top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-10

New human-like species discovered

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447

11 years ago

635 upvotes – 211 comments

I'm Begging for Work

http://brokedev.tumblr.com/post/128758443470/im-begging-for-work

11 years ago

497 upvotes – 336 comments

OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes

http://www.optikey.org

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 86 comments

How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords

http://cynosureprime.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-we-cracked-millions-of-ashley.html

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 166 comments

Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 91 comments

Reducing workplace burnout: the benefits of exercise

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393815/

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 175 comments

What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

https://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-community-ibm-acquisition/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 130 comments

Data is not an asset, it’s a liability

https://www.richie.fi/blog/data-is-a-liability.html

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 110 comments

The British Library Puts Over 1M Images in the Public Domain

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-british-library-puts-over-1000000-images-in-the-public-domain-a-deeper-dive-into-the-collection.html

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 11 comments

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys from Leaked Photos

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-luggage-keys-leaked-photos/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 115 comments

SQLite compiled into JavaScript via Emscripten

https://github.com/kripken/sql.js

11 years ago

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199 upvotes – 55 comments

Lovefield – A relational database for web apps

https://google.github.io/lovefield/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 55 comments

Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 67 comments

HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for reproducibility

http://hyperos.io

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 98 comments

Introducing Heroku Private Spaces

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/10/heroku_private_spaces_private_paas_delivered_as_a_service

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 45 comments

Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (2006)

https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/25-million-lines-of-fortran/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 149 comments

Shoelace knots

http://fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 43 comments

More efficient memory-management could enable chips with thousands of cores

http://news.mit.edu/2015/first-new-cache-coherence-mechanism-30-years-0910

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 42 comments

Time in Go

http://bl.ocks.org/joyrexus/a56717634a672dcdfd48

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

React 0.14 Release Candidate

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/10/react-v0.14-rc1.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

Crab – SQL for your filesystem

http://etia.co.uk

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups

http://firstround.com/review/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

John McAfee for President

https://mcafee16.com/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

Java 9: The State of the Module System

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/sotms/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 57 comments

OS X El Capitan GM Candidate available

https://developer.apple.com/osx/download/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 107 comments

Git from the Bottom Up (2009) [pdf]

http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

A millisecond isn't fast (and how we made it 100x faster)

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/09/10/a-millisecond-isnt-fast-and-how-we-fixed-it/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple TV Markup Language

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/ATV_Template_Guide/TextboxTemplate.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015064-CH2-SW8

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

Open Sourcing the Stupid-Simple Messaging Protocol

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/open-sourcing-the-stupid-simple-messaging-protocol/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Sangria – Scala GraphQL Implementation

http://sangria-graphql.org/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34198390

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: An interactive comparison of 100 laptops with matte screens

http://www.productchart.com/laptops/sets/1

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: WebGL Games

http://webgl.nu

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

RAML – RESTful API modeling language

http://raml.org/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Barter Hack – trade your technical skills for other people's

http://www.barterhack.com/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

Finding bugs in SQLite, the easy way

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/04/finding-bugs-in-sqlite-easy-way.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Time Traveling in Node.js Notebooks

http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/10/time-traveling-in-node.js-notebooks.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Capsule – Package and Deploy JVM Applications

http://www.capsule.io/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

From Python to Go: migrating our entire API

http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-entire-api-go-python/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Monads Are Not Metaphors (2010)

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/monads-are-not-metaphors

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Support Tor and Intellectual Freedom in Libraries

https://act.eff.org/action/support-tor-and-intellectual-freedom-in-libraries

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Open-source alternatives to GMail

https://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-gmail

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 69 comments

Deepdreaming without the Slugdogs

http://blog.thehackerati.com/post/128746247346/deepdreaming-without-the-slugdogs

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Jony Ive's Voice

http://jonyivesvoice.com/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Yasp – a web-based assembler development environment

http://yasp.me/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

Tired of memorizing passwords? Manuel Blum came up with this algorithmic trick

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2978312/tired-of-memorizing-passwords-a-turing-award-winner-came-up-with-this-algorithmic-trick.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 93 comments

Discrete Analysis – A new type of math journal

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an-arxiv-overlay-journal/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Crew Dragon [video]

http://www.spacex.com/crew-dragon

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments
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