top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-27

#define CTO

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/define-cto

12 years ago

650 upvotes – 107 comments

How a differential gear works (1937) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc

12 years ago

391 upvotes – 55 comments

Rewriting Reddit (2005)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 114 comments

She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/she-tweeted-against-the-mexican-cartels-they-tweeted-her-murder.html

12 years ago

334 upvotes – 205 comments

Post Mortem: A single whitespace character

http://eatabit.com/blog/articles/post-mortem-a-single-whitespace-char.html

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 205 comments

Pgweb: Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go

https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb/

12 years ago

★ 9.3k Go MIT
209 upvotes – 43 comments

T-Mobile quietly hardens part of its U.S. cellular network against snooping

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/22/t-mobile-quietly-hardens-part-of-its-u-s-cellular-network-against-snooping/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 94 comments

Startcraps

http://www.brainshave.com/blog/startcraps

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 97 comments

Feds identify suspected 'second leaker' for Snowden reporters

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-identify-suspected--second-leaker--for-snowden-reporters-165741571.html

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 50 comments

Awesome React – A collection of React resources

https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react

12 years ago

★ 73k
183 upvotes – 13 comments

Low Light and High Dynamic Range photography in the Google Camera App

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.html?

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Polarr.co, a WebGL photo editor

https://www.polarr.co

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 97 comments

Ad blocker that clicks on the ads

http://dhowe.github.io/AdNauseam/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 238 comments

Buffer raises $3.5M

http://open.bufferapp.com/raising-3-5m-funding-valuation-term-sheet/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

Push API – W3C Working Draft

http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-push-api-20141007/#example

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 55 comments

Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Copyright/Trademark Bullies

https://www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-back-copyright-trademark-2014

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Supercharge GitHub with ZenHub

http://zenhub.io/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 44 comments

KDE makes Qt

http://pusling.com/blog/?p=362

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 70 comments

Living the Future of Technical Writing

https://medium.com/@chacon/living-the-future-of-technical-writing-2f368bd0a272

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 19 comments

Pipino: Gentleman Thief

https://medium.com/epic-magazine/pipino-gentleman-thief-ede9713dafb1

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/peekaboo-i-see-you-government-uses-authority-meant-terrorism-other-uses

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 18 comments

Using Clojure at MixRadio

http://dev.mixrad.io/blog/2014/10/19/Clojure-libraries/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 24 comments

The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table”

http://colintoh.com/blog/display-table-anti-hero

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

Building Hater News

http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Big, bad Amazon

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/market-power?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bigbadamazon

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 105 comments

Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge

http://blog.fitbit.com/fibit-charge-charge-hr-surge-welcome-to-a-whole-new-world-of-fitness/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513477

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 97 comments

Idris 0.9.15 released – partial evaluation and uniqueness types

http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-15-released/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

Rosetta: The ambition to turn science fiction into science fact

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_the_ambition_to_turn_science_fiction_into_science_fact

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

A Web IDE for Teams using Golang

https://github.com/b3log/wide

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

Amazon Fire TV Stick

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GDQ0RMG/ref=br_imp_ara-3?_encoding=UTF8&nav_sdd=aps&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=18WJ2GABY3NS9XEMMZ2E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1958529062&pf_rd_i=507846

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 132 comments

A Comparison of Image Hashing Libraries

http://totems.co/blog/comparison-image-hashing-libraries/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513444

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 78 comments

Visualising an Asynchronous Monad

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/10/27/visualising-an-asynchronous-monad/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Practically Accurate Floating-Point Math

http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/issues/2014/10/mcs2014040080.pdf

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/how-facebook-is-changing-the-way-its-users-consume-journalism.html?referrer=&_r=1

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Breakthroughs that have unleashed AI development

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

A simple explanation of Bitcoin “Sidechains”

http://gendal.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/a-simple-explanation-of-bitcoin-sidechains/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html#.VEjv5fmsV8E

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Less.Mail – An email assistant that makes you work less

http://less.robinlabs.com

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

The Reddit world map – How to map out online social networks

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/10/27/the-reddit-world-map/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Eco: A Language Composition Editor

http://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/diekmann_tratt__eco_a_language_composition_editor/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

How Ghost increased conversions

http://blog.ghost.org/ghost-onboarding/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

How Boston is rethinking its relationship with the sea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29761274

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Keyless cars 'increasingly targeted by thieves using computers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29786320

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Praxis – A live coding environment based on Lua, Lisp and Forth

https://github.com/createuniverses/praxis

12 years ago

★ 188 C MIT
63 upvotes – 21 comments

Puer – more than a live-reload server, built for efficient front end development

https://github.com/leeluolee/puer

12 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript
63 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Verified Twitter Followers

http://verified.fruji.com

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 46 comments

CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple Pay and Credit Card Fees

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/25/currentc/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: London Feels – Sentiment-analysis of Londoners Tweets on a Map

http://london.feels.website

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-26/apple-pay-face-challenge-as-cvs-rite-aid-reject-system.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments

To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal

http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/haunted-by-his-brother-he-revolutionized-physics

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage/?linkId=10218942

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Monitor.io – remote monitoring and debugging for socket.io

http://drewblaisdell.github.io/monitor.io/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Hater News – Find trolls and anyone's hater level on Hacker News

http://haternews.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Graph search for Twitter

https://www.socialrank.com/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments
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