top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-03

Stripe: Open Source

https://stripe.com/open-source

11 years ago

581 upvotes – 64 comments

HTML5 Deck of Cards

http://pakastin.github.io/deck-of-cards/

11 years ago

419 upvotes – 157 comments

Fifty

http://jacquesmattheij.com/fifty

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 115 comments

Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 164 comments

Magnetic wormhole created for first time

http://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail/magnetic-wormhole-created-for-first-time-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345689132054

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 80 comments

MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/09/03/msbuild-is-going-cross-platform-with-net-core.aspx

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 134 comments

Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown

https://www.madoko.net

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 89 comments

Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 28 comments

ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/02/scaleway-now-provides-crazy-cheap-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-3-40-per-month/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 81 comments

Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and All Too Common

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/opinion/solitary-confinement-is-cruel-common-and-useless.html

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 150 comments

ISS Virtual Tour

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/virtual-tour-iss/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 52 comments

Safe from what?

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-09-02-safe-from-what.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job

http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

John McAfee AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mcafee_ama/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 43 comments

Node.js v4 Release Timeline

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2522

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
145 upvotes – 44 comments

K&R C (2014)

https://spin0r.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/kr-c/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

Stateless ZIP library – SLZ

http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 20 comments

Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/dont-worry-smart-machines-will-take-us-with-them

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 102 comments

The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook

http://archive.vg/blog/retro-book-look-the-simcity-planning-commission-handbook-publ-1990

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler

https://github.com/WebAssembly/ilwasm?test

11 years ago

★ 366 C# Apache-2.0
123 upvotes – 83 comments

Introducing JetBrains Toolbox

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbrains-toolbox/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 106 comments

Aristotle’s (apocryphal) advice to Alexander the Great on Persian elites (2013)

http://purplemotes.net/2013/10/13/aristotle-advice-alexander-persia/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 47 comments

Protected branches and required status checks

https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required-status-checks

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Confirmed: The Last Great Prediction Of The Big Bang

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/confirmed-the-last-great-prediction-of-the-big-bang-68ab6f4a5475

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 30 comments

How to Ace a Phone Screen

https://engineering.zenefits.com/2015/09/how-to-ace-a-phone-screen/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

College students are now smoking more pot than cigarettes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/01/college-students-are-now-smoking-more-pot-than-cigarettes/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 126 comments

Dependently typed programming and theorem proving in Haskell

https://jeltsch.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/dependently-typed-programming-and-theorem-proving-in-haskell/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 1 comments

Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more trees than was thought

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/02/scientists-discover-that-the-world-contains-dramatically-more-trees-than-previously-thought/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/09/03/firefox-for-ios-now-available-for-preview/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

The Timeless Way of Building (1979)

https://archive.org/details/TheTimelessWayOfBuilding

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

The React digest – A hand-picked weekly selection of the best React JavaScript resources

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/the-react-digest

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

The paradox of soil: Land has returned as a constraint on growth

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647622-land-centre-pre-industrial-economy-has-returned-constraint-growth

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 107 comments

X86 instruction encoding and the hacks we do in the kernel [pdf]

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/bpetkov-x86-hacks.pdf

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

The dangerous idea that life is a story

http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/the-dangerous-idea-that-life-is-a-story/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 57 comments

Maybe This Global Slowdown Is Different

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-31/maybe-this-global-slowdown-is-different/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

The lost tunnels of Liverpool

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150902-the-lost-tunnels-of-liverpool

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Two scientists meeting on a bus leads to discovery in the lab

http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/spring-2015/merging-minds-and-molecules

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters

http://jacquesmattheij.com/do-not-disclose-your-salary-to-recruiters

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

Porting Linux to a new processor architecture, Part 1

https://lwn.net/Articles/654783/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 3 comments

The mysterious origins of punctuation

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150902-the-mysterious-origins-of-punctuation

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

New MIPS64-based Loongson processors break performance barrier

http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/loongson-mips64-processors-performance-barrier

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

Disasters That Worry Emergency Planners Most

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/09/the-disaster-next-time/403063/?single_page=true

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

How we made GitHub fast (2009)

https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

How Far Can a Motorcycle Lean in a Turn?

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/just-far-can-motorcycle-lean-turn/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 61 comments

Programmer Interrupted (2013)

http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-searchable-speech-will-do-to-you

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Neural network that impersonates writers

https://github.com/JacobPlaster/ann-writer

11 years ago

★ 315 Python MIT
48 upvotes – 27 comments

British Atlantis: archaeologists begin exploring lost world of Doggerland

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11836627/British-Atlantis-archaeologists-begin-exploring-lost-world-of-Doggerland.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Visualize move, protection and threat status in chess

https://github.com/ology/Chess-Inspector

11 years ago

★ 99 Perl Artistic-2.0
47 upvotes – 11 comments

Canada's Economic Slide in Five Charts

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-02/canada-s-economic-slide-in-five-charts

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 41 comments

We are sacrificing the right to walk

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/step-by-step-americans-are-sacrificing-the-right-to-walk/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

It’s probably a myth that we’re sleeping less than we used to

http://qz.com/491414/its-actually-a-myth-that-were-not-getting-enough-sleep/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 47 comments
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