top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-13

Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282231

10 years ago

648 upvotes – 299 comments

I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/08/11/i-m-a-judge-and-i-think-criminal-court-is-horrifying

10 years ago

440 upvotes – 210 comments

Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/opinion/a-small-victory-for-more-sensible-marijuana-policies.html

10 years ago

335 upvotes – 251 comments

135M messages a second between processes in Java (2013)

http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2013/04/lock-free-ipc-queue.html

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 157 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 32 comments

HTTP/2 – How did we get here

http://kamranahmed.info/blog/2016/08/13/http-in-depth/

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 19 comments

Most olive oils sold in the United States are adulterated or deceptively labeled

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/olive-oil-fake-larry-olmsted-food-fraud-usda

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 164 comments

The Beauty of Roots (2011)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 19 comments

The Witchcraft Compiler Collection

https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

10 years ago

★ 1.9k C
181 upvotes – 20 comments

For a Better Economy, Add Commuter Rail?

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/for-a-better-economy-add-commuter-rail/494957/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 150 comments

Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations of Data Science

http://www.inferentialthinking.com/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 12 comments

Ardour 5 released

https://community.ardour.org/node/13842

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

Why There Are So Many Ties in Swimming

http://regressing.deadspin.com/this-is-why-there-are-so-many-ties-in-swimming-1785234795

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 54 comments

Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications

https://solid.mit.edu/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

ZFS High-Availability NAS

https://github.com/ewwhite/zfs-ha/wiki

10 years ago

★ 779
150 upvotes – 59 comments

Two Weeks of Colorizebot

http://www.whatimade.today/two-weeks-of-colorizebot-conclusions-and-statistics/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 15 comments

An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-

http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/an-open-letter-to-warner-bros-ceo-kevin-tsujihara-about-layoffs-zack-snyder-and-donuts.php

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 82 comments

The hunger mood

https://aeon.co/essays/hunger-is-psychological-and-dieting-only-makes-it-worse

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

List of unsolved problems in physics

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

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

How I got tech support scammers infected with Locky

https://blog.kwiatkowski.fr/?q=en%2Fnode%2F30

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 17 comments

The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14719/18524280-MIT.pdf

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/oh-good-new-hack-can-unlock-100-million-volkswagens/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 78 comments

HTTPie 0.9.6

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/releases/tag/0.9.6

10 years ago

★ 38k Python BSD-3-Clause
108 upvotes – 36 comments

PyPy Tooling Upgrade: JitViewer and VMProf

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-tooling-upgrade-jitviewer-and.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 0 comments

Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2, dies

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/13/kenny-baker-r2-d2-dies-star-wars

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written in Rust

https://github.com/Immington-Industries/way-cooler

10 years ago

★ 2.1k C MIT
94 upvotes – 35 comments

iMessage's 'End-To-End' Encryption Hardly Better Than TLS

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/imessage-weak-encryption-matthew-green,32466.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Computational Complexity Theory

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-complexity/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Reliable Ordered Messages

http://gafferongames.com/building-a-game-network-protocol/reliable-ordered-messages/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Climbing the infinite ladder of abstraction

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/08/11/climbing-the-infinite-ladder-of-abstraction/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Interactive Data Visualization of Geospatial Data

http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/08/interactive-data-visualization-geospatial-d3-dc-leaflet-python/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Intel L3-cache slice partitioning visualisation

https://brainsmoke.github.io/misc/slicepattern.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments

Proxima Centauri has a Earth-like planet

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-scientists-unveil-earth-like-planet.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence

https://ethereumclassic.github.io/assets/ETC_Declaration_of_Independence.pdf

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Hacker Releases More Democratic Party Documents

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/democratic-party-documents-hack.html?_r=0

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

How I Founded a $2B Company with a 95 Cent Book from RadioShack

https://backchannel.com/how-i-founded-a-2-billion-dollar-company-with-a-95-cent-book-from-radioshack-8143e0d9607d#.nx3j2x3q2

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments
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