top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-17

Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/21/140721fa_fact_mnookin?currentPage=all

12 years ago

1483 upvotes – 109 comments

Verizon's accidental mea culpa

http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa

12 years ago

776 upvotes – 307 comments

Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk

http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0

12 years ago

373 upvotes – 319 comments

Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

http://recode.net/2014/07/17/ax-falls-at-microsoft-as-company-looks-to-cut-18000-jobs-this-year/

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 324 comments

Django REST framework 3

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest-framework-3

12 years ago

310 upvotes – 72 comments

Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/microsoft-layoffs-expected-thursday

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 245 comments

The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable developers

http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/17/235

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 157 comments

Wayback Machine points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0717/Web-evidence-points-to-pro-Russia-rebels-in-downing-of-MH17

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 105 comments

Don't link to line numbers in GitHub

http://andrew.yurisich.com/work/2014/07/16/dont-link-that-line-number/

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 58 comments

The History of Civilization

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/129947/the_history_of_civilization.php?print=1

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos

http://steady.stupeflix.com/

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 110 comments

React v0.11

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/07/17/react-v0.11.html

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 104 comments

Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-the-popular-tech-product-discovery-site-is-in-current-y-combinator-batch/

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 102 comments

Simpler and faster GC for Go

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4Oqa0WwHunqlb8C3ObL_uNQw3DfSY-ztoA-4wWbKcg/pub

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

How to Read a Research Paper [pdf]

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/ReadPaper.pdf

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 48 comments

Nimrod by Example

http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 71 comments

Iosnoop For Linux

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-07-16/iosnoop-for-linux.html

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 11 comments

Own your own data

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/own-your-own-data-0709

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Analytics iOS app

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id881599038?mt=8

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

Random Solutions are Often Good Enough

http://www.sultanik.com/blog/RandomSolutions

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 41 comments

IBM announces $3B research initiative

http://electroiq.com/blog/2014/07/ibm-announces-3b-research-initiative/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

Microjs: JavaScript Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries

http://microjs.com/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 23 comments

Inside Google Brain

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google_brain

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 76 comments

North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Arlington-Residents-Police-the-Police-267423681.html

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 83 comments

FTL: WebKit’s LLVM-based JIT

http://blog.llvm.org/2014/07/ftl-webkits-llvm-based-jit.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

The UN thinks we could hit peak births in 2014

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5909709/the-un-thinks-well-hit-peak-births-in-2014

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 96 comments

How tall can a Lego tower get?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 38 comments

The JSMESS Sound Emergency

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4343

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 15 comments

Expect – A tool for automating interactive applications

http://expect.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

Beijing From Above, aka How I was police detained for flying a Quadcopter

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2014/06/19/dji-quadcopter-china-detention/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Google Reports Better-Than-Seen Revenue Growth

http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-reports-22-revenue-growth-1405628219

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft to Shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios

http://recode.net/2014/07/17/microsoft-to-shut-down-xbox-entertainment-studios/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Fail2ban security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00161.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf]

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2014/pr1407171-vc.pdf

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Geologic Map of Mars

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3292/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Rust for C++ Programmers – Part 9

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/07/rust-for-c-programmers-part-9.html?m=1

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

Pigeon photography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_photography

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

https://github.com/search?q=ugly+hack&ref=cmdform&type=Code

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 68 comments

Vint Cerf on Colbert

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046368

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five

http://jackdcrawford.github.io/five/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Pastor generates and stores passwords without storing any passwords

https://github.com/appnician/pastor

12 years ago

★ 119 Go MIT
67 upvotes – 70 comments

The optional “else” in Python loops

http://shahriar.svbtle.com/pythons-else-clause-in-loops

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

The Big Winner from Y Combinator’s Success? Sequoia Capital

http://priceonomics.com/the-big-winner-from-y-combinators-success-sequoia/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

What is CI and why use it?

https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-07-17-what-is-CI-and-why-use-it/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments
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