top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-24

Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code

https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace

8 years ago

★ 6.7k C MIT
793 upvotes – 93 comments

A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-growing-number-of-young-americans-are-leaving-desk-jobs-to-farm/2017/11/23/e3c018ae-c64e-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html

8 years ago

600 upvotes – 416 comments

“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole”

https://twitter.com/paulmmcooper/status/933753595174031361

8 years ago

586 upvotes – 43 comments

The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/western-elite-chinese-perspective/

8 years ago

533 upvotes – 224 comments

The Girl with the Brick Earring

http://lucaswoltmann.de/art%27n%27images/2017/04/08/the-girl-with-the-brick-earring.html

8 years ago

377 upvotes – 57 comments

SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling

http://blog.backslasher.net/ssh-openvpn-tunneling.html

8 years ago

363 upvotes – 110 comments

How do I permanently delete my account?

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 148 comments

Clojure Design Patterns

http://mishadoff.com/blog/clojure-design-patterns/

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 126 comments

The sequence 1 1 ∞ 5 6 3 3 3

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfN5DojVnEsf1Une3DFwfUiFpfWnQf31f61qgybiXVeQE/blog/spheres-and-points/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 71 comments

Free online courses from top universities

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 34 comments

Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 73 comments

Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/mozilla-market-share/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 201 comments

Designing a Lock-free, Wait-free Hash Map

https://shlomisteinberg.com/2015/09/28/designing-a-lock-free-wait-free-hash-map/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 64 comments

Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS

http://beorgapp.com

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/amazon-merchants-still-find-new-ways-to-cheat-in-shopping-frenzy

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 80 comments

China Busts a $3B Underground Bank

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/business/china-underground-bank-3-billion.html

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 119 comments

There's a mini RTOS in my language

http://blog.adacore.com/theres-a-mini-rtos-in-my-language

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 24 comments

Capsule Networks Tutorial [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPN8d0E3900

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 29 comments

Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll

https://webrender.net/2017/11/23/automate-github-pages-ifttt-glitch.html

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

The Missing 11th of the Month (2015)

http://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 19 comments

Miller’s Law – A Rule in Product Design and Life Management

https://blog.prototypr.io/the-most-important-rule-in-ux-design-that-everyone-breaks-1c1cb188931

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 59 comments

New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubers-hack-disclosure-raises-questions-about-timing-1511462671

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

In search of the perfect writing font

https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 59 comments

Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Earthquakes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drilling-reawakens-sleeping-faults-in-texas-leads-to-earthquakes/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 41 comments

Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking

http://nautil.us/blog/why-nuclear-power-professionals-are-serious-about-joking-around

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 29 comments

A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/painting-stolen-new-zealand-sale-gottfried-lindauer-chief-ngatai-raure

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 73 comments

How often do superior alternatives fail to catch on?

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/11/24/how-often-do-superior-alternatives-fail-to-catch-on/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 97 comments

The Profit Motive Behind Financial Complexity

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-12/the-profit-motive-behind-financial-complexity

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

How the sandwich consumed Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 137 comments

Don't Feed Them After Midnight: Reverse-Engineering the Furby Connect

https://www.contextis.com/blog/dont-feed-them-after-midnight-reverse-engineering-the-furby-connect

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/jeff-bezos-fortune-hits-100-billion-on-black-friday-stock-surge

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 115 comments

How to interview a technical co-founder

http://chrisloy.net/2017/11/19/how-to-interview-a-technical-cofounder

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 50 comments

Enabling the F4 key in macOS

https://boinkor.net/2017/11/enabling-the-f4-key-in-macos/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook Founder’s Favor Comes with Complications

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/technology/mark-zuckerberg-housing.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

How fast are those packets moving?

http://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/ping-lightspeed

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

A Spreadsheet That Could Solve NYC Transit

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x53xb/meet-the-spreadsheet-that-can-solve-nyc-transit-and-the-man-who-made-it

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

E-Bikes Offer Entry-Level Electric Transportation

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/business/e-bikes-electric-bicycles.html

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 80 comments

The World's Athletic Activity Mapped

https://blog.strava.com/galleries/heatmap/?utm_source=strava&utm_medium=mktgemail&utm_campaign=2017_11_21_Nov_NL

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments
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