top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-10

I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords

https://xato.net/passwords/ten-million-passwords/

11 years ago

594 upvotes – 216 comments

Flipboard releases React Canvas

https://github.com/flipboard/react-canvas

11 years ago

★ 13.2k JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
501 upvotes – 131 comments

Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

http://crockpotveggies.com/2015/02/09/automating-tinder-with-eigenfaces.html

11 years ago

482 upvotes – 171 comments

The Bitcoin Piñata

http://ownme.ipredator.se

11 years ago

482 upvotes – 103 comments

Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026815

11 years ago

448 upvotes – 230 comments

FarmLogs

http://blog.samaltman.com/farmlogs

11 years ago

444 upvotes – 87 comments

Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w/#

11 years ago

426 upvotes – 245 comments

Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9299-has-modern-linux-lost-its-way-some-thoughts-on-jessie

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 260 comments

Why animals eat psychoactive plants

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/20/why-animals-eat-psychoactive-p.html

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 174 comments

An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running

https://www.eff.org/let-game-fans-keep-abandoned-games-running

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 67 comments

Defending GCC considered futile

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00457.html

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 204 comments

Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-force-reading-book-100-times-great-idea

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 170 comments

Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X

http://praeclarum.org/post/110552954728/building-and-running-nets-coreclr-on-os-x

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 58 comments

Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation

http://www.joyent.com/about/press/joyent-moves-to-establish-nodejs-foundation

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 153 comments

Docker 1.5: IPv6 support, read-only containers, stats, and more

http://blog.docker.com/2015/02/docker-1-5-ipv6-support-read-only-containers-stats-named-dockerfiles-and-more/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 86 comments

The 40% Rule

http://avc.com/2015/02/the-40-rule/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 44 comments

EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals’ Cell-Tracking Spy Planes

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-files-foia-suit-over-us-marshals-spy-planes

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 20 comments

Live patching for Linux 3.20

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00753.html

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 30 comments

It all began with a strange email (2012)

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 61 comments

Impossible Escape?

http://datagenetics.com/blog/december12014/index.html?

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 47 comments

Dropbox for Gmail

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dropbox-for-gmail-beta/dpdmhfocilnekecfjgimjdeckachfbec

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 59 comments

84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel

http://blog.nullspace.io/kernel-latency.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 48 comments

Applications for YC S2015 Are Open

http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#S2015

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

The Island Where People Forget to Die

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?pagewanted=all

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 71 comments

Let's Build a Modern Hadoop

https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop-4fc160f8d74f

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 83 comments

How Your Camera Works

http://www.objc.io/issue-21/how-your-camera-works.html

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 33 comments

Reapp – hybrid apps, fast

http://reapp.io

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 46 comments

Programmer proverbs

http://futurice.com/blog/programmer-proverbs

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

Judge rules for NSA in warrantless search case

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-usa-security-ruling-idUSKBN0LE2U820150210

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 27 comments

Etcd 2.0 – First Major Stable Release

https://coreos.com/blog/etcd-2.0-release-first-major-stable-release/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Quantitative Economics with Julia [pdf]

http://quant-econ.net/_static/pdfs/jl-quant-econ.pdf

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Salt – Sustainable Alternative Lighting

http://www.salt.ph/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Native Americans Say Facebook Is Accusing Them of Using Fake Names

http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/02/native_americans_say_facebook_is_accusing_them_of_using_fake_names.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 68 comments

PeerVPN – Open-source peer-to-peer VPN

http://www.peervpn.net/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

Google I/O 2015

https://events.google.com/io2015/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the Internet [pdf]

http://cispa.saarland/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MongoDB_documentation.pdf

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/eff-files-amicus-brief-case-seeks-hold-ibm-responsible-facilitating-apartheid

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 95 comments

Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp

https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d/gen/wordexp.c#L192

11 years ago

★ 33 C
103 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Gosms – Your own local SMS gateway powered by Golang

http://haxpax.github.io/gosms/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 62 comments

Anthem Breach May Have Started in April 2014

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/anthem-breach-may-have-started-in-april-2014/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Advice for Early-Stage Hardware Startups

http://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-early-stage-hardware-startups

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

We Need to Break the Mobile Duopoly

http://a16z.com/2015/02/09/third-mobile-os-3/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

http://domaininferno.com/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

A Brief Overview of Deep Learning

http://yyue.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-brief-overview-of-deep-learning.html?m=1

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

BASIC Computer Games (1978)

http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

RMS regrets not accepting LLVM into GCC during 2005

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00594.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Prometheus on Raspberry Pi

http://5pi.de/2015/02/10/prometheus-on-raspberry-pi/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Stripe refusing access to cards, have a contact so we can avoid a public post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9027263

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-the-english-language-is-holding-kids-back/385291/?single_page=true

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple closes trading with $700B+ market cap

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-10/apple-closes-at-record-market-value-of-more-than-700-billion

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

GCC 5 in Fedora

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/02/10/gcc-5-in-fedora/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Is Persona the Authentication System That We’ve All Been Waiting For? (2012)

https://xato.net/passwords/mozillas-persona-authentication/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Just-in-time packager for GitHub repositories

https://www.jitpack.io

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

How a Founder Turned a Slow Burn Rate into a Big Exit

http://firstround.com/article/This-Founder-Turned-a-Slow-Burn-Rate-into-a-Big-Exit

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments
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