top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-12

Thank you HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745688

8 years ago

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

http://academictorrents.com/

8 years ago

Exapunks

http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/

8 years ago

Dijkstra's in Disguise

https://blog.evjang.com/2018/08/dijkstras.html

8 years ago

OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks

https://openstax.org/

8 years ago

Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-solar-probe-melt

8 years ago

Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

http://didyougogo.com/blog/didyougogo.html

8 years ago

USA Temperature: can I sucker you?

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/usa-temperature-can-i-sucker-you/

8 years ago

One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/08/one-man-designed-and-built-the-ultimate-bush-plane/

8 years ago

Frink

https://frinklang.org/

8 years ago

Potato paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

8 years ago

Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

https://worldbrain.io/#

8 years ago

Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat

https://www.secjuice.com/defcon-hotel-security-fiasco

8 years ago

Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?

https://theconversation.com/googles-censored-chinese-search-engine-a-catalogue-of-ethical-violations-101046

8 years ago

MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser

https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_6.0.8

8 years ago

Jorge Luis Borges Interview (1977)

http://www.denisdutton.com/jorge_luis_borges_interview.htm

8 years ago

Alcubierre drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

8 years ago

Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/09/salt-not-as-damaging-to-health-as-previously-thought-says-study

8 years ago

Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/12/633065620/growers-are-beaming-over-the-success-of-lasers-to-stave-off-thieving-birds

8 years ago

PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150

http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html

8 years ago

Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/us/seatac-stolen-plane-richard-b-russell.html

8 years ago

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)

http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/

8 years ago

Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned

https://sanderknape.com/2018/08/two-years-with-cloudformation-lessons-learned/

8 years ago

History of editors for Lisp

https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens/blob/master/editors.md

8 years ago

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Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-lenders-p2p-insight/beijing-struggles-to-defuse-anger-over-chinas-p2p-lending-crisis-idUSKBN1KX077

8 years ago

Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744431

8 years ago

My Haskell Journey from C#

http://cvlad.info/haskell/

8 years ago

V.S. Naipaul has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/obituaries/vs-naipaul-dead-author-nobel-prize.html

8 years ago

From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/us/01charles.html

8 years ago