top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-16

“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

11 years ago

870 upvotes – 362 comments

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 131 comments

The Software Revolution

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-software-revolution

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 388 comments

Routing on OpenStreetMap.org

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/02/16/routing-on-openstreetmap-org/

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 85 comments

Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 150 comments

Sortie en mer – A trip out to sea

http://sortieenmer.com

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 79 comments

You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series

http://youdontknowjs.com

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058437

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 104 comments

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 145 comments

Why life is absurd

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/why-life-is-absurd

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 143 comments

Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar

https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats

11 years ago

★ 6.5k HTML MIT
176 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator

http://framesynthesis.com/drivingsimulator/maps/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 42 comments

The Elm Architecture

https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial#the-elm-architecture

11 years ago

★ 4.1k Elm BSD-3-Clause
156 upvotes – 35 comments

How we built the new BBC Homepage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/47a96d23-ae04-444e-808f-678e6809765d

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 94 comments

Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-megaupload-conspiracy-pleads-guilty-copyright-infringement-charges-and-sentenced-one

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 147 comments

Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths

http://videlalvaro.github.io/2015/02/programming-myths.html?

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 73 comments

Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 53 comments

Million User Webchat with Full Stack Flux, React, Redis and PostgreSQL

https://blog.rotenberg.io/million-user-webchat-with-full-stack-flux-react-redis-and-postgresql/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

https://nomadhouse.io

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

You can't control the internet. GCHQ needs to grow up and accept it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/11411166/You-cant-control-the-internet.-GCHQ-needs-to-grow-up-and-accept-it.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments

An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No

http://gutsybroads.com/2015/02/investor-wanted-give-50000-heres-said-no/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 188 comments

Deb.haskell.org Security Breach

https://status.haskell.org/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/02/16/microsoft-adopts-first-international-cloud-privacy-standard/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 57 comments

8OD – Arduino form-factor Intel 8086

http://tech.mattmillman.com/8od/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be?

http://chronicle.com/article/Can-the-Human-Brain-Project-Be/190031/?key=HWNxIQxsYHVGMS4wYG1KZz1dayFsMBl8Y35PPngjblFWFQ==

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 81 comments

The Commodore 65

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/c65.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

My Second Hackathon Changed My Life

http://news.mlh.io/second-hackathon-changed-my-life-02-12-2015

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Nukes ready to fly

https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/fo0505_nuclearweaponsw25001.gif

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go

https://github.com/alfredxing/calc

11 years ago

★ 464 Go MIT
94 upvotes – 33 comments

Shoegaze: an oral history

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/shoegaze-oral-history-slowdive-ride-lush/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

HTTP Strict Transport Security Comes to Internet Explorer

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/16/http-strict-transport-security-comes-to-internet-explorer.aspx

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

When Grandmasters Blunder: Even the best make mistakes

https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/when-grandmasters-blunder-a819860b883d

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

The Photoshop of Sound

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/wizards-sound

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Bug Report 949446: “i can see all source code of all projects”

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949446

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook's Name Policy Strikes Again, This Time at Native Americans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-time-native-americans

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terrible for 30 Years

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/mixologys-dark-ages-why-drinks-were-neon-sugary-and-terrible-for-three-decades

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 95 comments

You can use vi mode editing in any program that uses readline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055523

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter

http://pygments.org/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Could driverless cars own themselves?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30998361

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 60 comments

How to die at Los Alamos

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/02/13/how-to-die-at-los-alamos/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Google and blogs: “Shit.”

http://www.marco.org/2015/02/16/google-and-blogs-shit

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: As a young developer, how can I launch a successful freelancing career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058266

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

What are your favourite sci-fi books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056319

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Application Design book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617291951/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Did GCHQ illegally spy on you?

https://privacyinternational.org/illegalspying

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Testing HTTP caching in Go

http://www.sanarias.com/blog/215TestingHTTPcachinginGo

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Direct Match (YC W15) Aims to Make Bond Trading as Easy as Stock Trading

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/15/yc-startup-direct-match-aims-to-make-bond-trading-as-easy-as-stock-trading/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

How (!not) to make a 404 page

http://www.bloomberg.com/2010-12-01/galaxy-leads-casino-operators-higher-after-macau-revenue-surge

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself

http://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2015/02/to-child-often-box-toy-came-in-is-more.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Why science is so hard to believe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-science-is-so-hard-to-believe/2015/02/12/2ff8f064-b0a0-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 78 comments

Moths' Long Tails Are Jammers for Bat Sonar

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/top-gun-but-for-insects-these-moths-long-tails-are-jammers-for-bat-sonar

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Is Svbtle Dead?

https://news.layervault.com/stories/44300-is-svbtle-dead

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Writing Code for Humans

https://medium.com/@ilyothehorrid/writing-code-for-humans-5b80a89f439c

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: OWebl – An OCaml Web Framework

https://github.com/eatonphil/owebl

11 years ago

★ 157 OCaml
55 upvotes – 12 comments

HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language

http://neilk.net/blog/2015/02/14/heartforth/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (2003)

http://simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments
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