top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-20

Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/

8 years ago

Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store

https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/05/10/getting-1password-7-ready-for-the-mac-app-store/

8 years ago

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0

8 years ago

CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development

https://cs50.github.io/games/

8 years ago

Facebook: Let Us Be Part of the Hearing

https://foundation.mozilla.org/campaigns/let-us-be-part-hearing/

8 years ago

Tearing apart printf()

http://www.maizure.org/projects/printf/index.html

8 years ago

Medieval trade networks

https://imgur.com/MsXaOdV

8 years ago

Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-15/this-man-is-building-an-armada-of-saildrones-to-conquer-the-ocean

8 years ago

AsteroidOS – An open-source operating system for smartwatches

https://asteroidos.org/#

8 years ago

Finland's cities are havens for library lovers

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/15/why-finlands-cities-are-havens-for-library-lovers-oodi-helsinki

8 years ago

The Complete History of Lemmings (2006)

http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/Lem_1.htm

8 years ago

Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game

https://jguegant.github.io//jguegant.github.io/blogs/tech/meta-crush-saga.html

8 years ago

I've Paid $18,000 to a $24,000 Student Loan, and I Still Owe $24,000

https://www.bustle.com/p/ive-paid-18000-to-a-24000-student-loan-i-still-owe-24000-9000788

8 years ago

The Markov Property, Chain, Reward Process and Decision Process

https://xaviergeerinck.com/markov-property-chain-reward-decision

8 years ago

Ten Years of Vim

https://matthias-endler.de/2018/ten-years-of-Vim/

8 years ago

Move deliberately, fix things: How Coinbase is building a cryptocurrency empire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/move-deliberately-fix-things-how-coinbase-is-building-a-cryptocurrency-empire/2018/05/17/623d950c-587c-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.59de653c6d60

8 years ago

Show HN: Gojay – Performant JSON encoder/decoder for Golang

https://github.com/francoispqt/gojay

8 years ago

★ 2.1k Go MIT

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine (1969)

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

8 years ago

Study: Students did not benefit from studying according to “learning style”

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/04/03/another-nail-in-the-coffin-for-learning-styles-students-did-not-benefit-from-studying-according-to-their-supposed-learning-style/

8 years ago

What Sucks About Erlang (2008)

http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html

8 years ago

Python as a declarative programming language (2017)

https://www.benfrederickson.com/python-as-a-declarative-programming-language/

8 years ago

Understanding Image Sharpness (2003)

http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/MTF.html

8 years ago

Best Practices for ML Engineering (2017)

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/rules-of-ml/

8 years ago

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)

https://lwn.net/Articles/631631/

8 years ago

If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)

https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html

8 years ago

Exercise 'doesn't slow' progression of dementia if you already have dementia

https://www.nhs.uk/news/older-people/exercise-doesnt-slow-progression-dementia/

8 years ago

Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB

https://simonwillison.net/2018/May/20/datasette-facets/

8 years ago

History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (2007)

https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/

8 years ago

New variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel (2017)

https://www.economist.com/business/2017/02/25/the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-is-creating-new-variety-in-the-chip-market-and-trouble-for-intel

8 years ago

The Physics and Physicality of Extreme Juggling

https://www.wired.com/story/the-physicsand-physicalityof-extreme-juggling/

8 years ago

Show HN: Pocket Puter

http://pocketputer.com

8 years ago

How Developers Use Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: Smalltalk [pdf]

https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf

8 years ago

Sacred Retreats of California (2013)

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/t-magazine/the-stunning-sacred-retreats-of-california.html

8 years ago

CPython internals: Ten-hour codewalk through the interpreter source code (2014)

http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm

8 years ago

Group of scientists suggest that octopuses might actually be aliens

http://bgr.com/2018/05/17/octopus-aliens-cephalopods-research-study

8 years ago

Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/tech-platforms-and-the-knowledge-problem/

8 years ago

Automatic Photography with Google Clips

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/automatic-photography-with-google-clips.html

8 years ago

Abusing Proxies for DSLs

https://mcluck90.github.io/abusing-proxies-for-dsls/

8 years ago

Angr – User-friendly binary analysis platform

https://github.com/angr/angr

8 years ago

★ 8.6k Python BSD-2-Clause