top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-03

Peter Naur has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Naur

10 years ago

570 upvotes – 96 comments

The $10 Echo

http://sammachin.com/the-10-echo/

10 years ago

375 upvotes – 123 comments

Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone

http://openage.sft.mx/

10 years ago

369 upvotes – 47 comments

IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/ipv6-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-by-reaching-10-percent-deployment/

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 280 comments

Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328561&

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 136 comments

Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors

http://up-for-grabs.net/

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 26 comments

How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”

https://medium.com/@sethbannon/how-paul-graham-gets-it-wrong-in-economic-inequality-6cdb71c45136#.h8xfugfyw

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 178 comments

Netflix is on Fire

https://medium.com/@diymanik/netflix-is-on-f-ing-fire-1675d47e722

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 159 comments

IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/12/intellij-idea-16-eap-144-2608-is-out/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 137 comments

New string formatting in Python

https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2015/12/31/new-string-formatting-in-python/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 132 comments

Taco Bell Programming (2010)

http://web.archive.org/web/20101202135616/http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 109 comments

Flexible working can make you ill, experts say

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jan/02/work-life-balance-flexible-working-can-make-you-ill-experts-say

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 114 comments

Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/sunday/is-the-drive-for-success-making-our-children-sick.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 124 comments

Govtech: The $400B Market Hiding in Plain Sight

http://govtechfund.com/2016/01/govtech-the-400-billion-market-hiding-in-plain-sight/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 73 comments

Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python

https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pymux

10 years ago

★ 1.4k Python BSD-3-Clause
157 upvotes – 53 comments

Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk

https://ia801505.us.archive.org/33/items/BurgerTime4amCrack/BurgerTime%20(4am%20crack).txt

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Plain text for the web

https://saola.in/about

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 47 comments

Paul Graham Is Still Asking to Be Eaten

https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/paul-graham-is-still-asking-to-be-eaten-5f021c0c0650#.oaaboc16c

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

The Elements of Python Style

https://github.com/amontalenti/elements-of-python-style

10 years ago

★ 3.4k
147 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What are you currently building?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831940

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 234 comments

Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831730

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Turning the Raspberry Pi into a dedicated retro-gaming console

http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 22 comments

Google, a ‘school official?’ A regulatory quirk can leave parents in the dark

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/30/google-a-school-official-this-regulatory-quirk-can-leave-parents-in-the-dark/?postshare=2671451564669854

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Tech Startups Face Fresh Pressure on Valuations

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-startups-face-fresh-pressure-on-valuations-1451817991?=e2fb

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 83 comments

Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/putins-nuclear-torpedo-and-project-pluto/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)

http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

How McCartney and Lennon Lost Ownership of the Beatles Catalogue

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/how-michael-jackson-bought-the-beatles-catalogue-then-turned-it-into-a-billion-music-empire/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP

http://www.wildml.com/2016/01/attention-and-memory-in-deep-learning-and-nlp/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: A friendship-centric journal

https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends

10 years ago

★ 892 Ruby MIT
96 upvotes – 40 comments

Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/artists-sensitive-creative_567f02dee4b0b958f6598764

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 52 comments

The man who made Edward Snowden inevitable

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683975-man-who-made-edward-snowden-inevitable-black-chamber

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 7 comments

Working at a Japanese Company (2015)

http://rubyronin.com/the-truth-about-working-at-a-japanese-company/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook's Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt

http://gizmodo.com/a-week-after-india-banned-it-facebooks-free-basics-s-1750299423

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 58 comments

NSA Patents

http://nsa-patents.silk.co/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

DHCPwn: A DHCP exhaustion tool

https://github.com/mschwager/dhcpwn

10 years ago

★ 677 Python GPL-3.0
83 upvotes – 24 comments

Why a simple spreadsheet spread like wildfire

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/03/visicalc-software-first-killer-app-john-naughton

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

East Germany thrived on snitching lovers, fickle friends and envious schoolkids

http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/stasi-snitches-all-around-records-reveal-true-extent-of-telling-on-others-20151116-gkzu44

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments

Amazon Bought Me for $100 a Year

http://www.travisllado.com/2016/01/amazoncom-bought-me-for-100year.html

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 66 comments

Rowhammer.js: Root privileges for web apps?

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7197-rowhammer_js_root_privileges_for_web_apps

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch

http://www.searchkit.co

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

The Simplest CheckList App in the World

http://otask.tumblr.com/about

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 0 comments

What I learned not drinking for two years

https://medium.com/@andymboyle/what-i-learned-not-drinking-for-two-years-c94167ecd329#.fvhe0fuin

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Flat assembler: x86 assembler that does multiple passes to optimize machine code

http://flatassembler.net/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Functional, decoupled forum application in Haskell and Om using websockets

https://github.com/ianthehenry/basilica

10 years ago

★ 116 Haskell MIT
70 upvotes – 8 comments

Gom – A visual interface to work with runtime profiling data from Go programs

https://github.com/rakyll/gom

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Go Apache-2.0
69 upvotes – 1 comments

TempleOS: Naughty Fun with OS Internals [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_b4zMxfLvA&utm=source

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Herd Mentality

http://quillette.com/2016/01/03/herd-mentality/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 92 comments

App Makers Reach Out to the Teenager on Mobile

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/business/app-makers-reach-out-to-the-teenager-on-mobile.html?_r=0

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Finnish Quietude and Japanese Tranquility

https://www.academia.edu/19764499/Beyond_Silence._A_Cross-Cultural_Comparison_between_Finnish_Quietude_and_Japanese_Tranquility

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

How the books we read shape our lives

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-the-books-we-read-shape-our-lives-a6794581.html

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 0 comments

Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2016/01/02/income-inequality/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Must Systems Be Operated?

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2016/01/03/correlation.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

How to Think Visually Using Visual Analogies

http://anna.vc/post/112863438962/how-to-think-using-visual-analogies

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Hello World, 1978

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/brian-kernighan-hello-world

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Permanent Identifiers for the Web

https://w3id.org/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

CPU BattleTanks

http://pddring.github.io/cpu-battle-tank/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments
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