top 50% 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

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

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

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

Icono – Pure CSS icons with only one element

http://saeedalipoor.github.io/icono/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 20 comments

Tips for Intermediate Git Users

https://www.andyjeffries.co.uk/25-tips-for-intermediate-git-users/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

Remote code execution in Asus router firmware

https://github.com/jduck/asus-cmd

11 years ago

★ 250 C
125 upvotes – 41 comments

Automatic server hardening framework

https://telekomlabs.github.io/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/amos-chapple-the-coldest-place-on-earth/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 91 comments

How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/how-strong-would-a-magnetic-field-have-to-be-to-kill-you/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

Audi Cruise Control Bug

https://ma.ttias.be/audi-greater-than-equal-cruise-control-bug/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 84 comments

Raspberry Pi inspired autopilot

http://www.emlid.com/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

What every Web Developer should know about SEO

https://www.polemicdigital.com/2015/01/every-web-developer-know-seo/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 48 comments

British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/british-prime-minister-suggests-banning-some-online-messaging-apps

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Is JavaScript getting worse?

https://buzzdecafe.github.io/code/2015/01/08/is-javascript-getting-worse/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 111 comments

Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30779898

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 155 comments

Why we ditched Django for Microservices

http://blog.hubblehq.com/ditching-django-for-microservices-1/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 83 comments

Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark

http://github.cmail2.com/t/i-l-suthkl-ahrsiki-y/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations at Spotify

http://www.slideshare.net/MrChrisJohnson/scala-data-pipelines-for-music-recommendations

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

What Happened to Old School NLP?

http://languagengine.co/blog/what-happened-to-old-school-nlp/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programming

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/01/implementing-tex-in-clojure

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Isn’t Fixing Some Old Android Bugs

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/12/google-not-fixing-some-old-android-bugs/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Atom – Git commit messages

https://atom.io/docs/latest/contributing#git-commit-messages

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Java 8: No more loops

http://www.deadcoderising.com/java-8-no-more-loops/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 93 comments

How to raise successful children

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-to-raise-successful-children--advice-from-parents-lucky-enough-to-know/2014/12/30/54785c3c-7fe9-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 76 comments

What's new in CSS Selectors 4

http://grack.com/blog/2015/01/11/css-selectors-4/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Writing Off the Warhol Next Door

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/business/art-collectors-gain-tax-benefits-from-private-museums.html?_r=1

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax

http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

The 10,000 Year Clock

http://longnow.org/clock/?

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors of Prefab Apartments

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020237/new-yorks-newest-skyscraper-is-32-floors-of-prefab-apartments-that-click-together

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Notepad ++ hacked for Je Suis Charlie comments(web archive link)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150112220650/http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 69 comments

Software optimization resources

http://www.agner.org/optimize/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Obama to beef up laws on privacy and data breaches

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30779848

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 52 comments

What the archives of academic job ads can tell us

http://jgoodwin.net/blog/jobs-of-the-mla/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Salary in Stockholm?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873194

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 87 comments

Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/12/spotify-now-has-15m-paying-users-60m-overall/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

The Mind of a Con Man (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html?pagewanted=all

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Black Phosphorous – the birth of a new wonder material

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534166/black-phosphorous-the-birth-of-a-new-wonder-material/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

Evaluating D for games

http://maikklein.github.io/2015/01/11/Evaluating-D-for-games/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Uber Cuts Fares in 48 Cities, Raising Some Concern Among Drivers

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/uber-cuts-fares-in-48-cities-raising-some-concern-among-drivers/?_r=1

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 77 comments
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