top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-21

AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

http://brain.fm

10 years ago

744 upvotes – 301 comments

The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law

https://privacyinternational.org/node/751

10 years ago

471 upvotes – 102 comments

Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory

https://medium.com/@pierreda/understanding-git-for-real-by-exploring-the-git-directory-1e079c15b807#.pxkhiceli

10 years ago

365 upvotes – 87 comments

What’s Next in Computing?

https://medium.com/@cdixon/what-s-next-in-computing-e54b870b80cc

10 years ago

300 upvotes – 148 comments

PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network

https://github.com/lmatteis/peer-tweet

10 years ago

★ 869 JavaScript MIT
288 upvotes – 80 comments

CoeLux: Artificial Sunlight That’s Real Enough to Trick Your Camera and Brain

http://petapixel.com/2015/02/09/coelux-artificial-sunlight-thats-good-enough-fool-cameras-brain/

10 years ago

276 upvotes – 81 comments

Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/saudi-arabia-collapse/463212/?single_page=true

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 214 comments

Discover Flask

http://discoverflask.com/

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 75 comments

LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/21/lg-g5-modular-official/

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 171 comments

Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift

https://github.com/tannernelson/vapor

10 years ago

★ 26k Swift MIT
200 upvotes – 70 comments

Encryption is a necessity

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/02/16/help-us-spread-the-word-encryption-matters/

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 66 comments

Lamdu – towards a new programming experience

http://www.lamdu.org/

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 67 comments

The Ad Blocking Wars

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/sunday/the-ad-blocking-wars.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 228 comments

Uber ruled illegal in Taiwan

http://international.thenewslens.com/post/286323/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 170 comments

Apple is hiring engineers to bring WebRTC to Safari

https://jobs.apple.com/search?job=43451266#&openJobId=43451266

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 104 comments

Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 61 comments

The Unsuitability of English (2015)

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/11/23/the-unsuitability-of-english/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 313 comments

Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language

http://www.luna-lang.org/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 100 comments

Welcome to the Python Engineering blog

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/02/12/welcome/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 61 comments

Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/02/18/linkerd-twitter-style-operability-for-microservices/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 35 comments

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/21/11077956/samsung-galaxy-s7-edge-smartphone-announced-specs-mwc-2016

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 157 comments

Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1

http://rud.is/projects/clinton_emails_01.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 14 comments

The Legend of Verdun

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/02/legend-verdun

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

Why C++ sucks (2016 edition)

http://dorinlazar.ro/why-c-sucks-2016-02-edition/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 179 comments

Why the Future of Work Is at Home

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/office-youre-already-dead-to-me-leave-us-alone-gawd

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 74 comments

Archery company sues LARPer over patents, then files gag motion to silence him

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/archery-company-sues-larper-over-patents-then-files-gag-motion-to-silence-him/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016

http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/02/state-of-haskell-ecosystem-february.html?m=1

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 62 comments

Evidence that fish have feelings

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160220-do-fish-have-feelings

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 145 comments

Yahoo Said to Start Approaching Possible Bidders Soon As Monday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-21/yahoo-said-to-start-approaching-possible-bidders-soon-as-monday

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC

http://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-undefined-signed-overflow-enables.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 90 comments

Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift

https://github.com/necolt/swifton

10 years ago

★ 1.9k Swift MIT
98 upvotes – 67 comments

Fixing the Internet for Real Time Applications, Part II

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-time-applications-part-ii

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

‘You Could Look It Up’: The World Before and Since Wikipedia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/you-could-look-it-up-the-world-before-and-since-wikipedia/2016/02/17/57d0cab8-d196-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 96 comments

Bot that uses deep neural networks to generate plausible definitions of words

http://lexiconjure.tumblr.com/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Dave Needle and the Story of the Amiga Computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesWip4Nft0

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Descartes – An experimental library for writing CSS in JavaScript

https://descartes.io/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments
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