top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-31

I’m Terrified of My New TV

http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/im-terrified-my-new-tv-why-im-scared-turn-thing

12 years ago

739 upvotes – 336 comments

SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/virgin-voyage/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-crashes-during-flight-test-n238376

12 years ago

598 upvotes – 300 comments

OS X 10.10 – Source Code

http://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-1010/

12 years ago

495 upvotes – 144 comments

Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29846285

12 years ago

358 upvotes – 67 comments

Walkway.js

http://www.connoratherton.com/walkway

12 years ago

351 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps

https://github.com/seven1m/do-install-button

12 years ago

★ 607 HTML MIT
279 upvotes – 54 comments

Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number

https://ello.co/gb/post/knOWk-qeTqfSpJ6f8-arCQ

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 123 comments

Making Connections to Facebook More Secure

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 116 comments

Andy Rubin Leaving Google

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/former-android-leader-andy-rubin-leaving-google-1414713040-lMyQjAxMTE0NTMxMDQzOTA4Wj

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 64 comments

Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/drug-laws-international-study-tough-policy-use-problem

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 111 comments

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 157 comments

Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/31/slack-confirms-120m-fundraise-led-by-google-ventures-and-kpcb-at-1-12b-valuation/

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 170 comments

Japanese zoning

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 68 comments

Fetching.io: Search the full text of every web page you visit

http://fetching.io/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 52 comments

Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/magic-mushroom-brain/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 97 comments

Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections

http://facebook.github.io/immutable-js/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 85 comments

Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study

http://www.slideshare.net/ethanhein/friends-dont-let-friends-clap-on-one-and-three-a-backbeat-clapping-study

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 73 comments

Stability as a Deliverable

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 41 comments

A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]

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

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

How long do GUIDs really need to be?

https://eager.io/blog/how-long-does-an-id-need-to-be/?hn

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 100 comments

The Hypercard Legacy

https://medium.com/@blprnt/the-hypercard-legacy-e5b9eb273b6a

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 91 comments

Making PostgreSQL Scale Hadoop-style: Benchmark Numbers

http://www.citusdata.com/blog/86-making-postgresql-scale-hadoop-style

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

Mathematical “urban legends”

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/53122/mathematical-urban-legends

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 52 comments

Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist

http://blog.alinelerner.com/why-talent-agents-for-engineers-dont-exist/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 94 comments

Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/30/the-audacious-plan-to-make-electricity-as-easy-as-wifi/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188776-how-l1-and-l2-cpu-caches-work-and-why-theyre-an-essential-part-of-modern-chips

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/28/at-penn-students-can-get-credit-for-wasting-time-on-the-internet/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Reversing D-Link’s WPS Pin Algorithm

http://www.devttys0.com/2014/10/reversing-d-links-wps-pin-algorithm/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Stack unwinding in Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/10/30/dont-panic

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

LwIP on BareMetal: Lightweight TCP/IP stack running on ultra-lightweight kernel

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-lwIP

12 years ago

★ 145 C BSD-3-Clause
89 upvotes – 23 comments

No Offense: The New Threats to Free Speech

http://online.wsj.com/articles/no-offense-the-new-threats-to-free-speech-1414783663

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Scala Best Practices

https://github.com/alexandru/scala-best-practices/

12 years ago

★ 4.3k
83 upvotes – 82 comments

Judge Rules Suspect Can Be Required to Unlock Phone with Fingerprint

http://m.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-38641

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

YogaGlo Patent Dropped

http://yogainternational.com/article/view/yogaglo-patent-dropped

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Fern Frozen in Time by Volcanic Flow Reveals Stunning Detail

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2014/10/30/fern-frozen-in-time-by-volcanic-flow-reveals-stunning-detail/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 0 comments

Crash-Only Thinking

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/10/29/crash-only-thinking/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

SlideRule: A Searchable Catalog of Online Courses

http://www.mysliderule.com

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

The Tup Build System

http://gittup.org/tup/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Khrushchev visits IBM

http://www.fastcompany.com/3037598/khrushchev-visits-ibm-a-strange-tale-of-silicon-valley-history

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Open Launchd

https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd

12 years ago

★ 265 C Apache-2.0
65 upvotes – 27 comments

Message Security Layer: A Modern Take on Securing Communication

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/message-security-layer-modern-take-on.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

NSA Phone Surveillance Faces Fresh Court Test

http://online.wsj.com/articles/nsa-phone-surveillance-faces-fresh-court-test-1414794375

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

Parallax Propeller 1 P8X32A Released as Open Source Design

http://www.parallax.com/microcontrollers/propeller-1-open-source

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Diversity at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/diversity

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments

Nintendo, One Year Later

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2014/10/30/nintendo_one_year_later/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Understanding the Ruby Garbage Collector

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.3/symbols/GC#annotation=4035152&line=1

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Making News Feed nearly 50% faster on iOS

https://code.facebook.com/posts/340384146140520/making-news-feed-nearly-50-faster-on-ios/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Cloud Launchpad for Google

https://google.bitnami.com

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

F.C.C. Considering Hybrid Regulatory Approach to Net Neutrality

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/technology/fcc-considering-hybrid-regulatory-approach-to-net-neutrality.html?ref=technology

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

eLua – Embedded power, driven by Lua

http://www.eluaproject.net/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Email and Cars are heading down the same road

http://blog.frontapp.com/why-email-and-cars-are-heading-down-the-same-road/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 46 comments

Code that breaks 2 or 3 times every month

http://ngzhian.github.io/blog/python-dateutil-gotcha.html

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 18 comments
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