top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-15

Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2018-04-06-async-await-final/

8 years ago

When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-unique-neurology-of-the-sports-fans-brain

8 years ago

Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/

8 years ago

How to take 7 years to ship a beta

https://medium.com/@eigenbom/how-to-take-7-years-to-ship-a-beta-4fcfc2428d88

8 years ago

The Joy of Missing Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/style/joy-of-missing-out-summer.html

8 years ago

Taking Go modules for a spin

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/07/14/taking-go-modules-for-a-spin

8 years ago

2018 MacBook Pro Review

http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/

8 years ago

Lisp and Haskell (2017)

https://markkarpov.com/post/lisp-and-haskell.html

8 years ago

J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s

https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html

8 years ago

Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/unidentified-plane-bae-womans-statement-confirms-the-worst/565139/?single_page=true

8 years ago

TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04162

8 years ago

How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-15/how-helsinki-arrived-at-the-future-of-urban-travel-first

8 years ago

Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2018/07/mailinatorcom-anatomy-of-spammy-campaign.html

8 years ago

What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

https://medium.com/@benbob/what-i-learned-working-for-steve-ballmer-afa677763973

8 years ago

What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/elon-musk-thailand-hubris.html

8 years ago

Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/conlang-book/

8 years ago

Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

8 years ago

★ 1.1k Arc

Leslie Nielsen’s career got serious when he got the chance to lighten up (2016)

https://melmagazine.com/misleading-men-the-late-great-king-of-deadpan-3c4f3acab33e?gi=45a20b5378c4

8 years ago

Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust

https://github.com/rabbitstack/rabbitc

8 years ago

★ 187 Rust Apache-2.0

The Theory of Interstellar Trade

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-theory-of-interstellar-trade

8 years ago

Serverless QBasic

https://psuter.net/2018/07/15/serverless-qbasic

8 years ago

Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]

http://pm.inf.ethz.ch/publications/getpdf.php?bibname=Own&id=EilersMueller18.pdf

8 years ago

Compile Time C++ Snake Game (2016)

https://github.com/mattbierner/STT-C-Compile-Time-Snake

8 years ago

★ 205 C++ MIT

Why the airplane romance that went viral should worry everyone

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/10/why-the-airplane-romance-that-went-viral-should-worry-everyone/

8 years ago

A New Model for Financing Nonprofits

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/business/dealbook/a-new-model-for-financing-nonprofits.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17536241

8 years ago

On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/07/preferring-b-also-preferring-b.html

8 years ago

Reverse Engineering Wipeout (2015)

http://phoboslab.org/log/2015/04/reverse-engineering-wipeout-psx

8 years ago

Monge's theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monge%27s_theorem

8 years ago

The Forgotten Soviet-Japanese War of 1939

https://thediplomat.com/2012/08/the-forgotten-soviet-japanese-war-of-1939/?allpages=yes

8 years ago

Letter from Shenzhen

https://logicmag.io/04-letter-from-shenzhen/

8 years ago

When California Was the Bear Republic

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/07/when-california-was-bear-republic.html

8 years ago

APL at Its Core

https://ac1235.github.io/apl.html

8 years ago

Bicycle Control Design in Python

https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/bicycle-control-design/

8 years ago

Functional approaches to dependency injection (2016)

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/dependency-injection-1/

8 years ago

The Middle Child Is Going Extinct

https://www.thecut.com/2018/07/the-middle-child-is-going-extinct.html

8 years ago

Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system

8 years ago

India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp rumors

https://www.dw.com/en/india-google-engineer-latest-victim-of-mob-lynchings-fueled-by-whatsapp-rumors/a-44679902

8 years ago

The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow

8 years ago

PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition (2008)

https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/pipesfs-fast-linux-io-in-the-unix-tradition

8 years ago

Ask HN: How do you keep checklists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17537675

8 years ago