top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-09

Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_coursera

10 years ago

Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/28/483805061/has-physics-gotten-something-really-important-really-wrong

10 years ago

Pinboard Turns Seven

https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/

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Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

http://qz.com/727855/silicon-valley-tech-workers-see-startups-and-silicon-valley-losing-their-luster/

10 years ago

Post Ghost Shutdown: An Open Letter to Twitter

http://postghost.com/Home/Shutdown/

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Replacing Google with microG

https://lwn.net/Articles/681758/

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Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

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★ 30.6k C# MIT

The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (2006) [pdf]

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/The-DOOM-III-Network-Architecture.pdf

10 years ago

Simple questions to help reduce AI hype

http://smerity.com/articles/2016/ml_not_magic.html

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Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction

http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction?duplication

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Mozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web

https://github.com/mozilla/fathom

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★ 1.9k JavaScript MPL-2.0

Clean Links – Converts obfuscated or nested links to genuine clean links

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clean-links/

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Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759

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Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/albert-einstein-the-negro-question-1946

10 years ago

Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/276428/Dispelling_some_myths_about_the_autistic_wunderkind_programmer.php

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Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab

https://github.com/awalGarg/netmonitor

10 years ago

★ 390 JavaScript

Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html

10 years ago

The Tunguska Event

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160706-in-siberia-in-1908-a-huge-explosion-came-out-of-nowhere

10 years ago

Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/

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Habitat – a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the Commodore 64

https://github.com/Museum-of-Art-and-Digital-Entertainment/habitat

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★ 514 M MIT

Quantity discounts on a virtual good: results of a massive pricing experiment

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/7323.full

10 years ago

Realtime Data Processing at Facebook

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/07/realtime-data-processing-at-facebook.html

10 years ago

What Makes a Great Software Engineer? Just My Thoughts

http://elliot.land/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer

10 years ago

The syndrome impairing astronauts’ eyesight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-mysterious-syndrome-impairing-astronauts-eyesight/2016/07/09/f20fb9a6-41f1-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html

10 years ago

Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6

https://medium.com/@homam/composability-from-callbacks-to-categories-in-es6-f3d91e62451e

10 years ago

Performance Comparison of JavaScript Frameworks

http://www.stefankrause.net/js-frameworks-benchmark2/webdriver-java/table.html

10 years ago

PCB Design Tutorial for Startups

http://www.nepsu.com/nepsu_ultimate_pcb_design_guide.html

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Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat

https://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html

10 years ago

Steve Blank: Venture Capital Is “Liquidity Ponzi Scheme”

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/venture-capital-is-liquidity-ponzi-scheme-says-steve-blank/

10 years ago

A Startup Shies Away from the Gig Economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/technology/a-start-up-shies-away-from-the-gig-economy.html?ref=business

10 years ago

Linux Signals – Internals

http://sklinuxblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/linux-signals-internals.html

10 years ago

Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live

https://beehollander.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/the-6-month-bug-and-why-i-will-never-abbreviate-variable-names/

10 years ago

The Lounge – Self-hosted web IRC client

https://github.com/thelounge/lounge

10 years ago

★ 6.2k TypeScript MIT

Why it's important to optimise the tricky parts of Ruby [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1NTaVQPt1E

10 years ago

Stop using gmail.com for things you care about

https://medium.com/@xdvl/stop-using-gmail-com-for-things-you-care-about-14af40e43a88#.o3ln6fpl9

10 years ago

Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary USA

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/05/037929

10 years ago

Silicon Valley-Driven Hype for Self-Driving Cars

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/silicon-valley-driven-hype-for-self-driving-cars.html

10 years ago

Atomontage Engine

http://atomontage.com/

10 years ago

UK’s secret, ongoing mass surveillance rigorously frisked by watchdog

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/07/uk-secret-ongoing-mass-surveillance-iocco-report-section-94-telecommunications-act/

10 years ago

In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile?

https://www.quora.com/In-a-nutshell-why-do-a-lot-of-developers-dislike-Agile/answer/Miles-English?srid=i5M8&share=1

10 years ago

Robot's role in killing Dallas shooter is a first

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/technology/dallas-robot-death/index.html

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