top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-12

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/

12 years ago

2376 upvotes – 894 comments

Philae has landed

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30026398

12 years ago

1165 upvotes – 299 comments

Rosetta comet landing – live stream

http://rosetta.esa.int/?landing

12 years ago

629 upvotes – 102 comments

What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html

12 years ago

420 upvotes – 202 comments

Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSourceNETonMacandLinuxandVisualStudioCommunity.aspx

12 years ago

400 upvotes – 4 comments

Introducing the Photon

https://www.spark.io

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 97 comments

Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compat-rds-db-engine/

12 years ago

314 upvotes – 131 comments

Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/introducing-visual-studio-s-emulator-for-android.aspx

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 102 comments

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition now available

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 77 comments

Microsoft Launches Free Version of Visual Studio for Small Teams

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 0 comments

Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/microsoft-open-sources-net-says-will-run-linux-mac/?mbid=social_twitter

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 2 comments

AWS CodeDeploy

http://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 51 comments

Son of Stuxnet

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/12/stuxnet/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 20 comments

ArrayFire, a general-purpose GPU library, goes open source

https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire

12 years ago

★ 4.8k C++ BSD-3-Clause
174 upvotes – 41 comments

Delve: a debugger for Go, written in Go

https://github.com/derekparker/delve/

12 years ago

★ 662 Go MIT
165 upvotes – 35 comments

Two Microsofts

http://stratechery.com/2014/two-microsofts/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 46 comments

How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

https://www.airport-parking-shop.co.uk/blog/built-app-2-weeks-using-ionic-framework/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 100 comments

Microsoft on GitHub

http://microsoft.github.io/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 1 comments

Apple A8X’s GPU – GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8716/apple-a8xs-gpu-gxa6850-even-better-than-i-thought

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 6 comments

Landing on a Comet, 317M Miles from Home

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/12/science/space/rosetta-philae-comet-landing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 19 comments

How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 122 comments

A Question

http://blog.samaltman.com/a-question

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 120 comments

Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing

http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/composing-your-thoughts

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 18 comments

FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/11/12/fastmail-app-for-ios-and-android-now-available/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 123 comments

Rejected for a Job at the Container Store

http://www.cafe.com/r/d3eaa9d3-1e95-4818-9090-a524b87a66cc/1/the-illusion-of-control-or-how-i-got-rejected-from-a-job-at-the-container-store

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 172 comments

Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chinese-hack-us-weather-systems-satellite-network/2014/11/12/bef1206a-68e9-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 70 comments

Why scraping and ecommerce are a perfect fit

http://blog.twotap.com/post/102415169870/why-scraping-and-ecommerce-are-a-perfect-fit

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Sometimes Kill -9 Isn't Enough

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/sometimes-kill-9-isnt-enough/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 18 comments

France signs a five-year national deal with Elsevier

http://scoms.hypotheses.org/301

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 76 comments

BrowserStack Post Mortem (Shell shocked)

http://www.browserstack.com/attack-and-downtime-on-9-November

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

AWS Key Management Service

https://aws.amazon.com/kms/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

Microsoft fixes '19-year-old' bug with emergency patch

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30019976

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/11/12/the-rise-of-hle-audio/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Counterparty Recreates Ethereum's Smart Contract Platform on Bitcoin

http://counterparty.io/news/counterparty-recreates-ethereums-smart-contract-platform-on-bitcoin/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

Particles.js

http://vincentgarreau.com/particles.js/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

The Invention of Sliced Bread

http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-sliced-bread/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Data maps that sum up London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/microsoft-open-sources-net-says-will-run-linux-mac/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: A simple, highly commented, rootkit which attacks GCC and Python

https://github.com/mrrrgn/simple-rootkit

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

Systemd-resolved DNS cache poisoning

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/592

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 90 comments

SlimerJS – A scriptable browser for Web developers

http://slimerjs.org/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old

http://news.psu.edu/story/334349/2014/11/12/research/learning-languages-workout-brains-both-young-and-old

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

CREAM: the SSL attack you’ve probably never heard of

http://tonyarcieri.com/cream-the-scary-ssl-attack-youve-probably-never-heard-of

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

What is Gradual Typing

http://wphomes.soic.indiana.edu/jsiek/what-is-gradual-typing/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

Linear vs. Binary Search

https://schani.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/linear-vs-binary-search/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

Github-Todos – Git hook to convert your TODOs into Github issues

https://github.com/naholyr/github-todos

12 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT
85 upvotes – 19 comments

Response to HackerNews comments on my trading

http://ptotrading.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-message-to-all-non-daytraders-and.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Why College Is a Poor Choice for a Lot of People

http://levinotik.com/why-college-is-a-poor-choice-for-a-lot-of-people/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 89 comments

The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness

http://danluu.com/empirical-pl

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Lighter, Cheaper Radio Wave Device Could Transform Telecommunications

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/11/10/radio-wave-device-alu/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Baron is a Bitcoin payment processor that anyone can deploy

https://github.com/slickage/baron

12 years ago

★ 162
69 upvotes – 14 comments

Self-Memoizing HTML Rendering via Mutually Recursive Data Types

https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-11-11-memo-html.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

AWS Config

https://aws.amazon.com/config/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Statically Typed Lisp

https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/516489f4f27846712225#file-anintro-md

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

Stupid C++ Template Tricks: Conway's Game of Life

http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-the-life-comonadic/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments
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