top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-04

In defence of Douglas Crockford

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

10 years ago

683 upvotes – 419 comments

Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails

https://blog.daknob.net/running-a-tor-exit-node-for-fun-and-e-mails/

10 years ago

420 upvotes – 160 comments

Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engineer/

10 years ago

397 upvotes – 111 comments

Inclusivity Is a Joke

https://medium.com/@hasharray/inclusivity-is-a-joke-32d0e10c65cb

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 216 comments

FLAC Support in Firefox 51

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195723

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 189 comments

Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5

https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource2

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 117 comments

You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/youre-how-old-well-be-in-touch.html?_r=0

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 248 comments

A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (2012) [pdf]

http://www.slobc.org/safety/documents/road-survival-guide.pdf

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 73 comments

Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/01/online-publishers-readers-ad-block-surveillance-donate-anonymously

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 79 comments

Crockford

https://paulstraw.svbtle.com/crockford

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 104 comments

Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 208 comments

Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed

https://medium.com/@virgilgr/tors-branding-pivot-is-going-to-get-someone-killed-6ee45313b559#.z1vs8xyjz

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 155 comments

Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites

http://alexmartins.me/2016/07/28/lessons-learned-from-software-rewrites.html

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 84 comments

What is your phone telling your rental car?

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/what-your-phone-telling-your-rental-car

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 78 comments

“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

https://status.linode.com/?

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12423281

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 130 comments

Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/parisdiderot/56002S02/session02/about

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 98 comments

Employers Find ‘Soft Skills’ Like Critical Thinking in Short Supply

http://www.wsj.com/articles/employers-find-soft-skills-like-critical-thinking-in-short-supply-1472549400?mod=e2fb

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 128 comments

Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45530.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 96 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: August 2016

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/09/01/dolphin-progress-report-august-2016/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What does an electrical engineer actually do at work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421881

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 110 comments

Teens Who Say No to Social Media

http://www.wsj.com/articles/teens-who-say-no-to-social-media-1472136877?mod=e2fb

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 77 comments

GPU Ray Tracing the Wrong Way

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1197

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

How Elixir Helped Us Scale Our Video User Profile Service for the Olympics

https://medium.com/software-sandwich/how-elixir-helped-us-to-scale-our-video-user-profile-service-for-the-olympics-dd7fbba1ad4e#.zdway598z

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 6 comments

In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bO8zEaSuWg

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 161 comments

Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit

http://news.sky.com/story/japans-unprecedented-warning-to-uk-over-brexit-10564585

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 201 comments

New Edition of “Programming in Haskell” Now Available

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/pih.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 23 comments

Dependency graphs of Go web frameworks

https://github.com/groob/goviz-frameworks

10 years ago

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114 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Why is inter-device file sharing still a hassle?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12424258

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

Bugs in the YAML specification

http://pyyaml.org/wiki/BugsInTheYAMLSpecification

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 77 comments

IoT’s killer app is not home security

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/03/iots-killer-app-is-not-home-security/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Txt.wav – Text Animation Library

http://www.stilllife.studio/txtwav

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

Details Emerge on China's 64-Core ARM Chip

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/01/details-emerge-chinas-64-core-arm-chip/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Candy Store

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/technology/goodbye-ivory-tower-hello-silicon-valley-candy-store.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

OpenBSD: Use the space freed up by sparc and zaurus to import LLVM

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147294297501630&w=2

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

The many lives of John le Carré, in his own words

http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03/tinker-tailor-writer-spy-the-many-lives-of-john-le-carre-in-his-own-words

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Welcome to the Simulcasting Video Player beta

http://1080.plus/W1rrchK83fM.video

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Lift – Lisp Flavoured Tensor

https://github.com/bhuztez/lift

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Granim.js – Create fluid and interactive gradients animations

https://sarcadass.github.io/granim.js/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments
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