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Ask HN: April Fools Day

by twistedanimator on 4/1/13, 9:46 AM with 2 comments

Since we cannot expect much real news today, I would love to see what posts you have found that really piqued your interest. I would particularly be interested in seeing longer form articles that I could spend some time reading.

Here are a couple of my favorite reads to get this started:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

by jcr on 4/1/13, 10:39 AM
The following paper/article is about 45 pages, and I expect it to be good (not tinfoil hat stuff) due to the source. Since some of the academic paper paywall sites are already asking ten bucks for it, I was happy to find a legit copy online for free.
Harvard Law Review
The Dangers of Surveillance, by Neil M. Richards
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472230
Edit: Some more fun reading.
Swarm - A Cellular Programming Language (columbia.edu)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472485
by bhousel on 4/1/13, 11:49 AM
http://longform.org always has interesting stuff to read.
They recently reposted Renata Adler's "A Court of No Appeal" from 2000. I thought it was a really interesting denouncement of the current practice of journalism (particularly directed at the New York Times).
http://harpers.org/archive/2000/08/a-court-of-no-appeal/?sin...