top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-08

A Javascript journey with only six characters

http://jazcash.com/a-javascript-journey-with-only-six-characters/

10 years ago

567 upvotes – 112 comments

Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-034-artificial-intelligence-fall-2010/lecture-videos/

10 years ago

540 upvotes – 49 comments

Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 197 comments

Image unshredder by simulated annealing (2015)

https://www.nayuki.io/page/image-unshredder-by-annealing

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 56 comments

Rant HN: I hate hackerrank

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667174

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 150 comments

Latency numbers every programmer should know (2012)

https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 42 comments

A gentle introduction to Prolog (2013)

https://bernardopires.com/2013/10/try-logic-programming-a-gentle-introduction-to-prolog/

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 128 comments

Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/PbQaudyHmzj

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 143 comments

HTML Kong

https://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/blog/2016/07/html-kong

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667012

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 185 comments

Ask HN: Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12669054

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 40 comments

TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System

http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 82 comments

Libreboot – A free BIOS or UEFI replacement

https://libreboot.org/

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

http://runmyrobot.com

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 32 comments

CIA ‘Siren Servers’ can predict social uprisings 3-5 days in advance

http://sociable.co/technology/cia-siren-servers-social-uprisings/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 91 comments

The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice

http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/the-problem-with-modern-romance-is-too-much-choice

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 121 comments

How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (2012)

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/how-should-mathematics-be-taught-to-non-mathematicians/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 86 comments

U.S. pressed to disclose secret court's order on Yahoo email search

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-order-idUSKCN12800D

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 14 comments

How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb (2014)

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 103 comments

Remotely accessing an IP address inside a target computer is a search

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/07/remotely-accessing-an-ip-address-inside-a-target-computer-is-a-search/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2016/10/natural-lang-query-engine.html/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

How U.S. Torture Left Legacy of Damaged Minds

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/world/cia-torture-guantanamo-bay.html

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

WoSign Incidents Report Update [pdf]

https://www.wosign.com/report/WoSign_Incident_Report_Update_07102016.pdf

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 74 comments

X-Plane 11 Coming This Holiday Season

http://www.x-plane.com/2016/10/x-plane-11-coming-holiday-season/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

Refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/08/governments-refusal-to-recognize-the-rise-of-independent-contractors-is-hurting-the-economy/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 146 comments

Every Body Goes Haywire

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/every-body-goes-haywire/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (2009)

http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/html/wheeler-trusting-trust-ddc.html#0.Abstract

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/07/evidence-suggests-womens-ovaries-can-grow-new-eggs

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Eagle: Tcl interpreter implemented in CLR

https://eagle.to/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

The Important Habit of Just Starting

http://lifehacker.com/the-important-habit-of-just-starting-1771016698

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

New research suggests that social mobility in America may be more limited

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/06/striking-new-research-on-inequality-whatever-you-thought-its-worse/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 92 comments
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