top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-02

New React Developer Tools

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/02/new-react-developer-tools.html

11 years ago

487 upvotes – 126 comments

Biggest image in the smallest space

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/deflate.html

11 years ago

359 upvotes – 103 comments

The xkcd survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e8htNa3bn5OZIgv83dodjZAHcQ424pgQPcFqWz2xSG4/viewform?c=0&w=1

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 271 comments

World Airports Voronoi

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/airports/

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 82 comments

Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout

http://lyonheart.us/articles/regretting-the-golden-handcuffs/

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 96 comments

A Case That Has Microsoft, Apple and Amazon Agreeing

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-02/as-microsoft-takes-on-the-feds-apple-and-amazon-watch-nervously

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 182 comments

“I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

https://twitter.com/michaelhoffman/status/639178145673932800

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 143 comments

Refugees Welcome

http://www.refugees-welcome.net

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 290 comments

Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness

http://noticing.co/on-size-and-metabolism/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 56 comments

C Programming Guidelines

https://github.com/btrask/stronglink/blob/master/SUBSTANCE.md

11 years ago

★ 1k C
176 upvotes – 101 comments

Economics Has a Math Problem

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/economics-has-a-math-problem

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 195 comments

The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax

http://metrocosm.com/state-lotteries-high-cost-low-return-and-absurdly-dishonest/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 138 comments

How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People

http://firstround.com/review/the-story-behind-how-pocket-hit-20m-users-with-20-people/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 73 comments

Best practices for a new Go developer

https://medium.com/@IndianGuru/best-practices-for-a-new-go-developer-8660384302fc

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 90 comments

What if I were 1% charged? (2013)

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/what-if-i-were-1-charged/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 21 comments

Will there be a Distributed HTTP?

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/08/18/distributed_http

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 70 comments

How CockroachDB Does Distributed, Atomic Transactions

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-cockroachdb-distributes-atomic-transactions/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 32 comments

PayPal does not know how to detect fraud

http://tooltrainer.com/blog/paypal-does-not-know-how-to-detect-fraud/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 92 comments

Buffett FAQ

http://buffettfaq.com/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

Unix Recovery Legend (1986)

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/recovery.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 60 comments

The origins of chroot()

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChrootHistory

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 12 comments

A Cartographer Who’s Transforming Map Design

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cindy-brewer-map-design/?utm_content=buffere263a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch

https://github.com/iogf/vy

11 years ago

★ 1.1k Python MIT
116 upvotes – 71 comments

ProseMirror has been open-sourced

https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror

11 years ago

★ 8.6k JavaScript MIT
114 upvotes – 17 comments

We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/09/02/we-are-slashing-the-c1-price-by-70-percent/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 79 comments

Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 14 comments

Tesla's $35k Model 3 Sedan to Start Production in 2 Years

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/02/teslas-35000-model-3-sedan-goes-into-production-in-two-years-preorders-start-next-march/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9582/intel-skylake-mobile-desktop-launch-architecture-analysis

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 97 comments

Chanakya: India's Machiavelli

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chanakya-indias-truly-radical-machiavelli-12146

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Telepat: Real-Time, Open Source Data Sync

http://telepat.io/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style

https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style

11 years ago

★ 18.2k Lua MIT
95 upvotes – 17 comments

New View of Microservices

https://github.com/lsm/micromono

11 years ago

★ 639 JavaScript MIT
95 upvotes – 40 comments

Harvey's Casino Bomb

https://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/harveys-casino-bomb/view

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

A history of World of Warcraft's gold economy

http://meminsf.silverstringmedia.com/labour/a-history-of-world-of-warcrafts-gold-economy/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Selling England by the offshore pound

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 72 comments

JPL C Coding Standard [pdf]

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

SDSL – Succinct Data Structure Library for C++

https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite

11 years ago

★ 2.3k C++
79 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Javvy – A fun way to learn Java on iOS and Android

http://javvy-app.com

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Neural network turns photos into a specific style of painting

https://www.instapainting.com/ai-painter

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python

http://bruceeckel.github.io/2015/08/29/what-i-do/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Jemalloc 4.0 Released

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases/tag/4.0.0

11 years ago

★ 10.8k C
75 upvotes – 6 comments

Advanced Computer Architecture

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1807

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

LookingGlass – A distributed, forward-secure platform with pseudonymous email

https://lookingglass.email/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Better Beer Through GPUs: How GPUs and AI Help Brewers Improve

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/09/02/beer/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

http://joearms.github.io/2014/06/25/minimal-viable-program.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

All Revenue Is Not Created Equal (2011)

http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-created-equal-the-keys-to-the-10x-revenue-club/?utm_campaign=Mattermark+Daily&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=21369491&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81yyCVpIOE9DmFaZpXGRW3aW651WpVLXfDeKj_aLGUTEROz_PyJOAEhsSvH3OySc4zHA2YiBq4N9YiZ3efdViv-nz10g&_hsmi=21369491

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

ZEVS, the Russian 82Hz ELF transmitter

http://www.vlf.it/zevs/zevs.htm

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B on OpenBSD

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/219675

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 48 comments

Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993)

http://www.yak.net/carmen/unix_horror_stories

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

PayPal Launches PayPal.Me, Request Money Using Your Own Personalized URL

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/paypal-launches-paypal-me-a-simpler-way-to-request-money-using-your-own-personalized-url/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

The Limits of Language

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/classes/2015/09/take_a_wittgenstein_class_he_explains_the_problems_of_translating_language.single.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

The Future of Food on Urban Rooftops

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/edenworks-is-building-the-future-of-food-on-urban-rooftops/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

IKEv2 in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg09931.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Garbage collection thoughts

http://sebastiansylvan.com/2012/12/01/garbage-collection-thoughts/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

My Brother's Keeper

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9240151/trosa-drug-rehab-center-therapeutic-community

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments

Towards universal neural nets: Gibbs machines and ACE

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06585

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 20 comments

Things We Still Don’t Know About Water

http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

MPS: A framework for DSL Development

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments
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