top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-09

Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-api-to-root-privileges-in-apple-os-x/

11 years ago

920 upvotes – 356 comments

Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?

http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me

11 years ago

493 upvotes – 117 comments

Amazon Elastic File System

http://aws.amazon.com/efs/

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 213 comments

Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-04-08-osx-security-bug.html

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 74 comments

U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade

http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 229 comments

LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/linkedin-to-buy-online-education-site-lynda-com-for-1-5-billion/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 147 comments

Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand

http://blog.mobilejazz.com/working-remotely-from-a-tropical-island-in-thailand/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 187 comments

Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2015/Worlds-Smallest-Computer-Michigan-Micro-Mote.html

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 53 comments

Boltons: over 100 Python utilities

http://github.com/mahmoud/boltons

11 years ago

★ 6.8k Python
282 upvotes – 53 comments

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-machine-learning-make-data-driven-decisions-at-scale/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 51 comments

“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make

http://blog.jgc.org/2015/04/the-gnu-make-book-probably-more-than.html

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346313

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 388 comments

Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 153 comments

'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/09/jp-morgan-warns-silicon-valley-is-coming/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 158 comments

NYC Pension Earns $40M Over 10 Years, Pays Fund Managers $2B

http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/04/09/nyc-pension-earns-40-million-over-10-years-pays-fund-managers-2-billion/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 88 comments

A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)

http://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code

https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanything

11 years ago

★ 928 JavaScript
155 upvotes – 93 comments

On software popularity

http://soveran.com/popularity.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

Can life exist on a planet without a star?

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/can-life-exist-on-a-planet-without-a-star/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-postgresql-for-cloudflare-analytics-using-citusdb/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 11 comments

Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

http://www.vrworld.com/2015/04/07/usa-shocks-intel-ban-on-china-xeon-supercomputers/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 93 comments

SSLMate – Buy SSL certs from the command line

https://sslmate.com

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

XFS: There and back and there again?

https://lwn.net/Articles/638546/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer

http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/cghist/juggler_rt.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Amphetamines Are Hiding in Your Supplements

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/08/amphetamines-hiding-in-your-supplements.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 72 comments

Raising Money in London Almost Killed Our Startup

https://medium.com/good-audience/raising-money-in-london-almost-killed-our-startup-6ed9fca1ba88

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 68 comments

MIT Announces New Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/mit-launches-idss-0408

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Readability, hackability, and abstraction

http://www.benkuhn.net/rha

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: What are the books that changed the perspective of your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348119

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 118 comments

The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the Miracle on Hudson

http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/fear-in-the-cockpit

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 109 comments

Why the World Is Obsessed with Midcentury Modern Design

http://curbed.com/archives/2015/04/08/why-everyone-is-obsessed-with-midcentury-modern-design.php

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

Netflix algorithm tells you when your best employee is about to leave you

http://thestack.com/workday-netflix-algorithm-employee-leave-090415

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

What the Deer Are Telling Us

http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/what-the-deer-are-telling-us-rd

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 142 comments

Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structured-data-from-recipes-using-conditional-random-fields/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

The evolution of dog breeds

http://priceonomics.com/endangered-dog-breeds-and-the-market-forces-behind/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Expired SSL certificate

https://manjaro.github.io/expired_SSL_certificate/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

Golang custom transports and timeouts

http://biasedbit.com/blog/golang-custom-transports/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

CSS Framework for Dummies

https://github.com/yegor256/tacit

11 years ago

★ 1.8k HTML MIT
77 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Laundromatch – Community-based laundry services

https://www.laundromatchapp.com/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

HAMMER2 design document

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/b93cc2e0815ec1ad6d6f8e60cc0becbdee247679:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 7 comments

How InnoDB lost its advantage

http://dom.as/2015/04/09/how-innodb-lost-its-advantage/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

The Tangled History of Soviet Computer Science

http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/how-the-computer-got-its-revenge-on-the-soviet-union

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Amazon sues to block fake reviews on its site

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-sues-to-block-fake-reviews-on-its-site/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook faces class action suit over EU privacy laws

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32229285

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Multiplayer game in WebGL/JavaScript with full source

https://github.com/lallassu/wizardwarz

11 years ago

★ 308 JavaScript MIT
62 upvotes – 10 comments

Lessons from porting integration tests from Ruby to Haskell

https://blog.pusher.com/porting-the-pusher-integration-tests-to-haskell/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

Sell in May, and go away?

http://www.agoraopus.com/blog/2015/sell-in-may-and-go-away

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

How to close a running process's socket

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/closing-a-socket.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Gradual type checking for Ruby

https://github.com/gogotanaka/Rubype

11 years ago

★ 375 Ruby
60 upvotes – 42 comments

Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/technology/phone-cameras-and-apps-help-speed-calls-for-police-reform.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 48 comments

Rachmaninov on the future of broadcasting (1931)

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/rachmaninov-on-the-future-of-broadcasting

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Linuxbrew – A fork of Homebrew for Linux

http://brew.sh/linuxbrew/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 67 comments
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