top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-27

Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language

http://patshaughnessy.net/2016/11/26/learning-to-read-x86-assembly-language

10 years ago

591 upvotes – 234 comments

Let's Colonize Titan

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 495 comments

Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

https://www.migadu.com

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 182 comments

Stallman’s Law

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallmans-law.html

10 years ago

306 upvotes – 143 comments

AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator

https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar

10 years ago

★ 6k Objective-C EPL-1.0
296 upvotes – 63 comments

Google’s AMP is a gilded cage

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 124 comments

New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada

https://bartongeorge.io/2016/10/04/the-new-xps-13-developer-edition-lands-in-europe-and-united-states/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 308 comments

European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption of Data

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/european-union-wants-to-regulate-cryptography/

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 110 comments

Probabilistic Programming

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs4110/2016fa/lectures/lecture33.html

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 29 comments

The Unsound Playground: Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound

http://io.livecode.ch/learn/namin/unsound

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring

http://www.businessinsider.com/steven-strogatz-interview-on-math-education-2016-6

10 years ago

192 upvotes – 65 comments

Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64

http://blog.kevinalbs.com/base122

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 66 comments

Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)

http://idlewords.com/2003/09/best_practices_for_time_travelers.htm

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 76 comments

Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox

10 years ago

★ 15.2k Python CC0-1.0
188 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Storing your bookmarks under revision control

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

10 years ago

★ 655 JavaScript MIT
181 upvotes – 39 comments

Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/john-lilly-simplify-your-message-and-repeat-often.html

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13048604

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 91 comments

Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student

https://www.quora.com/Im-Chinese-I-will-go-to-university-in-America-but-Im-afraid-of-racism-Are-there-many-people-in-America-who-dont-like-Asians/answer/Bernard-Wang?share=1

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 111 comments

Immer: immutable and persistent data structures for C++

https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

10 years ago

★ 2.8k C++ BSL-1.0
144 upvotes – 45 comments

Uganda is shutting down schools funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/25/africa/uganda-schools-zuckerberg-gates/index.html

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 130 comments

Essence of linear algebra [video]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 26 comments

Blender 2.8 project status

https://code.blender.org/2016/11/blender-2-8-project-status/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 75 comments

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

Funding the Web with Brendan Eich [audio]

https://changelog.com/rfc/11

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

Lambdoku – AWS Lambda with Heroku-like Experience

https://github.com/kubek2k/lambdoku

10 years ago

★ 566 JavaScript
128 upvotes – 43 comments

Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2016/05/jacques_pepin_unlike_other_celebrity_chefs_will_actually_teach_you_how_to.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (2011)

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-trinity/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 49 comments

My Distributed Systems Seminar's Reading List for Spring 2017

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

How Supervisors Work

http://jbodah.github.io/blog/2016/11/18/supervisors-work/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

Almost everything in Dr. Strangelove was true (2014)

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Binary data over Phoenix sockets

https://nerds.stoiximan.gr/2016/11/23/binary-data-over-phoenix-sockets/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 2 comments

Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/26/you-hacked-cyber-attackers-crash-muni-computer-system-across-sf/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Bach and the musical Möbius strip

https://plus.maths.org/content/topology-music-m-bius-strip

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See

http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/russian-fake-news/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 92 comments

The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-evolution-of-like/507614/?single_page=true

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients

https://www.trueos.org/trueos-pico/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

LSTM for Human Activity Recognition

https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/LSTM-Human-Activity-Recognition/

10 years ago

★ 3.4k Jupyter Notebook MIT
88 upvotes – 7 comments

As Batteries Keep Catching Fire, U.S. Safety Agency Prepares For Change

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/27/503132072/as-batteries-keep-catching-fire-u-s-safety-agency-prepares-for-change

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

Immutable.js: An Introduction with examples written for humans

http://untangled.io/immutable-js-an-introduction-with-examples-written-for-humans/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

Wal-Mart's Dallas optical lab loses over 90 jobs to automation

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2016/11/21/wal-marts-dallas-optical-lab-loses-91-jobs-automation

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02365

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: I am 30yrs and never had a full time job, now suicidal. Any life advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051611

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: How did Investor Day pan out? Will it happen again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13047462

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

NHS England proposed action to cut sales of sugary drinks in hospitals

https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/sugary-drinks/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 99 comments

A Brilliant Mind’s Pauses: The Fiction of Pushkin

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/brilliant-minds-pauses-fiction-russias-greatest-poet/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Three Software Freedoms

http://www.naughtycomputer.uk/the_three_software_freedoms.html

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Bradley Trainer: Atari’s Military Project

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/10/28/bradley-trainer-ataris-top-secret-military-project/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Minimal Linux Live: a minimalistic distro with basic network support via DHCP

http://minimal.linux-bg.org/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism

http://qz.com/844672/along-with-narendra-modis-rise-india-has-displayed-classic-signs-that-foreshadow-fascism/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 73 comments

Can Sweden tackle the throwaway society?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37419042

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

How (not) to forecast an election: Analysis via a hierarchical Bayesian model

http://datart.com.br/blog/us_2016_elections_en.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

The void left by Apple

https://hackernoon.com/what-happened-to-apple-3c2029b98845#.aq4qb7nj4

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050615

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 103 comments

A ThinkPad supervisor password crack

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/70560.html

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River Lock

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/economy/desperately-plugging-holes-in-an-87-year-old-dam.html?_r=0

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 56 comments

Hackers are holding San Francisco’s light-rail system for ransom

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/27/13758412/hackers-san-francisco-light-rail-system-ransomware-cybersecurity-muni

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Some of my favourite programming books

http://www.philipotoole.com/some-favourite-programming-books/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments
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