top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-29

How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products?

https://www.quora.com/How-big-an-issue-is-the-nausea-problem-for-Virtual-Reality-products/answer/Steve-Baker-9?share=1

10 years ago

387 upvotes – 175 comments

500 Lines or Less

https://github.com/aosabook/500lines

10 years ago

★ 29.5k JavaScript
377 upvotes – 61 comments

Flask 0.11 Released

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.11/changelog/#version-0-11

10 years ago

368 upvotes – 126 comments

Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f#.3d80xpzgv

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 122 comments

The real responsive design challenge is RSS

https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-05-28-rss-responsive-design.html?hn=1

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 109 comments

How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-food-manufacturers/

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 150 comments

Systemd developer asks tmux to add systemd specific code

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428

10 years ago

★ 44.9k C ISC
194 upvotes – 282 comments

Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 23 comments

C++ for Games: Performance, Allocations and Data Locality

http://ithare.com/c-for-games-performance-allocations-and-data-locality/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 64 comments

Qualcomm KeyMaster keys extracted directly from TrustZone

https://mobile.twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737051964857561093

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider

https://github.com/ory-am/hydra#

10 years ago

★ 17k Go Apache-2.0
161 upvotes – 49 comments

GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerability via filename

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/19669

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 54 comments

Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/we-need-to-challenge-the-myth-that-the-rich-are-specially-talented-wealth-creators

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 213 comments

PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library

https://github.com/thalesians/pythalesians

10 years ago

★ 63 Apache-2.0
139 upvotes – 8 comments

Let's talk openly about depression

http://www.gustavoveloso.com/2016/05/29/lets-talk-openly-about-depression/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 61 comments

I defeated a long-broken fridge and became a household hero through 3D printing

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/even-a-3d-printing-infant-can-fix-the-perennially-broken-fridge/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 57 comments

Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/29/boys-books-earnings-adults

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

“Apple took away Messages.app UI scripting capabilities in OS X 10.11”

https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageclient

10 years ago

★ 873 JavaScript
118 upvotes – 100 comments

Three ways to solve hard programming problems

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/05/29/three-ways-to-solve-hard-programming-problems/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Pauli Effect

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

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Startup Reading List

http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Fasting-like Diet Reduces Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/clinical-updates/fasting-diet-reduces-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Changes sshd port every 30 seconds, using Two Factor Auth to login

https://github.com/benjojo/totp-ssh-fluxer

10 years ago

★ 942 Go
96 upvotes – 73 comments

German WW2 code machine found on eBay

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36401663

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Jane Fawcett, British Decoder Who Helped Doom the Bismarck, Dies at 95

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/obituaries/jane-fawcett-british-decoder-who-helped-doom-the-bismarck-dies-at-95.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Entrpreneurship Means I Give Up

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/entrpreneurship-means-i-give-up/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Most coral dead in central section of Great Barrier Reef, surveys reveal

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/30/most-coral-dead-in-central-section-of-great-barrier-reef-surveys-reveal

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

A simple Vulkan Compute example

http://www.duskborn.com/a-simple-vulkan-compute-example/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Cuckoo filters and their analysis

http://11011110.livejournal.com/327681.html

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

https://blog.kaspersky.com/findface-experiment/11916/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Microcorruption – Embedded Security CTF

https://microcorruption.com/login

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Houyhnhnm Computing

https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Elixir Confs Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWbHc_FXPo2gB7HUE-2H61HAEyszAph3H

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

What UX designers can learn from 1990s Japanese video games

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/28/what-ux-designers-can-learn-from-1990s-japanese-video-games/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798821

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 65 comments

Dutch Firm Trains Eagles to Take Down Drones

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/world/europe/drones-eagles.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

Bhyve now with graphics support

https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/UEFI

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

A Proposal for an Antifragile Software Manifesto

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050916302290

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

The Geneva Free Port is crammed with storage vaults that contain great art

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/one-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-collections-hides-behind-this-fence.html

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (2014)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

The Pros and Cons of Taking Investment from Corporate VCs

https://medium.com/startups-and-investment/the-pros-and-cons-of-taking-investment-from-corporate-vcs-b8164023a938#.8zjc0f609

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

The Liberal Blind Spot

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/the-liberal-blind-spot.html

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 81 comments

Scientists say they have created a new platform for antibiotic discovery

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/harvard-team-takes-major-step-toward-overcoming-antibiotic-resistance/81252750/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

The Death of Object-Oriented Programming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifW0qEJ7OTM

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

Bullshit fighting

https://stactivist.com/2016/05/29/bullshit-fighting/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Flatpak – Standalone Apps for Linux

http://flatpak.org

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments

Oklahoma Makes the Poor Poorer

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/oklahoma-makes-the-poor-poorer.html

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

OS/2 resurrected: Blue Lion becomes ArcaOS, details emerge for upcoming release

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/os2-resurrected-blue-lion-becomes-arcaos-details-emerge-for-upcoming-release/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? (2009)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-military-sonar-kill/

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments
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