top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-06

Death to Bullshit

http://deathtobullshit.com

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 213 comments

India's Forgotten Stepwells

http://www.archdaily.com/395363/india-s-forgotten-stepwells

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 36 comments

“This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University”

https://www.facebook.com/jfgariepyneuro/posts/466442776860755

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 133 comments

Alda: A music programming language

http://daveyarwood.github.io/alda/2015/09/05/alda-a-manifesto-and-gentle-introduction/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 75 comments

Microservices without the Servers

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/microservices-without-the-servers/

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 136 comments

SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure

http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 20 comments

Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-public-defender-system-isnt-just-broken--its-unconstitutional/2015/09/03/aadf2b6c-519b-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 117 comments

Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/sep/04/academics-are-being-hoodwinked-into-writing-books-nobody-can-buy

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 94 comments

Vega: A Visualization Grammar

http://vega.github.io

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 24 comments

Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38

http://site.macleans.ca/longform/alzheimers/index.html

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 50 comments

Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 160 comments

Open-source Playstation 4 SDK

https://github.com/CTurt/PS4-SDK

11 years ago

★ 1k C
166 upvotes – 23 comments

How Germany abolished tuition fees

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34132664

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 97 comments

Notes on a tour of an Amazon distribution facility (2014)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F12fyVF0PO2fSmkOI2_R1IFigTaznaertxiVXlEbas4/edit

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 39 comments

My Keyboard

http://zyghost.com/articles/My-Keyboard.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 105 comments

Random Valid US Address

https://fakena.me/random-real-address/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 52 comments

The Hardest Places in the World to Visit

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/countries-difficult-visas-travel/403267?single_page=true

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Cow Magnets

http://www.magnetsource.com/Solutions_Pages/cowmags.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 71 comments

Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server

http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2015/09/06/kubernetes-from-the-ground-up-the-api-server/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

When the Unix load average was added to Unix

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

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

More young Indians are choosing their own spouses

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21663246-more-and-more-young-indians-are-choosing-their-own-spouses-love-and-money-conquer-caste

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Five years, building a culture, and handing it off

http://laughingmeme.org/2015/08/31/five-years-building-a-culture-and-handing-it-off/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

How JavaScript closures work under the hood

http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/js_closures

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Downsides of Caching

https://msol.io/blog/tech/2015/09/05/youre-probably-wrong-about-caching/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

The “Hitler at Home” stories of the pre-WWII American press

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-american-medias-awkward-fawning-over-hitlers-taste-in-home-decor

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

MIT 6.001 Spellbook (1992)

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1992/spellbook/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (2012)

http://virtuecenter.com/blog/the_effects_of_computer_programming_on_the_brain.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 3

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SysCall/syscall-3.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
73 upvotes – 1 comments

Quebec doctors can now prescribe exercise

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-doctors-can-now-prescribe-exercise-1.3215821

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 74 comments

“Thank You For Playing” film review

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/09/thank-you-for-playing-film-review-a-beautiful-tragic-attempt-to-press-pause/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 1 comments

What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times (2009)

https://theamericanscholar.org/living-on-500000-a-year/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

NTT Internet BGP Visualization

http://as2914.net/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Parts (1956) [pdf]

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/VonNeumann56.pdf

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

GM crops created superweed, say scientists (2005)

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jul/25/gm.food

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Simple web server using bash and nc

https://gist.github.com/dfletcher/4763be3295bd5638b797

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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