top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-19

Vim GIFs

http://vimgifs.com/

10 years ago

489 upvotes – 130 comments

Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design

https://medium.com/@octskyward/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69#.qchn61j4c

10 years ago

478 upvotes – 195 comments

John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html

10 years ago

395 upvotes – 199 comments

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guidelines.md

10 years ago

★ 23.2k
339 upvotes – 142 comments

The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting

http://www.vincecima.com/2016/06/12/the-surprising-ease-of-plain-text-accounting.html

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 237 comments

Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users

https://cryptome.org/2016/07/cloudflare-de-anons-tor.htm

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 115 comments

How to Pitch Your Company

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/how-to-pitch-your-company/

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 79 comments

ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36827769

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 218 comments

The rectangularness of countries

http://pappubahry.com/misc/rectangles/

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 142 comments

Stick a Fork in Ethereum

http://elaineou.com/2016/07/18/stick-a-fork-in-ethereum/

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 183 comments

North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: Weirder Than We Thought (2015)

https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/north-koreas-naenara-web-browser-its-weirder-than-we-thought/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 58 comments

WikiLeaks releases AKP email database

https://wikileaks.org/akp-emails/

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 43 comments

Scientists pave the way for large-scale storage at the atomic level

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21702343-individual-atoms-offer-ultra-dense-information-storage-scientists-pave-way

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 72 comments

Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/07/07/why-california-is-so-expensive-its-not-just-the-weather-its-the-regulation/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 259 comments

Tabs slower than spaces in Firefox

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154339

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 123 comments

Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core

https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_9-released

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 74 comments

Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2016/07/16/braid_code_cleanup_1.html

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 97 comments

Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-teachers-idUSKCN0ZZ22F?il=0

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 140 comments

Qt WebBrowser 1.0

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/07/18/qt-webbrowser-1-0/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/19/12227490/twitter-opening-verified-account-user-form

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 129 comments

Annoyed at crypto, Brazilian judge orders mobile carriers to block WhatsApp

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/annoyed-at-crypto-brazilian-judge-orders-mobile-carriers-to-block-whatsapp/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 127 comments

Functional programming in C (2013)

https://lucabolognese.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/functional-programming-in-c/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Lint for HTTP

https://github.com/vfaronov/httpolice

10 years ago

★ 933 Python
138 upvotes – 12 comments

Probabilistic Filters By Example: Cuckoo Filter and Bloom Filters

https://bdupras.github.io/filter-tutorial/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 25 comments

MIT scientists find weird quantum effects over hundreds of miles

http://news.mit.edu/2016/neutrinos-weird-quantum-effects-over-hundreds-miles-0719

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

Stealing Facebook access_tokens using CSRF in device login flow

https://www.josipfranjkovic.com/blog/hacking-facebook-csrf-device-login-flow

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 82 comments

The U.S. Navy Almost Fought the Soviets Over Bangladesh

https://warisboring.com/in-1971-the-u-s-navy-almost-fought-the-soviets-over-bangladesh-c65489bc72c0#.prw727v0q

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 125 comments

Turkey Extends Purge to Universities, Asking All Deans to Go

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/turkey-extends-purge-to-universities-asking-all-deans-to-go

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 188 comments

Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-07-19/microsoft-turns-bing-from-a-joke-into-an-ad-business

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123055

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 117 comments

How to be a wizard programmer

https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/755020037979856896

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 62 comments

It’s No 'Accident:' Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/science/its-no-accident-advocates-want-to-speak-of-car-crashes-instead.html?_r=2

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 139 comments

A major iOS/OS X vulnerability comparable to Android Stagefright

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/07/19/apple-iphone-ios-9-vulnerabilities-like-stagefright/#6695b1f33947

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

Getting a network trace from a single application

http://jonasdn.blogspot.com/2016/07/getting-network-trace-from-single.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 7 comments

Magnetic core memory reborn (2011)

http://www.corememoryshield.com/report.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

AWS increased error rates / intermittent outages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123883

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Voltaire’s Luck

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/luck/voltaires-luck

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: How did NASA make reliable software if they didn't invent unit tests?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12121739

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 92 comments

Millennials 'set to earn less than Generation X'

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36821582

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 192 comments

BuntDB – Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with geospatial

https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb

10 years ago

★ 4.8k Go MIT
96 upvotes – 13 comments

Training Computers to Find Future Criminals

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-richard-berk-future-crime/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Anyone moving their company out of the UK following Brexit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122630

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

http://pravatar.cc/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Use cases for ES6 proxies

http://devbryce.com/use-cases-for-es6-proxies/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Harnessing light for wireless communications

https://code.facebook.com/posts/484014178459953/harnessing-light-for-wireless-communications/?utm_source=codedot_rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS+Feed

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

WebGL Julia Set

https://jonathan-potter.github.io/webgl-shaders/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

What are your rabbit holes on the internet? (For instance, HN one we all share)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123642

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006)

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/174/old-school-copy-protection-schemes

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 60 comments

Hints for Computer System Design (1983)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Bosh: Tool for deploying and monitoring distributed systems

https://bosh.io/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Wikileaks released 294,548 emails from Turkey's ruling political party

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755500104543526912

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments
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