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

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

10 years ago

★ 67.6k Assembly
652 upvotes – 145 comments

Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1

https://bengarney.com/2016/06/25/video-conference-part-1-these-things-suck/

10 years ago

590 upvotes – 55 comments

Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B

http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment

10 years ago

421 upvotes – 197 comments

Announcing Rust 1.10

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/07/07/Rust-1.10.html

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 75 comments

Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/07/apple-lzfse-lossless-opensource

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 205 comments

NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-06/nasa-images-show-toxic-air-challenge-choking-indian-subcontinent

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 209 comments

Wireworld

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

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 26 comments

Investor Day

https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160705-feynman-diagrams-nature-of-empty-space/

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 67 comments

Bee Bread

http://nordicfoodlab.org/blog/2015/9/4/bee-bread

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 93 comments

A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2011_WhatDoesJVMDo.pdf

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 165 comments

Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in

https://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4rl5to/outbound_clicks_rollout_complete/

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 197 comments

Show HN: AutoMicroFarm Is Ready for Shipping

http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/147044782291/the-automicrofarm-is-ready-for-shipping

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 119 comments

Peter Doig sued for disavowing 40-year-old painting

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/design/peter-doig-painting-lawsuit.html

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 142 comments

Professional C# and F# IDE for the iPad

http://praeclarum.org/post/147003028753/continuous-c-and-f-ide-for-the-ipad

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 72 comments

The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (2014)

https://medium.com/vantage/the-mesmerizing-architecture-of-mosques-385d1e5e14c0#.4q9jjkxke

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 13 comments

Employee #1: Reddit

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/chris-slowe-interview/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

Experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-post-quantum.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/07/ian_murdock_autopsy/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 100 comments

Native reactive spreadsheet in 17 LOC

http://www.red-lang.org/2016/07/native-reactive-spreadsheet-in-17-loc.html

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 77 comments

Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Facebook Live

https://www.facebook.com/100007611243538/videos/1690073837922975/?pnref=story

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 117 comments

Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (2006)

http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

Why North Korea is a safe haven for birds

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36533469

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Akka.NET 1.1: Akka.Cluster, Akka.Streams, and Multi-Node Testing

https://petabridge.com/blog/akkadotnet-11-cluster-streams/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”

http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08813

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 120 comments

Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/marie-kondo-and-the-ruthless-war-on-stuff.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 67 comments

Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool

https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/07/07/scrapely-the-brains-behind-portia-spiders/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

References for “The Future of Programming”

http://worrydream.com/dbx/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Growing Unease as British Mutual Funds Block the Exit Doors

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/business/dealbook/growing-unease-as-british-mutual-funds-block-the-exit-doors.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

Literate programming: presenting code in human order

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/07/06/literate-programming-presenting-code-in-human-order/#.V32uxZvDTmQ.hackernews

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

Building a C Compiler Type System – Part 1: The Formidable Declarator

http://blog.robertelder.org/building-a-c-compiler-type-system-the-formidable-declarator/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 47 comments

The TRIBES Engine Networking Model (2009) [pdf]

http://gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Web DRM moves to next phase, Defective by Design to continue opposition

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_drm_standard_next_phase_dbd_continued_opps

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 51 comments

The tyranny of messaging and notifications

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/6/12102874/walt-mossberg-messaging-notifications

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 104 comments

The land grab for farm data

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the-land-grab-for-farm-data/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 51 comments

The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels

http://book.rumpkernel.org/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 3 comments

A developer's journey to create 100 games in five years

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/276511/A_developers_journey_to_create_100_games_in_five_years.php

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Pi-based BBC Micro Co-Processor

http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11325

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

Research suggests many US parents will lie when saying kids made them happier

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/06/many-americans-will-tell-you-having-kids-made-them-happier-theyre-probably-lying/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 110 comments

Apex memmove – fast memcpy/memmove on x86/x64

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1110153/Apex-memmove-the-fastest-memcpy-memmove-on-x-x-EVE

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Russia’s Duma approved some of the most repressive laws in post-Soviet history

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/06/24/russia-s-state-duma-just-approved-some-of-the-most-repressive-laws-in-post-soviet-history

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security software giant

http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/07/avast-acquires-rival-avg-for-1-3-billion-to-create-a-security-software-giant/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

China's innovation economy a real estate bubble in disguise?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-innovation-insight-idUSKCN0ZM2KY

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman (1976) [pdf]

https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Bandit based Monte-Carlo planning [pdf]

https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~afern/classes/cs533/notes/uct.pdf

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Banning Sites That Don't Respect Adblock

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048735

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

Kidlington's mystery tourist influx continues to baffle locals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36733450

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

Email Apps Suck

https://schneid.io/blog/why-your-email-app-sucks.html

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 83 comments

Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

http://rungoterminal.com/

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 81 comments
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