top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-03

Losing Sight

http://tink.uk/losing-sight/

11 years ago

564 upvotes – 93 comments

I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/5237173491.html

11 years ago

438 upvotes – 96 comments

Using htop to generate a live website background

http://drunken-security.at/archives/41

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 59 comments

The Decline of ‘Big Soda’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/upshot/soda-industry-struggles-as-consumer-tastes-change.html?_r=0

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 235 comments

Alan Kay on re-creating Xerox PARC's design magic at CDG

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xerox-parcs-design-magic-from-the-guy-who-helped-make-it

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 83 comments

Erlang/OTP architectures: Cowboy

https://medium.com/@kansi/erlang-otp-architectures-cowboy-7e5e011a7c4f

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 49 comments

Windows 10 and .NET Native

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9661/windows-10-feature-focus-net-native

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 107 comments

DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked

http://priceonomics.com/dare-the-anti-drug-program-that-never-actually/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 124 comments

Haunted by Data

http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 10 comments

How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free

http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 65 comments

The model minority is losing patience

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21669595-asian-americans-are-united-states-most-successful-minority-they-are-complaining-ever

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 164 comments

Evernote is in deep trouble

http://www.businessinsider.com/evernote-is-in-deep-trouble-2015-10

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 94 comments

Beautiful People Are the Hardest to Draw: Interview with a Courtroom Artist

http://ratter.com/ratter/all/inverse-published/213837-courtroom-artist-l-d-chukman

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 30 comments

007, a small experimental language with a license to macro

https://github.com/masak/007

11 years ago

★ 142 Raku Artistic-2.0
121 upvotes – 14 comments

Alan Kay: Power of Simplicity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

Experiences Building an OS in Rust

https://mostlytyped.com/posts/experiences-building-an-os-in-ru

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129953/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

Rise of the Synthesizer

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/rise-of-the-synthesizer/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Agloe, New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Life is a braid in spacetime

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime-rp

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

The primacy of the US dollar looks unsustainable

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21669875-americas-economic-supremacy-fades-primacy-dollar-looks-unsustainable-dominant-and

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 135 comments

I Do Not Want Your Stupid App

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/03/with-apologies-to-theodor-geisel/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/01/robocab-driverless-taxi-experiment-to-start-in-japan/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Looking to purchase a software-defined radio, any advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10324755

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Today Is the Day We Got Rid of the Surveillance State GDR

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/german-unity-day

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Hurricane Joaquin Forecast: Why U.S. Weather Model Has Fallen Behind

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/upshot/hurricane-joaquin-forecast-european-model-leads-pack-again.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing[pdf]

http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~yogo/nnlp.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Welcome to Netscape (1994)

http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Nuclear Forensics Shows Nazis Were Nowhere Near Making Atomic Bomb

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i39/Nuclear-Forensics-Shows-Nazis-Nowhere.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments

How Much Power Does the Volkswagen TDI Lose in “Cheater” Mode?

http://www.tflcar.com/2015/10/how-much-power-does-the-vw-tdi-lose-in-cheater-mode-video-report/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Hack the derivative

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/hack-the-derivative/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Google's driverless car is brilliant but so boring

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34423292

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

Schedule – Python job scheduling for humans

https://github.com/dbader/schedule

11 years ago

★ 12.2k Python MIT
62 upvotes – 35 comments

Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Machines for thinking: Computers will get smarter, but with humans in charge

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21669597-computers-will-get-smarter-humans-charge-machines-thinking

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

The train that powers its station

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20151002-the-train-that-powers-its-station

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Study of protein folds adds to evidence that viruses are alive and ancient

http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-of-protein-folds-adds-to-evidence-that-viruses-are-alive-and-ancient

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268115000906

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments

Startups Compete Against Background Noise

https://diegobasch.com/startups-compete-against-background-noise

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

The Benefits of Slower Traffic, Measured in Money and Lives

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/10/the-benefits-of-slower-traffic-measured-in-money-and-lives/408472/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 34 comments

The microphone bioamplifier

http://www.windytan.com/2015/10/the-microphone-bioamplifier.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Red M&M's Disappeared for a Decade (2014)

http://priceonomics.com/why-red-mandms-disappeared-for-a-decade/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments
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