top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-18

Impending kOS

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 231 comments

Thoughts on Startup School

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-10-18-thoughts-on-startup-school.html

12 years ago

318 upvotes – 120 comments

What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network

https://decorrespondent.nl/1101/What-we-give-away-when-we-log-on-to-a-public-Wi-Fi-network/31040493-53737dba

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 110 comments

Building the Largest Ship in the World

http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-world-south-korea/

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 68 comments

Doctors Tell All, and It’s Bad

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/doctors-tell-all-and-its-bad/380785/?single_page=true

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 123 comments

BeeFree email editor

https://beefree.io

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 52 comments

An Author Confronts Her Number One Online Critic

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

Functional Programming in JavaScript: A Collection of Hands-on Exercises

http://jhusain.github.io/learnrx/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 45 comments

The Gentleman Who Made Google Scholar

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar-d71289d9a82d

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

A difficult lock to pick [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ey2SFHbZV8

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

That’s me in the picture: Kevin Berthia on the Golden Gate bridge

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/17/kevin-berthia-golden-gate-bridge?CMP=fb_gu

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

Your language sucks

http://garrett.damore.org/2014/10/your-language-sucks.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 127 comments

Sorry but not sorry

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/why-the-apology-is-a-friend-of-the-powerful/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Material Design Icons

https://github.com/google/material-design-icons

12 years ago

★ 53.1k Apache-2.0
105 upvotes – 22 comments

For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/more-languages-better-brain/381193/?single_page=true

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

SSLsplit – Transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception

http://www.roe.ch/SSLsplit

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Towards Reliable Storage of 56-bit Secrets in Human Memory [pdf]

http://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity14/sec14-paper-bonneau.pdf

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Cops Need a Warrant to Grab Your Cell Tower Data, Florida Court Rules

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/florida-court-requires-warrant-cell-tower-data/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

Gnome developer creates new animated image format

http://blog.mecheye.net/2014/10/xng-gifs-but-better-and-also-magical/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

Everything You Need to Know About Cooking with Blood

http://magazine.good.is/features/the-nordic-food-lab-cooks-with-blood

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Build and Use a Multi GPU System for Deep Learning

http://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/how-to-build-and-use-a-multi-gpu-system-for-deep-learning/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

NSA reviewing deal between official, ex-spy agency head

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0I624Y20141017

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Thinking Functionally with Haskell – Richard Bird's New Book

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Functionally-Haskell-Richard-Bird/dp/1107087201/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Prospector: Python Static Analysis for Humans

http://blog.landscape.io/prospector-python-static-analysis-for-humans.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Your Hacker News history visualized

http://social.gnod.com/hn:no_gravity

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Webmail and Open Source

https://blog.whiteout.io/2014/10/17/webmail-and-open-source/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

Military Professional Reading Lists

http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

What's new in the Linux network stack? [pdf]

http://blog.slyon.de/uploads/Maerdian-Linux_Network_Stack.pdf

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

The octave – history of a discovery

http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/Octave-History.htm

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Pinpointing the Moments “The Simpsons” became less Cromulent

http://diffuseprior.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/kalkalash-pinpointing-the-moments-the-simpsons-became-less-cromulent/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 45 comments

Marc Andreessen on big data, Bitcoin and upending the world of finance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-his-words-marc-andreessen-on-big-data-bitcoin-and-upending-the-world-of-finance/2014/10/15/8fb050d2-5304-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 72 comments

The overhead of abstraction in C/C++ vs. Python/Ruby

http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/10/the-overhead-of-abstraction-in-cc-vs.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

The Arsenic Eaters of Styria

http://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/arsenic-eaters.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Inspirograph

http://nathanfriend.com/inspirograph/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

Yasuke: The African Samurai

http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/03/07/yasuke-the-african-samurai/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments
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