top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-23

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/laura-poitras-citizenfour-awarded-oscar-best-documentary-2014

11 years ago

647 upvotes – 156 comments

Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/

11 years ago

559 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry

http://swizec.github.io/h1b-software-salaries/#2014-ca-engineer

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 240 comments

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 122 comments

“This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c90aa6a0abe93ad7a

11 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
306 upvotes – 126 comments

Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/865-Comodo-ships-Adware-Privdog-worse-than-Superfish.html

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 46 comments

Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture

http://ryanclark.me/getting-started-with-flux/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 73 comments

Linux 4.0-rc1 out

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 50 comments

React Tips and Best Practices

http://aeflash.com/2015-02/react-tips-and-best-practices.html

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 41 comments

The Superfish Funder List

http://qntra.net/2015/02/the-superfish-funder-list/

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 84 comments

Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887392/lenovo-hit-with-lawsuit-over-superfish-snafu.html

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 92 comments

Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OS X

http://zitseng.com/archives/7489

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 85 comments

EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-outlines-plan-fix-broken-patent-system

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 56 comments

Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from silicon at 7nm

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/intel-forges-ahead-to-10nm-will-move-away-from-silicon-at-7nm/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092246

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 180 comments

The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2015/02/23/the-emterpreter-run-code-before-it-can-be-parsed/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 79 comments

Texas Hold'em Hand Strength, Visualized

http://chrisbeaumont.org/holdem_odds/#8H+QS

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 62 comments

Cool-retro-term

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

11 years ago

★ 25.4k QML
176 upvotes – 47 comments

As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/nyregion/as-office-space-shrinks-so-does-privacy-for-workers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 171 comments

There exists a classical model of the photon after all

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/02/23/maxwell/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 84 comments

Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/02/23/bug-finding-is-slow-in-spite-of-many-eyeballs/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 67 comments

How gzip uses Huffman coding

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/02/22/how-gzip-uses-huffman-coding/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 6 comments

Hacking Oklahoma State University's Student ID

http://snelling.io/hacking-oklahoma-state-university-student-id

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 49 comments

Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

How I Got to the App Store Top with a Simple Currency App

http://kukuruku.co/hub/ios/how-i-got-to-the-app-store-top-with-a-simple-currency-app

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 32 comments

Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/02/19/software-architect-role/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 82 comments

Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/23/marijuana-may-be-even-safer-than-previously-thought-researchers-say/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 197 comments

How Etsy Alienated Its Crafters and Lost Its Soul

http://wired.com/2015/02/etsy-not-good-for-crafters/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux Profiling at Netflix

http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/scale2015-linux-perfprofiling

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

Apple invests €1.7B in renewable energy data centres in Denmark and Ireland

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/02/23Apple-to-Invest-1-7-Billion-in-New-European-Data-Centres.html?1424678531

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/dna-generated-faces.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 32 comments

Early exposure 'cuts peanut allergy' by over 80%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31550816

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 68 comments

Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning

https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

How I Wrote an Ultra-Fast DNA Sequence Alignment Algorithm in JavaScript

https://medium.com/@keithwhor/nbeam-how-i-wrote-an-ultra-fast-dna-sequence-alignment-algorithm-in-javascript-c199e936da

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

On meta-design and algorithmic design systems

http://runemadsen.com/blog/on-meta-design-and-algorithmic-design-systems/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 25 comments

What Happened with Lego: The price of a brick

https://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happened_with_lego/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/laura-poitras-crypto-tools-made-snowden-film-possible/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/youtube-kids.html?m=0

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 72 comments

Replicating SQLite using Raft Consensus

http://www.philipotoole.com/replicating-sqlite-using-raft-consensus/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

UI Workers

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/NCRdw4eYOrc/0LZH73t-0hwJ

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 5 comments

Google Vietnam Compromised?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092700

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business

http://blog.sendsonar.com/2015/02/23/add-magic-to-your-business/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 69 comments

Scrawl – A modern, cross-platform C#, VB.NET and JavaScript IDE

https://fluentco.de/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 69 comments

Debian: Transition plan to systemd by default

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/02/msg00013.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 136 comments

List of available 2 letter domain names

https://catechgory.com/2-letter-domain-names/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 59 comments

Samba remote execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240)

https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/02/23/samba-vulnerability-cve-2015-0240/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

FreeBSD on the POWER8: it's alive

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2015/02/freebsd-on-power8-its-alive.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Citizenfour HD

http://cryptome.org/Citizenfour-HD.7z

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

SVG Path Strings

http://roadtolarissa.com/blog/2015/02/22/svg-path-strings/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Inception – Break and Enter Using Direct Memory Access

http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

The Psychology of Doing Nothing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9zWLDfysis

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Wallet and Softcard

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2015/02/tap-tap-whos-there-google-wallet-and.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

NEO GEO: Open source development kit

https://github.com/dciabrin/ngdevkit

11 years ago

★ 337 Python LGPL-3.0
63 upvotes – 12 comments

Women are leaving the tech industry in droves

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-women-tech-20150222-story.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Stenographer – A full-packet-capture utility

https://github.com/google/stenographer

11 years ago

★ 1.8k Go Apache-2.0
61 upvotes – 21 comments

Tensioned Suspension – Sculptures Suspending Themselves

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/tensioned-suspension.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Tensegrity

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

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

One-to-one relationships and subresources in REST APIs

http://developers.lyst.com/2015/02/20/1-to-1-relationships-and-subresources-in-rest-apis/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Japanese Food Models, Yesterday and Today

http://www.tofugu.com/2014/05/15/japanese-food-models-yesterday-and-today/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

How SQLite Is Tested

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Advice for first time founders

https://medium.com/@DavidMack/advice-for-first-time-founders-3834f02cd3b0

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments
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