top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-21

“Just the Beginning of What We Can Do on Super Nintendo”

http://blog.attractmo.de/post/111642896790/this-is-just-the-beginning-of-what-we-can-do-on

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 49 comments

Docker containers on the desktop

https://blog.jessfraz.com/posts/docker-containers-on-the-desktop.html

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 74 comments

Windows SSL Interception Gone Wild

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/windows-ssl-interception-gone-wild/1570074729899339

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 130 comments

Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck” [pdf]

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr231_E.pdf

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 69 comments

Astropad – Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

http://astropad.com/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 67 comments

An Introduction to Unix (2014)

http://www.oliverelliott.org/article/computing/tut_unix/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 58 comments

Interviewing for a JavaScript Job

http://raganwald.com/2015/02/21/interviewing-for-a-front-end-job.html

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 113 comments

GopherLua: VM and Compiler for Lua in Go

https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua

11 years ago

★ 6.8k Go MIT
147 upvotes – 16 comments

Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide

http://meowni.ca/posts/chromium-101/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 14 comments

How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45

http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: How do I start with test driven development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085695

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust

http://bsago.me/exa/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 87 comments

Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks Editor Who Helped Hide Edward Snowden

http://www.vogue.com/11122973/sarah-harrison-edward-snowden-wikileaks-nsa/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Exploiting the Superfish certificate

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/exploiting-superfish-certificate.html#.VOgck1PF9k5

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets

http://nautil.us/blog/forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 36 comments

Google undeleted whocalled.us after a front page article on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085750

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

Inside the food industry

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?

http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/what-books-could-be-used-to-rebuild-civilization-lists-by-brian-eno-stewart-brand-kevin-kelly-other-forward-thinking-minds.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 112 comments

DIY: kernel panic OS X and iOS in 10 LOC

https://medium.com/@oleavr/diy-kernel-panic-os-x-and-ios-in-10-loc-c250d9649159

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086475

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 94 comments

Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Victims of Sex Trafficking

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/20/software-eats-sex-trafficking-ycs-rescue-forensics-aids-law-enforcement-in-finding-victims/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

World's Top Arms Exporters Visualized

http://insightfulinteraction.com/armsexport.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 120 comments

Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015a

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 138 comments

The Internet Shaming of Lindsey Stone

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Lenovo's SuperFish Removal Tool on GitHub

https://github.com/lenovo-inc/superfishremoval

11 years ago

★ 209 C#
102 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What to do when all you have is talent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086501

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 133 comments

You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One Minute on AT&T

http://jeffreifman.com/2014/06/04/yes-you-can-spend-750-in-international-data-roaming-in-one-minute/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Gore: Yet another Go REPL that works nicely

https://github.com/motemen/gore

11 years ago

★ 5.4k Go MIT
90 upvotes – 17 comments

Gogo Inflight Internet is Intentionally Issuing Fake SSL Certificates

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/gogo-inflight-internet-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/20/jerry-lawson-game-pioneer/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Rust-media, a portable media player framework for Rust

https://github.com/pcwalton/rust-media

11 years ago

★ 848 Rust Apache-2.0
85 upvotes – 8 comments

Universal copy/paste in Linux

http://burrows.svbtle.com/universal-copy-paste-in-linux

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

Female Founders Conference – Live Stream [video]

http://live.femalefoundersconference.org/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

Git Achievements

http://acha-acha.co/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Stalin: The Tyrant as Editor

https://chronicle.com/article/Stalins-Blue-Pencil/142109?hn=

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

How 25 years of Photoshop changed the way we see reality

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02/19/how-25-years-of-photoshop-changed-the-way-we-see-reality

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup in San Francisco

http://tomtunguz.com/rising-costs-of-startups/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 54 comments

An ingredient in olive oil that appears to kill cancer cells

http://www.kurzweilai.net/an-ingredient-in-olive-oil-that-appears-to-kill-cancer-cells?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e9053d449d-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-e9053d449d-281895037

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Optimizing A* for grid maps

http://simblob.blogspot.com/2015/02/optimizing-for-grid-maps.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Interactive Go source to assembly

http://go.godbolt.org/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Accused British hacker, wanted for crimes in US, won’t give up crypto keys

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/accused-british-hacker-wanted-for-crimes-in-us-wont-give-up-crypto-keys/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Is it too late to do a startup after 35?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086670

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

Calaos: Open Source Home Automation

https://calaos.fr/en/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for an AI Technology

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/20/viv-built-by-siris-creators-scores-12-5-million-for-an-ai-technology-that-can-teach-itself

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

“Startup Advice”, a live class by Sam Altman, tomorrow (2/21) 1:00pm PT

https://courses.platzi.com/blog/startup-advice-live-class-sam-altman/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Do you think software can be art?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086102

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 50 comments
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