top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-20

China collecting Apple iCloud data

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone

12 years ago

Emacs 24.4 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00713.html

12 years ago

Career planning: Where do old devs go to?

http://ayende.com/blog/168802/career-planning-where-do-old-devs-go-to

12 years ago

Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite

https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home

12 years ago

★ 689 MIT

Facebook's software architecture

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/10/facebooks-software-architecture.html?spref=tw

12 years ago

Hints for writing Unix tools

http://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html

12 years ago

Building Good Docker Images

http://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/building-good-docker-images

12 years ago

Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-mulls-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/

12 years ago

Virginia Police Have Been Stockpiling Private Phone Records

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/virginia-police-secretively-stockpiling-private-phone-records

12 years ago

Y U NO commit??

https://github.com/esneider/YUNOcommit.vim

12 years ago

★ 454 VimL MIT

Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL/story.html?event=event25

12 years ago

Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks

http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or-bird/

12 years ago

Writing C in Cython

http://honnibal.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/writing-c-in-cython/

12 years ago

The Ebola Wars

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/ebola-wars

12 years ago

Piccolo, a tiny CNC bot

http://www.piccolo.cc/

12 years ago

Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Others

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/machinelearning-maestro-michael-jordan-on-the-delusions-of-big-data-and-other-huge-engineering-efforts

12 years ago

Stripe – Apple Pay

https://stripe.com/blog/apple-pay

12 years ago

“You Don't Know JS” Book Series

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

12 years ago

★ 184.4k

Lab Notebook: Single Pixel Camera

http://www.gperco.com/2014/10/single-pixel-camera.html

12 years ago

Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/opinion/paul-krugman-amazons-monopsony-is-not-ok.html?mabReward=RI%3A7&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

12 years ago

PicoBrew – Counter-top home brewing machine

http://picobrew.com/

12 years ago

In conversation with Marc Andreessen

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/marc-andreessen-in-conversation.html

12 years ago

Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself

http://www.extrahop.com/post/blog/programming-by-voice-staying-productive-without-harming-yourself/

12 years ago

Please don't make us use iCloud anymore

http://mosx.tumblr.com/post/100420300476/please-dont-make-us-use-icloud-anymore

12 years ago

The Woman Who Filmed Snowden

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/laura-poitras-the-woman-who-captured-snowden

12 years ago

Sacrificial Architecture

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SacrificialArchitecture.html

12 years ago

IBM Plunges as CEO Abandons 2015 Earnings Forecast

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-20/ibm-abandons-2015-earnings-goal-as-rometty-divests-assets-1-.html

12 years ago

Pandas 0.15 has been released

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.htmlhttp://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html#v0-15-0-october-18-2014

12 years ago

SmileBASIC for Nintendo 3DS

http://smilebasic.com/en/

12 years ago

Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (2012)

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/haskell-is-exceptionally-unsafe/

12 years ago

Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe

http://www.petekeen.net/introducing-payola

12 years ago

Pixie: A small fast, native lisp

https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie

12 years ago

★ 2.3k Python GPL-3.0

Optifine dev on performance problems in Minecraft 1.8

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1272953-optifine-hd-a4-fps-boost-hd-textures-aa-af-and?comment=43757

12 years ago

Djangae – Run Django on Google App Engine

https://p.ota.to/blog/2014/10/announcing-djangae/

12 years ago

Sketchy

http://www.jarkman.co.uk/catalog/robots/sketchy.htm

12 years ago

The Labors of Leisure

http://chronicle.com/article/Time-to-Imagine/149395

12 years ago

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/10/20Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html

12 years ago

Details Dumped from Tear Gas Manufacturers

http://warpolrelease.bitbucket.org

12 years ago

OpenBSD Passes 300,000 Commits

http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20141019130102&mode=expanded

12 years ago

Why firms don't want you to be brilliant at your job

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29617115

12 years ago

Check that your Node.js project is well written, secure and follow conventions

https://github.com/FGRibreau/check-build

12 years ago

★ 687 JavaScript MIT

IBM Paying Globalfoundries $1.5B to Take Unit in Retreat from Chips

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-19/ibm-agrees-to-pay-globalfoundries-1-5-billion-to-take-chip-unit.html

12 years ago

High Performance Python Extensions: Part 1

https://www.crumpington.com/blog/2014/10-19-high-performance-python-extensions-part-1.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Crypt – Secure Configuration Storage in Etcd or Consul

http://xordataexchange.github.io/crypt/

12 years ago

Mary Somerville, the woman who translated Laplace

http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/the-queen-of-science-the-woman-who-tamed-laplace/

12 years ago

64-bit and iOS 8 Requirements for New Apps

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=10202014a

12 years ago

How do you communicate if you won't hit an estimate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8482673

12 years ago

Try new Power8 CPU for free on RunAbove cloud: 176 threads!

http://labs.runabove.com/power8/

12 years ago

The Real Amazons

http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/real-amazons

12 years ago

A Model of Emotion

http://markpneyer.me/2014/10/19/a-model-of-emotion/

12 years ago

Shall we fork Fedora?

http://forkfedora.org/

12 years ago