top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-27

YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html

11 years ago

1035 upvotes – 393 comments

CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

11 years ago

531 upvotes – 241 comments

Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/regin-malware-unmasked-as-nsa-tool-after-spiegel-publishes-source-code-a-1015255.html#ref=rss

11 years ago

489 upvotes – 191 comments

Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-fiber-new-metro-areas.html

11 years ago

486 upvotes – 276 comments

Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

https://vivaldi.com

11 years ago

352 upvotes – 250 comments

Luna – Hack your sleep

http://lunasleep.com

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 151 comments

Main is usually a function – when is it not?

https://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 60 comments

Facebook was down

https://www.facebook.com/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 265 comments

Unreal Paris

http://www.benoitdereau.com/unrealparis.html

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 66 comments

Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-27/greece-s-new-finance-minister-says-euro-is-like-hotel-california.html

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Record-First-Quarter-Results.html

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 358 comments

From 0 to $1B – Slack's Founder Shares Their Launch Strategy

http://firstround.com/article/From-0-to-1B-Slacks-Founder-Shares-Their-Epic-Launch-Strategy

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 93 comments

Lodash v3.0.0

https://lodash.com/?v3

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 79 comments

Advancing the realtime web

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/realtime-web/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 48 comments

Long term support considered harmful

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-considered-harmful

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 148 comments

Demystifying SEO with experiments

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/109318939139/demystifying-seo-with-experiments

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 51 comments

Icecomm – Add Serverless Video Chat and Data Transfer to Your Site

http://icecomm.io

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

Chess game in 487 bytes – new record

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64962

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour

http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/01/didnt-need-take-hour.html

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 52 comments

What the Flux?

http://jonathancreamer.com/what-the-flux/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 54 comments

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

11 years ago

★ 3.8k Common Lisp MIT
149 upvotes – 15 comments

Why we offer parental leave

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/parental-leave-at-aerofs/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: Ultra, a Leiningen plugin for a superior development environment

https://github.com/venantius/ultra

11 years ago

★ 1.2k Clojure EPL-1.0
144 upvotes – 18 comments

John Carmack's adolescent years (2003)

https://books.google.com/books?id=ltQ6LYHpmQEC&lpg=PT28&ots=Ob2Vq21O1k&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 77 comments

Yahoo to Spin Off Its Stake in Alibaba

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/technology/yahoo-earnings-alibaba-spinoff.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 80 comments

They Live

https://whispersystems.org/blog/they-live/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

All the Technology but None of the Love

http://jacquesmattheij.com/all-of-the-tech-but-none-of-the-love/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 59 comments

Inside the Tragic, Obsessive World of Video Game Addicts

http://www.vice.com/read/video-game-addiction-is-destroying-american-lives-456

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 73 comments

Isso – Open Source Alternative to Disqus

http://posativ.org/isso/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

Visualizing AWS Storage with Real-Time Latency Spectrograms

http://sysdigcloud.com/aws-storage-latency-sysdig-spectrogram/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

How I Got a Job in Web Development

http://elliotec.com/how-i-got-a-job-in-web-development/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Pacifica, daily tools for anxiety based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

http://thinkpacifica.com

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

Google Directly Embedding Stack Overflow Responses in SERPs

http://ma.ttias.be/google-directly-embedding-stack-overflow-responses/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 63 comments

Breach – A new modular browser

http://breach.cc/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

COMSEC: Beyond Encryption [pdf]

http://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encryption.pdf

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Immutability Changes Everything [pdf]

http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970: Correcting the Specs and Exploring Memory Allocation

http://anandtech.com/show/8935/geforce-gtx-970-correcting-the-specs-exploring-memory-allocation

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

New broadband users shun UK porn filters, Ofcom finds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28440067

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

Folders: a programming language encoded into folder structure

http://esoteric.codes/post/109310541818/folders-a-language-with-no-files

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Facebook Said to Block Pages Critical of Muhammad to Avoid Shutdown in Turkey

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/europe/facebook-said-to-block-pages-on-muhammad-to-avoid-ban-in-turkey.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 79 comments

Lockitron Announces the $99 Bolt, a Deadbolt You Can Unlock with Your Phone

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/lockitron-announces-the-99-bolt-a-deadbolt-you-can-unlock-with-your-phone/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 153 comments

Startup Lesson Learned: Technology Doesn’t Matter

https://thomasbandt.com/startup-lesson-learned-technology-doesnt-matter

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

“Another World” Code Review (2011)

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Netflix's Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/01/netflixs-viewing-data-how-we-know-where.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Now on Twitter: Group direct messages and mobile video camera

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/now-on-twitter-group-direct-messages-and-mobile-video-capture

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen in Silicon Valley

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/rodney-mullen/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intel Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-55-no.-1/pdfs/CleanedPetersen-What%20I%20Learned-20Apr2011.pdf

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Kythe: A pluggable ecosystem for building tools that work with code

http://www.kythe.io/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

The 30,000 Futures of the Brain

https://medium.com/@neuroecology/the-30-000-futures-of-the-brain-d857e3fbec55

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

PfSense 2.2-Release Now Available

https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1546

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

Investment Riches Built on Subprime Auto Loans to Poor

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/investment-riches-built-on-auto-loans-to-poor/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 56 comments

Boot: Getting Started with Clojure

https://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/boot-getting-started-with-clojure-in-10-minutes/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Why the snow forecast for New York City was so bad

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/01/27/why-the-snow-forecast-for-new-york-city-was-so-bad-and-what-should-be-done/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical-sessions/presentation/bojinov

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Two Airplanes Successfully Ditch in Pacific

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Two-Airplanes-Successfully-Ditch-In-Pacific223452-1.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments
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