top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-29

Sprout

http://sprout.hp.com/

12 years ago

What Does an Idle CPU Do?

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-does-an-idle-cpu-do/

12 years ago

Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database

https://code.facebook.com/posts/844436395567983/introducing-osquery/

12 years ago

Why I can't have conversations using Twitter

http://antirez.com/news/82

12 years ago

Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192950-windows-10-will-come-with-a-command-line-package-manager-much-to-the-lament-of-linux-users

12 years ago

Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359725475/can-authorities-cut-off-utilities-and-pose-as-repairmen-to-search-a-home

12 years ago

CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/retailer-backed-apple-pay-rival-currentc-has-been-hacked-testers-email-addresses-stolen/

12 years ago

Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2014/10/29/bootstrap-3-3-0-released/

12 years ago

The new archive.org

https://archive.org/v2

12 years ago

Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service announcement

https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003

12 years ago

Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

https://www.virtkick.io/

12 years ago

Mozilla Stumbler 1.0

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.mozstumbler

12 years ago

JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON document

http://jsonpatch.com/

12 years ago

HP 3D printing

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/commercial-printers/floater/3Dprinting.html?jumpid=va_byvp82s73w

12 years ago

From Fusion to Octopart and Back

https://blog.octopart.com/archives/2014/10/from-fusion-to-octopart-and-back

12 years ago

Show HN: Professional sound effects for UI projects

https://soundkit.io/

12 years ago

ToroDB – Document-oriented JSON database on top of PostgreSQL

https://github.com/torodb/torodb

12 years ago

★ 12

A Day with Project Ara, Google's Modular Phone

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/day-with-project-ara

12 years ago

A Neuroscientist’s Theory of How Networks Become Conscious (2013)

http://www.wired.com/2013/11/christof-koch-panpsychism-consciousness/

12 years ago

Rappelling Off a Roof

http://redteams.net/blog/2013/rappelling-off-a-roof

12 years ago

A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-taste-of-rust-yum-for-cc-programmers_29.html

12 years ago

Studies find fast traders get data from SEC seconds early

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-markets-sec-traders-idUSKBN0II0DC20141029

12 years ago

Saturn V Flight Manual (1969) [pdf]

http://history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pdf

12 years ago

Poynt – Smart payment terminal

http://www.getpoynt.com/

12 years ago

A Quick Intro to Rust Macros

https://danielkeep.github.io/quick-intro-to-macros.html

12 years ago

Countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/

12 years ago

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)

https://medium.com/backchannel/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledge-8de60af7146e

12 years ago

MacOS X 10.10 and FreeBSD 10 Ftp Remote Comand Execution

http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2014100174

12 years ago

Reddit Gets into Crowdfunding with Redditmade

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/reddit-gets-into-crowdfunding-with-redditmade-a-place-to-turn-community-designs-into-reality/

12 years ago

Goodbye-Barnes-and-Noble

http://keithp.com/blogs/Goodbye-Barnes-and-Noble/

12 years ago

The Man Who Writes His Dissenting Opinion in All Caps

http://priceonomics.com/man-writes-dissenting-opinion-in-all-caps/

12 years ago

Multisig Vault

https://www.coinbase.com/multisig

12 years ago

The most-cited papers

http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20141030

12 years ago

The Raft Consensus Algorithm

http://raftconsensus.github.io/

12 years ago

What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages

http://blog.alinelerner.com/what-i-learned-from-reading-8000-recruiting-messages/

12 years ago

Show HN: Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life

http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/

12 years ago

Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/faster-higher-stronger/

12 years ago

Open-Source Clojure Library for Geospatial Information

http://blog.factual.com/open-source-clojure-library-for-geospatial-information

12 years ago

Forget Shorter Showers (2009)

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801/

12 years ago

The HipHop Virtual Machine

https://research.facebook.com/publications/665463800219144/the-hiphop-virtual-machine/

12 years ago

Type-safe Transducers in Clojure, Scala, and Haskell

http://blog.podsnap.com/ducers2.html

12 years ago

A New, Deep-Learning Take on Image Recognition

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/spp-102914.aspx

12 years ago

Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified?

http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/aluminum-fragment-appears-to-belong-to-earharts-plane-141028.htm

12 years ago

This University Teaches You No Skills – Just a New Way to Think

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/minerva-project/

12 years ago

Solving the Wrong Problem

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/

12 years ago

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain (2012)

http://neurosciencestuff.tumblr.com/post/38271759345/gut-instincts-the-secrets-of-your-second-brain

12 years ago

Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?

http://blog.dantup.com/2014/10/have-the-angular-team-lost-their-marbles/

12 years ago

Snap webcam photos whenever your app crashes

http://sizeof.io/snap-webcam-photos-whenever-your-app-crashes/

12 years ago

Status of Perl 6

http://perl6.guide/

12 years ago

Announcing Beta For Local SSD

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/10/announcing-beta-for-local-ssd.html

12 years ago

Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future

https://www.fcc.gov/blog/tech-transitions-video-and-future

12 years ago

JQuery 3.0: The Next Generations

http://blog.jquery.com/2014/10/29/jquery-3-0-the-next-generations/

12 years ago

GPU Profiling has landed in Firefox

http://benoitgirard.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/gpu-profiling-has-landed/

12 years ago