top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-26

Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

8 years ago

John McCain has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html

8 years ago

WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/

8 years ago

The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]

http://www.jordanmechner.com/downloads/makpopsample.pdf

8 years ago

What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists

https://hbr.org/2018/08/what-data-scientists-really-do-according-to-35-data-scientists

8 years ago

Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk

https://www.wired.com/story/phone-numbers-indentification-authentication/

8 years ago

IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services

http://www.includeos.org/

8 years ago

A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years

https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1033032915175858176

8 years ago

Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/bitcoin-s-use-in-commerce-keeps-falling-even-as-volatility-eases

8 years ago

Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?

https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/

8 years ago

Everything Is Booming Except for Wages

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/u-s-economic-growth-isn-t-translating-into-bigger-paychecks

8 years ago

Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847668

8 years ago

From GNU social to Mastodon

https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2018/08/19/from-gnu-social-to-mastodon.html

8 years ago

America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/books/review/the-chickenshit-club-jesse-eisinger-.html

8 years ago

Agner Fog

https://www.agner.org/

8 years ago

Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation

http://themaister.net/blog/2018/08/25/pseudo-bandlimited-pixel-art-filtering-in-3d-a-mathematical-derivation/

8 years ago

Crying in H Mart

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/crying-in-h-mart

8 years ago

Age of Invisible Disasters (2017)

https://blog.eutopian.io/the-age-of-invisible-disasters/

8 years ago

China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists

https://www.wired.com/story/china-fast-worlds-largest-telescope-tourists/

8 years ago

Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/double-buffer.html

8 years ago

The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server

https://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html

8 years ago

The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-ramen-become-popular

8 years ago

CrypTool Book

https://www.cryptool.org/en/ctp-documentation/ctbook

8 years ago

The Elm Architecture

https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

8 years ago

Surviving the App Store

https://github.com/amirrajan/survivingtheappstore

8 years ago

★ 948

Geometric intuition for digital audio filters

https://karlhiner.com/jupyter_notebooks/intro_to_digital_filters

8 years ago

Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names

https://medium.com/@gszathmari/hacking-law-firms-abandoned-domain-name-attack-560979e0b774

8 years ago

TorrentFreak Is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource

https://torrentfreak.com/torrentfreak-is-blocked-as-a-pirate-site-and-hacking-resource-180825/

8 years ago

The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true?

http://timharford.com/2018/08/the-peter-principle-is-a-joke-taken-seriously-is-it-true/

8 years ago

Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/technology/pentagon-artificial-intelligence.html

8 years ago

Shavian alphabet

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

8 years ago

Solving Spectre and Meltdown may ultimately require a new type of processor

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3299477/components-processors/solving-spectre-and-meltdown-may-ultimately-require-an-entirely-new-type-of-processor.html

8 years ago

PyTorch for Scientific Computing: Quantum Mechanics Example Part 2

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/PyTorch-for-Scientific-Computing---Quantum-Mechanics-Example-Part-2-Program-Before-Code-Optimizations-1222/

8 years ago

Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli

https://github.com/kendricktan/ledger-analytics

8 years ago

★ 300 JavaScript MIT

How to make a self-hosted video livestream

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/26/Self-hosted-livestreaming.html

8 years ago

What I've learned since quitting Elm

https://qiita.com/kimagure/items/93a42d67a8833f99fe2e

8 years ago

History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

8 years ago

Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym That Shaped America

https://deadspin.com/sex-steroids-and-arnold-the-gym-that-shaped-america-1828228786

8 years ago

Methodologies for measuring open source project health

https://nadiaeghbal.com/project-health

8 years ago

How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)

http://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/10/how-and-why-we-designed-lucida.html

8 years ago