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Stories from February 14, 2016
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1.I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (medium.com/fjmubeen)
682 points by refrigerator on Feb 14, 2016 | 271 comments
2.Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com)
559 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 13, 2016 | 133 comments
3.Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves (reddit.com)
240 points by yread on Feb 14, 2016 | 41 comments
4.Why GNU Emacs? (elephly.net)
353 points by rekado on Feb 14, 2016 | 304 comments
5.Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether (theguardian.com)
301 points by jedwhite on Feb 13, 2016 | 152 comments
6.EURion constellation (wikipedia.org)
155 points by curtis on Feb 14, 2016 | 25 comments
7.Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by janvdberg on Feb 13, 2016 | 19 comments
8.Structured Concurrency (250bpm.com)
89 points by vmorgulis on Feb 14, 2016 | 21 comments
9.Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom (sagemath.blogspot.com)
225 points by williamstein on Feb 11, 2016 | 62 comments
10.LyX – The Document Processor (lyx.org)
183 points by vmorgulis on Feb 14, 2016 | 59 comments
11.True Micropayments with Bitcoin (medium.com/21)
104 points by oska on Feb 13, 2016 | 46 comments
12.Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard (softwaremaniacs.org)
122 points by wkornewald on Feb 13, 2016 | 64 comments
13.The kids are all right (vox.com)
138 points by pmcpinto on Feb 13, 2016 | 70 comments
14.Soviet Underwater Firearms (warisboring.com)
79 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 13, 2016 | 30 comments
15.Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack (jamesknelson.com)
243 points by dlcmh on Feb 13, 2016 | 58 comments
16.EPUB 3.1 Standard Update (rdeltour.github.io)
79 points by ingve on Feb 13, 2016 | 22 comments
17.Stack traces in GHCi, coming in GHC 8.0.1 (simonmar.github.io)
150 points by timothyklim on Feb 12, 2016 | 2 comments
18.The Siege of Herbalife (2015) (fortune.com)
135 points by todayiamme on Feb 13, 2016 | 44 comments
19.Guess the Correlation (guessthecorrelation.com)
99 points by antognini on Feb 13, 2016 | 21 comments
20.A Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Rides in AWS Redshift (marksblogg.com)
84 points by marklit on Feb 13, 2016 | 17 comments
21.Horses recognise human emotions (bbc.com)
52 points by elorant on Feb 13, 2016 | 17 comments
22.Reasons to consider a cartogram (medium.com/joshuatauberer)
85 points by danso on Feb 14, 2016 | 22 comments
23.WLW: 700 kHz, 500 kW, 100% modulation, no limiter (2000) (ominous-valve.com)
105 points by nkurz on Feb 13, 2016 | 25 comments
24.Isosurface Extraction Using Marching Cubes Algorithm (github.com/lettier)
40 points by s4chin on Feb 14, 2016 | 4 comments
25.How to Write an LLVM Register Allocator (github.com/nael8r)
49 points by ingve on Feb 14, 2016 | 1 comment
26.Tidalscale, a hypervisor that allows a single OS to run across multiple servers (tidalscale.com)
63 points by corv on Feb 13, 2016 | 25 comments
27.On Stapledon's “Last and First Men” (1986) (depauw.edu)
41 points by walterbell on Feb 13, 2016 | 15 comments
28.China's curious cult of the mango (bbc.com)
64 points by elorant on Feb 13, 2016 | 11 comments
29.Elwha: Roaring back to life (seattletimes.com)
50 points by Mz on Feb 13, 2016 | 20 comments
30.C++ 11 Auto: How to use and avoid abuse (acodersjourney.com)
58 points by ingve on Feb 14, 2016 | 46 comments

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