top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-29

EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-battle-over-secret-legal-opinions-government-spying

11 years ago

582 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing React Native [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ-P-ZI6W4

11 years ago

542 upvotes – 184 comments

Inkscape 0.91 release

https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/3854/

11 years ago

511 upvotes – 122 comments

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/microsoft-to-invest-in-cyanogen-hopes-to-take-android-away-from-google/

11 years ago

434 upvotes – 205 comments

How a Blind Person Programs

http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-without-opening-your-eyes.html

11 years ago

429 upvotes – 135 comments

Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-23/capital-one-fraud-researchers-may-also-have-done-some-fraud

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 183 comments

From Node.js to Go

http://bowery.io/posts/Nodejs-to-Golang-Bowery/

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 185 comments

Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue

http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 110 comments

'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/oops_google_somebody_left_a_tape_running/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 106 comments

A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2014/09/24/how-to-write-proofs/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 159 comments

Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-aws-sdk-for-go/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 52 comments

Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson

http://www.poweredbyross.com/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 112 comments

A Deep Dive on React Native [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDsRXj9-cU

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 67 comments

Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)

https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 94 comments

Image Kernels Explained Visually

http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 29 comments

Nike+ FuelBand SE BLE Protocol Reversed

http://www.evilsocket.net/2015/01/29/nike-fuelband-se-ble-protocol-reversed/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 28 comments

Long Live Grim Fandango

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/01/29/long-live-grim-fandango/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

Why You Should Tell Your Children How Much You Make

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/your-money/why-you-should-tell-your-kids-how-much-you-make.html

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 156 comments

Reddit transparency report, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 77 comments

Google says it fought gag orders in WikiLeaks investigation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/google-says-it-fought-gag-orders-in-wikileaks-investigation/2015/01/28/e62bfd04-a5c9-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 84 comments

Cofounder management

http://www.aaronkharris.com/cofounder-management

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 43 comments

Gamma-ray bursts are a threat to life

http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/59937

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS and Android

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/microsoft-launches-outlook-for-ios-and-android/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Learning about art using JavaScript

http://vart.institute/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 230 comments

Why junior developers are learning bad habits from Angular

https://javascriptkicks.com/stories/3718

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

http://www.polygenapp.com

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

GNU Guix 0.8.1

https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8193

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 40 comments

How an Amish missionary caused 2014's massive measles outbreak

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/29/7929791/measles-outbreak-2014

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 132 comments

How patio11 builds Twilio apps

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/01/how-patrick-mckenzie-builds-twilio-apps.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Project Silk

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/01/project-silk/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 8 comments

PlayStation 4 System Compiler Support Landing in LLVM

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PlayStation-4-LLVM-Landing#

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer

http://efekarakus.github.io/twitch-analytics/#/revenue

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 55 comments

Datadog raises $31M for cloud monitoring

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/investors-thow-datadog-a-31m-bone/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

ArnoldC: Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger

https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC

11 years ago

★ 6.8k Scala Apache-2.0
91 upvotes – 18 comments

Silicon Valley ageism versus the productivity of famous inventors

http://thomason.io/silicon-valley-ageism-versus-the-productivity-of-famous-inventors/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

WhatSim, a SIM Card for WhatsApp

http://whatsim.com/en

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Don't Be a Stanford Asshole

http://48hillsonline.org/2015/01/26/dont-stanford-asshole/?

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

[FR] Je n'ai rien à cacher (I've got nothing to hide)

http://jenairienacacher.fr/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments

A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-heroin-dealer-testifies/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965701

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 65 comments

“My hearing is shot. And I’m hoping that chickens will help me”

https://medium.com/backchannel/we-need-an-uber-for-hearing-aids-99fdde1df17a

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

iTunes Connect Issue Logging Developers into Other Accounts

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/itunes-connect-issue-logging-developers-into-other-accounts/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Amish Hackers (2009)

http://kk.org/thetechnium/2009/02/amish-hackers-a/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Making Sense of the New VAT Rules

http://rachelandrew.github.io/eu-vat/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 62 comments

A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences (2014) [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.2188.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Wisp – A Scala library that offers interactivity for iterative development

http://quantifind.com/blog/2015/01/wisp-is-scala-plotting/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Build Static Websites

https://eager.io/blog/build-static-websites/?hn

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 56 comments

LibreOffice under the hood: progress to 4.4.0

https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-29-under-the-hood-4-4.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 58 Tomorrow (1/30)

http://anyvite.com/pznmqqaufc

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Understanding the ELF

https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/understanding-the-elf-4bd60daac571

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

The Long Tail of the English Language

http://blog.wordsapi.com/2015/01/the-long-tail-of-english-language.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Beautiful movie app for movie info, trailers, showtimes

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marquee-movies-trailers-showtimes/id954721891?ls=1&mt=8

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments

How would the world change if we found extraterrestrial life?

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-world-extraterrestrial-life.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 52 comments

Using React.js and Application Cache for a fast, synced app

http://www.tabforacause.org/blog/2015/01/29/using-reactjs-and-application-cache-fast-synced-app/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments
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