top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-07

Intel Compute Stick

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html

12 years ago

929 upvotes – 335 comments

Je Suis Charlie

http://charliehebdo.fr

11 years ago

586 upvotes – 270 comments

Can't you just turn up the volume?

https://medium.com/@Amp/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ecb7fc422a

11 years ago

545 upvotes – 152 comments

A Teenager’s View on Social Media

https://medium.com/@thatswattsup/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6

11 years ago

488 upvotes – 282 comments

Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-07/antibiotic-breakthrough-ends-25-year-discovery-drought.html

11 years ago

450 upvotes – 144 comments

JavaScript in 2015

http://glenmaddern.com/articles/javascript-in-2015

11 years ago

417 upvotes – 125 comments

How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages

11 years ago

342 upvotes – 42 comments

I made a debugger that draws the state machine of the program

http://i.imgur.com/PINcCUy.gif

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 58 comments

How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store

https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 71 comments

Filezilla at SourceForge is malware

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/reviews

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 147 comments

Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/sed.html

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 73 comments

DMCA Copyright Complaint to Google

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10275257#

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/sorry-iphone-users-apples-dev-agreement-means-no-eff-mobile-app-iphone

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 114 comments

What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/05/371894919/what-heroin-addiction-tells-us-about-changing-bad-habit

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 92 comments

Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go

https://github.com/google/novm

11 years ago

★ 1.6k Go Apache-2.0
221 upvotes – 45 comments

HTTP/2.0 — Bad protocol, bad politics

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 207 comments

Exempting popular apps from data charges is anti-competitive

https://medium.com/backchannel/less-than-zero-199bcb05a868

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 106 comments

Tell HN: Google removes rust, Netflix, other GitHub repos after DMCA takedown

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848509

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 1 comments

Candy Japan 2014 Year in Review

http://www.candyjapan.com/2014-year-in-review

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 64 comments

Lab 1: Booting a PC

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/labs/lab1/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 29 comments

Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/nyregion/life-in-new-york-city-where-arrests-are-down-and-tickets-are-rarities.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 184 comments

JavaScript Modularity Shaming

http://swannodette.github.io/2015/01/06/the-false-promise-of-javascript-microlibs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 68 comments

New York Prosecutor Calls for Law to Fight Apple Data Encryption

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-06/new-york-prosecutor-calls-for-law-to-fight-apple-data-encryption.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 60 comments

Programming Clojure, Smalltalk Style

http://robert.kra.hn/projects/cloxp

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 26 comments

Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony

http://jacquesmattheij.com/please-do-not-be-a-one-trick-pony

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 98 comments

Brainfuck Optimization Strategies

http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 37 comments

Look, Ma, No More Mercator Tiles

http://vis4.net/blog/posts/no-more-mercator-tiles/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

I Almost Let My Failed Startup Destroy Me

https://medium.com/@rui/i-almost-let-my-startup-failure-destroy-me-d6a65820728

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 79 comments

The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me (2014)

http://michalsobel.com/en/experiences/the-idea-of-giving-up-is-worse-than-of-it-killing-me-how-150-000-post-it-came-to-be

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

Reader Macros in Common Lisp

http://lisper.in/reader-macros/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Encrypting Amazon RDS Resources

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overview.Encryption.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Practical and Portable X86 Recompilation (2014)

http://mp2.dk/blog/blog/2014/04/14/practical-and-portable-binary-recompilation/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Mapping the World

http://nerds.airbnb.com/mapping-world/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Alan Kay's Tribute to Ted Nelson at “Intertwingled” Fest [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

Making Games in Chicken Scheme with Hypergiant

http://alex-charlton.com/posts/Prototype_to_polish_Making_games_in_CHICKEN_Scheme_with_Hypergiant/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments

Freemail

https://freenetproject.org/freemail.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/fbi-director-says-north-korean-hackers-sometimes-failed-use-proxies-sony-hack/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

Scheme Bricks

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Bricks

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

OpenBSD 2014 by the numbers

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-2014-by-the-numbers

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

What Was the Scotch Whisky Boom? Part 1: Value vs. Volume

http://thekrav.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-was-scotch-whisky-boom-part-1.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 60 comments

Meditation Is Garbage Collection for Your Mind

http://dsernst.com/2015/01/06/meditation-is-garbage-collection-for-your-mind/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 61 comments

Q&A: Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist, LightSail Energy

http://fortune.com/2014/12/31/danielle-fong-lightsail-energy/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Israeli Startup Can Charge Your Phone in 1 Minute

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30710295

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

Kepler space telescope finds 'Earth-like' exo-planets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30705517

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Detecting use cases for GADTs in OCaml

http://mads-hartmann.com/ocaml/2015/01/05/gadt-ocaml.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

How we run hackathons

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/how-we-run-hackathons/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/06/googles-cloud-loses-following-among-cios-survey-finds/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 55 comments

Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/culture/it-wasnt-all-nasty-brutish-and-short/2017639.fullarticle

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

The reversible USB Type-C connector is turning heads at CES

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/563392/reversible-usb-type-c-connector-turning-heads-ces/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 72 comments
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