top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-28

Firefox Hello

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/

11 years ago

713 upvotes – 225 comments

Deploying Tor Relays

http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2015/01/28/deploying-tor-relays/

11 years ago

541 upvotes – 89 comments

Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps

https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/560503411389390848

11 years ago

466 upvotes – 166 comments

HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

http://hackersurfing.com/

11 years ago

412 upvotes – 188 comments

Who Owns Los Angeles?

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1224

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 82 comments

Warning: Wi-Fi Blocking Is Prohibited

http://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibited

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 153 comments

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast

11 years ago

★ 10.5k Go Apache-2.0
330 upvotes – 80 comments

Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/slack-buys-screenhero-to-add-screen-sharing-and-voice-chat-to-its-work-messaging-platform/

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 74 comments

The Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition, to be released April 2015

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/electronics-physicists/art-electronics-3rd-edition

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 96 comments

80 Percent of Tor Traffic Is Not Child Porn

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/department-justice-80-percent-tor-traffic-child-porn/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 58 comments

React v0.13.0 Beta 1

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13.0-beta-1.html

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 73 comments

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/hollywoods-big-data-big-deal

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 59 comments

Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

The Starlight Lines Employee Forum RPG

http://kotaku.com/the-secret-douglas-adams-rpg-people-have-been-playing-f-1681986562

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 56 comments

Netflix Likes React

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/01/netflix-likes-react.html

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 55 comments

A Gentle Primer on Reverse Engineering

https://emily.st/2015/01/27/reverse-engineering/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 60 comments

Haskell in the Large [pdf]

http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/dons-google-2015-01-27.pdf

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/01/28/amazon-changes-the-game-again-aws-introduces-workmail

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 100 comments

The Way We Hire Is All Wrong

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-way-we-hire-is-all-wrong-3e19e2051f3e?source=email-f986ab8482fd-1422374905623-daily_digest

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 140 comments

C Runtime Overhead

http://ryanhileman.info/posts/lib43

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01/27/two-weeks-after-zuckerberg-said-je-suis-charlie-facebook-begins-censoring-images-of-prophet-muhammad/?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 133 comments

Avoiding a Common Mistake with Time Series

http://svds.com/post/avoiding-common-mistake-time-series

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 41 comments

FoldingCoin

http://foldingcoin.net/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 88 comments

First C# 7 Design Meeting Notes

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/98

11 years ago

★ 20.3k C# MIT
154 upvotes – 80 comments

A Note to My Readers

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox/1890

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

One Week of Harassment on Twitter

http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/109319269825/one-week-of-harassment-on-twitter

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 60 comments

The Net Neutrality Bait and Switch

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-net-neutrality-bait-and-switch-cedb65f1a1cd

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present)

http://artpacks.org

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

To Protect His Son, a Father Asks School to Bar Unvaccinated Children

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/27/381888697/to-protect-his-son-a-father-asks-school-to-bar-unvaccinated-children

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 122 comments

Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/01/28/design-and-implementation-of-csvexcel-upload-for-saas/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

Inside a British Bank-Bombing Spree

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-atm-bombers/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

Maze Generation in Thirteen Bytes (2012)

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2012/12/17/maze-generation-in-thirteen-bytes/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool

http://codeascraft.com/2015/01/27/announcing-hound-a-lightning-fast-code-search-tool/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

The answer to the eternal question: “Where do I find a technical cofounder?”

http://www.hailpixel.com/articles/technical-cofounders

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Node.js Flow – Callback Hell vs. Async vs. Highland Streams

http://blog.vullum.io/javascript-flow-callback-hell-vs-async-vs-highland/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 62 comments

When arts die, they turn into hobbies

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article01201501.aspx

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/27/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

The UX Reader

http://theuxreader.com/?hn

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation

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

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Creating a CSV/Excel uploader

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/01/28/design-and-implementation-of-csvexcel-upload-for-saas/#

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments

New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/technology/in-china-new-cybersecurity-rules-perturb-western-tech-companies.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Introducing Streaming K-Means in Spark MLlib 1.2

http://databricks.com/blog/2015/01/28/introducing-streaming-k-means-in-spark-1-2.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

France loots former colonies

http://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Litvinenko post-mortem 'probably most dangerous ever'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31020466

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Resin.io – Push Updates to Linux Devices with Git and Docker

https://resin.io/hn/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

When you wish upon a star: nuclear fusion and the promise of a brighter tomorrow

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/25/iter-nuclear-fusion-cadarache-international-thermonuclear-experimental-reactor-steven-cowley

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: WYSIWYG CNC wood carvings

https://www.pinegram.com

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Iran is in the throes of an unprecedented sexual revolution (2013)

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/29/erotic-republic/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

Space Shuttle Mission Archives – Challenger, January 28, 1986

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51L.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

The Day the Purpose of College Changed

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Day-the-Purpose-of-College/151359/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: What is this triangle in the Philippines?

https://www.google.com.ph/maps/place/Lancaster+Estates/@14.0958359,120.343426,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3397d331a06dbb63:0x31fcce8d2384625b

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

Interrogation of an Alleged CIA Agent 1983 [pdf]

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0000619182.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

A brain implant offers relief to an epilepsy patient

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/life-as-a-bionic-woman#.VMkF_8IjkD8.hackernews

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Letter to a startup, from an employee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8963198

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

Isomorphic JavaScript is not the Answer

http://blog.neutrondrive.com/posts/252697-isomorphic-javascript-is-not-the-answer

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 52 comments

Nobody Knows What an iPad Is Good for Anymore

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/nobody-knows-ipad-good-anymore/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 66 comments

The Hidden Psychology of Wearing Glasses

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/more-than-just-four-eyes-the-hidden-psychology-of-wearing-glasses

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 46 comments
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