top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-30

Buttery Smooth Emacs

https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/

10 years ago

651 upvotes – 229 comments

Elementary OS

http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/10/29/2240

10 years ago

594 upvotes – 386 comments

The No More Ransom Project

https://www.nomoreransom.org/

10 years ago

561 upvotes – 232 comments

Museu de la Tècnica

https://twitter.com/i/moments/791746773643464704

10 years ago

444 upvotes – 107 comments

I don't understand Python's Asyncio

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/10/30/i-dont-understand-asyncio/

10 years ago

376 upvotes – 207 comments

Sonder E-Ink Keyboard

https://sonderdesign.com/

10 years ago

355 upvotes – 227 comments

Begin LaTeX in minutes

https://github.com/VoLuong/Master-Latex-in-minutes

10 years ago

★ 3.2k
263 upvotes – 164 comments

Open Game Art

http://opengameart.org/

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 15 comments

NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nasa-scientists-suggest-weve-been-underestimating-sea-level-rise

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 231 comments

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161026-how-liars-create-the-illusion-of-truth

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 121 comments

UX Myths (2014)

http://uxmyths.com/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Why are SIM cards still a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12828887

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 187 comments

Open Letter to Tim Cook

https://petersphilo.org/2016/10/29/open-letter-to-tim-cook/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 222 comments

My Mechanical Keyboard

http://joeposnanski.com/my-mechanical-keyboard/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 197 comments

Ask HN: At 91, My Grandfather's Only Regret Is Never Skateboarding. Best VR Rig?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12832027

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 67 comments

The Mac Platform Decline

https://milen.me/writings/mac-platform-decline/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 187 comments

Stealth Boat the U.S. Government Won't Buy or Let Be Sold Abroad

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-19/the-feds-won-t-buy-this-19-million-stealth-boat-or-let-it-be-sold-abroad?utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 125 comments

Horrible Things I Found Out When I Made A Video Game

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-you-learn-when-making-modern-video-game/

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Tsfresh – Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series

https://github.com/blue-yonder/tsfresh

10 years ago

★ 9.1k Jupyter Notebook MIT
167 upvotes – 8 comments

Everything about the state of the Mac

http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 129 comments

Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Makes Strong Gains

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/world/europe/icelands-prime-minister-resigns-after-pirate-party-makes-strong-gains.html

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00037

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Lighthouse – Auditing and Performance Metrics for Progressive Web Apps

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse

10 years ago

★ 30.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
140 upvotes – 2 comments

Why the Industrial Revolution Didn’t Happen in China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/28/why-the-industrial-revolution-didnt-happen-in-china/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 178 comments

Vue.js is easier to learn than jQuery

https://medium.com/js-dojo/vue-js-is-easier-to-learn-than-jquery-abbbb9c12cf8#.9cwt60spf

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Hyperloop Freight is a Joke

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/hyperloop-freight-is-a-joke/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 164 comments

Giteveryday – A useful minimum set of commands for Everyday Git

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/giteveryday.html

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

In Germany, Syrians find mosques too conservative

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-mosques-insig-idUSKCN12S0HE

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 131 comments

Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide October 2016

https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/october/2016

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 129 comments

After Mac?

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/10/29/Post-Mac

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Traquer – Records and reproduces user's in-page behavior

https://github.com/nenadg/traquer/

10 years ago

★ 719 JavaScript MIT
100 upvotes – 23 comments

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barcelona-supercomputing-center

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

EA Games and Origin becomes unavailable in Myanmar

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/5a51e2/ea_games_and_origin_quietly_bans_an_entire/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 3 comments

PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature death in China

http://english.pku.edu.cn/news_events/news/research/5076.htm

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

Man-in-the-middle vulnerability on Gentoo sync and emerge

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597804

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

Fusuma: Multitouch gestures with libinput dirver on X11, Linux

https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma

10 years ago

★ 3.8k Ruby MIT
87 upvotes – 13 comments
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