top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-07

The Pixel Factory

http://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html#0

11 years ago

739 upvotes – 47 comments

The Internet of Way Too Many Things

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/allison-arieff-the-internet-of-way-too-many-things.html

11 years ago

393 upvotes – 257 comments

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

https://github.com/gloomyson/StarCraft

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 96 comments

Fixing Twitter

http://dcurt.is/twitter

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 133 comments

Better and worse ways to spot a liar

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150906-the-best-and-worst-ways-to-spot-a-liar?ocid=fbfut

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 139 comments

The Founder of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay for HBO’s Silicon Valley

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/04/the-founder-of-firefox-wrote-his-own-screenplay-for-hbos-silicon-valley-and-its-hilarious/?ncid=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=techglance

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 50 comments

Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 90 comments

Reverse-Engineering iOS Apps: Hacking on Lyft

https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-apps-lyft/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 16 comments

All Websites Look the Same

http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 99 comments

Lisp is still a secret weapon

http://kep.io/is-lisp-still-a-secret-weapon/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 138 comments

The Myth of Quality Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-the-myth-of-quality-time.html

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Some Security Experts Use Mutt

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-security-experts-are-using-an-ancient-email-format-in-2015

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 157 comments

Geotrust/Symantec has revoked all SSL certificates for .pw domains

http://colin.keigher.ca/2015/09/geotrustsymantec-has-revoked-all-ssl.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 99 comments

Walking Every Street in San Francisco

http://www.sfwalkingman.com/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 59 comments

Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/05/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 43 comments

The 21-year-old building India's largest hotel network

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34078529

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980)

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Proposal for a Go Interpreter

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hvxf6NMPaCUd-1iqm_968SuHN1Vf8dLZQyHjvPyVE0Q/edit?usp=sharing

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 47 comments

Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts

https://github.com/joushou/sshmuxd

11 years ago

★ 803 Go MIT
108 upvotes – 62 comments

The true size of a country or state

http://thetruesize.com/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: My father's letters as a diplomatic courier from 1960-66

http://billbrowndearmom.weebly.com

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

tiDB – Scalable RDBMS Inspired by Google F1 with Support for MySQL Protocol

https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

11 years ago

★ 40k Go Apache-2.0
88 upvotes – 32 comments

Reproducible builds in Debian: preventing compiler backdoors

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-debian-is-trying-to-shut-down-the-cia-and-make-software-trustworthy-again

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Poison-Injecting Robot Submarine Kills Sea Stars to Save Coral Reefs

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/poison-robot-submarine?

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/stonehenge-archaeology-ritual-arena-neolithic-monument

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10181953

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

America’s national vacation problem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34123906

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2015/09/03/software-immaculate-fetid-and-grimy

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

How to multiply polynomials in Θ(n log n) time

http://agarri.ga/post/multiply-polynomials-n-log-n-time/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

One checkbox equals non-UTC fun

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/09/07/noleap/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python

http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2013/08/03/diagnosing-memory-leaks-python.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paulellenbogen/ancestry-com-can-use-your-dna-to-target-ads/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Literate Devops with Emacs [video]

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

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 0 comments

Machines replace migrants as Maine blueberry harvest blooms

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article34266051.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 52 comments

Programming with distributed functional futures

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/posts/2015-09-07-distributed-functional-futures.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed (2012)

http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Asia's smartphone addiction

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33130567

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 49 comments

Writing an Operating System with Modula-3 (1995) [pdf]

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/Wcsss96m3os.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Great MIPS chips of the past 30 years

http://www.alexvoica.com/great-mips-chips-of-the-past-30-years/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 52 comments
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