top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-06

First Impressions Using React Native

http://jlongster.com/First-Impressions-using-React-Native

11 years ago

539 upvotes – 191 comments

‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/the-witness-money/

11 years ago

367 upvotes – 163 comments

UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/06/gchq-mass-internet-surveillance-unlawful-court-nsa

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go

https://github.com/fogleman/pt/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 2.1k Go MIT
287 upvotes – 48 comments

TurboTax halts all state e-filing amid data breach probe

http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2015/02/06/turbotax-halts-e-filing-of-state-tax-returns/

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 108 comments

The volume is too damn high on flights

http://blog.42floors.com/volume-damn-high/#flights

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 173 comments

How startup Fab died

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-billion-dollar-startup-fab-died-2015-2

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 127 comments

I’m an Anti-Braker

http://robertmoorejr.tumblr.com/post/110101466091/im-an-anti-braker

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 213 comments

CrunchBang Linux: The end

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38916

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008845

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 203 comments

Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31148661

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 94 comments

Node v0.12.0 (Stable)

http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/02/06/node-v0-12-0-stable/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 74 comments

Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/once-starving-gnupg-crypto-project-gets-a-windfall-but-can-it-be-saved/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 96 comments

What Happens When a Restaurant Dies

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/02/what-happens-when-a-restaurant-dies.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

3D Printer Shootout – $600 Printrbot vs. $20,000 UPrint SE Plus

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/3DPrinterShootout600PrintrbotVs20000UPrintSEPlus.aspx

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 80 comments

Developer Saved Years Later by His Own Hardware

http://hackaday.com/2015/02/06/developer-saved-years-later-by-his-own-hardware/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 17 comments

A city-scale molecular profile of DNA collected from NYC's subway system [pdf]

http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/research/cell-systems/do-not-delete/CELS1_FINAL.pdf

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 37 comments

Twitter Confirms New Google Firehose Deal

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/05/twitter-confirms-new-google-firehose-deal-to-distribute-traffic-to-logged-out-users/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 62 comments

Making PGP Key Management Invisible So Johnny Can Encrypt

https://blog.whiteout.io/2015/02/06/making-pgp-key-management-invisible-so-johnny-can-encrypt/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 76 comments

One-electron universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 70 comments

Decomposing the Human Palate with Matrix Factorization

http://www.jeremymcohen.net/posts/taste/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Factor – A practical stack language

http://factorcode.org/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over

http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=9124

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cheap-smartphone-dongle-diagnoses-hiv-and-syphilis-15-minutes

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

How many fundamental constants does it take to describe our Universe?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/throwback-thursday-the-fundamental-constants-behind-our-universe-a95de09f9a46

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

The Rat Tribe of Beijing

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/01/underground-beijing/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Xbox One Controller Driver for OS X

https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller

11 years ago

★ 221 C++ BSD-3-Clause
92 upvotes – 24 comments

Working with the ELK stack

http://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/elk-at-skroutz/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Ruby DSL Handbook

http://clean-ruby.com/dsl

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Git Hunt - Product Hunt for Github

http://githunt.io/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue

http://blog.edgecast.com/post/110230974176/being-good-stewards-of-the-internet

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/want-elon-musk-to-hire-you-at-tesla-work-for-apple

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

The Life of a PHP Developer

http://jonkuperman.com/life-of-a-php-developer/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

Twitter Cuts Off Employee Access to Its Metrics

http://recode.net/2015/02/05/twitter-cuts-off-employee-access-to-its-metrics/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

Chicago startups to watch in 2015

http://www.builtinchicago.org/2015/02/04/50-chicago-startups-watch-2015

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Did chip espionage, IP theft give Samsung its 14nm manufacturing lead?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198925-did-chip-espionage-ip-theft-give-samsung-its-14nm-manufacturing-lead

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Git v2.3 Release Notes

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: What is wrong with me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007996

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 73 comments

GnuPG: The Linux Foundation granted me 60,000 USD

https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/563456662024228865

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

The $11185 Connector

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/02/06/the-11185-connector/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

The Billionaires at Burning Man

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/occupy-burning-man-class-warfare-comes-to-desert-festival

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Text Understanding from Scratch Using Temporal Convolutional Networks

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01710

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Hammurabi: Classic game of strategy and resource allocation

http://www.hammurabigame.com

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Can worker cooperatives alleviate income inequality?

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/13/worker-run-cooperatives.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments

A cross-browser offline-enabled web compass

http://lamplightdev.github.io/compass/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Go for C++ Programmers

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoForCPPProgrammers

11 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
54 upvotes – 55 comments

Experimental New Directions for Javascript

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2p58mpwToefRzlGMzRxTnhNb00/view?usp=sharing

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: What is it like to work on pager duty?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010865

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 61 comments

A very common grammatical mistake that programmers make

https://opkode.com/blog/common-grammatical-mistake-programmers-make/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 60 comments

Ship Code Faster: Announcing GitHub Integration GA

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/2/6/heroku_github_integration

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gyz6b

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

I turned caps lock on for a week

http://fusion.net/story/42057/caps-lock/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 56 comments

The Competition Myth

http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2015/02/02/competition-myth/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 59 comments

Seeing Networks in New York City

http://seeingnetworks.in/nyc/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Craigslist personals associated with 16 percent boost in HIV infections

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/craigslist-personals-associated-with-16-percent-boost-in-hiv-infections/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

Exploiting UEFI boot script table vulnerability

http://blog.cr4.sh/2015/02/exploiting-uefi-boot-script-table.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

How Houston Gets Along Without Zoning Laws

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2007/10/how_houston_gets_along_without_zoning.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 46 comments

Guns, Drugs and Money [video]

http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003491301/in-colorado-marijuana-pot-industrys-banking-problem.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=timesvideo-heading&module=watch-in-times-video&region=video-player-region&WT.nav=video-player-region

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 35 comments

How Elementary School Teachers Biases Can Discourage Girls from Math and Science

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/how-elementary-school-teachers-biases-can-discourage-girls-from-math-and-science.html

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 56 comments

Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

http://www.mailboxapp.com/app/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 51 comments

We Need a Manhattan Project for Cybersecurity

https://medium.com/backchannel/we-need-a-manhattan-project-for-cyber-security-76e6d8fc6447

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 42 comments
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