Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		The web of names, hashes and UUIDs (joearms.github.io)
		64 points by lelf 2 hours ago \| 22 comments
2.		Valve's SteamVR solves big problems and poses bigger questions (eurogamer.net)
		73 points by jsnell 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
3.		MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp (github.com)
		43 points by chesterfield 1 hour ago \| 5 comments
4.		Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
		73 points by pmoriarty 3 hours ago \| 25 comments
5.		Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009) (nextnature.net)
		17 points by edward 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
6.		Science Fairs Aren't So Fair (theatlantic.com)
		24 points by klunger 1 hour ago \| 8 comments
7.		Xonsh, a Python-ish, BASHwards-compatible shell language and command prompt (xonsh.org)
		16 points by ngoldbaum 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
8.		The importance of user interface, illustrated by the Go flag package (utoronto.ca)
		94 points by zdw 5 hours ago \| 32 comments
9.		How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly (mumble.net)
		11 points by danieldk 56 minutes ago \| 8 comments
10.		Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access (fastcompany.com)
		48 points by byoogle 3 hours ago \| 17 comments
11.		RethinkDB is hiring C++ hackers (rethinkdb.com)
		40 minutes ago
12.		The Best of Material Design, Daily (materialup.com)
		24 points by rohan1024 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
13.		Making Pinterest HTTPS (pinterest.com)
		43 points by cpeterso 3 hours ago \| 21 comments
14.		Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build? (jandrewrogers.com)
		25 points by chippy 4 hours ago \| 3 comments
15.		Scrum seems to be mostly about having better alibis (agileoverflow.com)
		50 points by RalfR 4 hours ago \| 15 comments
16.		Man In The Moonbase (Part 1): Death and Life of the Best Game You Never Played (gamasutra.com)
		11 points by danso 1 hour ago \| discuss
17.		Code_swarm: An experiment in organic software visualization (ucdavis.edu)
		8 points by drawkbox 1 hour ago \| discuss
18.		Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions and Pastes Them onto Other Faces (medium.com)
		23 points by tim_sw 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
19.		Ancient Rome’s Hexagonal Port City (nasa.gov)
		55 points by mkempe 6 hours ago \| 7 comments
20.		Cospaia: For nearly four hundred years, the smallest republic in the world (umbriatouring.it)
		17 points by monort 8 hours ago \| discuss
21.		YouTube 10th Anniversary: Competition Puts Site on the Defensive (variety.com)
		7 points by prostoalex 3 hours ago \| 1 comment
22.		What Satoshi Didn't Know [video] (youtube.com)
		17 points by xsb 5 hours ago \| discuss
23.		Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (2009) (ieee.org)
		3 points by lobo_tuerto 54 minutes ago \| discuss
24.		Reddit: can anyone clean up the mess behind 'the front page of the internet'? (theguardian.com)
		35 points by prostoalex 3 hours ago \| 34 comments
25.		Procedural Altar Generation (ultimaratioregum.co.uk)
		45 points by norswap 7 hours ago \| 7 comments
26.		Exponential Backoff and Jitter (awsarchitectureblog.com)
		70 points by alexbilbie 9 hours ago \| 10 comments
27.		Congress may impose license plate reader limits (arstechnica.com)
		17 points by zmanian 4 hours ago \| 3 comments
28.		How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate (aeon.co)
		8 points by acsillag 1 hour ago \| discuss
29.		Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor (outsideonline.com)
		4 points by khc 59 minutes ago \| discuss
30.		John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war (theguardian.com)
		70 points by benbreen 6 hours ago \| 53 comments
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