top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-16

iMac with Retina 5K display

http://www.apple.com/imac-with-retina/

12 years ago

615 upvotes – 415 comments

Why Inequality Matters

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capital-in-21st-Century-Review?new#

12 years ago

603 upvotes – 451 comments

Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/15/reddit-acquires-alien-blue-the-most-popular-unofficial-reddit-app/

12 years ago

439 upvotes – 171 comments

OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/

12 years ago

405 upvotes – 225 comments

Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/16/apple-sim/

12 years ago

376 upvotes – 185 comments

How Google Works

http://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt76/how-google-works-final-1

12 years ago

358 upvotes – 108 comments

Tor Browser 4.0 is released

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-40-released

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 102 comments

EditorConfig

http://editorconfig.org/?

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 38 comments

OS X Yosemite

http://www.apple.com/osx/

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 103 comments

How Unreliable is UDP?

http://openmymind.net/How-Unreliable-Is-UDP/

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers

https://remotecoder.io

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Four numbers can predict your lifetime risk of a heart attack

http://knowyour4.com

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 136 comments

How Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-revealed-whisper-app-tracking-users

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 66 comments

How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple Mac Mini

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 129 comments

Why Germany Is Better at Training Its Workers

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-germany-is-so-much-better-at-training-its-workers/381550/?single_page=true

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 161 comments

Docker 1.3 is out

https://blog.docker.com/2014/10/docker-1-3-signed-images-process-injection-security-options-mac-shared-directories/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 40 comments

Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – IP Chapter

https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 30 comments

On Error Handling in Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/10/16/on-error-handling/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 80 comments

How Text Messages Change from Dating to Marriage

http://adashofdata.com/2014/10/14/how-text-messages-change-from-dating-to-marriage

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 23 comments

Drupal 7 SQL Injection Vulnerability

https://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/advisory-012014-drupal-pre-auth-sql-injection-vulnerability.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-are-coming

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 210 comments

The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (1997)

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/31/b35381.htm

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 99 comments

iPad Air 2

http://www.apple.com/ipad-air-2/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 111 comments

Copywrong

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/crooner-rights-spat

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux

https://github.com/naelstrof/maim

12 years ago

★ 2.2k C++
124 upvotes – 83 comments

Backstabbr: A modern web interface for the classic board game Diplomacy

http://www.backstabbr.com/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec08

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 35 comments

A Better DMCA Process

https://github.com/blog/1908-a-better-dmca-process

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/latest-tpp-leak-shows-us-still-pushing-terrible-drm-and-copyright-term-proposals

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Web development IDE running on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.web

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

Maps of Street Layouts Colored by Orientation

http://www.datapointed.net/2014/10/maps-of-street-grids-by-orientation/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Eve Development Blog, from Light Table developers

http://incidentalcomplexity.com/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 74 comments

Revolution R Open: The Enhanced Distribution of Open Source R

http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Is Node Being Forked?

http://dtrejo.com/why-is-node-being-forked.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Crash-only software: More than meets the eye (2006)

http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Dirty medicine – Long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy (2013)

http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

LTTng: An open-source tracing framework for Linux

http://lttng.org/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Airbnb Listings Mostly Illegal, NY State Contends

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/business/airbnb-listings-mostly-illegal-state-contends.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

Making Historic Software Eternal

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/submissions/making-historic-software-eternal

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

Mobile A/B Testing Service Taplytics (YC W14) Adds Analytics and Android Support

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/16/taplytics-insights-and-android/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Thoughts on Tor appliances

https://frederik-braun.com/thoughts-on-tor-appliances.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

GCC Undefined Behavior Sanitizer – Ubsan

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/10/16/gcc-undefined-behavior-sanitizer-ubsan/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Cosmic rays found in smartphones

http://crayfis.ps.uci.edu

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Twitpic Couldn’t Find an Acquirer, Will Shut Down After All on Oct 25th

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/16/twitpic-couldnt-find-an-acquirer-will-shut-down-after-all-on-oct-25th/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple Event October 2014 Live Stream

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/2014-oct-event/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 63 comments

A proposal for named arguments for C++

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4172.htm

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 61 comments

The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/25/othering-ebola-and-the-history-and-politics-of-pointing-at-immigrants-as-potential-disease-vectors/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 41 comments

iPad Mini 3

http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini-3/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

The Big Crunch (1994)

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Apple updates desktop iMac line with “5k” Retina displays

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/apple-updates-desktop-imac-line-with-5k-retina-displays/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds? (2007)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

Story of the acquisition of Ducksboard

http://novobrief.com/ducksboard-acquisition/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments
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