top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-30

Alan Kay's reading list

http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp

10 years ago

575 upvotes – 168 comments

Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry

http://www.jasonshen.com/2016/new-napster-sci-hub-academic-publishing/

10 years ago

291 upvotes – 115 comments

Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (2014) [pdf]

http://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 280 comments

Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres

http://www.andl.org/2016/04/postgres-meet-andl/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 104 comments

I Have Created 50 Games in 2014

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/blog/2014/12/12/games-in-2014/

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 51 comments

Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/30/politics/axe-files-axelrod-eric-holder/index.html

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 108 comments

Microlight.js, a code highlighting library

https://asvd.github.io/microlight/

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 62 comments

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 62 comments

A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents

https://citizenlab.org/2016/05/stealth-falcon/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 36 comments

Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/05/29/harvard-scientist-engineers-a-superbug-that-inhales-co2-produces-energy/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 91 comments

Making an RPG in Clojure (2010)

http://briancarper.net/blog/520.html

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 39 comments

Deep API Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08535

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 35 comments

HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop

http://blog.rome2rio.com/2016/04/18/https-results-in-7-google-adx-revenue-drop/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 65 comments

How Not to Explain Success

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-explain-success.html

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 133 comments

Using Neural Networks to Evaluate Handwritten Mathematical Expressions

http://www.willforfang.com/computer-vision/2016/4/9/artificial-intelligence-for-handwritten-mathematical-expression-evaluation

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 19 comments

Hardiman I Exoskeleton

http://cyberneticzoo.com/man-amplifiers/1966-69-g-e-hardiman-i-ralph-mosher-american/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 39 comments

The attention economy

https://aeon.co/essays/does-each-click-of-attention-cost-a-bit-of-ourselves

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 63 comments

Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/technology/governments-turn-to-commercial-spyware-to-intimidate-dissidents.html?ref=technology&_r=0

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2012/02/20/i-need-practice-programming-49-ideas-for-game-clones-to-code/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 49 comments

The Estonian president wants a more digitally-integrated Europe

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/why-cant-the-estonian-president-buy-a-song-off-itunes-for-his-latvian-wife/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

GE's Walking Truck (1969) [video]

http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=5000

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

The SQL filter clause: selective aggregates

http://modern-sql.com/feature/filter

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 47 comments

On the Wildness of Children

http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 81 comments

Neurons Constantly Alter Their DNA (2015)

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/neurons_constantly_rewrite_their_dna

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 28 comments

European Lisp Symposium 2016

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA66mD-6yK8xqd5XKxzwVBIqf1d3QQXpv

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 7 comments

How I built a profitable bootstrapped side project

https://www.getdeckchair.com/blog/how-i-built-a-profitable-bootstrapped-side-project/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

Quitting your job to pursue your passion is a privilege

http://www.janellequibuyen.com/blog/quitting-your-job-to-pursue-your-passion-is-bullshit

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 112 comments

Thai government to MITM all internet communications

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/993937/internet-laws-a-time-bomb

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 60 comments

My Experience with Nix on OS X

https://www.mpscholten.de/nixos/2016/05/26/my-experience-with-nix-on-osx.html?

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 58 comments

The ARM Cortex A73 – Artemis Unveiled

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10347/arm-cortex-a73-artemis-unveiled

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 14 comments

Perlin noise

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/05/29/perlin-noise/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: How many of you gave up working as a professional coder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802837

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

Our Hybrid lda2vec Algorithm

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/05/27/lda2vec/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 4 comments

How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/how-crowdsourcing-turned-on-me

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

What Happens to the Brain During Cognitive Dissonance? (2015)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-to-the-brain-during-cognitive-dissonance/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 62 comments

Escaping the Local Minimum: Where AI Has Been and Where It Needs to Go

http://kennethfriedman.org/projects/escaping-local-min/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nEZ3TuFpA

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 5 comments

Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Databases (2012) [pdf]

http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

Visualize the orbits of exoplanets

https://nbremer.github.io/exoplanets/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple's forgotten virtual-reality project QuickTime VR

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-apples-forgotten-virtual-reality-project-quicktime-vr-2016-5

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

Palo Alto considers subsidized housing for salary up to $250K

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent-idUSKCN0WQ0CB

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 135 comments

How Do Animals Keep from Getting Lost?

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-do-animals-keep-from-getting-lost

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

The Curse of the Ramones

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-curse-of-the-ramones-20160519

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

DistroWatch turns 15

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160530#stats

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801390

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments

How Compaq Cloned IBM and Created an Empire

http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/05/the-incredible-true-story-behind-amcs-halt-and-catch-fire-how-compaq-cloned-ibm-and-created-an-empire/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lost-at-sea-on-brink-second-world-war

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Mobile UX Design: Ways to Ask Users for Permissions

https://uxplanet.org/mobile-ux-design-the-right-ways-to-ask-users-for-permissions-6cdd9ab25c27#.wldxowb7j

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Security challenges for the Qubes build process

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2016/05/30/build-security.html

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

A Ruby wrapper for LaTeXML

https://github.com/Authorea/latexml-ruby

10 years ago

★ 73 Ruby MIT
63 upvotes – 10 comments
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