top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-11

GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub

http://githut.info

11 years ago

406 upvotes – 124 comments

RapidShare is Shutting down

https://www.rapidshare.com/home

11 years ago

388 upvotes – 139 comments

Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit

http://breakingmalware.com/vulnerabilities/one-bit-rule-bypassing-windows-10-protections-using-single-bit/

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 130 comments

Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University

https://medium.com/@AndrewR_Physics/enoughs-enough-6c56afe36d00

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 177 comments

DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/115/datacide-total-annihilation-life-we-know-it.html

11 years ago

333 upvotes – 133 comments

Paper sizes

http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2015/02/paper-sizes/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 202 comments

How Chris McCandless Died: An Update

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/chris-mccandless-died-update

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 78 comments

China

http://blog.samaltman.com/china

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 304 comments

A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/ycombinator-copycat/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 89 comments

An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos

http://zulko.github.io/blog/2015/02/01/extracting-perfectly-looping-gifs-from-videos-with-python-and-moviepy/

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 25 comments

YC Open-Source Sales Agreement

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-source-sales-agreement

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 83 comments

Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8017771/samsung-smart-tvs-inserting-unwanted-ads

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 200 comments

Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch

https://code.facebook.com/posts/717010588413497/introducing-6-pack-the-first-open-hardware-modular-switch/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 95 comments

Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/starting-today-wireless-carriers-have-to-unlock-your-phone/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 55 comments

The DaftPunKonsole

http://codepen.io/kowlor/pen/MYOKRd

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 29 comments

Dark Patterns: Inside the interfaces designed to trick you

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 44 comments

Startup Priorities

http://blog.geoffralston.com/startup-priorities

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, Not Places

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not-spaces.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/few-global-cultural-treasures-lose-20-years-under-tpp

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 17 comments

Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise

http://peter.bourgon.org/go-kit

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 125 comments

Minibuilders: Small robots printing big structures

http://monograph.io/iaac/minibuilders

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 16 comments

Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/10/07/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 171 comments

Apple's New Market

http://stratechery.com/2015/apples-new-market/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 73 comments

The great Medieval water myth (2013)

http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: JanOS – A new OS that turns your smartphone into an IoT board

http://janos.io/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 23 comments

Try Erlang online

http://tryerl.seriyps.ru/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 15 comments

The shipping network that keeps the world running

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

How Canadian Spies Infiltrated the Internet's Core

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-canadian-spies-infiltrated-the-internets-core-to-watch-what-you-do-online

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

The God Who Peter Molyneux Forgot

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-11-the-god-who-peter-molyneux-forgot

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR

https://github.com/ajensenwaud/coreclr

11 years ago

C# MIT
96 upvotes – 12 comments

Robotic Extrusion: 6-axis 3D printing

https://www.behance.net/gallery/22536831/ROBOTIC-EXTRUSION%286-Axis-KUKAABS-3D-Printing%29

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Memoirs from the Browser Wars (2003)

http://ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

GoJS: Interactive Diagrams for the Web

http://gojs.net/latest/index.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

RegExpBuilder – Create regular expressions using chained methods

https://github.com/thebinarysearchtree/regexpbuilderjs

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Jazz concert with OpenBSD synths

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150211134052

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

2^120 Ways to Ensure Unique Identifiers

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2015-02-11-firebase-unique-identifiers.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Prosecutors shouldn't have immunity from their unethical – or unlawful – acts

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/05/prosecutors-immunity-unethical-unlawful-acts#The%20Guardian

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

How HHVM Uses Modern C++ for Fun and Profit (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqK8Yuoq4ig

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

University of Illinois issues DMCA takedown for previous years' homework

https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/313ac74e3de8b692adfed5ef2bf60436aa8e2040

11 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
73 upvotes – 95 comments

Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/10/your-lifetime-earnings-are-probably-determined-in-your-twenties/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Bitbucket Embraces the Cloud IDE

https://blog.codeanywhere.com/bitbucket-embraces-the-cloud-ide/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Map of 73 Years of Lynchings

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching.html?_r=0

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

SpaceX Launch Targeting 6:03pm ET, Extreme Weather Preventing First Stage Recovery

http://www.spacex.com/press/2015/02/11/dscovr-launch-update

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Developing Games in Elm

http://gelatindesign.co.uk/developing-games-in-elm/functional-programming/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Nodejitsu joins GoDaddy

https://blog.nodejitsu.com/nodejitsu-joins-godaddy/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows

http://blog.phusion.nl/2015/02/09/traveling-ruby-20150210-smaller-supports-ruby-2-2-windows/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

React’s diff algorithm (2013)

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/diff/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

The Duct Tape Programmer

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 50 comments

The Histomap

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200375~3001080:The-Histomap-

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

I'm Brianna Wu, and I'm Risking My Life Standing Up to Gamergate

http://www.bustle.com/articles/63466-im-brianna-wu-and-im-risking-my-life-standing-up-to-gamergate

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: The Autoprotocol Language Standard for Biology

http://www.autoprotocol.org

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Titanic: Engineering Facts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmgF4ibmuk

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

The Need for Open Research in Software Security

http://breakingbits.net/2015/02/05/open-research-software-security/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments
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