top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-21

Introducing OpenStreetView

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274

10 years ago

A year of Rust and DNS

http://bluejekyll.github.io/blog/rust/dns/2016/08/21/a-year-of-rust-and-dns.html

10 years ago

Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis

http://reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSKCN10U1ST

10 years ago

An American Doctor Experiences the NHS Again

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/an-american-doctor-experiences-the-nhs-again/

10 years ago

The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21457/the-gif-is-dead-long-live-the-gif/

10 years ago

Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub

https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2016-August/033405.html

10 years ago

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2015)

https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

10 years ago

What Golang Is and Is Not

http://danmux.com/posts/what_golang_isnt/

10 years ago

Learning from Ada

http://www.monkeysnatchbanana.com/2016/02/22/learning-from-ada/

10 years ago

The Amiga Boing Ball Explained

http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/DaleLuck/Boing.html

10 years ago

Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/user-illusion-everyday-placebo-buttons-create-semblance-control/

10 years ago

Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music

https://maraoz.com/2016/02/02/abc-rnn/

10 years ago

Unreal: The Backstory

https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderBrandonMusic/posts/10153814555037621

10 years ago

Registered Replication Report – Facial Feedback Hypothesis [pdf]

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/StrackRRR_manuscript_accepted.pdf

10 years ago

I Botched a Perl 6 Release

http://perl6.party/post/I-Botched-A-Perl-6-Release-And-Now-A-Robot-Is-Taking-My-Job

10 years ago

Facebook AI Research Open Sources fastText

https://research.facebook.com/blog/fasttext/

10 years ago

The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/07/toothpaste_in_hotels_why_do_they_provide_shampoo_soap_and_high_end_toiletries.single.html?src=longreads&utm_content=buffer9fc8b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

On the State of Pony

https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/618?p=Created,0,,20,2,0,6182872&offset=0

10 years ago

The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb

http://timharford.com/2016/08/the-meaning-of-trust-in-the-age-of-airbnb/

10 years ago

NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

10 years ago

Put One Foot Wrong in Baarle and You’ve Left the Country

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/world/what-in-the-world/put-one-foot-wrong-in-this-town-and-youve-left-the-country.html

10 years ago

The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (1996)

http://www.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/kds_txt.htm

10 years ago

A list of Free Software network services and web apps that can be hosted locally

https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

10 years ago

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Charles 4

http://blog.xk72.com/post/148311808729/charles-4

10 years ago

Mobile eCommerce: Product Details

https://uxplanet.org/mobile-ecommerce-product-details-28feba377a55#.9exz2hdq3

10 years ago

Show HN: Cryptic – A sensible secret management toolkit and Go library

https://github.com/domodwyer/cryptic

10 years ago

★ 515 Go MIT

Fuzzing Perl: A Tale of Two American Fuzzy Lops

http://www.geeknik.net/71nvhf1fp

10 years ago

Cognitive behavioural therapy is falling out of favour

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/03/why-cbt-is-falling-out-of-favour-oliver-burkeman

10 years ago

Python on Pebble

https://gist.github.com/hiway/cd237eb1040c38e7ab5306a63575ded5

10 years ago

How to change symlinks atomically (2005)

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2005-08-22-how-to-change-symlinks-atomically.html

10 years ago

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence

10 years ago

Eye test may detect Parkinson’s before symptoms appear

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4448.html

10 years ago

Int 80h (2001)

http://www.int80h.org

10 years ago

Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (1995) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/sysdyn/road-maps/D-4468-1.pdf

10 years ago

Fedora 25 to Run Wayland by Default

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-25-Wayland-Default

10 years ago