top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-08

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/computer-scientists-ask-supreme-court-rule-apis-cant-be-copyrighted

12 years ago

Urbit: a personal cloud computer

http://doc.urbit.org/

12 years ago

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true

12 years ago

Bat bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

12 years ago

Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8578514

12 years ago

Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1607

12 years ago

The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/yes-the-5k-retina-imacs-screen-runs-at-60hz-at-5k-resolution/

12 years ago

OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/openbazaar-is-next-after-silk-road-2-falls/

12 years ago

Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

12 years ago

★ 6.6k NSIS

Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide

http://www.tonymacx86.com/446-building-customac-buyer-s-guide-october-2014.html

12 years ago

Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating

http://h14s.p5r.org/2014/11/why-i-find-ieee-754-frustrating.html

12 years ago

The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/11/06/361785478/the-man-who-disobeyed-his-boss-and-opened-the-berlin-wall

12 years ago

Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like (2010)

http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/

12 years ago

CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/cc500/

12 years ago

Interplanetary Transport Network

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

12 years ago

Our Own Private Germany

https://medium.com/matter/our-own-private-germany-6ce44ac93a7b

12 years ago

Big things to expect from Emacs 25

http://endlessparentheses.com/big-things-to-expect-from-emacs-25.html

12 years ago

The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html

12 years ago

Texas Man Arrested for $4.5M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich/2014/11/06/texas-man-arrested-for-4-5-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/

12 years ago

ARM64 Open Laptop Concept

http://wiki.vero-apparatus.com/ARM64OpenLaptopConcept

12 years ago

Good Consultants vs. Bad Consultants

http://jacquesmattheij.com/good-consultants-vs-bad-consultants

12 years ago

Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8576848

12 years ago

Listeners of 'Serial' Turn into Detectives, With Troubling Results

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/07/serial-listeners-detectives-troubling-results

12 years ago

A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the entire network

http://qz.com/293418/an-enormous-bitcoin-mine-went-up-in-flames-affecting-the-entire-network/

12 years ago

The 2014 Mac Mini reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/not-the-upgrade-we-were-hoping-for-the-2014-mac-mini-reviewed/

12 years ago

Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)

http://corte.si/%2Fposts/code/hilbert/portrait/index.html

12 years ago

Google Web Fonts Typographic Project

http://femmebot.github.io/google-type/

12 years ago

Geoffrey Hinton: Dark Knowledge [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK61htlw8hY

12 years ago

Don't Fly Drones Here

https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/

12 years ago

The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-full-stack-developer/

12 years ago

GT Bankruptcy Provides Rare Look at Apple’s Relationship with Suppliers

http://recode.net/2014/11/07/gt-bankruptcy-provides-rare-look-at-apples-relationship-with-suppliers/

12 years ago

“I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg”

http://paulgraham.com/tricked.html

12 years ago

Minimalist Cocoa programming (2010)

http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2010/09/minimalist-cocoa-programming.html

12 years ago

Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board

http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/11/08/raspberry-pi-model-a-plus

12 years ago

How the Berlin Wall Really Fell

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/how-the-berlin-wall-really-fell.html

12 years ago

Systems Programming in Distributed, Multicore World with Go, Rust, and Parasail

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MTM1Nzg0MDEwNzUyNTU3MjA2MDkBMTA5MjQ4NzMyOTM0MzU0MTc0OTEBRmM0Unk2OHZlODhKATAuMQEBdjI

12 years ago

Virgin Galactic pilot defied the odds to survive crash

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-virgin-survivor-20141105-story.html

12 years ago

The Nitty Gritty of “Hello World” on OS X

http://www.reinterpretcast.com/hello-world-mach-o

12 years ago

Is Aluminum Magnetic? (2013)

http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~wbreslyn/magnets/is-aluminium-magnetic.html

12 years ago

Bazaar-NG: Seven years of hacking on a distributed version control system (2012)

https://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html

12 years ago

Visualizing Entropy in Binary Files

http://corte.si/%2Fposts/visualisation/entropy/index.html

12 years ago