top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-19

Music theory for nerds

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

10 years ago

766 upvotes – 378 comments

Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/18/dont-just-pardon-edward-snowden-give-the-man-a-medal/

10 years ago

505 upvotes – 233 comments

I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa

http://imgur.com/gallery/bSOKf

10 years ago

485 upvotes – 248 comments

The cypherpunk revolution

http://passcode.csmonitor.com/cypherpunk

10 years ago

352 upvotes – 68 comments

Employee #1: Dropbox

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/employee-1-dropbox/

10 years ago

332 upvotes – 93 comments

Static Website Generators

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05/02/top-ten-static-website-generators/

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 239 comments

Api.ai is joining Google

https://api.ai/blog/2016/09/19/api-ai-joining-google/

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 153 comments

Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/53h8vk/evidence_of_hillarys_it_guy_paul_combetta_asking/

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 56 comments

The Free-Time Paradox in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/A/archive/2016/09/the-free-time-paradox-in-america/499826/?single_page=true

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 192 comments

How to Overthrow a Government [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lhGqNCZlA

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 44 comments

My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust

https://medium.com/@robertgrosse/my-experience-rewriting-enjarify-in-rust-723089b406ad#.wdxskueoh

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 121 comments

Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating

https://hackernoon.com/why-learning-angular-2-was-excruciating-d50dc28acc8a#.p2dy3kxah

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 216 comments

What I Learned from Executing Two Men

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/what-i-learned-from-executing-two-men.html?_r=1

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 297 comments

Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/19/12943054/google-trips-travel-app-android-ios

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 90 comments

Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go

http://blog.chewxy.com/2016/09/19/gorgonia/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 53 comments

Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/06/hacker_hacks_ceo_wire_transfer_scammers_sends_win_10_creds_to_cops/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

Practice coding with fun programming challenges

http://www.codingame.com/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

Instant Payouts for Marketplaces

https://stripe.com/blog/instant-payouts-for-marketplaces?

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 57 comments

How three-day weekends can help save the world

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-three-day-weekends-can-help-save-world-and-us-too

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 150 comments

Companies and Billionaires

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ajA2_Bzz7HO5B_9knCsbNriLrdoor36B4TO9gjFV1Os/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 102 comments

Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/cornell-has-a-plan-to-prove-that-the-east-coast-can-have-geothermal-heat/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 131 comments

Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels

http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2016/09/acidity-in-atmosphere-minimised-to-preindustrial-levels/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

Julia 0.5 release

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md#julia-v050-release-notes

10 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
130 upvotes – 37 comments

Guanxi

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

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 101 comments

LoRa Range Testing in San Francisco

http://blog.beepnetworks.com/2016/09/loras-wireless-range-is-bananas-a-first-look-at-cellular-for-iot-in-san-francisco/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 64 comments

The Math Inside the US Highway System

https://betterexplained.com/articles/highway-math/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Hardware hack defeats iPhone 5C passcode security

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37407047

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Vector is now called Riot

https://medium.com/@RiotChat/lets-riot-f5b0aa99dc8e#.3toozs7r6

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 96 comments

Improving license and patent issues in the LLVM community

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-September/104778.html

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Learn Python Programming

http://askpython.com/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

Venture capital is a hell of a drug

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/16/venture-capital-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments

Decentralized platform for photo sales and photo sharing, built on Ethereum

https://hack.ether.camp/idea/photobook-decentralized-getty-image--instagram--flickr

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/the-linux-graphics-stack-from-x-to-wayland/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

Announcing 10x donation matching on Watsi

https://watsi.org/universal-fund

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3121212/cloud-computing/oracle-is-gunning-for-aws-with-new-infrastructure-offering.html

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 159 comments

Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-software-is-booming-but-why-now.html?ref=technology

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 136 comments

Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (1999)

http://bikeshed.org/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code Has Landed

http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/19/java-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-has-landed/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Article 1 section 2 paragraph 3 of the US Constitution (2014)

http://fcsuper.blogspot.com/2014/06/article-1-section-2-paragraph-3-of-us.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Samizdat – Platform for self-hosted, P2P, encrypted communication (2014)

http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Debunking the Cul-de-Sac

http://www.citylab.com/design/2011/09/street-grids/124/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Where do you go to get recruiters to find you a job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527922

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count toward your 140 characters

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/777915304261193728

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Building Sourcegraph - A large-scale code search engine in Go (2014)

https://text.sourcegraph.com/google-i-o-talk-building-sourcegraph-a-large-scale-code-search-cross-reference-engine-in-go-1f911b78a82e#.1wvq28y42

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: In what areas are NoSQL Databases beneficial over Relational Databases?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529310

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 74 comments

Win3mu Part 1 –Why I’m writing a 16-bit Windows Emulator

https://medium.com/@CantabileApp/win3mu-part-1-why-im-writing-a-16-bit-windows-emulator-2eae946c935d#.fg3gvf4eg

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Tech Talent: How the UK lost six potential titans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37373937

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 114 comments

Why I am not a fan of Apache Kafka

https://gist.github.com/markrendle/26e423b6597685757732

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Why We Can Send to Gmail in China

https://xiaolongtongxue.com/articles/2016/why-we-can-send-to-gmail-in-china/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?

https://reason.com/archives/2016/09/18/why-are-haitis-coffee-trees-so

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments

The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fascinating-80s-public-access-films-produced-by-a-california-ufo-cult

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments
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