| 1. | | Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL (github.com/fastmonkeys) |
| 325 points by obsession on Aug 22, 2014 | 77 comments |
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| 2. | | Announcing Calibre 2.0 (calibre-ebook.com) |
| 275 points by cleverjake on Aug 22, 2014 | 98 comments |
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| 3. | | Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart (khanacademy.org) |
| 266 points by eroo on Aug 22, 2014 | 64 comments |
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| 4. | | Hard Science About Diet (wired.com) |
| 209 points by yaddayadda on Aug 22, 2014 | 229 comments |
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| 5. | | Lego Calendar (lego-calendar.com) |
| 204 points by greenburger on Aug 22, 2014 | 36 comments |
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| 6. | | Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies (docker.com) |
| 187 points by julien421 on Aug 22, 2014 | 72 comments |
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| 7. | | Next-Gen Lighting Is Pushing the Limits of Realism (kotaku.com) |
| 162 points by RaSoJo on Aug 22, 2014 | 69 comments |
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| 8. | | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (stanford.edu) |
| 160 points by shliachtx on Aug 22, 2014 | 43 comments |
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| 9. | | Show HN: ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation (ziplocate.us) |
| 140 points by nathancahill on Aug 22, 2014 | 55 comments |
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| 10. | | We are being sued for refusing to take down a website (easydns.org) |
| 148 points by peteforde on Aug 22, 2014 | 26 comments |
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| 11. | | Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank (newscientist.com) |
| 136 points by spountzy on Aug 22, 2014 | 83 comments |
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| 12. | | The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999) (nicscorner.com) |
| 126 points by Snail_Commando on Aug 22, 2014 | 16 comments |
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| 13. | | Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All (wired.com) |
| 139 points by riaface on Aug 22, 2014 | 93 comments |
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| 14. | | Silent Teacher – A game to learn how to code (toxicode.fr) |
| 140 points by komas2006 on Aug 22, 2014 | 55 comments |
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| 15. | | PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer (dalibo.github.io) |
| 113 points by sciurus on Aug 22, 2014 | 14 comments |
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| 16. | | D for the Win (tomerfiliba.com) |
| 119 points by ingve on Aug 22, 2014 | 102 comments |
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| 17. | | Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms (digitalrightsfoundation.pk) |
| 114 points by rhu86 on Aug 22, 2014 | 25 comments |
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| 18. | | Oregon sues Oracle, claiming fraud over failed Obamacare website (yahoo.com) |
| 112 points by evmar on Aug 22, 2014 | 57 comments |
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| 19. | | What China wants (economist.com) |
| 118 points by Turukawa on Aug 22, 2014 | 42 comments |
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| 20. | | The Typographic Programming Language (joshondesign.com) |
| 107 points by nickmain on Aug 22, 2014 | 73 comments |
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| 22. | | Layer cam (saladetomateoignon.com) |
| 102 points by hector_minus on Aug 22, 2014 | 70 comments |
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| 23. | | The legend of John von Neumann (1973) (lk.net) |
| 96 points by tjaerv on Aug 22, 2014 | 65 comments |
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| 24. | | Why I Left the Law (1997) (spectacle.org) |
| 93 points by Zuider on Aug 22, 2014 | 22 comments |
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| 25. | | DeLorean: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Interaction for Cloud Gaming (research.microsoft.com) |
| 87 points by azefiel on Aug 22, 2014 | 48 comments |
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| 26. | | Show HN: λ Bubble Pop, an educational toy built using λ Lessons (chrisuehlinger.com) |
| 83 points by Uehreka on Aug 22, 2014 | 10 comments |
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| 27. | | Stalin: a global optimizing compiler for Scheme (github.com/barak) |
| 85 points by malisper on Aug 22, 2014 | 70 comments |
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| 29. | | International Lisp Conference 2014 Summary (cipht.net) |
| 75 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 22, 2014 | 19 comments |
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| 30. | | Programming Enchiladas: Sort-of gist for ClojureScript, Canvas, SVG experiments (destructuring-bind.org) |
| 68 points by hecubus on Aug 22, 2014 |
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| More |
- VFX is just "visual effects", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_effects.
- Fresnel might be a reference to "Fresnel refraction", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_diffraction.
- IOR is of course "index of refraction", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index.
- BSDF references "bi-directional scattering distribution functions", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_scattering_distri....
- Path tracing is a Monte Carlo method of rendering images with global illumination, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_tracing.
- SSS means "sub-surface scattering", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_scattering.