top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-11

Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar

https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-radar

10 years ago

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

10 years ago

Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

10 years ago

Machine Learning in a Year

https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-year-cdb0b0ebd29c

10 years ago

Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/june-2015-online/jewel-in-the-crown-rolls-royces-single-crystal-turbine-blade-casting-foundry/

10 years ago

Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?

https://priceonomics.com/why-do-tourists-visit-ancient-ruins-everywhere/

10 years ago

Iran’s exceptional reaction to 9/11 attacks (2015)

https://photosiran.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/irans-exceptional-reaction-to-911-attacks-candlelit-vigils-for-the-victims-and-60k-soccer-fans-respected-a-minutes-silence-2/

10 years ago

Why I’m dropping Rust

https://medium.com/@kingoipo/why-im-dropping-rust-fd1c32986c88

10 years ago

On Generative Algorithms

http://inconvergent.net/generative/

10 years ago

Startup employees don't earn more

https://80000hours.org/2015/10/startup-salaries-and-equity-compensation/

10 years ago

The careless errors of credit reporting agencies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/08/how-the-careless-errors-of-credit-reporting-agencies-are-ruining-peoples-lives/

10 years ago

Don't Start Big, Start a Little Snowball

https://blog.nugget.one/2016/09/04/dont-start-big-start-a-little-snowball/

10 years ago

Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?

http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/can-computers-read-through-closed-books/

10 years ago

Show HN: Colors Used by Popular Sites

http://paulhebertdesigns.com/web_colors/

10 years ago

JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/javascript-conquered-web-now-taking-desktop/

10 years ago

China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane

http://www.popsci.com/china-will-resurrect-worlds-largest-plane?src=SOC&dom=fb&con=Quartz

10 years ago

The Falling Man

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/

10 years ago

Time crystals might exist after all

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-crystals.html

10 years ago

Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015)

https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/

10 years ago

22nd Century C

https://procedural.github.io/c22/

10 years ago

How to teach computational thinking

https://backchannel.com/how-to-teach-computational-thinking-29e45c8a2664#.b4hdqhocd

10 years ago

Enough with Basic Income

https://salon.thefamily.co/enough-with-this-basic-income-bullshit-a6bc92e8286b

10 years ago

The Real Heroes Are Dead (2002)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

10 years ago

Why I’m giving my company Election Day off

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/10/why-im-giving-my-company-election-day-off/

10 years ago

Elixir boilerplate

https://mattvonrocketstein.github.io/heredoc/elixir-boilerplate.html

10 years ago

Medical guidelines don’t include a diet low in carbohydrates

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/before-you-spend-26000-on-weight-loss-surgery-do-this.html

10 years ago

When Will New York City Sink?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/new-york-future-flooding-climate-change.html

10 years ago

The GNU Privacy Handbook (1999)

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/book1.html

10 years ago

A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours

10 years ago

The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405722316301177

10 years ago

Coding Challenge for MI5

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/opportunities/coding-challenge

10 years ago

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-statement-department-justice-department-army-and-department-interior-regarding-standing

10 years ago

uWebSockets 0.9.0

https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets/releases/tag/v0.9.0

10 years ago

★ 18.8k C++ Apache-2.0

How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/technology/no-driver-bring-it-on-how-pittsburgh-became-ubers-testing-ground.html

10 years ago

A prototype of a decentralized political party

https://hack.ether.camp/idea/a-prototype-of-a-decentralized-political-party

10 years ago

“Learn C the Hard Way” is no longer available for free

https://learncodethehardway.org/c/

10 years ago

What Could I Possibly Learn From a Mentor Half My Age

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/business/what-could-i-possibly-learn-from-a-mentor-half-my-age.html

10 years ago

Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2991130

10 years ago

The Case for Wooden Skyscrapers

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21706492-case-wooden-skyscrapers-not-barking-top-tree

10 years ago