top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-17

New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html

11 years ago

463 upvotes – 273 comments

The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google

https://medium.com/funny-stuff/the-fine-art-of-bullshit-c09f7bbb391e

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 117 comments

Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed

http://petapixel.com/2015/01/16/31-rolls-undeveloped-film-soldier-wwii-discovered-processed/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 125 comments

Arch Linux on MacBook Pro Retina 2014

http://loicpefferkorn.net/2015/01/arch-linux-on-macbook-pro-retina-2014-with-dm-crypt-lvm-and-suspend-to-disk/

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 145 comments

Open Data Structures

http://opendatastructures.org/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 20 comments

Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 141 comments

Robert Morris: All About Programming

http://paulgraham.com/aap.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 49 comments

So you want to abolish time zones

http://qntm.org/abolish

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 124 comments

The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/02/the-mid-career-crisis-of-the-perl-programmer.html

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 114 comments

Getting started contributing to Rust

http://kmcallister.github.io/talks/rust/2015-contributing-to-rust/slides.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 6 comments

Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/us/students-gain-access-to-files-on-admission-to-stanford.html?_r=0&referrer=

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 94 comments

‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence Is Suddenly Everywhere

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/01/16/soft-artificial-intelligence-is-suddenly-everywhere/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Ex-Googler: 'Tons of Engineers' Want to Leave Google

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-googler-tons-engineers-want-160246466.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Republican net neutrality bill would gut FCC’s authority over broadband

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/republican-net-neutrality-bill-would-gut-fccs-authority-over-broadband/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

Amid Bitcoin's Bloodbath, Silence from Silicon Valley Press

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2015/01/16/amid_bitcoins_bloodbath_silence_from_silicon_valley_press_101490.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 85 comments

A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety

http://betterembsw.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-case-study-of-toyota-unintended.html?m=1

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

Wireless lossless digital audio

http://www.latentlaboratories.com/blog/2014/10/11/12-wireless-lossless-digital-audio

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Trading a Real Market: What the Swiss National Bank Taught Retail Traders

http://mechanicalforex.com/2015/01/trading-a-real-market-what-the-swiss-national-bank-taught-retail-traders-today.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Forgot your Windows 98 password? No problem

http://imgur.com/fqjnK

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

The number of seed rounds in 2014 fell compared to 2013

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/16/the-seed-bubble-has-popped/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Silicon Valley History

http://patrickcollison.com/svhistory

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

DNA Lounge Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge

http://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2015/07-12.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

From Object Algebras to Finally Tagless Interpreters

https://oleksandrmanzyuk.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/from-object-algebras-to-finally-tagless-interpreters-2/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/asset-forfeiture-and-cycle-electronic-surveillance-funding

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 1 comments

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

RethinkDB with io.js: exploring ES6 generators and the future of JavaScript

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdbdash-iojs/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

The Weird Science of Naming New Products

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/magazine/the-weird-science-of-naming-new-products.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

http://marktarver.com/bipolar.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Report of an NSA Employee about a Backdoor in the OpenSSH Daemon (2012) [pdf]

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35663.pdf

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

How to mod a toaster to control PC games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet

https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/SkKuBF1XaNF

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 70 comments

Bitcoin – The Magic of Mining

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21638124-minting-digital-currency-has-become-big-ruthlessly-competitive-business-magic

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 37 comments

A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications

https://systemfolder.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/about-box/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

A workshop on monads with C++14

https://github.com/joaquintides/cpp14monadworkshop

11 years ago

★ 98 C++
44 upvotes – 7 comments
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