top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-20

Distill: a modern machine learning journal

http://distill.pub/about/

9 years ago

930 upvotes – 105 comments

Beautiful Online SICP

http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

9 years ago

762 upvotes – 80 comments

The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight

https://ac3freedomday.org/

9 years ago

578 upvotes – 222 comments

Tears

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/tears/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 115 comments

SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com

https://github.com/blog/2338-sha-1-collision-detection-on-github-com

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 90 comments

The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992)

http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/lockpick.html

9 years ago

355 upvotes – 114 comments

Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/business/jeff-jones-leaves-uber-ride-sharing-president.html

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 250 comments

I've decided to move on to Distill

http://colah.github.io/posts/2017-03-Distill/

9 years ago

353 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html

9 years ago

347 upvotes – 148 comments

Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/intro.html

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 74 comments

A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise

http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 226 comments

What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38905963

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 255 comments

Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13913228

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 102 comments

DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/03/deepmind-national-grid-machine-learning/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 110 comments

Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/some-electronics-to-be-banned-on-some-us-bound-flights

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 450 comments

David Rockefeller has died

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 222 comments

Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries

http://blog.reverberate.org/2016/11/07/introducing-bloaty-mcbloatface.html

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 43 comments

Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus

http://www.jtolds.com/writing/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-lambda-calculus/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes?

http://amitkapila16.blogspot.com/2017/03/hash-indexes-are-faster-than-btree.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 54 comments

The Antidesktop (2002)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021201230839/http://palm.freshmeat.net/articles/view/581/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 121 comments

Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf]

https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 74 comments

Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical

https://qz.com/929794/has-lithium-battery-genius-john-goodenough-done-it-again-colleagues-are-skeptical/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 154 comments

Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39325206

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 158 comments

Losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend

https://theconversation.com/why-losing-a-dog-can-be-harder-than-losing-a-relative-or-friend-68207

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple is betting on augmented reality

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/apple-s-next-big-thing

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 129 comments

YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng – Uncapped ISP for Africa

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w17-launch-wifi-com-ng/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 75 comments

The D Garbage Collector

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 87 comments

3D printing with cellulose

http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-printing-cellulose-0303

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple Paid $0 in Taxes to New Zealand, Despite Sales of $4.2B

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11820984

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 71 comments

I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)

http://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

Changes I would make to Go

http://sitr.us/2017/02/21/changes-i-would-make-to-go.html

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 124 comments

Why Complexity is Different

https://mystudentvoices.com/why-complexity-is-different-ecd498e0eccb

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 5 comments

U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/u-k-to-submit-formal-brexit-notice-to-eu-on-march-29-pm-s-spokesman

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 258 comments

Epoll is broken – part 2/2

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-22/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

Amazon’s Battle to Break into the Grocery Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-20/inside-amazon-s-battle-to-break-into-the-800-billion-grocery-market

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 107 comments

Bootstrapping a Type System (2010)

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/10/29/bootstrapping-a-type-system/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

A History of Tug-Of-War Fatalities (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Google’s DeepMind made ‘inexcusable’ errors handling UK health data, says report

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14932764/deepmind-google-uk-nhs-health-data-analysis

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox

https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/3/intel-edison-linux-maker-machine-matchbox

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

https://github.com/simplcommerce/SimplCommerce

9 years ago

★ 4.4kC#Apache-2.0
86 upvotes – 19 comments

Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (2014)

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/03/visualizing-garbage-collection-algorithms/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

History and Derivation of the Fast Fourier Transform

http://michaeljflynn.net/2017/03/20/history-and-derivation-of-the-fast-fourier-transform/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Hacking Final Fantasy 1 on the NES

http://www.walknsqualk.com/post/hacking-final-fantasy-1-on-nes/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Cardiovascular Deaths Linked to Poor Dietary Choices

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/health/number-of-cardiovascular-deaths-each-year-diet.html

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: A utility for running exhaustiveness checks on “sum types” in Go

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype

9 years ago

★ 450GoUnlicense
75 upvotes – 38 comments

Creating bundles with guix pack

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/creating-bundles-with-guix-pack.html

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Render Pipelines design in C++

http://www.marti.works/render-pipelines-desing-in-c/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Baidu Goes All In on AI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/the-mobile-internet-is-over-baidu-goes-all-in-on-ai

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments
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