top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-05

Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

11 years ago

2088 upvotes – 453 comments

YC for Hardware

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-for-hardware

11 years ago

445 upvotes – 128 comments

Scala.js no longer experimental

http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/02/05/scala-js-no-longer-experimental.html

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 131 comments

“Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack”

http://www.anthemfacts.com/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 197 comments

Introducing node-firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/02/introducing-node-firefox/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 50 comments

New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 164 comments

Practical Data Science in Python

http://radimrehurek.com/data_science_python/

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 33 comments

An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21642107-alloy-iron-and-aluminium-good-titanium-tenth

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 94 comments

Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/negotiators-burn-their-last-opportunity-salvage-tpp-caving-copyright-term

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 174 comments

Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.4880v1.pdf

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 55 comments

The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery has an idea for a new one

http://qz.com/338767/the-man-who-brought-us-the-lithium-ion-battery-at-57-has-an-idea-for-a-new-one-at-92/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 86 comments

Cards Against Humanity’s Private Island

http://cah.tumblr.com/post/110099027175/cards-against-humanitys-private-island-by-jenn

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 49 comments

Metaprogramming Elixir

https://www.pragprog.com/book/cmelixir/metaprogramming-elixir

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 22 comments

New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more

https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/02/04/new-watson-services-available/

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 106 comments

Photos Preview

https://www.apple.com/osx/photos-preview/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 166 comments

You gotta be rich to own a cheap car

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/no-fixed-abode-gotta-rich-cheap-car/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 165 comments

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 23 comments

Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian Assange

https://govwaste.co.uk/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 139 comments

Why We Remember So Many Things Wrong

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/idea-happened-memory-recollection

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services

http://pushpin.org/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

UTF-9 and UTF-18

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-9_and_UTF-18

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitbucket: 2014 in review

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/02/05/bitbucket-2014-in-review/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python (2013)

http://kmike.ru/python-data-structures/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 2 comments

Life as a Product Design Intern at Khan Academy

http://elizabethylin.com/khan

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts

http://www.shellcheck.net/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/att-previews-lawsuit-it-plans-to-file-against-fcc-over-net-neutrality/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 70 comments

Meta-programming JavaScript Using Proxies

http://dzautner.com/meta-programming-javascript-using-proxies/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

U.S. considers declassifying report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/05/uk-usa-security-saudi-idUKKBN0L92O820150205

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

An overhyped GHOST

https://lwn.net/Articles/630866/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

WikiGalaxy: Explore Wikipedia in 3D

http://wiki.polyfra.me/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: JustWatch – Choose your favorite streaming providers and see what’s new

https://www.justwatch.com/us

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

Missing the Point of Server-side Rendered JavaScript Apps

http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server-side-rendered-javascript-apps/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/twitter-said-to-reach-deal-for-tweets-in-google-search-results

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Curry On Prague 2015: Academia and industry need to have a talk

http://curry-on.org

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Bigger data; same laptop

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/04/COST2.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

How programs get run

http://lwn.net/Articles/630727/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Password Hashing Competition

https://password-hashing.net/report1.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Interest rates on some European government bonds have gone negative

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/5/7981461/negative-interest-rates-europe

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 78 comments

How I won the housing market without trying

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/05/how-i-won-the-housing-market-without-really-trying

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 114 comments

How does ActiveRecord#find work?

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord/4.2.0/symbols/ActiveRecord::Core::ClassMethods/find?#annotation=4071448&line=126

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Monads: From Web 2.0 to Hardware Drivers

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/105/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Where Is Germany's Gold?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s-gold-repatriation-activist-peter-boehringer-gets-results

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 88 comments

42 as a Service

http://fortytwo-as-a-service.herokuapp.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 68 comments

How to transfer large amounts of data via network

http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

The Mincome Experiment of 1974-79

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mincome-experiment-dauphin

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 96 comments

ClusterHQ raises $12M Series A from Accel, Canaan to build data layer for Docker

https://clusterhq.com/blog/series-a-funding/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Killing the Golden Goose? The changing nature of corporate research, 1980-2007 [pdf]

https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~sb135/bio/Science%201%2091%2015.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Golang web frameworks benchmark

https://quip.com/Ha0bAfeh1ZVY

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Chairman Wheeler Proposes New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet [pdf]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0204/DOC-331869A1.pdf?

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

The Art of Management

http://avant.org/media/art-of-management

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-new-antibiotics-might-be-essential-oils/384247/?single_page=true

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 46 comments
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