top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-16

What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

http://paulgraham.com/work.html

11 years ago

712 upvotes – 321 comments

SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK

11 years ago

598 upvotes – 271 comments

‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8

https://krita.org/item/goodbye-photoshop-and-hello-krita-at-university-paris-8/

11 years ago

524 upvotes – 197 comments

“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

11 years ago

★ 43k
491 upvotes – 129 comments

What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me

http://www.itinthed.com/16328/what-taking-my-daughter-to-a-comic-book-store-taught-me

11 years ago

398 upvotes – 345 comments

Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules

https://research.facebook.com/blog/879898285375829/fair-open-sources-deep-l20earning-modules-for-torch/

11 years ago

389 upvotes – 71 comments

In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/16/in-surprise-shift-sprint-endorses-net-neutrality/

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 65 comments

What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5168718/what-blocks-ruby-python-to-get-javascript-v8-speed

11 years ago

314 upvotes – 155 comments

Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 125 comments

Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 44 comments

Announcing TypeScript 1.4

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/01/16/announcing-typescript-1-4.aspx

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 46 comments

BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/bbc-uses-ripa-terrorism-laws-to-catch-tv-licence-fee-dodgers-in-northern-ireland-30911647.html

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 88 comments

New Revelations U.S. Tracked Americans’ Calls for Over a Decade

http://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-kept-secret-telephone-database-1421427624

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 55 comments

Why We Still Believe in Private Offices

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 73 comments

Remember broken Nexus telephony? This is how Google treats it's customers

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949#c483

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 113 comments

People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-crime-they-dont-remember.html

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 66 comments

How GCHQ Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple, Your Developer Agreement Tramples on Free Speech and Innovation

https://act.eff.org/action/apple-your-developer-agreement-tramples-on-free-speech-and-innovation

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 87 comments

Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code [pdf]

http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 76 comments

Security: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD

http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/2014/12/security-openbsd-vs-freebsd.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

By Making a Game Out of Rejection, a Man Conquers Fear

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/16/377239011/by-making-a-game-out-of-rejection-a-man-conquers-fear

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 106 comments

Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

https://medium.com/message/back-to-the-future-time-travel-and-the-secret-history-of-the-1980s-80bf3c6347cf

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 82 comments

Let's Encrypt Developer Preview

https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview

11 years ago

★ 33k Python
141 upvotes – 44 comments

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/01/16/visual-studio-2015-cpt-5-now-available.aspx

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/a-12-hour-window-for-a-healthy-weight/?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 121 comments

Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/why-i-hope-congress-never-watches-blackhat/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Google's Deep Learning Blitz to Make Search Smarter

https://medium.com/backchannel/google-search-will-be-your-next-brain-5207c26e4523

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Detecting PhantomJS-based visitors

http://engineering.shapesecurity.com/2015/01/detecting-phantomjs-based-visitors.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 27 comments

The Cost of Scalability in Graph Processing

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Google and Apple in $415M 'non-poaching' settlement offer

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30843644

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/science/earth/2014-was-hottest-year-on-record-surpassing-2010.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

Servo: Building a Parallel Browser [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9vIMXSTzc

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/14/bitcoin-is-revealed-a-ponzi-scheme-for-redistributing-wealth-from-one-libertarian-to-another/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 118 comments

Los Alamos Declassified

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2015/jan/14/los-alamos-declassified/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Interview: Lennart Poettering

http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 87 comments

Going Beyond “Make Something People Want”

http://emrahyalaz.com/framework/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Parity, a numbers puzzle game

http://www.abefehr.com/parity/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beings

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-01-Visualizing-Representations/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Flag – Print ads on the back of people’s free photos

https://fl.ag/advertising

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

The Statistical Crisis in Science

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/6/the-statistical-crisis-in-science/99999

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Js_of_ocaml – A compiler of OCaml bytecode to Javascript

http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Teehan+Lax joins Facebook

http://www.teehanlax.com/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Rbkit – a low-pause profiler for ruby

http://rbkit.codemancers.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone

http://www.popslate.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 57 comments

The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing and Briefly Saved Lives

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

100 Years of Computer Science

http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/100-years-computer-science?utm_campaign=technology&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments
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