top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-30

Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers

https://sandstorm.io/

11 years ago

509 upvotes – 184 comments

Signing in to websites with SSH

https://vtllf.org/blog/ssh-web-sign-in

11 years ago

382 upvotes – 161 comments

Replace CoffeeScript with ES6

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/replace-coffeescript-with-es6

11 years ago

351 upvotes – 168 comments

Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-professional-sports

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 488 comments

Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece

http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 240 comments

RethinkDB 1.16: cluster management API, realtime push

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.16-release/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 81 comments

Surviving Data Science at the Speed of Hype

http://www.john-foreman.com/blog/surviving-data-science-at-the-speed-of-hype

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 43 comments

How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidGalindo/20150129/235301/How_much_do_indie_PC_devs_make_anyways_Part_6.php

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 58 comments

Use Haskell for shell scripting

http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/01/use-haskell-for-shell-scripting.html

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8973023

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture

https://primroseeditor.com/#instructions

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 104 comments

I feel like a fraud and that’s a good thing

https://medium.com/@codepo8/i-feel-like-a-fraud-and-thats-a-good-thing-cc1fa338b902

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C

https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0

11 years ago

★ 588 C BSD-2-Clause
172 upvotes – 54 comments

An Introduction to Computer Networks

http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 18 comments

NYC Space/Time Directory

http://spacetime.nypl.org/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 9 comments

The Internet of Gas Station Tank Gauges

https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/01/22/the-internet-of-gas-station-tank-gauges?hn-repost

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 82 comments

I don’t know what to do, you guys

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2015/01/29/i-dont-know-what-to-do-you-guys/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 204 comments

Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy

http://news.usni.org/2015/01/30/unique-ships-u-s-navy

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Swift Resistance

http://owensd.io/2015/01/29/swift-resistance.html

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8972822

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 60 comments

Tesla’s P85D Will Get Even Faster Thanks to a Software Update

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/teslas-p85d-will-get-even-faster-thanks-to-a-software-update/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 109 comments

Finnish phoenix: The startups rising from Nokia's ashes

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31044810

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

Computational Geometry in Python

http://blancosilva.github.io/post/2014/10/28/Computational-Geometry-in-Python.html?

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 14 comments

Covering parking lots with solar panels

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/01/28/the-best-idea-in-a-long-time-covering-parking-lots-with-solar-panels/?foo=bar

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments

Korg and Noritake Introduce Futuristic Nutube Vacuum Tubes

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/01/29/korg-noritake-introduce-futuristic-nutube-vacuum-tubes/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 72 comments

A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and failure

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/welcome-to-the-scarcity-games/?

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

Air-Gapped Computers Can Be Compromised Using EM Side-Channel Attacks

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-news/air-gapped-computers-can-be-compromised-using-em-side-channel-attacks-says-researchers/#.VMuNXlwYNjE.hackernews

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Earth Pro Now Free?

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-earth-pro-now-free.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

AOL To Lay Off 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/30/aohell/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

A man who studies everyday evil

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150130-the-man-who-studies-evil

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Salters Duck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salter%27s_duck

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

China’s Pearl River Delta overtakes Tokyo as world’s largest megacity

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/28/china-pearl-river-delta-overtake-tokyo-world-largest-megacity-urban-area#

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

Chemists Confirm the Existence of New Type of Bond

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemists-confirm-the-existence-of-new-type-of-bond/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Phusion Passenger Docker

https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker

11 years ago

★ 2.8k Shell MIT
69 upvotes – 27 comments

Reviews for Heroku add-ons

http://heroku.orankl.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian Library

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2015/jan-27

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Will the UK's gas holders be missed?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30405066

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 81 comments

Django Rest Framework general model serializer

http://blog.hipwerk.com/django-rest-framework-general-model-serializer/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Uber Expectations as We Grow

http://blog.uber.com/eta-expectations

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/business/how-and-why-apple-overtook-microsoft.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Can Students Have Too Much Tech?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/opinion/can-students-have-too-much-tech.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

Remote-First Communication for Project Teams

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/01/30/remote-first-communication/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Microsoft's Bill Gates insists AI is a threat

http://www.bbc.com/news/31047780

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 102 comments

A Brief History of Databases (2014)

http://avant.org/media/history-of-databases

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Black holes do not exist where space and time do not exist, says new theory

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-black-holes-space-theory.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 44 comments

How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014)

http://thomaslevine.com/!/making-your-personal-website/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments
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