top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-24

Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html

12 years ago

816 upvotes – 236 comments

The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-transform-explained-in-one-sentence.html

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 82 comments

Autumn

http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/autumn/

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 89 comments

Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars

http://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-made-cars/

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 66 comments

Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/23/snowden-filmmaker-laura-poitras-facebook-is-a-gift-to-intelligence-agencies/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/projects/workouts/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 144 comments

How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well

http://okepi.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/how-to-become-a-programmer-or-the-art-of-googling-well/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 152 comments

The Case of the Modified Binaries

http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modified-binaries/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox

http://mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-samsung-knox-isnt-really-fort-knox.html?m=1

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

Calories in, calories out

http://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/calories-in-calories-out/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 210 comments

HTML5 Fluid Simulation in WebGL

https://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/?q=UltraHigh

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

Uselessd

http://uselessd.darknedgy.net

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar

http://recode.net/2014/10/24/google-ceo-larry-page-reorgs-staff-anoints-sundar-pichai-as-new-product-czar/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 72 comments

MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mit-computer-scientists-can-predict-price-bitcoin#.VEadQI474jk

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 81 comments

How Verizon's Advertising Header Works

http://webpolicy.org/2014/10/24/how-verizons-advertising-header-works/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon.com redesign

http://www.amazon.com

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 104 comments

FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/msg536298/#msg536298

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 128 comments

Hey Paypal, why do you need access to my microphone, camera and photos?

http://thepcspy.com/read/paypal-permissions-microphone-camera-photos/

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class

http://www.padjo.org/2014-10-23/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime

http://j2objc.org/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments

X86 boot sector written in C (2010)

http://crimsonglow.ca/~kjiwa/x86-dos-boot-sector-in-c.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

AT&T Locks Apple SIM on Activation

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6499?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

The Police Are Still Out of Control

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160_full.html#.VEphefldV1B

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Stealth Tank Unveiled by Poland

http://www.funker530.com/pl-01-future-stealth-tank-unveiled-by-poland/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 74 comments

Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_problem_that_isnt

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

You broke the internet. We'll make ourselves a GNU one

http://youbroketheinternet.org/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1249.pdf

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 81 comments

Why I left my PM role at Microsoft

https://medium.com/@adamjh/why-i-left-my-254-895-pm-role-at-microsoft-a91c75db37ad

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming

http://capp.io

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 70 comments

Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/garden/home-organization-advice-from-marie-kondo.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 69 comments

Doctor in New York City Is Sick with Ebola

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 84 comments

PSA: Don’t Open Random PowerPoint Presentations from Strangers

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/24/psa-dont-open-random-powerpoint-presentations-from-strangers-right-now/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Mystery Bidder Bids $3.2M for 6000 Detroit Homes

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-24/buying-derelict-detroit-mystery-bidder-wants-6-000-foreclosed-homes#r=hp-ls

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 100 comments

Bezos Faces Season of Worsts as Losses Mount

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-24/amazon-ceo-bezos-faces-season-of-worsts-as-losses-mount.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 91 comments

Robot will beam live Moon pictures to Oculus users

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29704953

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Reviewing common API Editors

https://medium.com/@orliesaurus/a-review-of-all-most-common-api-editors-6a720dc4f4e6

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/anonymity-routers/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple: We have decided to no longer release Libm source (2013)

http://openradar.io/12436495

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/abe-lincolns-whiskers

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Open-source metal 3D printer

http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_metal_3-D_printer

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

How a computer error helped Deep Blue beat humanity's best chess player

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/24/7056493/how-a-computer-error-helped-deep-blue-beat-humanitys-best-chess-player

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Yann LeCun responds to Michael Jordan's comments about deep learning

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152348155137143

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Pt. 3

http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-3

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

The Wacky Geopolitics of ‘Civilization: Beyond Earth’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/24/the-wacky-geopolitics-of-civilization-beyond-earth/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

The Fire Phone Is Officially a Failure

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/fire-phone-a-failure/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments

Charlie Munger Donates $65M for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara

http://dailynexus.com/2014-10-23/billionaire-donates-over-65-million-to-ucsb/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

Workers paid $1.21 an hour to install Fremont tech company's computers

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26778017/tech-company-paid-employees-from-india-little-1

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 42 comments

What's the Biggest Animal Gathering Ever?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/21/291501411/what-s-the-biggest-animal-gathering-ever-was-rod-stewart-there

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 25 comments

AtScript Primer

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1-Q3V0fQ7KSit97HnZoKVygDxpWzEYW0U/mobilebasic?pli=1&viewopt=127

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Microsoft's Q1 2015: Surface growing strongly and Lumia sales up

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/23/7030831/microsoft-q1-2015-financial-earnings

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

Airbnb valued at $13B ahead of staff stock sale

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102117120

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 74 comments

The day UFOs stopped play

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29342407

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 48 comments

A Print Magazine for Hackers

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/print-magazine-hackers

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments
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