top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-05

Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#

https://cheatdeath.github.io/research-bittorrent-doc/

10 years ago

509 upvotes – 86 comments

CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS

https://github.com/NamPNQ/You-Dont-Need-Javascript

10 years ago

★ 20.5k HTML GPL-3.0
493 upvotes – 302 comments

BSD vs. Linux (2005)

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01

10 years ago

457 upvotes – 356 comments

Living, in Limbo

http://hintjens.com/blog:121

10 years ago

364 upvotes – 71 comments

ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution

https://github.com/Cr4sh/ThinkPwn

10 years ago

★ 704 C GPL-3.0
338 upvotes – 144 comments

The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2012/12/the-pizza-lab-why-does-pepperoni-curl.html

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 64 comments

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

https://gist.github.com/jdmaturen/5830b83c1425c4767f7e1bd4c9561718

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 237 comments

How to Email Early Stage Investors

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/how-to-email-early-stage-investors/

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 68 comments

Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/9HiD0kMYU_U;context-place=topicsearchin/adsense/account$20cancelled

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 176 comments

Freely available programming books

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books

10 years ago

★ 386.1k Python CC-BY-4.0
239 upvotes – 36 comments

How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

http://www.arbing.co.uk/amazon-fba-business/?post=awesome

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 47 comments

Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code

http://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/don-eyles-walks-us-through-the-lunar-module-source-code/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 49 comments

Silent Circle removes warrant canary

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/05/silent-circle-silently-snuffs-out-its-warrant-canary-but-claims-its-a-business-decision/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 185 comments

Why do we keep building rotten foundations?

https://davmac.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/why-do-we-keep-building-rotten-foundations/

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 100 comments

FBI Statement on Clinton Email System

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 174 comments

Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications

https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp

10 years ago

★ 5.8k Haskell Apache-2.0
196 upvotes – 67 comments

The employees shut inside coffins

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34797017

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 116 comments

How to Write a BitTorrent Client, Part 1

http://www.kristenwidman.com/blog/33/how-to-write-a-bittorrent-client-part-1/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 8 comments

How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/30/how-frigate-birds-cross-entire-oceans-without-ever-needing-to-rest/?wpisrc=nl_draw&wpmm=1

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

How well do you know CSS display?

https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/how-well-do-you-know-display/#=%B2

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 46 comments

Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 34 comments

Huge home-built computer used for Tetris

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36711989

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Egypt cancelled DST

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-July/023855.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: I Design with Code

http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/pen/VjWWZO

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 36 comments

LGTM is a simple pull request approval system for GitHub

https://github.com/lgtmco/lgtm

10 years ago

★ 990 Go Apache-2.0
136 upvotes – 58 comments

Life Behind the Stacks: The Secret Apartments of New York Libraries

http://www.6sqft.com/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

Consciousness: The Mind Messing with the Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/what-is-consciousness.html

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 91 comments

Bussard: A space flight programming adventure

https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard

10 years ago

★ 193 GPL-3.0+
113 upvotes – 29 comments

Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea

http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments

Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21699115-evolution-pathogens-making-many-medical-problems-worse-time-take-drug-resistance

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 66 comments

I tried to watch Game of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened

https://medium.com/@jdauphant/i-tried-to-watch-game-of-thrones-legally-in-france-here-is-what-happened-2e4b1f5aaf76

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 86 comments

Applying machine learning to Infosec

http://conf.startup.ml/blog/infosec

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

City workers destroy 'Holy Grail' for earthquake scientists

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-curb-destroyed-20160705-snap-htmlstory.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

A South Korean Copy of Snapchat Takes Off in Asia

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/technology/snapchat-snow-korea.html?ref=business

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 98 comments

Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/would-a-world-without-work-be-so-bad/488711/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&single_page=true

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 118 comments

China’s tyranny of characters

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/07/language

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 93 comments

How Clara Labs (YC S14) Is Using Humans to Build AI

https://blog.claralabs.com/cooperative-intelligence-5c59960c2d95#.9fvitxue8

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Pretty Curved Privacy

https://github.com/TLINDEN/pcp

10 years ago

★ 122 C GPL-3.0
90 upvotes – 45 comments

New EU Proposals Seek to End Anonymous Bitcoin Trading

https://news.bitcoin.com/eu-end-anonymous-bitcoin/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

Mlpack – a scalable C++ machine learning library

http://mlpack.org/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Nuclear Plant Accidents: Sodium Reactor Experiment

http://allthingsnuclear.org/dlochbaum/nuclear-plant-accidents-sodium-reactor-experiment

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

Raiden Network – High Speed Asset Transfers for Ethereum

http://raiden.network/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

A simple, fully featured command line note taking tool written in Rust

https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca

10 years ago

★ 356 Rust MIT
82 upvotes – 30 comments

GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone

https://github.com/blog/2206-reorder-issues-within-a-milestone

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

LokiJS – In-memory JavaScript Datastore with Persistence

http://lokijs.org

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039536

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Interview with Raph Levien about Xi, Rust, data structures, and hacking history

http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/interview/_2/index.html

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 0 comments

Startups need to respect the laws of retail physics

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/05/startups-need-to-respect-the-laws-of-retail-physics/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser (2015)

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

FBI recommends no charges against Hillary Clinton for personal email server use

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/05/fbi-no-charges-hillary-clinton-email-investigation

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

China's Market Eclipse

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-07-05/china-vanke-s-eclipse-casts-light-on-market-dysfunction

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/fbi-recommend-charges-clinton-email-matter-40349756

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 57 comments

Implementing Software Timers (1990)

http://www.kohala.com/start/libes.timers.txt

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

IonMonkey now has Scalar Replacement and Branch Pruning optimizations

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2016/07/05/ionmonkey-evil-on-your-behalf/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon

https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/gce-vs-aws-in-2016-why-you-should-never-use-amazon/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 51 comments

Declaration of Independence in American (1921)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/decind.html

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 68 comments
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