top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-13

3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time

http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sundial/

10 years ago

839 upvotes – 92 comments

Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

http://sci-hub.io/

10 years ago

760 upvotes – 217 comments

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

10 years ago

559 upvotes – 133 comments

Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal/

10 years ago

451 upvotes – 192 comments

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/antonin-scalia-death.html

10 years ago

327 upvotes – 359 comments

Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/digital-capitalism-douglas-rushkoff

10 years ago

301 upvotes – 152 comments

SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 223 comments

Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack

http://jamesknelson.com/learn-raw-react-no-jsx-flux-es6-webpack/

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 58 comments

AWS Java documentation is fucked

https://areallygoodrantblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/the-aws-java-documentation-is-fucked/

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 96 comments

LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks

https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 32 comments

Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced

https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

10 years ago

★ 9.2k C++ BSD-3-Clause
207 upvotes – 57 comments

Silicon Valley startups rein in spending and prepare for layoffs

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/11/silicon-valley-start-ups-rein-in-spending-and-prepare-for-layoffs.html

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 205 comments

Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 3

http://www.zmatt.net/unlocking-my-lenovo-laptop-part-3/

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 55 comments

JavaCPP

https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

10 years ago

★ 4.6k Java
165 upvotes – 46 comments

Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 14 comments

The kids are all right

http://www.vox.com/a/teens

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

The Siege of Herbalife (2015)

http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/the-siege-of-herbalife/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads

https://medium.com/@robleathern/people-in-silicon-valley-don-t-click-on-ads-9d2eed1c74af#.ebiblq892

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 115 comments

Mu: making programs easier to understand in the large

https://github.com/akkartik/mu

10 years ago

★ 1.4k Assembly
122 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard

http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2016/02/12/ownership-borrowing-hard/en/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrqK2LyHes

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 19 comments

A Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-woman-who-makes-prosthetic-pinkies-for-ex-yakuza-members

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

GitLab Flow (2014)

https://about.gitlab.com/2014/09/29/gitlab-flow/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Cisco buffer overflow vulnerability with remote code execution

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160210-asa-ike

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

WLW: 700 kHz, 500 kW, 100% modulation, no limiter (2000)

http://www.ominous-valve.com/wlw.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Comparing Confusing Terms in GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/27/comparing-terms-gitlab-github-bitbucket/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

True Micropayments with Bitcoin

https://medium.com/@21/true-micropayments-with-bitcoin-e64fec23ffd8#.s8ezmd20q

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Guess the Correlation

http://guessthecorrelation.com/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

Awesome Web Development Tools and Resources

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-development-tools/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

The binary search of distributed programming

http://antirez.com/news/102

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/12/the-poor-are-better-off-when-we-build-more-housing-for-the-rich/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 101 comments

A Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Rides in AWS Redshift

http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-redshift.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

How Stoical Was Seneca? (2014)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/10/09/how-stoical-was-seneca/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

No more 300ms tap delay: touch-action now supported in all major mobile browsers

https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/698443022338547712

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Scala 2.12 roadmap

http://scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 92 comments

Philosophies for Software Engineers

http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/02/12/10-philosophies-for-developers/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 86 comments

Soviet Underwater Firearms

http://warisboring.com/articles/underwater-firearms-are-a-thing-and-russia-is-really-into-them/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

EPUB 3.1 Standard Update

https://rdeltour.github.io/xmlprague2016-epub31/#1

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (2014)

https://medium.com/female-founders/my-startup-failed-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like-c5d64b3ae96b

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Kneden – Transpile ES7 Async/await to ES6 Promise Chains (Babel Plugin)

https://github.com/marten-de-vries/kneden

10 years ago

★ 514 JavaScript ISC
76 upvotes – 22 comments

Nikola Tesla’s Valvular Conduit (2013)

http://fluidpowerjournal.com/2013/10/teslas-conduit/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

Adhocracy: open-source cooperative discourse, delegation and voting software

https://liqd.net/software.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Sqlite browser

http://sqlitebrowser.org/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

China's curious cult of the mango

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35461265

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments
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