top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-05

A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine

https://willemm.nl/mm-skittles-sorting-machine/

9 years ago

581 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571847

9 years ago

516 upvotes – 424 comments

The State of Go

https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go.slide#1

9 years ago

466 upvotes – 388 comments

“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 324 comments

The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=ss_tw

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 226 comments

The end of the level playing field

http://avc.com/2017/02/the-end-of-the-level-playing-field/

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13574916

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 77 comments

Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-02-05/file-system-flame-graph.html

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 144 comments

Asking the wrong questions

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/01/11/wrongquestions

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 86 comments

The TTY demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 43 comments

His Doctors Were Stumped, Then He Took Over

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 86 comments

Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkLu4QZPdhw

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 51 comments

How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013)

https://papersplease.org/wp/2013/09/29/how-the-nsa-obtains-and-uses-airline-reservations/

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 80 comments

How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/HowUnixBackspaces

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 70 comments

The extended ‘chilling’ effect of Facebook (2016)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296637938_The_extended_%27chilling%27_effect_of_Facebook_The_cold_reality_of_ubiquitous_social_networking

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 42 comments

Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google

https://www.planet.com/pulse/planet-to-acquire-terra-bella-from-google/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 60 comments

Gita – autonomous lightweight delivery system

http://gita.piaggiofastforward.com/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 57 comments

Pyract: a new way of writing Gtk+ applications

https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/a-new-way-of-writing-gtk+-applications/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 9 comments

What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012)

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 293 comments

CPU emulator in web browser (Arm/Mips/X86/Sparc)

https://alexaltea.github.io/unicorn.js/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 20 comments
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