top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-25

God's Lonely Programmer

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

12 years ago

883 upvotes – 320 comments

Permissions asked for by Uber Android app

http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2014/11/what-the-hell-uber-uncool-bro/

12 years ago

400 upvotes – 148 comments

WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue

https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-performance-issues-3029a164ce94

12 years ago

346 upvotes – 68 comments

Introducing Driver Destination

http://blog.lyft.com/posts/2014/11/24/become-a-lyft-driver-on-your-way-to-work-introducing-driver-destination

12 years ago

341 upvotes – 118 comments

What I Learned from Building an App for Low-Income Americans

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038792/what-i-learned-from-building-an-app-for-low-income-americans

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 91 comments

1k minecraft

http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1854

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 32 comments

Newsletter #4 – Thanksvimming Day

http://neovim.org/news/2014/nov/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 39 comments

How we built Flow

https://medium.com/@senic/how-we-built-flow-c83dea6ca377

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 46 comments

Why HTTPS Everywhere isn't on addons.mozilla.org

https://lists.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere/2014-April/002050.html

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 60 comments

Rohinni: Paper-thin LED lighting

http://www.rohinni.com

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: QuaggaJS, a barcode scanner written in JavaScript

http://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 27 comments

The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist#r=read

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 254 comments

Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/branded/2012/04/ykk_zippers_why_so_many_designers_use_them_.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

There's a Mysterious Field of Electrical Energy Outside Google London

http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-field-of-static-electrical-energy-at-google-in-london-2014-11

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 35 comments

Introducing Phusion Passenger 5 beta 1, codename “Raptor”

http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/11/25/introducing-phusion-passenger-5-beta-1-codename-raptor/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/25/eus-new-vatmoss-rules-could-create-a-vatmess-for-startups/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 128 comments

Vladimir Vapnik Joins Facebook Research

https://www.facebook.com/FBAIResearch/photos/a.360372474139712.1073741828.352917404885219/372090452967914/?type=1

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

OCamlEditor

http://ocamleditor.forge.ocamlcore.org/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

Google search – “king of united states”

https://www.google.com/search?q=king%20of%20united%20states

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 60 comments

Hermitage: Testing the “I” in ACID

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/11/25/hermitage-testing-the-i-in-acid.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Visualizing distributions of data

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/plotting_distributions.ipynb

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Drug addiction: The great American relapse

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21633819-old-sickness-has-returned-haunt-new-generation-great-american-relapse?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/americanrelapse

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 68 comments

Regin: Nation-state ownage of GSM networks

https://securelist.com/blog/research/67741/regin-nation-state-ownage-of-gsm-networks/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Stock Price Prediction with Big Data and Machine Learning

http://eugenezhulenev.com/blog/2014/11/14/stock-price-prediction-with-big-data-and-machine-learning/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Detecting Barcodes in Images with Python and OpenCV

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/11/24/detecting-barcodes-images-python-opencv

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Popular Electronics Magazine 1954 to 1982

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

When Korea imposed a limit on working hours, did it make people happier?

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2014/11/when-korea-imposed-limit-on-working.html

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 87 comments

Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB

https://github.com/google/lovefield

12 years ago

★ 6.7k JavaScript Apache-2.0
80 upvotes – 11 comments

Antialiasing: To Splat or Not

http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/2014/11/15/antialiasing-to-splat-or-not/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source: Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1

http://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in-open-source-thoughts-on-the-hortonworks-s-1/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Neuronal “Superhub” Might Generate Consciousness

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuronal-superhub-might-generate-consciousness

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Startup to Open-Source Parallel CPU

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324759

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

Stack Computers: the new wave (1989)

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 3 comments

MongoDB CTO: How our new storage engine will earn its stripes

http://www.zdnet.com/mongodb-cto-how-our-new-wiredtiger-storage-engine-will-earn-its-stripes-7000036047/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Lessons learned from 10 failed startup ideas

http://kristapsmors.com/2014/11/25/lessons-learned-from-10-failed-startup-ideas/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Welcome, cryptanalyst

http://146.148.62.204/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

Image Compression: Seeing What's Not There

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-image-compression

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

C Pointers Explained, Really (2012)

http://karwin.blogspot.com/2012/11/c-pointers-explained-really.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Insights into billions of daily smartphone notifications

https://batch.com/insights/hn

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Programmers work at night (2011)

http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Largest Engine Ever

http://gcaptain.com/worlds-largest-containership-also-sets-record-for-largest-engine-ever/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments

London’s tech sector is under threat from EU VAT reforms

http://www.cityam.com/1412620320/london-s-thriving-tech-sector-under-threat-bonkers-eu-vat-reforms

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

Crystal: the programming language

http://crystal-lang.org/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 51 comments

DHTML Lemmings in JavaScript (2004)

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

It’s Incredibly Rare for a Grand Jury to Do What Ferguson’s Just Did

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ferguson-michael-brown-indictment-darren-wilson/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

GCC Function Multiversioning

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Intel’s 6th Generation Skylake Processors Scheduled for 2H 2015

http://wccftech.com/intels-6th-generation-skylake-processors-scheduled-2h-2015-5th-generation-broadwell-spring-15-updates-2015-2016-mobility-roadmap/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 54 comments

The Blockchain Application Stack

http://joel.mn/post/103546215249/the-blockchain-application-stack

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 33 comments

Zendrive: a lightweight SDK that measures driving safety

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/25/zendrive-lets-ridesharing-and-delivery-companies-know-if-their-drivers-are-distracted/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 0 comments
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