-is-about-to-change-dramatically

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 62 comments

Megagames: Giant board games for hundreds of people in the same room

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welcome-to-the-world-of-megagames-300-players-take-part-in-watch-the-skies-board-game-10213384.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Glitter – Dead-simple boilerplate for OpenGL

https://github.com/Polytonic/Glitter

11 years ago

★ 2.6k CMake
68 upvotes – 16 comments

The End of Rationalism: An Interview with John Ralston Saul (2001)

http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/saul.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Ideas are Cheap

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/8/29/ideas-are-cheap.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 63 comments

Hard Work Is Irrelevant [audio]

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episode-647-hard-work-is-irrelevant

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

Re: OpenBSD MIPS32 Support

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/16/mmcconv1/others/miod-mips32.txt

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (1999)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/430944.stm

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking

http://nautil.us/blog/the-supervolcano-under-yellowstone-is-alive-and-kicking

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 50 comments

Data retention and the end of Australians' digital privacy

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/data-retention-and-the-end-of-australians-digital-privacy-20150827-gj96kq.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

The Cannabis Chemist [video]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-cannabis-chemist/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576.pdf

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-methods-videos-are-making-science-smarter

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Aquameta Layer 0: Meta – Writable System Catalog for PostgreSQL

http://blog.aquameta.com/2015/08/29/intro-meta/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

MARS-500

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Open-Source GPU Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

https://github.com/VerticalResearchGroup/miaow/wiki

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Verilog BSD-3-Clause
48 upvotes – 10 comments

Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead

http://finiculture.com/distributed-ledgers-part-i-bitcoin-is-dead/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 39 comments
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