top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-16

Emacs Rocks

http://emacsrocks.com

12 years ago

361 upvotes – 112 comments

ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL

http://fnordmetric.io/chartsql/

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 72 comments

Getting Better at Getting Better

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 76 comments

What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2059

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 34 comments

Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir

http://randi.io/wp/archives/86

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 210 comments

The Beauty of LaTeX (2011)

http://www.nitens.org/taraborelli/latex

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 128 comments

Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-November/004563.html

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 162 comments

Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users

http://www.propublica.org/article/somebodys-already-using-verizons-id-to-track-users?hn

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 104 comments

Google’s NSA alliance: Deals between Silicon Valley and the security state

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC

http://andreasgal.com/2014/11/16/vp8-and-h-264-to-both-become-mandatory-for-webrtc/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL

http://www.pg-versus-ms.com

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 103 comments

Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/companies-call-on-senate-to-pass-bill-curbing-nsa-powers.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86

http://sineridergame.com

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/netflix-api/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Why Did Google Decide to Split Inbox from Gmail?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-google-decide-to-split-inbox-from-gmail/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 97 comments

A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

The Move from Linux to FreeBSD

http://nileshgr.com/2013/06/07/the-move-from-linux-to-freebsd

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 95 comments

Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment

http://idl.cs.washington.edu/projects/lyra

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (1997)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Level Playing Field

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/level-playing-field/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

Japan's levitating maglev train reaches 500km/h

http://bbc.com/news/world-asia-30067889

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Performance Tuning EC2 Instances

http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/performance-tuning-ec2-instances

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Uruguay’s beloved Pepe bows out to spend time with his Beetle and 3-legged dog

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/uruguay-jose-mujica-humble-president

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/15/the-worlds-biggest-chocolate-maker-says-were-running-out-of-chocolate/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 86 comments

The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web

http://pointersgonewild.com/2014/11/14/the-fastest-for-in-loops-in-the-whole-wide-web/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 2 comments

Battery Optimization for Android Apps

http://www.slideshare.net/MuratAydn3/battery-optimization-for-android-apps-devoxx14

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

D.C. police plan for future seizure proceeds years in advance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dc-police-plan-for-future-seizure-proceeds-years-in-advance-in-city-budget-documents/2014/11/15/7025edd2-6b76-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html?hpid=z4

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

The Masterful Marketing of the Heimlich Maneuver

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/masterful-marketing-heimlich-maneuver-94519/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Unofficial Demake Port Of Super Smash Bros Arrives On TI-83/84 Calculators

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/unofficial-demake-port-of-super-smash-bros-arrives-on-ti-8384-calculators.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

DieHard: An error-resistant memory allocator for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X

https://github.com/emeryberger/DieHard

12 years ago

★ 420 C++ Apache-2.0
64 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Did “Idea Sunday” HN Discussion Die?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8613446

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Regular Expressions in OCaml

http://rgrinberg.com/blog/2014/05/23/humane-re-intro/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

The Racial Dot Map: One Dot per Person for the Entire U.S.

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Our Bayes Impact Hackathon Project, MineData.org

http://www.minedata.org

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m

http://what3words.com/about

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 54 comments

Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/apodolsk/418/finalreport.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Typeface Design Contract Saves Beggar from the Streets

http://beijingtoday.com.cn/2011/10/typeface-design-contract-saves-beggar-streets/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

The Rise of Extreme Daycare

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/rise-extreme-daycare-working-24-hour-children-school-93860/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 80 comments

Exactly-Once Delivery May Not Be What You Want

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/11/15/exactly-once.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Coroutines in C (2000)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Functional Programming in C++

http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/functional-programming-in-c++/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

The Computers of Tomorrow (1964)

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/computer/greenbf.htm?single_page=true

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments
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