top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-19

Statistics for Hackers

https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 54 comments

Hit Charade

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/hn-repost?single_page=true

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 144 comments

PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#1

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 114 comments

How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 88 comments

Ad Blocking Irony

http://www.subtraction.com/2015/09/19/ad-blocking-irony/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 162 comments

Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java

https://github.com/cxxr/better-java

11 years ago

★ 5.7k
202 upvotes – 188 comments

Popular Chinese iOS apps compromised in malware attack

https://zh.greatfire.org/blog/2015/sep/popular-chinese-ios-apps-compromised-unprecedented-malware-attack

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 84 comments

“We don’t do autism”

https://medium.com/@AutismJohnDoe/we-don-t-do-autism-d6de9d4f8913

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 86 comments

Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/nothing-agreed-yet-we-can-still-stop-tpps-copyright-trap

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 6 comments

$1 Unistroke Recognizer

https://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/?hn

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous (Draft)

http://www.learnenough.com/command-line

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

Stan: a probabilistic programming language

http://mc-stan.org

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 45 comments

Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions

https://today.duke.edu/2014/11/solutionaversion

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 126 comments

Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/world/asia/japan-parliament-passes-legislation-combat-role-for-military.html

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 71 comments

OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine

https://github.com/methusalah/OpenRTS

11 years ago

★ 1.4k Java MIT
112 upvotes – 21 comments

The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/09/texas_electricity_goes_negative_wind_power_was_so_plentiful_one_night_that.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

US Forest Service Prevents Its Own Scientists from Talking About Study

http://kvpr.org/post/us-forest-service-prevents-its-own-scientists-talking-about-study

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career

https://medium.com/twenty-years-in-the-valley/one-of-the-biggest-mistakes-i-ve-made-in-my-career-72bf27c538b4

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?

http://petewarden.com/2015/05/23/why-are-eight-bits-enough-for-deep-neural-networks/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

Shock in the Shower (1997)

http://www.esdjournal.com/static/shower/shower.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 22 comments

Who killed Ashraf Marwan, described as the 20th century’s greatest spy?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/who-killed-20th-centurys-greatest-spy-ashraf-marwan

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

Posters of the golden age of Soviet cosmonauts

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34281621

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-powerful-ask-google.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 87 comments

What forces layout/reflow in Chrome

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

Tower purifies a million cubic feet of air per hour

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/tower-purifies-million-cubic-feet-air-hour/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Rust bare metal on ARM microcontroller

http://antoinealb.net/programming/2015/05/01/rust-on-arm-microcontroller.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

First draft of the “tree of life” for the 2.3M named organisms released [pdf]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/09/16/1423041112.full.pdf

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all solving the same problems

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/18/9351197/apple-google-microsoft-tech-innovation-uniformity

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Spawned Shelter – the best articles, videos and books for learning Erlang

http://spawnedshelter.com/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

Completely Painless Programmer's Guide to XYZ, RGB, ICC, XyY, and TRCs

http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/xyz-rgb.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s cities (2013)

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/free_parking_isn_t_free_parking_mandates_hurt_america_s_cities.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 52 comments

An Interview with Brian Kernighan (2000)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/index.html?

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Ionide – F# Dev Tools for the Atom Editor

http://ionide.io/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Prison vs. Harvard in an unlikely debate

http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-unlikely-debate-prison-vs-harvard-1442616928

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Syncer: fast stateful file/disk data syncer written on Go

https://github.com/stargrave/syncer

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

2D Contouring in Haskell

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/contours/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Ad Blocking, Ad Networks, and Your IP Address

https://snelling.io/on-ad-blocking

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 51 comments

Loading an x64 register, how hard could it be?

http://c9x.me/art/notes.html?9/19/2015

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments
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