top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-17

FFS SSL

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/10/17/ffs-ssl

12 years ago

447 upvotes – 152 comments

How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

12 years ago

377 upvotes – 81 comments

A Raw Deal in Michigan

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/raw-deal-michigan

12 years ago

347 upvotes – 194 comments

Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8470206

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 151 comments

Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM

http://vitessedata.com/

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 37 comments

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 120 comments

Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple

https://fix-macosx.com

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 134 comments

Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure

http://arcadia-unity.tumblr.com/post/100257212548/arcadia-0-1a-launched

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 32 comments

The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/fbi-is-wrong-apple-encryption-is-good/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 101 comments

What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles?

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/google-chrome-helper/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 78 comments

Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523160196672409600

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 152 comments

The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo

http://correlatedcontents.com/misc/UWWFN/UWWFN.html

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Sublime Text Book

https://sublimetextbook.com

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

Emacs 24.4 RC 1

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg00001.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

Privacy Router Anonabox Gets $600K in Crowdfunding and Huge Backlash

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/anonabox-backlash/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 88 comments

How Big is Email?

https://medium.com/@raindrift/how-big-is-email-305bbdb69776

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Coanda Effect: Understanding Why Wings Work

http://karmak.org/archive/2003/02/coanda_effect.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 57 comments

Material Design Icons

https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/releases/tag/1.0.0

12 years ago

★ 53.1k Apache-2.0
127 upvotes – 32 comments

Some thoughts on asking for a raise

http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/100265592165/some-thoughts-on-asking-for-a-raise

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 90 comments

Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/she-bought-a-sofa-on-installment-payments-now-its-straining-her-life/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 203 comments

Is This the Future of Robotic Legs?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/future-robotic-legs-180953040/?all&no-ist

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 14 comments

Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir

http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-thomas-vos-of-mir/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/kickstarter-suspends-anonabox

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29658085

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 121 comments

Bilingual brains: Variety makes you mentally fit

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/10/johnson-bilingual-brains

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

NASA, SpaceX Share Data on Supersonic Retropropulsion

http://aviationweek.com/space/nasa-spacex-share-data-supersonic-retropropulsion

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

About My Yosemite Review

http://hypercritical.co/2014/10/16/yosemite

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

My Last Day at PivotDesk

http://ktinboulder.com/2014/10/16/my-last-day-at-pivotdesk/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

Argentina launches its first home-built satellite

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-10-16/argentina-launches-its-first-home-built-satellite

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

The Search for MH 370 (Inmarsat)

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FNAV%2FS037346331400068Xa.pdf&code=99d6daf127f9c88ca22b52fd9ff5084a

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Hope – A Python JIT for astrophysical computations

https://github.com/cosmo-ethz/hope

12 years ago

★ 383 Python GPL-3.0
84 upvotes – 22 comments

You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Profit

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-see-sneakers-these-guys-see-hundreds-of-millions-in-resale-profit/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Online Labs – ARM servers in the cloud

http://labs.online.net

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Preliminary Findings on Whisper

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4056

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Where did "Aboriginal Linux" come from? Our story so far

http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29631332

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Avoiding Complexity with Go

http://bradgignac.com/2014/09/24/avoiding-complexity-with-go.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 85 comments

How Rebounds Work

http://grantland.com/features/how-rebounds-work/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

http://www.getnotifiedapp.com/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Sun's Star7: Touchscreen Tablet of 1992

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/star7/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

The Debian init system general resolution returns

http://lwn.net/Articles/616571/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 111 comments

Google play removed my productivity tracking app for spying

http://www.everaccountable.com/blog/2014/10/16/out-of-the-blue-google-shut-down-ever-accountable

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

Fig 1.0: Boot2docker compatibility and more

https://blog.docker.com/2014/10/fig-1-0-boot2docker-compatibility-and-more/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/she-bought-a-sofa-on-installment-payments-now-its-straining-her-life/?hpid=z1

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future?

http://laphamsquarterly.org/time/grand-illusion

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Keeping Passwords Secure

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/keeping-passwords-secure/1519937431579736

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

The Education of Marc Andreessen (1998)

http://www.businessweek.com/1998/15/topstory.htm

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar – July 2014 [pdf]

http://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-july-2014-en.pdf

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Is reheated pasta less fattening?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments

Airbnb in the City – New York State Attorney General's Report [pdf]

http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Airbnb%20report.pdf

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 67 comments

Coda 2.5 Released

https://www.panic.com/blog/introducing-coda-2-5/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 42 comments

The physics of angular momentum radio

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4268?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

Anonabox has been suspended by Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router?status=suspended

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 26 comments
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