top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-09

Why does a spray bottle work?

https://alexanderellis.github.io/blog/posts/check-valve/

8 years ago

601 upvotes – 123 comments

JVM Internals (2013)

http://blog.jamesdbloom.com/JVMInternals.html

8 years ago

520 upvotes – 126 comments

Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/6/5/17424770/asus-zenbook-pro-screenpad-specs-release-date-price-computex-2018

8 years ago

307 upvotes – 217 comments

The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 76 comments

Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/science/seals-mammals-sleep-brain.html

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 163 comments

Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams

https://grunfy.com/scaler.html

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 95 comments

Reddit DMs will not reach their destination if they contain certain text

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8ps94a/it_appears_reddit_direct_messages_are_being/

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 68 comments

Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-systems-sometimes-hit-parked-cars-and-lane-dividers/

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 239 comments

OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack

https://learnbchs.org/index.html

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 174 comments

Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached Passenger Cars at Speed

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/slip-coaches-back-when-british-express-trains-detached-passenger-cars-at-speed/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

Lost John Coltrane Recording from 1963 Will Be Released

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/arts/music/john-coltrane-lost-album-both-directions-at-once.html

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 31 comments

The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep

https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/silicon-valley-military.php

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 104 comments

Todo example in Rust

https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2018/06/09/to-do-a-rust-gui.html

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion, or new career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274320

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

The Land Before Binary

https://medium.com/@bellmar/the-land-before-binary-cc705d5bdd70

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12910/amd-demos-7nm-vega-radeon-instinct-shipping-2018

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

Building the Commodore computer that should have existed

http://blog.snapeda.com/2018/06/06/building-the-commodore-computer-that-should-have-existed-an-interview-with-stefany-allaire/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

The Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

http://nautil.us/blog/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 44 comments

One Year of PostmarketOS: Mainline Calling

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/06/09/one-year/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 29 comments

Gracefully Restarting a Go Program Without Downtime

https://gravitational.com/blog/golang-ssh-bastion-graceful-restarts/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-Scale Social Change

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]

https://www.wsj.com/video/spying-high-a-rare-trip-in-america-u-2-spy-plane/3CB35386-FE9E-4DF7-8B1C-8074FB4E026E.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

FPGAs becoming more SoC-like

http://semiengineering.com/fpgas-becoming-more-soc-like/#.Wxlg0Z4jrWM.facebook

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

Aerospike Engines: Why aren't we using them now? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zFefh5T-8

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 36 comments

Predicting Price Changes in Ethereum (2017) [pdf]

http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2017/final-reports/5244039.pdf

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Mexico's Sistema Huaulta cave is bigger than previously thought

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/sistema-huautla-cave-mexico-culture/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 31 comments

First Impressions of the Rust Programming Language

http://jakob.space/blog/post/First+Impressions+of+the+Rust+Programming+Language

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

The Heilmeier Catechism (1977)

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

Sending Cat Pictures Over The Phone (2015)

https://github.com/jpf/dial-a-cat

8 years ago

★ 70 OpenEdge ABL
95 upvotes – 10 comments

The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS

https://www.xtof.info/blog/?p=985

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17272715

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Modern C++ Features – std::optional

https://arne-mertz.de/2018/06/modern-c-features-stdoptional/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 113 comments

Not All Facts Are Equal

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/mi5-files-fake-news-prevent-programme-newspapers-patrick-cockburn-a8389581.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Weird neutrino excess won’t go away, hints at new physics

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/weird-neutrino-excess-wont-go-away-hints-at-new-physics/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments