top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-04

Why the Internet Needs IPFS

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/04/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late/

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 148 comments

Google Cloud Shell

https://cloud.google.com/cloud-shell/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 159 comments

The Benefits of a Quiet Ego

http://www.quietrev.com/the-surprising-benefits-of-a-quiet-ego/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 104 comments

Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 71 comments

ShareX – Open-source screenshare software

http://getsharex.com/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft acquires Havok

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/10/02/havok-to-join-microsoft/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 79 comments

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

The Internet of Criminal Things

http://lwn.net/Articles/658198/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 65 comments

Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers

http://miranj.in/blog/2015/collateral-damage

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 147 comments

Deaths Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/business/dealbook/tragedies-draw-attention-to-wall-streets-grueling-pace.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 80 comments

Tales of coding from a beginner

https://medium.com/@meandvan/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-code-af1a809457c7

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 85 comments

Rust Faster

https://llogiq.github.io/2015/10/03/fast.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

Web Fonts Performance

https://speakerdeck.com/bramstein/web-fonts-performance

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Writing Friendlier Clojure

http://adambard.com/blog/write-friendlier-clojure/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Population.io – The World Population Project

http://population.io/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: SVG Triangulation for WebGL

http://mattdesl.github.io/svg-mesh-3d/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

Typebase.css: Simplified typography for the web

https://github.com/devinhunt/typebase.css

11 years ago

★ 1.8k HTML MIT
94 upvotes – 22 comments

Edward R. Murrow Interviews Robert Oppenheimer (1955) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCL3Rnr8xE

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s new solar panel

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/215555-0-55-per-watt-from-solarcitys-record-breaking-new-solar-panel

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

The Story of BuiltWith

https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3bbc17c239f

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Why I’m sitting at home crying on a Saturday afternoon

http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/130440543695/why-im-sitting-at-home-crying-on-a-saturday

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 95 comments

Carriers Are Making More from Mobile Ads Than Publishers Are

https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-from-mobile-ads-than-publishers-are-d5d3c0827b39

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

‘I’m Stalin’s daughter’

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/1002-ed-weston-ex4

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 69 comments

A Language Is More Than a Language

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aAFyzVtwk5yVw2M57EkFeA1vyo_OujwUB3kb35Zm3Y/edit#slide=id.p3

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

In Some Cultures People with Schizophrenia Like the Voices They Hear

https://www.braindecoder.com/voice-hearing-experience-in-schizophrenia-may-vary-from-one-culture-to-1381850145.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

The Gutless Cutlass: Pilots had good reason to fear the F7U

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-gutless-cutlass-12023991/?all

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Mixing Signals

https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-10-02-mixing-signals

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328237

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 79 comments

Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking Than Modern Artists (2012)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049786

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

The Reign of Recycling

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/the-reign-of-recycling.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What are the signs a piece of technology will become commoditized?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328596

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 52 comments

The stack we choose: Erlang, SmartOS, Clojure

https://blog.project-fifo.net/the-stack-we-choose-erlang-smartos-clojure/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

The Female Blanket Octopus Is 70 Times Larger Than the Male

http://nautil.us/blog/what-to-do-when-your-girlfriend-is-70-times-bigger-than-you

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

The Sketchy World of Fake Bike Gear

http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/components/catch-counterfeiter-sketchy-world-fake-bike-gear

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 53 comments

MathBox2 Demo – Ready or Not Music Visualization

http://acko.net/files/mathbox2/iframe-readyornot.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Qp tries: smaller and faster than crit-bit tries

http://fanf.livejournal.com/137283.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Side Effects vs. Promises

http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2015/10/01/side-effects-vs-promises/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft, Tesla say software-defined batteries could redirect power on the fly

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2988945/mobile/microsoft-tesla-say-software-defined-batteries-could-mix-and-match-power-on-the-fly.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Crispr: Nobel prize for gene-editing technique at risk over patent dispute

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/crispr-scientists-hopes-to-win-nobel-prize-for-gene-editing-technique-at-risk-over-patent-dispute-a6677436.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

Daimler tests self-driving truck on German highway

http://news.yahoo.com/daimler-tests-self-driving-truck-german-highway-214036272.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

Correlation, Causation, and Confusion

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/correlation-causation-and-confusion

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Distributed big balls of mud (2014)

http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/2014/07/06/distributed_big_balls_of_mud.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments

The Future

http://www.kurtsp.com/the-future.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 42 comments

Hoarding and reuse

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/hoarding-and-reuse

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Fast Algorithms for Exact String Matching

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09228

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

Ryu – component-based software defined networking framework

https://github.com/osrg/ryu

11 years ago

★ 1.6k Python Apache-2.0
43 upvotes – 5 comments

HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

http://www.goavocago.com

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 48 comments
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