top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-26

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/effs-game-plan-ending-global-mass-surveillance

11 years ago

678 upvotes – 151 comments

PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2015/01/15/paperlike-13-3-e-ink-monitor-by-dasung-tech-videos/

11 years ago

524 upvotes – 177 comments

U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spies-on-millions-of-cars-1422314779

11 years ago

393 upvotes – 250 comments

Coinbase Exchange

https://exchange.coinbase.com/

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 133 comments

Coding is not the new literacy

http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-new-literacy/

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 146 comments

Introducing Aurelia

http://blog.durandal.io/2015/01/26/introducing-aurelia/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 85 comments

Inside the world of longsword fighting

http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003040466/inside-the-world-of-longsword-fighting.html

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 167 comments

Does Sponsoring Daring Fireball Work?

http://blog.desk.pm/df/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Get your local and public IP addresses in JavaScript

https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips

11 years ago

★ 3.4k HTML MIT
239 upvotes – 89 comments

NSQ – A realtime distributed messaging platform

http://nsq.io/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 62 comments

Rooftop solar is now cheaper than the grid in 42 American cities

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/rooftop-solar-is-now-cheaper-than-the-grid-in-42-american-cities/352799/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 183 comments

Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/630074/217c398c74495155/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

IBM says 'several thousand' layoffs on the way

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ibm-says-several-thousand-layoffs-on-the-way-1.2931612

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 103 comments

Chemists find a way to unboil eggs

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-chemists-unboil-eggs.html

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

Wake No More – The exhausting world of the hypersomniac

https://medium.com/matter/wake-no-more-8bbd49528b9

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 29 comments

What I Wish I Knew When Starting Out as a Software Developer: Slow the Fuck Down

http://blog.salsitasoft.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-when-starting-out-as-a-software-developer-slow-the-fuck-down/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 109 comments

How to Ramen-ize Dried Pasta and Rice

http://luckypeach.com/how-to-ramen-ize-dried-pasta-rice/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Haskell on Heroku – Buildpack for deploying Haskell apps

https://haskellonheroku.com

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 12 comments

Game Development in Go

http://www.j15r.com/blog/2015/01/25/Game_Development_in_Go

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 58 comments

“I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

http://jonstokes.com/2013/02/24/it-could-happen-to-you/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Jobs that no longer exist today

http://www.vintag.es/2015/01/10-jobs-that-no-longer-exist-today.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 79 comments

Npm install could be dangerous

https://github.com/joaojeronimo/rimrafall

11 years ago

★ 164 JavaScript
122 upvotes – 97 comments

The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fight-to-save-japans-young-shut-ins-1422292138?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 76 comments

Pixelapse is joining Dropbox

http://blog.pixelapse.com/post/109225261685/pixelapse-dropbox

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system

http://www.grappendorf.net/projects/6502-home-computer

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 29 comments

Lifespan depends on month of birth (2000)

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/5/2934.full

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Dementia 'linked' to common over-the-counter drugs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30988643

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

Real-time Drone object tracking using Python and OpenCV

http://blog.christianperone.com/?p=2768

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Predominantly

http://predominant.ly/spiro-disco-ball

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

Let's stop laughing at Groupon

http://fortune.com/2015/01/26/lets-stop-laughing-at-groupon/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 86 comments

Is running ads on a programming blog worth it?

http://danluu.com/blog-ads

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

Texgen.js – Lightweight Procedural Texture Generator

https://github.com/mrdoob/texgen.js

11 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript MIT
98 upvotes – 21 comments

The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-22/global-internet-greg-wyler-may-beat-elon-musk-google-facebook

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Coinbase – Exchange API

https://docs.exchange.coinbase.com/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (2005)

http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Elite's crazy tokenized string routine

http://xania.org/201406/elites-crazy-string-format

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge

https://localwiki.org/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Popularity-driven development

http://ferrante.pl/frontend/javascript/popularity-driven-development/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Shipit, pure JavaScript deployment tool used by Ghost blogging platform

https://github.com/shipitjs/shipit

11 years ago

★ 5.2k JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Hack an ADT Alarm System

http://ipvm.com/report/hack-adt-alarm-system

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

Coinbase Is Opening the First Regulated Bitcoin Exchange in the U.S

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/25/coinbase-us-bitcoin-exchange/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars

http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/01/germany-plans-self-driving-cars-test-track.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Medieval Speech Bubbles

http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/01/23/medieval-speech-bubbles/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 1 comments

Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud

https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring-at-soundcloud

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Compound interest can help save for the future, or it can bankrupt the world

http://laphamsquarterly.org/future/trust-issues

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

Can art still shock?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/23/can-art-still-shock-short-history

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

GWT just got a new look

http://www.gwtproject.org/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenWorm – Create a virtual C. elegans nematode

http://www.openworm.org/index.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

How Boston Removed Snow from Its Streets Throughout History

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/01/24/snowtron-and-snowzilla-how-boston-removed-snow-from-its-streets-throughout-history/v8455vpxuBjJ8KmRFDPguK/story.html?p1=Must_Reads_hp

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

Sublime VS. Atom: Will GitHub's Text Editor Beat the Standing Champion?

http://blog.takipi.com/sublime-vs-atom-text-editor-battles/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: The purest skills needed to become a programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8945701

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

Superman vs. Baseball

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/weekend-diversion-superman-vs-baseball-47f413777361

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found

http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-airlines-website-hacked-by-group-calling-itself-cyber-caliphate-1422238358

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Shatranj, the predecessor of modern chess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

PhantomJS 2.0 is getting ready for release

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/12897

11 years ago

★ 29.4k C++ BSD-3-Clause
46 upvotes – 24 comments

Has Technology Killed the Jewelry Industry?

http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/tech-killed-jewelry-industry-97335

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments

Libra – The Landsat imagery browser you will love

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2015/01/22/announcing-libra/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-25/the-japanese-government-is-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-get-its-people-to-have-more-sex

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 53 comments

Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/jan/21/naked-pictures-this-is-what-i-did-revenge-porn-emma-holten-video

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 69 comments

ArangoDB on Mesosphere Using Marathon and Docker

https://github.com/arangodb/Cookbook/blob/master/recipes/UsingArangoDBMesosphere.md

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 18 comments

What Is the Average Color of the Universe?

http://priceonomics.com/what-is-the-average-color-of-the-universe/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments

Monads in Dynamically-Typed Languages

http://eighty-twenty.org/2015/01/25/monads-in-dynamically-typed-languages/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

The Earth is Round (p < 0.05) (1994)

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/PP279_Cohen1.pdf

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

On Being the Right Size (1928)

http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 3 comments
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