top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-14

What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad

10 years ago

An introduction to Japanese

https://pomax.github.io/nrGrammar/

10 years ago

What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced-mathematics/answers/873950?srid=p6KQ&share=1

10 years ago

Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286547

10 years ago

NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf]

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080008301.pdf

10 years ago

Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/08/13/does-not-kill.html

10 years ago

Nissan Motor Company has announced a new type of gasoline engine

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-japan-nissan-engine-idUSKCN10P0IK?il=0

10 years ago

Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lonely job’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/wp/2016/08/13/2016/08/13/tim-cook-the-interview-running-apple-is-sort-of-a-lonely-job/

10 years ago

SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/14/12467632/spacex-falcon-9-jcsat-16-drone-ship-landing-success

10 years ago

Python packaging is good now

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/python-packaging.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: How to get out of Tech and still make a decent living?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284410

10 years ago

SVG 2 new features

https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/wiki/SVG-2-new-features

10 years ago

★ 762 HTML

Motivational Incongruence and Well-Being at the Workplace

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01153/full

10 years ago

How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/palantir-defense-contracts-lobbyists-226969

10 years ago

SW-delta: an incremental cache for the web

https://github.com/gmetais/sw-delta

10 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript GPL-2.0

How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All

https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-silver-market/

10 years ago

React is mostly hype

http://en.arguman.org/react-is-mostly-hype

10 years ago

The State of Vue

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/the-state-of-vue-1655e10a340a#.sygdkj502

10 years ago

OpenFisca – Open models to compute tax and benefit systems

https://www.openfisca.fr/en

10 years ago

Steam on FreeBSD

https://github.com/SteamOnFreeBSD/SteamOnFreeBSD

10 years ago

Sdl-gpu: A library for high-performance, modern 2D graphics with SDL

https://github.com/grimfang4/sdl-gpu

10 years ago

★ 1.2k C MIT

FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-August/085277.html

10 years ago

Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

https://hbr.org/2016/06/which-mbas-make-more-consultants-or-small-business-owners

10 years ago

NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA

http://frankdenneman.nl/2016/07/07/numa-deep-dive-part-1-uma-numa/

10 years ago

HTTP/2 makes media loading 3–15 times faster on mobile

https://medium.com/apps-and-networking/http-2-makes-media-loading-3-15-times-faster-on-mobile-a455c3e68135#.212axv7bf

10 years ago

The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband, But We Can

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/community-broadband-and-fcc-net-neutrality-still-begins-home

10 years ago

ARM Cortex-M, Interrupts and FreeRTOS

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2016/08/14/arm-cortex-m-interrupts-and-freertos-part-1/

10 years ago

Explorable Explanations

http://explorableexplanations.com/

10 years ago

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.9169rn420

10 years ago

Ask HN: Good tech blogs to read

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286242

10 years ago

Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

https://github.com/real-logic/Aeron

10 years ago

★ 8.5k Java Apache-2.0

In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/12/in-texas-a-man-who-didnt-kill-anybody-is-about-to-be-executed-for-murder/?utm_term=.8a947c26d6c5

10 years ago

America's Addiction to Mercenaries

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/08/iraq-afghanistan-contractor-pentagon-obama/495731/?single_page=true

10 years ago

Life as an anxious scientist

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/life-as-an-anxious-scientist/

10 years ago

Saving Canada's only desert

http://www.dw.com/en/saving-canadas-onlydesert/a-19470246

10 years ago

Un-Facebooked

https://jonathanspyer.com/2016/08/12/un-facebooked/

10 years ago

Neuron – Electron, ES6, React, PouchDB, Sass, Webpack

https://github.com/JamesTheHacker/Neuron

10 years ago

★ 959 JavaScript

The TPP isn't 'free trade,' it's corruption

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2016/Stop-TPP-corruption/

10 years ago

Free Software Foundation Releases FY2015 Annual Report

http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-releases-fy2015-annual-report

10 years ago

The Rise of the Platform Economy

http://issues.org/32-3/the-rise-of-the-platform-economy/

10 years ago