top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-28

LambdaNative

http://www.lambdanative.org

10 years ago

Comparing Rust and Java

https://llogiq.github.io/2016/02/28/java-rust.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC

https://bitf.ly/

10 years ago

After the Gold Rush

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/28/even-peter-thiel-has-got-soul/

10 years ago

How to Code and Understand DeepMind's Neural Stack Machine in Python

https://iamtrask.github.io/2016/02/25/deepminds-neural-stack-machine/?i=4

10 years ago

Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: the system update

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/most-software-already-has-a-golden-key-backdoor-its-called-auto-update/

10 years ago

Ground control bids farewell to Philae comet lander

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35559503

10 years ago

Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-contingent-payments-announcement/

10 years ago

Wild gorillas compose songs that they hum during meals

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078781-wild-gorillas-compose-happy-songs-that-they-hum-during-meals/

10 years ago

Edward McCluskey has died

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/february/ed-mccluskey-obit-022516.html

10 years ago

OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf

https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/openssl-cve-2016-0799-heap-corruption-via-bio_printf/

10 years ago

Valuing high-tech companies

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/valuing-high-tech-companies

10 years ago

Show HN: Pass a URL, get summarized content

http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html

10 years ago

The City States of Europe

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-city-states-of-europe

10 years ago

Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics

http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html

10 years ago

What is wrong with “A successful Git branching model”?

https://barro.github.io/2016/02/a-succesful-git-branching-model-considered-harmful/

10 years ago

Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Chinese-political-leaders-have-engineering-degrees-whereas-their-American-counterparts-have-law-degrees?share=1

10 years ago

Can planes be tied in knots in higher dimensions the way lines can in 3D?

http://www.askamathematician.com/2016/02/q-can-planes-sheets-be-tied-in-knots-in-higher-dimensions-the-way-lines-strings-can-be-tied-in-knots-in-3-dimensions/

10 years ago

Virtual Femto Photography

https://benedikt-bitterli.me/femto.html

10 years ago

What I’ve learned so far from living in a Mars simulation dome

https://aeon.co/essays/what-i-ve-learned-so-far-from-living-in-a-mars-simulation?src=longreads

10 years ago

Engineers of Jihad: Connection between Violent Extremism and Education

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10656.html

10 years ago

Asciinema player: open source terminal session player written in ClojureScript

https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player

10 years ago

★ 2.8k JavaScript Apache-2.0

AlphaGo and AI Progress

http://www.milesbrundage.com/blog-posts/alphago-and-ai-progress

10 years ago

The City of the Eternal Boom

http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/austin-and-the-city-of-the-eternal-boom/

10 years ago

Slava Akhmechet – What's coming up for RethinkDB in 2016 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL5_EsF06DM

10 years ago

The Compositing Tree (2014)

http://nothings.org/gamedev/compositing_tree/

10 years ago

How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War

http://www.blockcy.com/how-bitcoin-community-turned-to-war

10 years ago

America’s airlines are introducing a class below economy

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/02/bottom-class

10 years ago

Show HN: See what other NPM packages everyone else is using

http://www.npmdiscover.com/

10 years ago

Spine: an animation tool that focuses on 2D animation for games

http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-in-depth

10 years ago

Morgan Stanley Marks Down Its Stake in Palantir, Dropbox

http://fortune.com/2016/02/26/morgan-stanley-palantir/

10 years ago

Silicon Valley is broken and heading for social unrest

http://qz.com/626811/silicon-valley-is-broken-and-heading-for-social-unrest-argues-media-theorist/

10 years ago

Quick introduction to SAT/SMT solvers and symbolic execution [pdf]

http://yurichev.com/tmp/SAT_SMT_DRAFT.pdf

10 years ago

WordPress is not easy

https://mattreport.com/wordpress-is-not-easy/

10 years ago

Cosmic void dwarfs pose interesting questions

http://nautil.us/blog/cosmic-void-dwarfs-are-a-thing-and-theres-a-problem-with-them

10 years ago

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY

10 years ago

I’m a Former Green Beret and Here’s How I Would Bring Down Bitcoin

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/i-m-a-former-green-beret-here-s-how-i-would-bring-down-bitcoin-1456165726

10 years ago

Concurrent Tries with Efficient Non-Blocking Snapshots (2012) [pdf]

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~prokopec/ctries-snapshot.pdf

10 years ago

What books were taken to the Antarctic 100 years ago?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35633374

10 years ago