top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-18

Serverless Architectures

http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

10 years ago

477 upvotes – 202 comments

Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

https://github.com/coding-horror/donkey.bas/blob/master/donkey.bas

10 years ago

★ 329 BASIC
468 upvotes – 173 comments

“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4tgsaz/iama_i_built_a_fusion_reactor_in_my_bedroom_ama/

10 years ago

434 upvotes – 127 comments

SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/business/dealbook/softbank-group-nears-deal-to-buy-arm-holdings.html?_r=0

10 years ago

357 upvotes – 98 comments

The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth

https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-path-fragment-query-auth/?h

10 years ago

333 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118554

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 139 comments

D4 – Declarative Data-Driven Documents

https://d4.js.org

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 79 comments

Vulkan Tutorial

https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Introduction

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 87 comments

India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Demonstrator Successfully Flight Tested

http://www.isro.gov.in/update/23-may-2016/india%E2%80%99s-reusable-launch-vehicle-technology-demonstrator-rlv-td-successfully

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 69 comments

What ever happened to Wordstar?

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-wordstar-2/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 169 comments

Is full-time work bad for our brains?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160714-is-full-time-work-bad-for-our-brains

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 212 comments

Memory management in C programs (2014)

http://nethack4.org/blog/memory.html

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 103 comments

Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since 2002

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/15/saudi-ties-to-911-detailed-in-documents-suppressed-since-2002/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 105 comments

My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-venezuela-diary/

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 268 comments

Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough”

https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/code-is-never-perfect-code-is-only-ever-good-enough/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 126 comments

Interview with Larry Wall

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/07/14/1349207/the-slashdot-interview-with-larry-wall

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 91 comments

Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated

http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 138 comments

Senior Engineers Reduce Risk

https://medium.com/@ztellman/senior-engineers-reduce-risk-5ab2adc13c97#.1msimf79r

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 86 comments

What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right

http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/07/what-template-haskell-gets-wrong-and-racket-gets-right/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 66 comments

Using Simulated Annealing to Solve Logic Puzzles

http://blog.pluszero.ca/blog/2016/07/17/using-simulated-annealing-to-solve-logic-puzzles/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 31 comments

SpaceX: “First stage landing confirmed at LZ-1”

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/754902271515701248?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 59 comments

Five Years of Recurse Center

https://www.recurse.com/five-years

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Language Evolution Simulation

https://github.com/fatiherikli/language-evolution-simulation

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 24 comments

Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability

https://httpoxy.org/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

Prometheus reaches 1.0

https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/07/18/prometheus-1-0-released/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600M

https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-chinese-consortium-for-600-million/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones

https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/ten-minute-hacks-hacking-airplane-headphones/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 107 comments

The only way to revoke Spotify API tokens is to delete your account

https://olav.it/post/spotify-third-party-access/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 40 comments

India's Flipkart Has an Amazon Problem

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/india-s-flipkart-has-an-amazon-problem

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 86 comments

History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, and Three

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 5 comments

Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its last-ever earnings report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/18/yahoo-misses-profit-expectations-in-what-could-be-its-last-ever-earnings-report/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 148 comments

Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension

https://kjaer.io/extension-malware/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 59 comments

Zeroing Memory is Hard: VC++ 2015 arrays

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/zeroing-memory-is-hard-vc-2015-arrays/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 55 comments

Employee #1: Airbnb

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/nick-grandy/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Homo sapiens

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136584/0

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 92 comments

Tor veteran exits, shuts down critical 'Tonga' node and relays

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/18/lucky_green_torpedos_tors_tonga_node/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better

http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-on-life-they-let-you-live-it

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

The H-Bombs in Turkey

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-h-bombs-in-turkey

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 139 comments

Microsoft patched Windows RT, blocks dev Linux boot

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/15/windows_fix_closes_rt_unlock_loophole/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline

https://otherside.site/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

SoftBank is buying ARM for $32B

http://www.recode.net/2016/7/17/12210564/softbank-arm-holdings-deal

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

Pack Hunters of the Silicon Savannas

http://hintjens.com/blog:122

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Big Problems Facing Science

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/science-challeges-research-funding-peer-review-process

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 71 comments

How a Quest by Elites Is Driving ‘Brexit’ and Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/upshot/how-a-quest-by-elites-is-driving-brexit-and-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2FEconomic%20View&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&module=Collection&region=Marginalia&src=me&version=column&pgtype=article

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 139 comments

TempleOS Benchmark: VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adtj2YwiDhQ

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Study opens new realms of light-matter interaction

http://news.mit.edu/2016/forbidden-light-emissions-sensors-0714

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2807046

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/15/microsoft_wont_hit_billion_win10_devices/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 105 comments

Linus Torvalds: “So please don't stop.” (2004)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

SoftBank confirms $32B acquisition of chipmaker ARM to target Internet of Things

http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/18/softbank-confirms-32b-acquisition-of-u-k-based-chipmaker-arm-to-target-internet-of-things/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

1x Forth (1999)

http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Did Microsoft steal its fonts from the Turkish army? (2012)

http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2012/10/did-microsoft-steal-its-fonts-from-the-turkish-army.html

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Apathy of the Commons

https://stuartsierra.com/2016/07/18/apathy-of-the-commons

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

The Fake Townhouses Hiding Mystery Underground Portals

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/29/the-fake-townhouses-hiding-mystery-underground-portals/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments
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