Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2015-08-08 login
Stories from August 8, 2015
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks (hexahedria.com)
443 points by hexahedria on Aug 8, 2015 | 120 comments
2. BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies (medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial)
202 points by pyotrgalois on Aug 8, 2015 | 86 comments
3. Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar” (catchynet.com)
225 points by lisper on Aug 8, 2015 | 133 comments
4. A collection of postmortems (github.com/danluu)
152 points by luu on Aug 8, 2015 | 16 comments
5. Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2012) (deconcentration-of-attention.com)
97 points by miles on Aug 8, 2015 | 24 comments
6. When would you choose Erlang? (2013) (troutwine.us)
109 points by rubyn00bie on Aug 8, 2015 | 37 comments
7. Fiber Optic Bliss (loomcom.com)
132 points by uptown on Aug 7, 2015 | 101 comments
8. Krill: A terminal feed reader supporting RSS and Twitter (github.com/p-e-w)
69 points by qfx3 on Aug 8, 2015 | 19 comments
9. Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
260 points by thewarrior on Aug 8, 2015 | 200 comments
10. Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer (paradeofrain.com)
140 points by danso on Aug 8, 2015 | 70 comments
11. Crossrail: The End of the Beginning (londonreconnections.com)
83 points by edward on Aug 7, 2015 | 11 comments
12. IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B (nytimes.com)
101 points by tchalla on Aug 8, 2015 | 43 comments
13. The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver (newyorker.com)
97 points by Thevet on Aug 8, 2015 | 54 comments
14. Credit cards used on cvsphoto.com may have been compromised (cvsphoto.com)
79 points by TechRemarker on Aug 8, 2015 | 57 comments
15. Type-checked matrix operations in Rust (jadpole.github.io)
79 points by jcla1 on Aug 8, 2015 | 19 comments
16. Ask HN: Best resources on webapp security?
165 points by zipfle on Aug 8, 2015 | 42 comments
17. Essentially contested concept (wikipedia.org)
60 points by networked on Aug 8, 2015 | 11 comments
18. The dwarves of Auschwitz (2013) (theguardian.com)
67 points by samsolomon on Aug 8, 2015 | 11 comments
19. Speeding up non-vectorizable code with Cython (isaacslavitt.com)
37 points by callmekit on Aug 8, 2015 | 3 comments
20. Introducing the Blend font vulnerability (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
41 points by daveloyall on Aug 7, 2015 | 23 comments
21. Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP (planespotters.net)
75 points by bmir-alum-007 on Aug 8, 2015 | 111 comments
22. Digital Bodleian Library (ox.ac.uk)
52 points by nsns on Aug 8, 2015 | 2 comments
23. Plate IQ (YC S15) Turns Paper Invoices into Predictive Insights (techcrunch.com)
56 points by twakefield on Aug 8, 2015 | 7 comments
24. The website is unknown – How DNS works (howdns.works)
177 points by dbrgn on Aug 8, 2015 | 28 comments
25. Reminiscences of Grothendieck and His School (2010) [pdf] (ams.org)
47 points by valera_rozuvan on Aug 8, 2015 | 4 comments
26. Python metaclasses (ivansmirnov.io)
55 points by aldanor on Aug 8, 2015 | 29 comments
27. Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots to a Mostly-Deliveries Company (forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet)
47 points by lxm on Aug 8, 2015 | 15 comments
28. How many lives does a doctor save? (80000hours.org)
57 points by robertwiblin on Aug 8, 2015 | 56 comments
29. How a troubled past turned a Soviet engineer into a valuable spy (theatlantic.com)
30 points by curtis on Aug 8, 2015 | 7 comments
30. In Dependencies We Trust: How vulnerable are dependencies in software modules? (researchgate.net)
34 points by ximeng on Aug 8, 2015 | 16 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: