top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-12

Deleting any Facebook album

http://www.7xter.com/2015/02/how-i-hacked-your-facebook-photos.html

11 years ago

506 upvotes – 97 comments

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0

11 years ago

401 upvotes – 569 comments

Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 90 comments

0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1

http://0hn0.com/

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 91 comments

New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/02/12/this-new-tesla-battery-will-power-your-home-and-maybe-the-electric-grid-too/

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 251 comments

Rat Park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 70 comments

Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 122 comments

A regular expression to check for prime numbers

http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 67 comments

GnuPG 2.1.2 released

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000361.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 28 comments

Principal component analysis explained visually

http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 22 comments

A blog engine written and proven in Coq

http://coq-blog.clarus.me/a-blog-engine-written-and-proven-in-coq.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 58 comments

Http2 explained

http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 65 comments

Memrefuting

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 37 comments

Expedia Buys Orbitz for $1.6B in Cash

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/expedia-buys-orbitz-for-1-6b-in-cash-to-square-up-to-priceline/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 73 comments

The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language

http://mikedrivendevelopment.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-incredible-rewards-of-creating.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 87 comments

Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over-failing-to-caption-online-courses.html?_r=0

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 298 comments

Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark

https://jimshaver.net/2015/02/11/decrypting-tls-browser-traffic-with-wireshark-the-easy-way/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

The Black Magic of Java Method Dispatch

http://shipilev.net/blog/2015/black-magic-method-dispatch/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Toxic – A distributed, secure, command-line based instant messenging client

https://github.com/Tox/toxic

11 years ago

★ 1.2k C GPL-3.0
127 upvotes – 81 comments

An Opinionated Clojure CQRS/ES Using Onyx, Datomic, DynamoDB, Kafka

http://yuppiechef.github.io/cqrs-server/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Grafana 2.0 Alpha

http://grafana.org/blog/2015/02/10/Grafana-2-Alpha-and-preview.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

May Bayes Theorem Be with You

http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/02/12/may-bayes-theorem-be-with-you/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

How the New York Times Works

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a14030/how-the-new-york-times-works/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 19 comments

Japan's Oldest Businesses Have Survived for More Than 1,000 Years

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/japans-oldest-businesses-have-lasted-more-than-a-thousand-years/385396?single_page=true

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

An Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/02/12/central-limit-theorem-intro/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Bitcore Playground: Interactive Code Examples for Bitcoin

http://bitcore.io/playground

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 4 comments

A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Harder to Reverse-Engineer

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/crypto-trick-makes-software-nearly-impossible-reverse-engineer/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts with R and ggplot2

http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

A Plumber’s Guide to Starships Part 4 – Materials in High Radiation Environments

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/a-plumbers-guide-to-starships-part-4-materials-in-high-radiation-environments/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Portal - Run apps on your own easy to use cloud server

https://portalplatform.net/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

Go Escape Analysis Flaws

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CxgUBPlx9iJzkz9JWkb6tIpTe5q32QDmz8l0BouG0Cw/preview?sle=true

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/belarus-artist-home-made-soviet-car-fantasy

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

The bell has tolled for rand()

http://cpp.indi.frih.net/blog/2014/12/the-bell-has-tolled-for-rand/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Peer-To-peer Architecture Could Save Streaming Video

http://www.webrtcworld.com/topics/webrtc-world/articles/394474-peer-to-peer-architecture-could-save-streaming-video.htm

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/apple-pairs-with-pinterest-for-better-app-discovery/?_r=0

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Locust – Testing framework simulating the burstiness of an end user

https://truveris.github.io/articles/locust/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

HealthSherpa (YC S12) has processed more than 3% of healthcare.gov enrollments

http://blog.healthsherpa.com/3-percent

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple Increases Maximum App Size from 2GB to 4GB

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02122015a

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 78 comments

Tagged Logging in Go

http://blog.fogcreek.com/there-are-gophers-with-gifts-at-fog-creek/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolina-inmates-sent-solitary-confinement-over-facebook

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-12/does-a-real-anti-aging-pill-already-exist-

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

Developer Program Transition Guide

https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

The mystery of Mingering Mike: the soul legend who never existed

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/11/-sp-mystery-of-mingering-mike-the-soul-legend-who-never-existed-jon-ronson

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

NASA ISS 2015 Calendar [pdf]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/np-2014-11-021-jsc-iss-calendar-2015-web.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Vega, Sri Lanka's All-Electric Supercar

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150211-meet-vega-sri-lankas-900-horsepower-supercar

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Possible unconventional computing techniques of the future

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/moores-law-is-about-to-get-weird

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

The Importance of Anxiety

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-anxiety-is-the-secret-of-feeling-good/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AeonMagazineEssays+%28Aeon+Magazine+Essays%29

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

Chip and PIN

http://tombell93.co.uk/?p=14

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Bootstrappers, what do you do during down time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9038033

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Got hired for a position that doesn't exist. How do I leave?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9038733

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments

Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/11/jet-coms-valuation-nears-600-million-before-launch/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 57 comments

Bringing Transit to Nairobi's Streets

https://medium.com/@transitapp/hello-nairobi-cc27bb5a73b7

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

WebRTC 1.0: Real-Time Communication Between Browsers Draft Published

http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4365

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

Why Ruby's attr_accessor is faster than getters and setters

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/files/method.h?#annotation=4081781&line=47

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

The Two Big Bangs

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-two-big-bangs-1493194f5cd9

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments
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