top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-28

English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

http://antirez.com/news/61

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 238 comments

The New Atomic Age We Need

https://nytimes.com/2015/11/28/opinion/the-new-atomic-age-we-need.html

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 200 comments

Coding is boring, unless

https://blog.enki.com/coding-is-boring-unless-4e496720d664

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642500

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 281 comments

Real-Time Strategy Game AI: Problems and Techniques [pdf]

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/pdf/ecgg15_chapter-rts_ai.pdf

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 3 comments

Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmartens/thesis/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 14 comments

Gimp 2.9.2 Released

http://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 60 comments

The Utopian UI Architect

https://medium.com/re-form/the-utopian-ui-architect-34dead42a28#.emrat4pnv

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 54 comments

Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers

http://reaktor.com/blog/aircraft-customer-experience-on-a-new-level/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 115 comments

To defend the free web, save Mozilla

https://psyq123.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/to-defend-the-free-web-you-must-save-mozilla/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 156 comments

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (2013)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to-make-bad-decisions/281780/?single_page=true

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 117 comments

Building a credit card issuer in Brazil using Clojure and Datomic (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lm3K8zVOdY

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 20 comments

A CEO's Guide to Emacs

https://blog.fugue.co/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

The dissection of a simple “hello world” ELF file

https://github.com/mewrev/dissection

11 years ago

★ 468 Assembly
109 upvotes – 11 comments

CHIP Vs. Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better?

http://makezine.com/2015/11/28/chip-vs-pi-zero/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 70 comments

Grow Your Own Type System

https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems

11 years ago

★ 1.6k OCaml Unlicense
105 upvotes – 8 comments

How bad would it be if we accidentally made a black hole?

http://www.askamathematician.com/2015/11/q-how-bad-would-it-be-if-we-accidentally-made-a-black-hole/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

Caffeine could limit damage of chronic stress

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/caffeine-could-point-the-way-to-limiting-damage-of-chronic-stress/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (1997)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/012197eudora.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Losing interest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642351

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Oakland releases months’ worth of license plate reader data

https://data.oaklandnet.com/browse?q=alpr

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed

http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-on-where-big-tech-is-headed/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 18 comments

Handling server load for the Raspberry Pi Zero launch

http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2015/11/27/raspberry-pi-zero-not-executing-a-trillion-lines-of-php/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods

https://www.propublica.org/article/debt-collection-lawsuits-squeeze-black-neighborhoods

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Career Advice (2013)

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/career-advice/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

P vs. NP: An Assumption That Runs the Internet

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/p-vs-np-assumption-that-runs-internet/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/my-coworkers-made-me-use-mac-os-9-for-their-and-your-amusement-2/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

A look at Darktable 2.0

https://lwn.net/Articles/663805/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Survive and Thrive

http://justinkan.com/survive-and-thrive

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/critical-thinking-necessary-skill-g-randy-kasten

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Julia's DataFrames Are Still Slow

http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2015/11/28/why-julias-dataframes-are-still-slow/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Passports Required for Some U.S. Domestic Travel in 2016?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/25/passports-required-for-domestic-travel-in-2016-but-irs-can-revoke-passports-for-taxes/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments

A Historic Day for the World of Competitive Rubik’s Cube Solving

https://medium.com/@jblake17/a-historic-day-for-the-world-of-competitive-rubik-s-cube-solving-33a92a5f3d1c#.x89rnc6y7

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

Is the web platform getting too big?

https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/09/is-the-web-platform-getting-too-big/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Space Filling Curves in Simulated Cities

http://inventingsituations.net/2015/11/28/space-filling-curves-in-simulated-cities/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Discriminate, but do it well

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/27/prejudice-discrimination-the-reality

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Behind the success of Monument Valley

https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/secrets-behind-the-success-of-monument-valley-5742bed3e42b

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Musings on AOT, JIT and Language Design

http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/11/28/musings-on-aot-jit-and-language-design/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 65 comments

Student Debt in America: Lend with a Smile, Collect with a Fist

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/upshot/student-debt-in-america-lend-with-a-smile-collect-with-a-fist.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 73 comments

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Nintendo 64 Sound Tools

https://archive.org/details/Nintendo64SoundToolsWindows95Version3.141997

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Founder Stories: Detroit Water Project’s Tiffani Ashley Bell

http://themacro.com/articles/2015/11/qa-with-tiffani-ashley-bell/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

Hilde Proescholdt discovered how an embryo organizes itself into an adult form

http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-your-embryo-knew-what-to-do

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Strategies for reclaiming our personal privacy online

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/26/online-privacy-security-tips

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Amiga – The Deathbed Vigil (1994) [video]

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

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 19 comments
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