top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-15

Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html?utm_hp_ref=india

11 years ago

602 upvotes – 195 comments

Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows

https://ma.ttias.be/remote-code-execution-via-http-request-in-iis-on-windows/?hn

11 years ago

458 upvotes – 186 comments

Space X CR6 First stage landing

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

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 199 comments

No Longer an Inspiration

http://www.gina.codes/2015/04/13/no-longer-an-inspiration.html

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 203 comments

Building an Empire with a Single Brick: Meet Patrick McKenzie

http://blog.bench.co/patrick-mckenzie?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=p_mac&utm_campaign=twitter_spon_p_mac

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 96 comments

Graph of Foursquare's Popularity After Removing Check-Ins

http://www.junkyardsam.com/blog/2015/4/15/foursquare

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 169 comments

OVH threatens to leave if latest French surveillance law passes

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2015/04/15/europes-1-hosting-provider-threatens-leave-latest-french-surveillance-law-passes/

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 107 comments

Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B

http://recode.net/2015/04/14/nokia-agrees-to-buy-alcatel-lucent-for-16-6-billion/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 117 comments

The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join

https://medium.com/@jlengstorf/the-cult-of-work-you-never-meant-to-join-cd965fb9ea1a

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 93 comments

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Foursquare

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/sources-yahoo-in-talks-to-buy-foursquare/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 83 comments

Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 66 comments

Hey startup parasites: We don't have time for you

http://anothersb.blogspot.com/2015/04/hey-startup-parasites-we-dont-have-time.html

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments

Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Applications

https://www.box.com/blog/introducing-t3-enabling-large-scale-javascript-applications/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 109 comments

New Mexico outlaws civil asset forfeiture

https://www.aclu-nm.org/victory-new-mexico-governor-signs-historic-property-rights-protections-into-law/2015/04/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 57 comments

The Dark side of .io TLD

http://www.thedarksideof.io/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/eu-google/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 295 comments

The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/the-right-dose-of-exercise-for-a-longer-life/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 52 comments

City of Helsinki

https://github.com/City-of-Helsinki/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 6 comments

PyFormat – Practical examples of old and new style string formatting

http://pyformat.info

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 65 comments

Computer Science by Mail

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2015/04/13/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 50 comments

GNU Hurd 0.6 released

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.hurd.bugs/27135

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 113 comments

Travel in the USA Requires ID

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2014/12/25/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 137 comments

Making Python 3 more attractive

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/640179/06c2868dffb2aec3/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 163 comments

Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/style/keeping-your-car-safe-from-electronic-thieves.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 102 comments

32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's That Bad

http://ewontfix.com/18/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 102 comments

Netflix HTTPS performance experiments for large scale content distribution

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2015Apr/0027.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 31 comments

Patient Zero of the selfie age: Why JenniCam abandoned her digital life

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/patient-zero-of-the-selfie-age-why-jennicam-abandoned-her-digital-life/story-fnjwnhzf-1227304870372

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 30 comments

How AeroPress Fans Are Hacking Their Way to a Better Cup of Coffee

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/14/399337724/how-aeropress-fans-are-hacking-their-way-to-a-better-cup-of-coffee

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 122 comments

Common Lisp as a Scripting Language, 2015 Edition

http://fare.livejournal.com/184127.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Centuries of Italian History Are Unearthed in a Quest to Fix a Toilet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

100 Days as a Black Man in Silicon Valley

http://verysmartbrothas.com/100-days-ablackman-silicon-valley/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 129 comments

Reference cycle bug in Rust's scoped threads

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24292

11 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
106 upvotes – 23 comments

Boolean parameters to API functions considered harmful (2011)

http://jlebar.com/2011/12/16/Boolean_parameters_to_API_functions_considered_harmful..html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 82 comments

Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Remote Code Execution

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-034

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments

Database of all Marvel characters

http://marvelousdb.com/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Lessons in Electric Circuits

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/index.htm

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html?_r=0

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 150 comments

Triangulation Conjecture Disproved

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150113-a-proof-that-some-spaces-cant-be-cut/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Atom.io: Multi-Folder Projects

http://blog.atom.io/2015/04/15/multi-folder-projects.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 1 comments

Problems with CAP, and Yahoo’s little known NoSQL system

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-and-yahoos-little.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Afl-fuzz: making up grammar with a dictionary in hand

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/01/afl-fuzz-making-up-grammar-with.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Infinite Ulysses

http://www.infiniteulysses.com/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Dark matter becomes less 'ghostly'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32303622?ocid=socialflow_twitter

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 53 comments

What’s it like to have Google and Amazon try to kill your startup?

http://fusion.net/story/119202/q-and-a-whats-it-like-to-have-google-and-amazon-try-to-kill-your-start-up/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 60 comments

New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0: PIC in 32 bit mode

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/12/26/new-optimizations-for-x86-in-upcoming-gcc-50-32bit-pic-mode

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Introducing the Dropbox bug bounty program

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/04/introducing-our-bug-bounty-program/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Cheese from the same proteins as milk, but from genetically modified yeast

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/diy-biotech-vegan-cheese/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

Inside Abbey Road

https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Writing a Redis client in pure Bash

http://digitalserb.me/writing-a-redis-client-in-pure-bash/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

How Enums Spread Disease – And How to Cure It (2012)

http://codecraft.co/2012/10/29/how-enums-spread-disease-and-how-to-cure-it/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/video/30/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Rebooting a 1970s satellite with modern software and hardware

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/rebooting-a-1970s-satellite-with-modern-software-and-hardware.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Parserator – A family of probabalistic parsers

http://parserator.datamade.us/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Terminally Ill Man Willing to Have World's First Full Head Transplant

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/terminally-ill-man-to-have-worlds-first-full-head-transplant.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 47 comments

Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 124 comments

California's Broken Jaywalking Law

https://systemicfailure.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/californias-broken-jaywalking-law/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 65 comments

Self-host a scientific journal with eLife Lens

https://medium.com/@_mql/self-host-a-scientific-journal-with-elife-lens-f420afb678aa

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Continuous Deployment with Freight

http://blog.getsentry.com/2015/04/15/introducing-freight.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Building a Distributed Fault-Tolerant Key-Value Store

http://blog.fourthbit.com/2015/04/12/building-a-distributed-fault-tolerant-key-value-store#.VS7k6ien4Cs.hackernews

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

Tinder Cuddles Up to Instagram in Latest Update

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/tinder-cuddles-up-to-instagram-in-latest-update/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 42 comments
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