top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-11

We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2015/01/10/we-re-moving-to-github.aspx

11 years ago

493 upvotes – 220 comments

The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp

http://jackm.co.uk/posts/2015/01/11/the-simple-proof-of-the-tetris-lamp/

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 82 comments

We have broken HTTP

http://gadgetopia.com/post/9236?retitle

11 years ago

373 upvotes – 139 comments

Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD

http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/2015/01/be-your-own-vpn-provider-with-openbsd.html

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: App for Falling in Love

http://loveactualized.com

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 116 comments

East of Palo Alto’s Eden

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 123 comments

Google Analytics, Casualty of Spam

http://www.ditherandbicker.com/posts/2015-01-10-rip-google-analytics.html

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 83 comments

151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2015/01/151-byte-static-linux-binary-in-rust.html

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 57 comments

Scientists say they’ll soon extend life ‘well beyond 120’

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life-calico-google-longevity

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 147 comments

An Attack on Telegram

http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and-why-a-super-villain-doesnt-need-it-to-read-your-telegram-chats.html

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 67 comments

Operating System Development in Rust

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-development

11 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
160 upvotes – 67 comments

Spam sites in Google News

http://googlenewsspam.com/index_.php

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages

https://github.com/fizx/parsley/wiki

11 years ago

★ 907 Shell MIT
149 upvotes – 24 comments

New Features in C# 6 (2014)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2014/11/20/new-features-in-c-6.aspx

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operating system

http://kevinchen.co/blog/installing-north-korea-red-star-os/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8871672

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 80 comments

“Why does a car like the Tesla still have old-style fuses?”

https://www.facebook.com/stevewoz/posts/10153145090701282

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 70 comments

If Scheme's numbers were like Scheme

http://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2015/01/if-scheme-were-like-scheme.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Keypress: A robust JavaScript library for capturing keyboard input

http://dmauro.github.io/Keypress/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A

http://mattturck.com/2015/01/05/x-ai-and-the-emergence-of-the-ai-powered-application-2/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

The Career Path I Didn’t Consider, But Should Have

https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-career-path-i-didnt-consider-but-should-have

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 116 comments

Teensy Z80 Part 1 – Intro, Memory, Serial I/O and Display

http://labs.domipheus.com/blog/teensy-z80-part-1-intro-memory-serial-io-and-display/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Fast, Scalable Networking in Go with Mangos

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/fast-scalable-networking-in-go-with-mangos/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Alexander Grothendieck, the secret genius of mathematics

http://al3x.svbtle.com/alexander-grothendieck

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Research Priorities for Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter

http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

On the duality of operating system structures

http://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/08/on-the-duality-of-operating-system-structures/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Useful old technologies: ASN.1 (2013)

http://ttsiodras.github.io/asn1.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

'Silk Road Reloaded' Just Launched on a Network More Secret Than Tor

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/silk-road-reloaded-i2p?utm_source=mbtwitter

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

That Whole Thing with Sound in In-Browser Emulation

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4501

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Forget Wearable Tech. People Really Want Better Batteries

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/10/376166180/forget-wearable-tech-people-really-want-better-batteries

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 105 comments

The Dawn Wall – El Capitan’s Most Unwelcoming Route

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/the-dawn-wall-el-capitan.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Computer Science in the DPRK [video]

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6253_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412292115_-_computer_science_in_the_dprk_-_will_scott.html#video

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Lessons learned from the big rewrite

http://www.anton-pirker.at/the-big-rewrite-war-story/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Breaking antivirus software

http://www.slideshare.net/JoxeanKoret/breaking-av-software-33153490

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

The Glider: An Appropriate Hacker Emblem (2014)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/hacker-emblem/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Prolog Programming Language (1997)

http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/prolog/prolog.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

Tesser – Clojure reducers, but for parallel execution on distributed systems

https://github.com/aphyr/tesser

11 years ago

★ 887 Clojure
57 upvotes – 3 comments

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html#

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Is there any country that allows foreigner setup their company online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870948

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

The Beautiful Geometry of 18th-Century Forts

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/01/07/history_of_fortifications_british_forts_in_the_american_colonies.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 29 comments
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