top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-04

Get your own USB PID

http://pid.codes/

11 years ago

528 upvotes – 50 comments

The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1284-the-truth-about-the-bitcoin-foundation/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 266 comments

IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

http://ipfs.io/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 74 comments

Obama signs executive order allowing government to seize hackers assets

https://rare.us/story/obama-just-signed-an-executive-order-that-lets-the-government-seize-suspected-hackers-money-and-stuff/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 110 comments

If a Caller Says, 'I Am with the IRS,' He's Not

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/03/397092679/if-a-caller-says-i-am-with-the-irs-hes-not

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 124 comments

Some thoughts after (almost) a year of real Xamarin use

http://www.estaun.net/blog/some-thoughts-after-almost-a-year-of-real-xamarin-use/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 109 comments

Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 62 comments

Migrating from Heroku to AWS using Docker

http://blog.doordash.com/post/115409532041/migrating-from-heroku-to-aws-using-docker

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 54 comments

Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

The lack of HTTPS at Amazon: identifying items purchased via information leakage

http://smerity.com/articles/2015/amazon_information_leakage.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Tor Project Launches Summer of Privacy

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/TorSoP

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 8 comments

Cheese changed the course of Western civilization

http://qz.com/371839/cheese-changed-the-course-of-western-civilization/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/03/steven-weinberg-13-best-science-books-general-reader

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad

https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/apply-2/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

Georgia: Why so many counties?

http://jimcofer.com/personal/2011/05/18/georgia-why-so-many-counties/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

x86 Disassembly

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

Edelson’s Class-Action Privacy Suits Could Make Him Tech’s Least Friended Man

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 91 comments

The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (2012)

http://www.bennjordan.com/blog/?p=499

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

GNU Recutils – Tools and libraries to access plain-text databases

http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

The Last Man to Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. Still Regrets It

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/sports/the-last-man-to-beat-floyd-mayweather-jr-still-regrets-it.html?smid=fb-nytimes&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&bicmp=AD&smtyp=aut&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Postmodern Ponzi Schemes: Empirical Analysis of High-Yield Investment Programs [pdf]

http://digitalrepository.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=engineering_compsci_research

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Arduino TRE

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

Compilers in OpenBSD (2013)

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Exploring ML-Style Modular Programming in Scala

https://github.com/yawaramin/scala-modules/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 146 Scala MIT
72 upvotes – 10 comments

'Revenge porn’ site runner gets 18 years in prison

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Revenge-porn-site-runner-gets-18-years-in-6178500.php

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 79 comments

A 20nm 32-Core 64MB L3 Cache SPARC M7 Processor

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7062931&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7062931

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Raven paradox

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

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

Pack arbitrary files into PNG and access them using JavaScript

https://github.com/haxorplatform/web-bundle

11 years ago

★ 362 JavaScript MIT
67 upvotes – 29 comments

Programming by Coincidence

https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/coincidence

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

“There Is Only Awe” – on Julian Jaynes

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/there-is-only-awe/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Timeless Decision Theory [pdf]

http://intelligence.org/files/TDT.pdf

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

Watching Them Turn Off the Rothkos

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-them-turn-off-the-rothkos

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Wanting the Unwanted: Why Eat Weeds

http://www.rootedfood.com/musings/2015/4/1/a-foraged-affair

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Making an open-source 2D physics iOS game in 2 weeks

http://www.sparepartsapp.com/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: How much do you remember from books you read only once?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321375

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 48 comments

Music: A Mathematical Offering (2008)

http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/maths-music.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 2 comments

A Git Style Guide

https://github.com/agis-/git-style-guide

11 years ago

★ 5.1k CC-BY-4.0
42 upvotes – 6 comments
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