top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-16

Destroy All Ifs – A Perspective from Functional Programming

http://degoes.net/articles/destroy-all-ifs

10 years ago

362 upvotes – 222 comments

Cron checker

http://crontab.guru/

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 126 comments

CloudFlare, We Have a Problem

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 163 comments

Dissonant tones sound fine to people not raised on Western music

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 84 comments

Does 1+2+3+... Really Equal -1/12?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/does-123-really-equal-112/

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 168 comments

J-core Open Processor

http://j-core.org/?HN_20160716

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft Orleans – An approach to building distributed applications in .NET

http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 65 comments

Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on Lisp

http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/FMJ.html

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 104 comments

Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the “celebrity threesome injunction”?

https://stallman.org/articles/duckduckgo-censorship.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

How to set up an OpenStreetMap server

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-openstreetmap-server-in-120gb.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrants on Internet Firms

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-administration-negotiating-international-data-sharing-agreements-1468619305

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 119 comments

Copy and paste-friendly Go crypto

https://github.com/gtank/cryptopasta

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go CC0-1.0
141 upvotes – 33 comments

Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: here’s what got oversimplified

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/malcolm_gladwell_got_us_wrong_our_research_was_key_to_the_10000_hour_rule_but_heres_what_got_oversimplified/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 147 comments

How to Keep a Journal

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/15/how-to-keep-a-journal/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 62 comments

What Mailchimp does to make sure emails get delivered

http://www.wired.com/2016/07/mailchimp-sends-billion-emails-day-thats-easy-part/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 85 comments

Writing custom type systems for Python in Prolog

http://code.alehander42.me/prolog_type_systems

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09225

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

A DIY diabetes kit

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36711994

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original ‘Surfers’

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/technology/when-yahoo-ruled-the-valley-stories-of-the-original-surfers.html

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Hablog – High-availability, distributed, lightweight, static site with comments

http://blog.zorinaq.com/release-of-hablog-and-new-design/?

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?

http://www.newsweek.com/spy-or-whistleblower-should-obama-settle-snowden-479813

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 139 comments

Sylvie Forbin, lobbyist for Vivendi, is new head of copyright at WIPO

http://keionline.org/node/2614

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

Your license to use React.js can be revoked if you compete with Facebook

http://react-etc.net/entry/your-license-to-use-react-js-can-be-revoked-if-you-compete-with-facebook

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing

https://github.com/angus-c/just

10 years ago

★ 6.2k JavaScript MIT
96 upvotes – 74 comments

Maintainable JavaScript (2014)

http://www.alexkras.com/summary-of-maintainable-javascript/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public apology

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/12/free-license-misuse-apology/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: How should the CLI be designed today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12107229

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 85 comments

Set server timezones to UTC

http://yellerapp.com/posts/2015-01-12-the-worst-server-setup-you-can-make.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Why do many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/the-curious-case-of-the-bog-bodies

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Nancy – A lightweight web framework for .NET

http://nancyfx.org

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Western-style diet linked to state-dependent memory inhibition

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/3270.html

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality

https://aeon.co/essays/micro-targeted-digital-porn-is-changing-human-sexuality

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

The other kind of JavaScript fatigue

http://chrismm.com/blog/the-other-kind-of-javascript-fatigue/?123

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Matroschka – A Python steganography tool

https://github.com/fgrimme/Matroschka

10 years ago

★ 439 Python
69 upvotes – 8 comments
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