top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-24

Scenic Tram Simulator

http://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

9 years ago

918 upvotes – 127 comments

How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9U5wK_boYM

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 61 comments

In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 172 comments

Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System

https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger

9 years ago

★ 22.7k Go Apache-2.0
311 upvotes – 63 comments

Documenting your architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all

http://danlebrero.com/2017/04/06/documenting-your-architecture-wireshark-plantuml-and-a-repl/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 25 comments

A Coloring Book about Group Theory

http://www.coloring-book.co

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 52 comments

A Quick Introduction to Graphviz

https://www.worthe-it.co.za/programming/2017/09/19/quick-introduction-to-graphviz.html

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 44 comments

Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager

http://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transitioning-from-engineer-to-engineering-manager/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 89 comments

Windows 3.1 All Over Again

https://tomjoro.github.io/2017-02-03-why-reactive-fp-sucks/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 81 comments

Can American soil be brought back to life?

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/soil-health-agriculture-trend-usda-000513

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 107 comments

‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility

https://www.abqjournal.com/1067835/report-criticality-event-occured-at-lanl-plutonium-facility.html

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 142 comments

Sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of serious illness

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/24/why-lack-of-sleep-health-worst-enemy-matthew-walker-why-we-sleep

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 77 comments

Project Jigsaw: Complete

https://mreinhold.org/blog/jigsaw-complete

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 85 comments

X and NeWS history

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-September/010471.html

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 102 comments

Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/09/24/high-sierra-automatically-checks-efi-firmware-each-week/

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 58 comments

The power of a 'not-to-do' list

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170919-the-power-of-a-not-to-do-list

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft R&D grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/one-year-later-microsoft-ai-research-grows-8k-people-massive-bet-artificial-intelligence/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15323267

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 179 comments

Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust

https://blog.rom1v.com/2017/09/gnirehtet-rewritten-in-rust/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

Guitar browser game with a real guitar

https://makaroni4.github.io/guitar_bro/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 43 comments

Serverless is cheaper, not simpler

https://medium.com/@dzimine/serverless-is-cheaper-not-simpler-a10c4fc30e49

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments

Simulacra and Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 93 comments

Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-undefined-behavior-may-call-never.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 169 comments

A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21729414-how-america-became-worlds-biggest-economy-400-year-story-progress

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 232 comments

JOE – Joe's own editor 4.5 released

https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/NEWS.md

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRE_fwreoDQNzUybnRFOHpWZTA/view

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

Basic Category Theory for Scala Programmers

https://blog.scalents.com/2017/09/22/basic-category-theory-for-scala-programmers-part-i/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 17 comments

Deliveroo raises $385M in new funding

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/24/deliveroo-raises-385m/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 142 comments

Justice Department goes nuclear on Google in search warrant fight

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/justice-department-goes-nuclear-on-google-in-search-warrant-fight/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

Chroma – A General purpose syntax highlighter in Go

https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma

9 years ago

★ 4.9k Go
102 upvotes – 24 comments

Xeno Kovah: macOS 10.13 EFI firmware integrity check

https://twitter.com/xenokovah/status/912011064304267264

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Chrony: Comparison of NTP implementations

https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

All the goodness gone from tea (1688)

https://books.google.com/books?id=ux89AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA93&ots=_0XDTIXhUw&dq=%22all%20the%20goodness%20gone%20from%20tea%22&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments
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