top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-25

Pro Git, 2nd Edition

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

12 years ago

411 upvotes – 79 comments

Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html

12 years ago

392 upvotes – 214 comments

Angular 2 Core

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XQP0_NTzCUcFweauLlkZpbbhNVYbYy156oD--KLmXsk/

12 years ago

363 upvotes – 272 comments

Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/teacher-spends-two-days-as-a-student-and-is-shocked-at-what-she-learned/?tid=sm_fb

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 177 comments

Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/law-lets-irs-seize-accounts-on-suspicion-no-crime-required.html

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 130 comments

We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2014/10/21/we-just-thought-this-is-how-you-start-a-company-in-america/print/

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 86 comments

Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor

https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 71 comments

Will It Optimize? (2010)

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/will-it-optimize.html

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel

http://paperman.patricklorio.com

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=bit.ly&hl=en

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 63 comments

How statically linked programs run on Linux (2012)

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

The Problem with Positive Thinking

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/opinion/sunday/the-problem-with-positive-thinking.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Google wants to replace Gmail

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2838775/why-google-wants-to-replace-gmail.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 69 comments

An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics-101/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 2 comments

Windows 93

http://www.windows93.net/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Startup Utility – Collection of Startup Resources

http://www.startuputility.com

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Ice Cream and Distributed Systems

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/10/25/ice-cream.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

Indian Air Force Issues Security Warning; Xiaomi Clears the Air

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/indian-air-force-issues-serious-alert-xiaomi-plans-move-data-centers-china-612152

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507911

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (2012)

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/07/03/binary-search-star-eliminates-star-branch-mispredictions/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Living with Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/living-with-schizophrenia-coffee-and-friends/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative

https://github.com/google/flatbuffers

12 years ago

★ 25.8k C++ Apache-2.0
83 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Meteor

http://www.meteorpedia.com/read/Why_Meteor

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

Recreating the spectrogram face

http://danielrapp.github.io/spectroface/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity

http://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Researcher finds Tor exit node adding malware to binaries

http://threatpost.com/researcher-finds-tor-exit-node-adding-malware-to-binaries/109008

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/25/7069863/retailers-are-disabling-nfc-readers-to-shut-out-apple-pay

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

Stealthy startup Soft Machines launches virtual CPU cores

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2838018/stealthy-startup-soft-machines-launches-virtual-cpu-cores-that-trounce-traditional-processors.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

The Curious Case of Human Hibernation

http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/03/curious-case-of-human-hibernation.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

William Gibson Writes the Future

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201411/william-gibson

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: “Did You Mean?” for Python

https://github.com/dutc/didyoumean

12 years ago

★ 138 C
66 upvotes – 10 comments

Scientists Discover First ‘Virological Penicillin’

http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/science-virological-penicillin-honeysuckle-02206.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

A Culture of Envy

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/08/11/a-culture-of-envy/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

Guardian launches open-source data journalism tool

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/guardian-launches-open-source-data-journalism-tool/s2/a562933/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Roman Gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank a tonic of ashes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141020090006.htm

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Mystery photos from CERN's history

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2014/43/News%20Articles/1955523

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

The city is a big brain that can solve big problems

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/san-francisco-is-smarter-than-you-are-rd

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Most Autistic People Have Normal Brain Anatomy

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/10/25/autistic-people-normal-brain-anatomy/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments
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