top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-30

Tim Cook Speaks Up

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay

12 years ago

3086 upvotes – 974 comments

Microsoft Band

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us

12 years ago

858 upvotes – 514 comments

How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA

http://the-toast.net/2014/10/27/employer-put-fml-fmla/

12 years ago

404 upvotes – 327 comments

I Hope Twitter Goes Away

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/

12 years ago

395 upvotes – 238 comments

Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations/

12 years ago

303 upvotes – 47 comments

PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database

https://github.com/shish/pgosquery

12 years ago

★ 452 Python
297 upvotes – 42 comments

How do you get to write so well in HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8533633

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 105 comments

Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals

https://medium.com/backchannel/jammed-e474fc4925e4

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 28 comments

Introducing SIMD.js

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/introducing-simd-js/

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 75 comments

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term

http://bbc.com/news/technology-29832318

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 82 comments

Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile

http://antirez.com/news/83

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

Go 1.4 Beta 1 is released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/7VAcfULjiB8

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

LG G Watch R

http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#main

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 114 comments

Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/if-you-think-youre-a-genius-youre-crazy

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp

https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http

12 years ago

★ 356 Common Lisp
131 upvotes – 73 comments

Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator

https://matterport.com/blog/walk-3d-model-y-combinator

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Lost Civilizations of the Andes

http://davidpratt.info/andes2.htm

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Chicken Scheme Websockets

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/websockets#quick-start-example

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight

https://medium.com/@insync/startup-fuck-ups-how-we-lost-25-of-our-monthly-revenue-overnight-1e3529aa9e01

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec12

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync

http://jeff.noxon.cc/2014/10/28/replacing-dropbox-with-bittorrent-sync/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/googles-new-bookmarking-service-previously-called-stars-has-gone-live/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 92 comments

Removing SSLv3 in Chrome

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/security-dev/Vnhy9aKM_l4

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center

http://sixcolors.com/post/2014/10/apple-ios-widgets-cant-calculate/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Unexpected ways to wake up your brain

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29817519

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Dealing with Failed Interview at Google and AWS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8531140

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (1977) [pdf]

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/gergel_isopropyl_bromide.pdf

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Hacker News metrics (first rough approach)

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33551.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript

http://jisp.io/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

Will a Breakthrough Solar Technology See the Light of Day?

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531756/will-a-breakthrough-solar-technology-see-the-light-of-day/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: ”Coffee date” etiquette

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532886

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Hosting for Webhooks and Transform Streams

http://hook.io/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

http://blog.zillabyte.com/2014/10/28/lil-waynes-pagerank-part-1/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Visualizing hex bytes with Unicode emoji

http://www.windytan.com/2014/10/visualizing-hex-bytes-with-unicode-emoji.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Assembly for XML

http://www.xembly.org/?oct

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/why-the-chess-computer-deep-blue-played-like-a-human

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Reallocarray() in OpenBSD: Integer Overflow Detection for Free

http://lteo.net/blog/2014/10/28/reallocarray-in-openbsd-integer-overflow-detection-for-free/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 89 comments

Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments
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