top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-03

Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

12 years ago

963 upvotes – 109 comments

The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/03/the-first-browser-dedicated-to-developers-is-coming/

12 years ago

618 upvotes – 197 comments

Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

12 years ago

450 upvotes – 34 comments

A new day for Google Calendar

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-new-day-for-google-calendar.html

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 129 comments

HTTP/2 all the things

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l9c9ROjLTD8clOL0yFufAOMbxNC0D-19zCiXMgqtY-M/present

12 years ago

335 upvotes – 92 comments

A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript

http://jsfiddle.net/osfnzyfd/

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 70 comments

Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of software that enables encryption

http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Publications/Newsletters/Client-Alert/2014/1015_Software-Companies-Now-on-Notice-That-Encryption-Exports-May-Be-Treated-More-Seriously.aspx

12 years ago

314 upvotes – 120 comments

Just had a heart attack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 213 comments

Why Silicon Valley Works

http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 236 comments

A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/361069820/new-clock-may-end-time-as-we-know-it

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 149 comments

How To Scroll

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 75 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Interactive Version

http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 14 comments

Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/02/announcing-remoteie-test-the-latest-ie-on-windows-mac-os-x-ios-and-android.aspx

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 85 comments

Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/introducing-dynomite.html

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 60 comments

We Can Eradicate Malaria Within a Generation

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Eradicating-Malaria-in-a-Generation

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 103 comments

The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/DEV-B345

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 171 comments

Redis latency spikes and the Linux kernel: a few more details

http://antirez.com/news/84

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 44 comments

FBI Begins Secret Lobbying to Access Apple and Google Encrypted Customer Data

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-fbi-s-secret-house-meeting-to-get-access-to-your-iphone-20141030

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 56 comments

Affordable adjustable standing desk

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/ikea-bekant-desk/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 88 comments

A more modern Gmail app for Android

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-more-modern-gmail-app-for-android.html

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

The road to Ember 2.0 RFC

https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/15

12 years ago

★ 802
156 upvotes – 60 comments

Crypto 101

https://www.crypto101.io/#

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 26 comments

Point – A smart house sitter

http://formdevices.com/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 110 comments

HFT in my Backyard – IV

http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/htf-in-my-backyard-iv/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 6 comments

Major upgrade to FreeBSD’s /dev/random

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273872

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Massive: The asm.js Benchmark

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/massive-the-asm-js-benchmark/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management

http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/sad-state-of-high-bit-depth-gimp-color-management.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

New Startup Raises $100M for Portable Ultrasound

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532166/with-100-million-entrepreneur-sees-path-to-disrupt-medical-imaging/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Most operating systems have implemented realtime signals incorrectly

http://zinascii.com/2014/crossed-signals.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Mining of Massive Datasets

http://mmds.org/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 16 comments

Dell’s Life After Wall Street

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/business/dells-life-after-wall-street.html?ref=technology

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 74 comments

2D gaming using Processing.js

http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/test/PjsGameEngine/docs/tutorial/mario.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite

http://www.cso.com.au/article/558684/swedish-hacker-finds-serious-vulnerability-os-x-yosemite/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 56 comments

ClojureScript Builds, Rebooted

http://adzerk.com/blog/2014/11/clojurescript-builds-rebooted/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

curl | sh

http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: How much you make working remotely?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551569

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 76 comments

Factor 0.97 now available

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2014/11/factor-097-now-available.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Blockbuster: Losing the plot

http://daindunston.com/blockbuster-losing-the-plot/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549823

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

11:57 – A short virtual reality horror film made for Oculus Rift

http://1157.pm/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Immutable JavaScript data structures, backwards-compatible with arrays, objects

https://github.com/rtfeldman/seamless-immutable

12 years ago

★ 5.3k JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
76 upvotes – 16 comments

High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her ‘ineffective’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/31/high-achieving-teacher-sues-state-over-evaluation-labeling-her-ineffective/?tid=sm_fb

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE

https://github.com/capitaomorte/sly

12 years ago

★ 1.4k Common Lisp
76 upvotes – 5 comments

Fix a Parking Ticket? There's an App for That

https://medium.com/backchannel/fix-a-parking-ticket-theres-an-app-for-that-26efeedfd1fc

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

The Pierre Omidyar Insurgency

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/pierre-omidyar-first-look-media.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Google has 'outgrown' its 14-year old mission statement, says Larry Page

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/03/larry-page-google-dont-be-evil-sergey-brin

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

The 7th Underhanded C Contest is now Open

http://underhanded-c.org/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Python 3 home automation with Polymer/Material design front end

https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Editors and iframes

http://www.jasonchen.me/editors-and-iframes/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

So You Want To Fix The Housing Crisis

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/02/so-you-want-to-fix-the-housing-crisis/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 77 comments

The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web

http://blog.blikk.co/long-live-semantic-web/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Self-Stabilizing Boat’s Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Rough Waters

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/velodyne-martini-boat/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

QArt Codes (2012)

http://research.swtch.com/qart

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Tips for authoring fast-loading HTML pages

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Tips_for_authoring_fast-loading_HTML_pages

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Making a Guitar Tuner with HTML5

http://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/making-a-guitar-tuner-html5

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

A Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What OSS projects need the most help with documentation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551624

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments
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