top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-27

MentalHealthError: an exception occurred

http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred

10 years ago

593 upvotes – 186 comments

AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere

http://appimage.org/

10 years ago

357 upvotes – 233 comments

52-hertz whale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 89 comments

Rqlite: Replicated SQLite using the Raft consensus protocol

https://github.com/otoolep/rqlite

10 years ago

★ 13 Go MIT
267 upvotes – 68 comments

SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-world-googles-experience/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 69 comments

We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013)

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 38 comments

Outlook 2016’s New POP3 Bug Deletes Your Emails

http://wp.josh.com/2016/02/24/outlook-2016s-new-pop3-bug-deletes-your-emails/

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 72 comments

What My PhD Was Like

http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 119 comments

Company Makes $70M Selling Random Stuff on Amazon

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201603/burt-helm/pharmapacks-amazon-warehouse.html?cid=cp01002fastco

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

Obama's Librarian Of Congress Nominee Supports Open Access, Fights Surveillance

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160224/11244433704/president-obama-nominates-new-librarian-congress-who-supports-open-access-fights-against-surveillance.shtml

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 17 comments

Introduction to Autonomous Robots

https://github.com/correll/Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots

10 years ago

★ 1.8k TeX
173 upvotes – 25 comments

A love letter to jQuery

http://madebymike.com.au/writing/love-letter-to-jquery

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 71 comments

Nxweb – Fast and Lightweight Web Server

http://nxweb.org/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

http://getwi.fi

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Cracking passwords with a simple genetic algorithm

https://github.com/lyle-nel/siga

10 years ago

★ 412 C++ GPL-3.0
149 upvotes – 58 comments

FreeBSD and ZFS

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2016/02/freebsd-and-zfs.html

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

How sleep and mental health are linked in the brain

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/how-sleep-and-mental-health-are-linked-in-the-brain/?utm_content=buffer0592b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 16 comments

Step by Step Guide to Building React Redux Apps

https://medium.com/@rajaraodv/step-by-step-guide-to-building-react-redux-apps-using-mocks-48ca0f47f9a#.5qbuaxkrf

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

A phony STEM shortage and the scandal of engineering visas

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-20160226-column.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 154 comments

Mysterious Martian “Cauliflower” May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mysterious-martian-cauliflower-may-be-latest-hint-alien-life-180957981?no-ist

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 74 comments

The Lost Tombs of Oman

https://maptia.com/oriolalamany/stories/the-forgotten-tower-tombs-of-oman

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 15 comments

Comparing a recurrent neural network with a Markov chain

http://www.r-bloggers.com/is-deep-learning-a-markov-chain-in-disguise/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/technology/apples-privacy-fight-tests-relationship-with-white-house.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

Single address spaces: design flaw or feature?

https://matildah.github.io/posts/2016-01-30-unikernel-security.html

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 62 comments

NP-complete problem solved with biological motors

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/np-complete-problem-solved-with-biological-motors/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

PICO-8 for Raspberry Pi

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3085

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses

http://www.businessinsider.de/meta-glasses-could-be-future-of-work-2016-2?r=US&IR=T

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Cleanflight Flight Control Software

http://cleanflight.com

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Galaxy Magazine (1950-80)

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine?sort=-date

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird

http://probablydance.com/2016/02/27/functional-programming-is-not-popular-because-it-is-weird/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

Sysdig vs. DTrace vs. Strace (2014)

https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-vs-dtrace-vs-strace-a-technical-discussion/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Victorian Jokes Database

http://victorianhumour.com/jokedb/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

More phones, few banks, instability are transforming Somalia to cashless society

http://qz.com/625258/more-phones-few-banks-and-years-of-instability-are-transforming-somalia-to-a-cashless-society/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 56 comments

20 Years, One Standard: The Story of TCP/IP (2003)

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/spira.html

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Intel Compute Stick review: Second time's the charm

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/22/intel-compute-stick-2016-review/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (2005)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-your-own.html#the-story-of-mac-a-just-so-story

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 0 comments

Forward error correction in QUIC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hg1SaLEl6T4rEU9j-isovCo8VEjjnuCPTcLNJewj7Nk/edit?pref=2&pli=1

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments
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