top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-02

MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

https://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/course/9-11-the-human-brain

8 years ago

709 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE

8 years ago

★ 1.6kCGPL-2.0
450 upvotes – 133 comments

Google quits selling tablets

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/01/google-quits-selling-tablets/

8 years ago

398 upvotes – 319 comments

One year of C

http://floooh.github.io/2018/06/02/one-year-of-c.html

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 163 comments

China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 244 comments

The great video game exodus

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/318588/The_great_video_game_exodus.php

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 141 comments

A Course in Machine Learning

http://ciml.info/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 27 comments

ReactOS can finally build itself

https://twitter.com/HeisSpiter/status/1002880397103988737

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 78 comments

Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 224 comments

How to Android without Google

https://bytemybits.gitlab.io/post/2018-05-23-how-to-android-without-google-easy-way/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 99 comments

Linux Cryptography: Speck's real standing with the academic community

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 108 comments

Tales from the far-flung Faroes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/faroe_islands_postal_service

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

Reinforcement Learning Jupyter Notebooks

https://github.com/Pulkit-Khandelwal/Reinforcement-Learning-Notebooks

8 years ago

★ 1kJupyter Notebook
197 upvotes – 7 comments

Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance

https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 67 comments

Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/sneak-peek-at-webassembly-studio/?sample_rate=0.001&snippet_name=8301

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 40 comments

Reverse-emulating the NES

http://radar.spacebar.org/f/a/weblog/comment/1/1157

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 24 comments

Facebook moving away from React Native?

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1002637340291018754

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 71 comments

GrafX2 – a bitmap paint program inspired by Amiga programs

http://grafx2.chez.com/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 38 comments

Deep learning: a critical appraisal

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 61 comments

Patents: how and why to get them

http://yosefk.com/blog/patents-how-and-why-to-get-them.html

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-milk

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 55 comments

The Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an SDR, Without the SDR

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/14/the-raspberry-pi-3b-as-an-sdr-without-the-sdr/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 29 comments

The Overprotected American Child

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-overprotected-american-child-1527865038

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 134 comments

PicoEVB – Artix-7 FPGA board with M.2 interface

https://picoevb.com/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05741

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

Dynamic Bézier Curves

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/posts/dynamic-bezier-curves

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 5 comments

How Microsoft stole my code and then spit on it

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002696910266773505.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple Looks to Expand Advertising Business with New Network for Apps

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertising-business-with-new-network-for-apps-1527869990

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

The debate over whether to use genetically modified mosquitoes to fight malaria

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/31/17344406/crispr-mosquito-malaria-gene-drive-editing-target-africa-regulation-gmo

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 91 comments

Adventures in Deleting Tweets

http://johnloeber.com/docs/twitter-likes.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/02/amazon-not-liable-for-exploding-hoverboard-marketplace-argument-wins.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 109 comments

New York’s last remaining independent bookshops

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/02/new-york-remaining-independent-bookshops-booksellers-ungar-bohbot

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View (2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jul/12/sheep-view-360-faroe-islands-google-mapping-project

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Replacing JQuery with Vue.js: No Build Step Necessary

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/jquery-vue-javascript/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1002893737037582336

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

A Vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments
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