top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-12

What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps

http://www.howtogeek.com/198622/heres-what-happens-when-you-install-the-top-10-download.com-apps/?PageSpeed=noscript

11 years ago

740 upvotes – 384 comments

Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/r3rcy-gotham-7-5k

11 years ago

735 upvotes – 112 comments

Don't Talk to Corp Dev

http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

11 years ago

674 upvotes – 200 comments

KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer

http://samy.pl/keysweeper/

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 57 comments

What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?

http://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 71 comments

Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals-uses-specific-functions-and-key-clients/

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 115 comments

Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab

http://www.cancerletter.com/articles/20150109_1

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 55 comments

SQL, Scaling, and What's Unique About Postgres

http://citusdata.com/blog/90-sql-scaling-and-whats-unique-about-postgres

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 23 comments

Finish one thing today

http://finishonethingtoday.com/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 50 comments

Dark Sky has a new owner

http://blog.forecast.io/dark-sky-has-a-new-owner/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 55 comments

The Tungsten Renderer

http://noobody.org/tungsten.html

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 32 comments

The Scale of AWS and What It Means for the Future of the Cloud

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/1/12/the-stunning-scale-of-aws-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-o.html

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 58 comments

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 119 comments

Lua 5.3: integers, bitwise operators, and a basic UTF-8 library

http://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.3

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Motorola Moto E modifications for anti-surveillance

https://people.torproject.org/~ioerror/skunkworks/moto_e/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 48 comments

Why is Golang popular in China?

http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 100 comments

WhatsApp and Snapchat could be banned under new surveillance plans

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/whatsapp-and-snapchat-could-be-banned-under-new-surveillance-plans-9973035.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 63 comments

Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-do-all-records-sound-the-same-830ba863203

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 80 comments

You can't get permission for the wrong thing and don't need it for the right thing

http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1300

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 19 comments

Speaking While Female

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/speaking-while-female.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 133 comments
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