top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-28

How to Sleep

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/how-to-sleep/508781/

9 years ago

649 upvotes – 265 comments

“They Basically Reset My Brain”

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jermichael-finley-packers-injury-retirement/

9 years ago

424 upvotes – 140 comments

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (2010) [pdf]

http://www.aem.umn.edu/~aem3100/spring2013/Prentice_Hall_A_Practical_Guide_to_Linux_Commands_Editors_and_Shell_Programming_2nd.pdf

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 24 comments

Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics

https://azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-assembly-part-1/

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 44 comments

Growing a Compiler (2009)

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman/cs48/mxcom/gem/html/GrowingCompiler.html

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 16 comments

Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor

https://github.com/slap-editor/slap

9 years ago

★ 6.1k JavaScript MIT
214 upvotes – 118 comments

The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-library-of-congress-just-put-25-million-records-online-free-of-charge

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 40 comments

A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ottomans

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/a-16th-century-engineer-whose-work-almost-defeated-an-empire/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 48 comments

ReactOS 0.4.5 Released

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-045-released

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 50 comments

Switching From React To Vue.js

http://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/05/28/switch-from-react-to-vue-js/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 179 comments

A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/05/volkswagen-bosch-fiat-diesel-emissions-cheats-cracked-open-in-new-research/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 145 comments

Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Work Environment

http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/05/25/airbnb-employees-speak-out-about-company-bullying-tactics/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 132 comments

Raspberry Pi VPN Server: Build Your Own Virtual Private Network

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-vpn-server/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides

https://stretchcorp.com

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 42 comments

Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/28/double-double-cryptocoin-bubble/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 129 comments

Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development

https://sethlopez.me/article/exploring-flutter-for-cross-platform-mobile-development/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 87 comments

Realizing Hackett, a metaprogrammable Haskell

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2017/05/27/realizing-hackett-a-metaprogrammable-haskell/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 32 comments

Thoughts on Tokens

https://medium.com/@balajis/thoughts-on-tokens-436109aabcbe

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 82 comments

Voronoi Tessellations

http://datagenetics.com/blog/may12017/index.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

Hacking Go's type system

https://katcipis.github.io/2017/04/21/hack-go-types.html

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 4 comments

Improving Stack Overflow jobs search with machine learning and R

https://medium.com/@aurelien.gasser/a-dive-into-stack-overflow-jobs-search-62bc6e628f83

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 17 comments

How to Achieve Polished UI

http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/05/27/free-ideas-for-ui-frameworks-or-how-to-achieve-polished-ui/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 54 comments

Australian convict pirates in Japan: evidence of 1830 voyage unearthed

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/28/australian-convict-pirates-in-japan-evidence-of-1830-voyage-unearthed

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 21 comments

Realtime Bitcoin

https://realtimebitcoin.info

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 96 comments

The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014)

http://tumblr.mapsbynik.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 145 comments

Principles of TLA+

https://pron.github.io/posts/tlaplus_part1

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

https://flipboard.com/@HBR/-why-germany-still-has-so-many-middle-cl/f-d472ddd580%2Fhbr.org

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 158 comments

My Awful Life as the Internet's Janitor

http://www.gq.com/story/my-awful-life-as-the-internets-janitor

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

An Introduction to the Theory of Elliptic Curves [pdf]

https://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/Presentations/WyomingEllipticCurve.pdf

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 6 comments

Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/is-there-a-tension-between-creativity-and-accuracy/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-startups-ai-idUSKBN18M2ED

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 79 comments

Elliptic Curves as Python Objects

https://jeremykun.com/2014/02/24/elliptic-curves-as-python-objects/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Why are hidden files with a leading tilde treated as super-hidden?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170526-00/?p=96235

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

WebGL Water (2011)

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Learn Datalog Today

http://www.learndatalogtoday.org

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

The FCC’s case against net neutrality rests on a misrepresentation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/the-fccs-case-against-net-neutrality-rests-on-a-fundamental-deliberate-misunderstanding-of-how-the-internet-works/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What Happened to the Startup School MOOC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14435432

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Live Literate Programming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7sqMjTkI0&feature=youtu.be

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Lucida: Infrastructure for Emerging Intelligent Web Services

http://lucida.ai/index.html

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

What Self-Driving Cars See

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/automobiles/wheels/lidar-self-driving-cars.html

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 106 comments

Blockchains Never Forget

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blockchains-never-forget/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Peer Community in X: A free recommendation process of scientific papers

https://peercommunityin.org/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

PostmarketOS: Overwhelmed by feedback and next steps

https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS-next/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

The Gilectomy – How's It Going [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqv11ScGsQ

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

The Fifth Protocol (2014)

https://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments
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