top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-28

Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/10/are-we-fast-yet-yes-we-are.html

12 years ago

651 upvotes – 333 comments

Meteor hits 1.0

https://www.meteor.com/

12 years ago

573 upvotes – 241 comments

Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

12 years ago

504 upvotes – 247 comments

FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/10/ftc-says-att-has-misled-millions-consumers-unlimited-data

12 years ago

489 upvotes – 203 comments

Joker – Torrents to streamable video

http://joker.org/

12 years ago

401 upvotes – 158 comments

Smuggling Snowden Secrets

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/

12 years ago

368 upvotes – 64 comments

Mobile is Eating the World

http://a16z.com/2014/10/28/mobile-is-eating-the-world/

12 years ago

311 upvotes – 151 comments

We Make Mistakes

http://blog.ycombinator.com/we-make-mistakes

12 years ago

310 upvotes – 194 comments

Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29802581

12 years ago

298 upvotes – 145 comments

We Are All Confident Idiots

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 158 comments

DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place

http://duckduckhack.com/

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 35 comments

W3C declares HTML5 standard complete

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/w3c-declares-html5-standard-done/

12 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

React v0.12

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/10/28/react-v0.12.html

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Create generative background images from a string in Go

https://github.com/pravj/geo_pattern

12 years ago

★ 1.2k Go MIT
188 upvotes – 22 comments

Calculus with pics and gifs

http://0a.io/0a-explains-calculus

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 37 comments

OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator

http://onerng.info/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 86 comments

Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cat-thinks-youre-huge-unpredictable-ape/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 116 comments

Terminals Are Weird

http://catern.com/posts/terminal_quirks.html

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness

http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2014/10/google-fit.html

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 85 comments

Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/us/us-secretly-monitoring-mail-of-thousands.html?_r=0

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/digitalocean-partners-with-mesosphere-to-allow-developers-to-focus-on-apps-not-servers/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 33 comments

Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript

http://www.shopify.com/technology/15646068-rebuilding-the-shopify-admin-improving-developer-productivity-by-deleting-28-000-lines-of-javascript/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012)

http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/too-much-coffee-may-result-in-caffeine-intoxication-but-specific-risks-and-benefits-are-still-up-for-debate-1414432501

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

MLB, Homeland Security, and the Undercover Underwear Sting

https://sports.vice.com/article/panty-raid-mlb-homeland-security-and-the-great-undercover-underwear-sting

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/4-banks-including-jpmorgan-fined-in-europe-over-cartel-behavior/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/travel-search-site-hipmunk-cuts-yahoo-deal/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Dreadnought hoax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Bitcoin Sidechains

http://avc.com/2014/10/sidechains/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

Game day exercises at Stripe

https://stripe.com/blog/game-day-exercises-at-stripe

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

Meteor 1.0 released

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/releases

12 years ago

★ 44.7k JavaScript
87 upvotes – 1 comments

Reading /proc/pid/cmdline can hang forever

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/10/27/ps/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 40 comments

The Great Paper Caper

http://www.gq.com/long-form/the-great-paper-caper

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Hugging a Medieval Book

http://medievalbooks.nl/2014/10/03/hugging-a-medieval-book/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

In Search of Uber’s Unicorn

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/10/uber_driver_salary_the_ride_sharing_company_says_its_drivers_make_great.single.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

HTML5 is done, but two groups still wrestle over Web's future

http://www.cnet.com/news/html5-is-done-but-two-groups-still-wrestle-over-webs-future/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

A Unix-style mail setup (2012)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

YC W15 emails are out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524325

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 114 comments

Amazon just told me to log into someone else's account – and delete it

http://www.ousbey.com/blog/amazon-just-told-me-to-log-into-someone-elses-account

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

SALTO – The Xerox Alto Simulator

http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Sony Xperia phones come with Baidu spyware?

https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z-ZL-ZR/Unknown-folder-baidu-is-created-on-starting-phone-each-time/td-p/819877/page/5?sl=y&sso_no_log=y

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-20

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Lecture 11: Company Culture and Building a Team, Part 2

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec11/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What makes an API good?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8521431

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 66 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960)

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

Designing a 68K Single Board Computer

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2014/10/27/designing-a-68k-single-board-computer/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

X86 versus other architectures (Linus Torvalds) (2003)

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/x86.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow?

http://nautil.us/blog/where-did-time-come-from-and-why-does-it-seem-to-flow

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 78 comments

How bad is the California drought?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11192081/How-bad-is-the-California-drought.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

Diskless replication: a few design notes

http://antirez.com/news/81

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

How to Make More Published Research True

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001747

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

YC W15 invites will be sent out today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519847

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 147 comments

Bitcoin mining is NP-hard

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jbonneau/bitcoin-mining-is-np-hard/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

The dangers of deflation

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21627625-politicians-and-central-bankers-are-not-providing-world-inflation-it-needs-some

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 85 comments

The Happy Ending Problem [video]

http://www.numberphile.com/videos/happy_ending.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

US Violates International Law in Failed Plot to Capture Snowden (2013)

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/03/us-violates-intl-law-grounding-bolivian-presidents-plane-in-pursuit-of-snowden/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Wobble Wockets – Mobile Friendly HTML5 Game Built with Phaser.io

http://play.wobblewockets.com/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

WhatsApp Lost $138M Last Year

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/facebooks-21-8-billion-acquisition-lost-138-million-last-year

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 48 comments

YouTube Ready to Eliminate Ads [video]

http://www.wsj.com/video/youtube-ready-to-eliminate-ads/2A658513-4028-4578-ADD0-242532294D40.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 69 comments

Coding for Performance: Data alignment and structures (2013)

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/coding-for-performance-data-alignment-and-structures

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Met Office to build £97m supercomputer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29789208

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 30 comments

ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance

http://www.measurementlab.net/blog?date=october%202014&page_number=1

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 28 comments
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