top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-20

Japanese writing system basics

https://www.candyjapan.com/%E5%8F%A3

10 years ago

961 upvotes – 338 comments

Nasa just made all its research available online for free

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-research-available-free-online-a7200011.html

10 years ago

776 upvotes – 49 comments

A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

https://blog.mousereeve.com/a-suggestion-on-how-to-spend-a-day-at-home/

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 95 comments

A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines

https://github.com/madler/pigz

10 years ago

★ 2.9k C
280 upvotes – 67 comments

Data points that Facebook uses to target ads

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/19/98-personal-data-points-that-facebook-uses-to-target-ads-to-you

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 131 comments

If English were written like Chinese (1999)

http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 94 comments

Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/arts/music/bandcamp-shopping-for-music.html

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 119 comments

The Japanese Urban Zoning System

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/the-japanese-zoning-system.html

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 60 comments

How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang

https://joearms.github.io/2016/08/08/Draft-Payment-System-in-Erlang.html

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 15 comments

Decommissioning Otto

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 96 comments

The War on Cash

http://thelongandshort.org/society/war-on-cash

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 152 comments

Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/08/san-trombone-exoplanet-reality.html

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 195 comments

Playing with Syntax

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/playing-with-syntax/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 93 comments

Fixing JSON

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/08/20/Fixing-JSON

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 179 comments

What is BPF and why is it taking over Linux Performance Analysis?

http://blog.memsql.com/bpf-linux-performance/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 40 comments

MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-software-licensing-model/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Algorithm Visualizer – Knight's tour problem

http://algo-visualizer.jasonpark.me/#path=backtracking/knight%27s_tour/basic

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 8 comments

The World Is Closer Than Ever to Eradicating Guinea Worm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-world-is-closer-than-ever-to-eradicating-guinea-worm/2016/08/20/59d4a752-55bd-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 39 comments

Anti-Google research group in Washington is funded by Oracle

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/anti-google-research-group-in-washington-is-funded-by-oracle/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 24 comments

D.A. Henderson, ‘disease detective’ who eradicated smallpox, dies at 87

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/da-henderson-disease-detective-who-eradicated-smallpox-dies-at-87/2016/08/20/b270406e-63dd-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Mutt 1.7.0 released

https://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=147154326009383

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 90 comments

Redcon – Fast Redis-compatible server framework for Go

https://github.com/tidwall/redcon

10 years ago

★ 2.3k Go MIT
105 upvotes – 49 comments

SizeCoding.org: creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs

http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 15 comments

List of languages by time of extinction

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

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/guiding-venture-backed-startup-felony-sean-maday

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Questioning the value of sports is seen as blasphemy

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/stadiums-and-other-sacred-cows

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 80 comments

Building PokemonGo in Pure HTML, JavaScript and CSS

http://blog.geofenceapi.org/post/149196681132/building-pokemongo-in-pure-html-javascript-css

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

The $100 muon detector

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-100-muon-detector

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Paleontologists find huge T. Rex skull in Montana

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/19/12556472/tufts-love-rex-skull-found-skeleton

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

It is time to unlink the “Backspace” – Browser Back shortcut (2012)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144832

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 181 comments

Anonymouth – Document Anonymization Tool

https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

10 years ago

★ 1.9k Java
69 upvotes – 10 comments

Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100M dollar lesson) (2012)

http://okdork.com/2012/09/29/why-i-got-fired-from-facebook-a-100-million-dollar-lesson/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 63 comments

Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer update

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/plugging-in-kindle-is-crashing-windows-10-after/5db0d867-0822-4512-919e-3d7786353f95?auth=1

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 87 comments
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