top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-14

Go is moving to GitHub

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/sckirqOWepg

12 years ago

686 upvotes – 236 comments

MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data

http://metricsgraphicsjs.org

12 years ago

380 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Explained Visually

http://setosa.io/ev/

12 years ago

353 upvotes – 45 comments

How a Shrimp Treadmill Became a Political Plaything

http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/11/13/how-a-47-shrimp-treadmill-became-a-3-million-political-plaything/

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 124 comments

On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Tor Networks Using Flow Records [pdf]

https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1545&format=pdf

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 82 comments

Philae status, a day later

http://elakdawalla.tumblr.com/post/102544296955/philae-status-a-day-later

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 86 comments

After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure

https://medium.com/@darrenrush/after-docker-unikernels-and-immutable-infrastructure-93d5a91c849e

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 69 comments

Why we use HTTPS for every .gov website we make

https://18f.gsa.gov/2014/11/13/why-we-use-https-in-every-gov-website-we-make/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 82 comments

Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster

https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/11/14/generators-in-firefox-now-twenty-two-times-faster

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 39 comments

What's New in C# 6.0 [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014/116

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 142 comments

Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO?

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CEO/answer/Yishan-Wong?srid=X&share=1

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 97 comments

Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?

https://gist.github.com/VictorBjelkholm/1d0f4ee6dc5ec0d6646e

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 208 comments

Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30048344

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 112 comments

Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5533410947/smartphones-versus-dslr-versus-film/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 116 comments

Inmates at California’s San Quentin prison learn to code

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-18-inmates-at-californias-notorious-san-quentin-prison-learn-to-code/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 53 comments

John Carmack: Functional programming in C++ (2012)

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 92 comments

Net Neutrality Is Just a Symptom

https://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2014/11/12/neutrality-is-just-a-symptom/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

Google Glass future clouded as some early believers lose faith

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-google-glass-insight-idUSKCN0IY18E20141114

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 142 comments

The Flying Nimbus – A high-power, self-balancing transportation contraption

http://transistor-man.com/flying_nimbus.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Unsealed Filing Shows DOJ Misled Appeals Court About NSL Gag Orders

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/unsealed-filing-shows-doj-misled-appeals-court-about-national-security-letter-gag

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

FreeBSD 10.1 released

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-November/001603.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 59 comments

F.C.C. Asks AT&T for Details on Plans to Halt Fiber Expansion

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/f-c-c-asks-att-for-details-on-plans-to-halt-fiber-expansion/?ref=technology

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Brazil builds its own fiber optic network to avoid the NSA

http://www.sovereignman.com/personal-privacy/brazil-builds-its-own-fiber-optic-network-to-avoid-the-nsa-15551/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript

https://eng.asana.com/2014/11/asana-switching-typescript/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-sweden-submarine-idUSKCN0IY0U720141114

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 141 comments

Is Quantum Entanglement Real?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/is-quantum-entanglement-real.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Build Your Own Web Framework in Go

http://nicolasmerouze.com/build-web-framework-golang/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/population-2043/do-the-most-hipster-thing-possible-move-to-des-moines-20141016

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: A Fast, Malloc-Free C++14 Json Parser and Encoder

https://github.com/matt-42/iod#a-fast-malloc-free-json-parser--encoder

12 years ago

★ 727 C++ MIT
98 upvotes – 45 comments

Five-year-old passes Microsoft exam

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30054140

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 93 comments

My Technical Co-Founder Quit 2 Days Before I Got My YC Interview a Year Ago

https://medium.com/@emmie/my-technical-co-founder-quit-the-day-before-i-got-my-y-combinator-interview-759482562fcc

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network

https://code.facebook.com/posts/360346274145943/introducing-data-center-fabric-the-next-generation-facebook-data-center-network

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Scientists have located an algal virus that attacks human DNA

http://www.newsweek.com/american-researchers-discover-stupidity-virus-283319

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

The Neanderthal correlation (2008)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7194/full/453562a.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Ruby 2.1.5 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/ruby-2-1-5-is-released/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl

http://tanzer.io/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

Embracing HTTPS

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/embracing-https/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

Medical Science Has a Data Problem

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/21/medical-science-has-data-problem-284066.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Liu Cixin's “The Three-Body Problem” Is Published in the US

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/books/liu-cixins-the-three-body-problem-is-published-in-us.html?_r=1

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

Dash now available on iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-api-docs/id935284832?mt=8&uo=4

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

Creating an ASP.NET VNext Docker Container Using Mono

http://msopentech.com/blog/2014/11/07/creating-asp-net-vnext-docker-container-using-mono-2/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

The Big Data Brain Drain

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Damm algorithm

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

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Warren Buffett Just Bought Duracell

https://time.com/money/3585592/warren-buffett-duracell/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 98 comments

Why Ice Cream Sounds Fat and Crackers Sound Skinny

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=63151

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

The Myth of AI

http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 79 comments

AMD has published the full code of the HSA Runtime library

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.1/04487.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Emacs: Autotetris Mode

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/10/19/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

U.S. Navy Deploys First Laser Weapon in Persian Gulf

http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-deploys-first-laser-weapon-persian-gulf/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

The Endlessly Examined Life: A most chronic depression

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/endlessly-examined-life

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Exploring large projects with Projectile

http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Forex Investors May Face $1B Loss as Trade Site Vanishes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/forex-investors-may-face-1-billion-loss-as-trade-site-vanishes.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

The Nasdaq Hack

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/how-russian-hackers-stole-the-nasdaq

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

Government planes mimic cellphone towers to collect user data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/government-planes-mimic-cellphone-towers-to-collect-user-data-report

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Minoan mantras: The quiet decipherment of Linear A

https://www.academia.edu/303303/Minoan_mantras._The_quiet_decipherment_of_Linear_A

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 1 comments

The High Cost of Oil

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/The-High-Cost-of-Oil.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 64 comments

Systemd for Administrators – Container Integration

http://0pointer.net/blog/systemd-for-administrators-part-xxi.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

U.S. Authorities Are Reportedly Gathering Data Using Fake Celltowers on Planes

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/u-s-authorities-are-reportedly-gathering-phone-data-using-fake-celltowers-on-planes/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

U.S. To Build Two Flagship Supercomputers for National Labs

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/News/U-S-to-Build-Two-Flagship-Supercomputers-for-National-Labs-c0d.aspx

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Exploitation of Philips Smart TV

http://www.fredericb.info/2014/11/exploitation-of-philips-smart-tv.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Are there any JavaScript libraries for generating maps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8607695

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE images are available

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments

Theo Jansen’s wind-powered sculptures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-NqWDH2qE

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Nvidia launches a game streaming service

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/11/13/grid-game-streaming/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

Notation as a tool for thought: Wavelets in J

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/notation-as-a-tool-for-thought-wavelets-in-j/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 0 comments

Acorns – Automatically Invest Your Spare Change

http://www.acorns.com

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 27 comments
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