top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-20

Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy [pdf]

https://bug1134506.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8566794

11 years ago

494 upvotes – 174 comments

Startup advice, briefly

http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly

11 years ago

490 upvotes – 130 comments

Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/

11 years ago

397 upvotes – 214 comments

Too much finance is bad for the economy

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2015/02/finance-sector-and-growth

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 207 comments

Netflix Long Term View

http://ir.netflix.com/long-term-view.cfm

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 176 comments

Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average

http://stuartspencestuff.blogspot.com/2015/02/many-mcgill-education-students-cannot.html

11 years ago

289 upvotes – 274 comments

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/go-prison-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-secret-tpp-deal/#

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 87 comments

Statements about the Mobile Web

http://jlongster.com/Radical-Statements-about-the-Mobile-Web

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 174 comments

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

http://www.apple.com/ca/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 144 comments

Announcing Rust 1.0-alpha2

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/02/20/Rust-1.0-alpha2.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 39 comments

Highlight.js – Syntax highlighting for the Web

https://highlightjs.org/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 69 comments

Io.js 1.3.0 released

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md#2015-02-20-version-130-rvagg

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
158 upvotes – 92 comments

Layers – A simple WordPress site builder

http://www.layerswp.com

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 68 comments

Flow Hive: Honey on Tap Directly from Your Beehive

http://www.honeyflow.com

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 34 comments

British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code

https://www.waterstones.com/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

Twilio Positions Itself for an IPO After Logging $100M in 2014 Revenue

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-16485

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-can-save-the-grand-canyon-180954329/?no-ist

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 128 comments

Breakthrough DNA Editor Borne of Bacteria

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150206-crispr-dna-editor-bacteria

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Why schools are failing our boys

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/19/why-schools-are-failing-our-boys/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 159 comments

Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2015/02/perfect-colors-captured-with-one-ultra-thin-lens

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

IPFS Alpha Demo – Distributed Web

http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTeW79w7QQ6Npa3b1d5tANreCDxF2iDaAPsDvW6KtLmfB/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Mastering Git submodules

https://medium.com/@porteneuve/mastering-git-submodules-34c65e940407

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick

http://nautil.us/blog/mumbling-isnt-a-sign-of-lazinessits-a-clever-data_compression-trick

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

StackOverflow Considered Harmful?

http://codingthewheel.com/wc/stackoverflow-considered-harmful

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 90 comments

Handling five billion sessions a day in real time

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/handling-five-billion-sessions-a-day-in-real-time?hn

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vanport-oregon-how-countrys-largest-housing-project-vanished-day-180954040/?no-ist

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem

http://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 142 comments

Why Rockstar Developers Don't Ask for Help

http://thinkfaster.co/2015/02/why-rockstar-developers-dont-ask-for-help

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 60 comments

The Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/magazine/meet-the-unlikely-airbnb-hosts-of-japan.html?_r=1

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

How Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan Created 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (2013)

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/08/how-lucas-spielberg-kasdan-created-raiders-of-the-lost-ark

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

Google Webfonts, the Spy Inside?

http://fontfeed.com/archives/google-webfonts-the-spy-inside/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 77 comments

She: The Strathclyde Haskell Enhancement

https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/she/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

A World Made of Rotor Blades

http://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/02/a-world-made-of-rotor-blades.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Coffeescript 1.9.0 contains a backwards incompatible change

http://blog.davidbanham.com/articles/coffeescript-psa/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

The co-op consultancy

http://j4p3.com/the-co-op-consultancy

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Building Building Blocks

https://segment.com/blog/building-building-blocks/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

On the Pricing of Apple Watch

http://daringfireball.net/2015/02/apple_watch_pricing

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Would the job postings be better with comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9083569

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

“Discuss latest changes to master before releasing”

https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2061

11 years ago

★ 27.3k JavaScript MIT
59 upvotes – 27 comments

The Last of the Typewriter Men

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-last-of-the-typewriter-men-729f150c5083

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Human DNA enlarges mouse brains

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/02/human-dna-enlarges-mouse-brains

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Quiet Linear Mechanical Keyboard Switch Designed by the Open Steno Project

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-steno-project/mechanical-keyboard-switch

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

Go-gl: Massive Overhaul

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zORKEEFPsJ5AujtPbtQYQquvAopuXb3whWud1sA7nAE/edit?usp=sharing

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Sentiment Analysis – how to handle biased word list lengths?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079751

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript

http://wtfleming.github.io//2015/02/19/d3-force-directed-graph/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

How FarmLogs Is Building Software to Power the Future of Farming

http://stackshare.io/posts/how-farmlogs-is-building-software-to-power-the-future-of-farming

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments
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