top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-19

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers/

11 years ago

1142 upvotes – 419 comments

Extracting the SuperFish certificate

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html

11 years ago

867 upvotes – 231 comments

Stripe: Bitcoin

https://stripe.com/bitcoin

11 years ago

855 upvotes – 368 comments

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html

11 years ago

625 upvotes – 121 comments

How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast

https://medium.com/ted-fellows/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-really-fast-d27df202ba09

11 years ago

592 upvotes – 88 comments

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

11 years ago

576 upvotes – 195 comments

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/hacker-claims-feds-hit-44-felonies-refused-fbi-spy/

11 years ago

351 upvotes – 108 comments

Lenovo Statement on Superfish

http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 304 comments

Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/02/18/microsoft-google-swap/?

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 166 comments

The Poor Man's Voxel Engine

http://et1337.com/2015/02/18/the-poor-mans-voxel-engine/#

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 49 comments

Dell XPS 13 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8983/dell-xps-13-review

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 297 comments

EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-fourth-amendment-covers-dna-collection

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 67 comments

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (2008)

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9075768

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 117 comments

Postico – A modern PostgreSQL client for OS X

https://eggerapps.at/postico

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Gun v0.1.0 – The Easiest Database Ever

http://gundb.io/#step1

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL

http://www.sqlteaching.com/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 59 comments

CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp

http://cl21.org/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 100 comments

Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol

http://www.andjosh.com/2015/02/15/using-open-protocols/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 131 comments

Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

https://www.graylog.org/announcing-graylog-v1-0-ga/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

Bayes' Theorem with Lego

http://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/bayes-theorem-with-lego

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 17 comments

Komodia SSL certificates are in many products

http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/will-the-madness-never-end-komodia-ssl-certificates-are-everywhere/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 65 comments

HTTP/2 Approved

http://www.ietf.org/blog/2015/02/http2-approved/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

The Billion Dollar Startup Club

http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/#2015

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 73 comments

Thousands of people are watching this guy code a search engine

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/thousands-of-people-are-watching-this-guy-code-a-search-engine

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

An IoT dashboard

http://dashboard.sidlee.com/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 79 comments

Arcosanti

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

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Compute Engine Is Down

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15045

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

Apparently transparent – CSS3D HTML5 Experiment

http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/apparently-transparent

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

Loci: A C++-like systems programming language

http://loci-lang.org

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Non-official MtGox investigation update and preliminary release

http://blog.wizsec.jp/2015/02/mtgox-investigation-release.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Basic Personality Changes Linked to Unemployment

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/02/personality-unemployment.aspx

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 42 comments

Moving Forward with Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/02/18/moving-forward-with-firefox/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Major+Changes+from+Solr+4+to+Solr+5

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic

http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 119 comments

Your subconscious is smarter than you might think

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150217-how-smart-is-your-subconscious

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Epic Games launches Unreal development grants

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/epic-launches-unreal-dev-grants

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9073917

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 164 comments

Bup – An efficient backup system based on the git packfile format

https://bup.github.io/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Italian bank's almost risk-free cash-for-cheese loan

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/15/business/parmesan-cheese-bank-mpe/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

How Japan's Line app became a culture-changing, revenue-generating phenomenon

http://www.fastcompany.com/3041578/most-innovative-companies-2015/how-japans-line-app-became-a-culture-changing-revenue-generat

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple Poaching Auto Engineers to Build Battery Division

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/02/18/business/18reuters-apple-autos-lawsuit.html?ref=business&_r=0

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/inbox-by-gmail-now-in-more-places.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

Lenovo CTO: We’re Working to Wipe Superfish App Off of PCs

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/19/lenovo-cto-were-working-to-wipe-superfish-app-off-of-pcs/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Entrepreneur First Demo Day

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/entrepreneur-first-hatches-latest-startups-partners-with-media-power-players/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

Using Google Cloud Platform for Security Scanning

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/02/using-google-cloud-platform-for.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 2 comments

A simple test for Lenovo users, to check if they are affected by Superfish

https://filippo.io/Badfish/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Scott Aaronson, from computational complexity to quantum mechanics

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/ingenious-scott-aaronson

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Lua/C for mobile devices – Please tell me what you think

https://github.com/vladpalos/PrimaLuce

11 years ago

★ 39 C MIT
58 upvotes – 12 comments

Govern Node Right

http://nodegovernance.io/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Super Cheap Data Backups with Amazon Glacier Storage

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/02/15/cheap-long-term-backup-amazon-glacier-storage/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments
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