top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-18

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

12 years ago

2019 upvotes – 461 comments

Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript

https://code.prod.facebook.com/posts/1505962329687926/flow-a-new-static-type-checker-for-javascript/

12 years ago

818 upvotes – 276 comments

Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists

12 years ago

588 upvotes – 342 comments

Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption

https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/

12 years ago

506 upvotes – 147 comments

Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

http://lav.io/2014/11/stupid-projects-from-the-stupid-hackathon/

12 years ago

424 upvotes – 96 comments

WatchKit

https://developer.apple.com/watchkit/

12 years ago

396 upvotes – 85 comments

Rosetta Probe Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-12176/#/gallery/17219

12 years ago

359 upvotes – 117 comments

Let’s Encrypt: Delivering SSL/TLS Everywhere

https://letsencrypt.org/

12 years ago

314 upvotes – 3 comments

Judge threatens contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-stingray-officer-contempt-20141117-story.html

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 73 comments

Tell HN: Wear a Helmet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8626433

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 183 comments

Did The Harappan Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years?

http://io9.com/a-civilization-without-war-1595540812

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 117 comments

68 Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2014/11/17/68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard/

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 36 comments

Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/science/researchers-announce-breakthrough-in-content-recognition-software.html

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 76 comments

Uber VP: we could spend $1M to take revenge on journalists

http://mashable.com/2014/11/17/uber-executive-revenge/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 104 comments

Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 148 comments

Z Launcher

https://www.zlauncher.com

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 95 comments

Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/nyregion/pay-phones-in-new-york-city-will-become-free-wi-fi-hot-spots.html

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18323

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 79 comments

Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IntelDCSSDSectorSizeMistake

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 38 comments

China Just Blocked Thousands of Websites

https://zh.greatfire.org/blog/2014/nov/china-just-blocked-thousands-websites

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 133 comments

GNU Guix 0.8 released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00379.html

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 72 comments

Teespring Says It's Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/18/teespring-says-it-making-millionaires-raises-millions/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

South Korea to raise $500B for unification

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2014/11/18/6/0503000000AEN20141118006200320F.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 125 comments

Building a natural description of images

https://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth-thousand-coherent.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 15 comments

Pantelligent: Intelligent Pan – Cook Everything Perfectly (YC W13)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hevans/pantelligent-intelligent-pan-cook-everything-perfe

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: We built an open source tool for journalists to inspect Wikipedia edits

http://blog.twg.ca/2014/11/building-wikiwash?

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 18 comments

Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

http://phoneradar.com/nokia-n1-android-tablet-details/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 128 comments

McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first

http://www.mcgill.ca/it/channels/news/faculty-and-staff-mcgill-will-double-your-password-if-you-don%E2%80%99t-do-it-first-238834

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 136 comments

Building a complete Tweet index

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/building-a-complete-tweet-index

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 13 comments

The Generalist – On Alexander Grothendieck

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/17/the-generalist/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Program Microcontrollers from Your Headphone jack

http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/257732/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 19 comments

I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women

http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-far-uber-will-go-to-silence-journalists-and-attack-women/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 10 comments

Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or Scam Sites

https://www.nikcub.com/posts/onymous-part1/?resub=1

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

How Not to Measure Computer System Performance

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bornholt/post/performance-evaluation.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

Book design inspired by Edward Tufte

https://www.writelatex.com/read/gcfbtdjfqdjh

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

IBM Verse

http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Lessons I Learned from Starting Precog

http://stackstreet.com/10-hard-lessons-learned-starting-precog/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments

Hilbert: A Latex-like math-oriented programming language

http://hilbert-lang.org

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future

http://axioms.io/zen/2014-11-06-swift-go/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing the Coinbase Tip Button

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/102957332182/introducing-the-coinbase-tip-button

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Lecture 17: How to Design Hardware Products

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec17/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Bittorrent Sync: Security Is Our Highest Priority

http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/32592-bittorrent-sync-security-is-our-highest-priority/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr

http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/102906359034/colossus-a-new-service-framework-from-tumblr

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Personalized Recommendations at Etsy

https://codeascraft.com/2014/11/17/personalized-recommendations-at-etsy/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/facebook-launches-standalone-groups-app/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Global Slavery Index 2014

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Download Linux Voice Issue 1 – With Audio

http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-1-with-audio/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Report: Senior Uber exec threatened to dig up dirt on journalists

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/report-senior-uber-exec-threatened-to-dig-up-dirt-on-journalists/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 3 comments

Haskell Communities and Activities Report – November 2014 [pdf]

https://www.haskell.org/communities/11-2014/report.pdf

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Flow – A static type checker for JavaScript

http://flowtype.org/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

Phantom Terrains

http://phantomterrains.com/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Gmail trick: multiplying your address

http://blog.hipwerk.com/gmail-trick-using-multiple-addresses-for-one-single-account/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

Barbie Fucks It Up Again

http://pamie.com/2014/11/barbie-fucks-it-up-again/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments
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