top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-07

Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses

https://github.com/zrm/snow

11 years ago

★ 780 C++
444 upvotes – 92 comments

Project Oberon

http://www.projectoberon.com/

11 years ago

417 upvotes – 87 comments

Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/technology/code-specialists-oppose-us-and-british-government-access-to-encrypted-communication.html

11 years ago

417 upvotes – 217 comments

Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844806

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 154 comments

What’s New in Python 3.5

https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/3.5.html

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 131 comments

I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders

https://hellowebapp.com/news/how-i-launched-my-learn-to-code-book-and-made-nearly-5000-in-pre-orders

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 105 comments

CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/business/cvs-health-quits-us-chamber-over-stance-on-smoking.html?smid=fb-share

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 205 comments

How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-differences/201101/how-can-there-still-be-sex-difference-even-when-there-is

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 272 comments

Om Next – David Nolen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNs9TG30E8&

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 48 comments

The Max Headroom TV Hack

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-freakiest-tv-hack-of-the-1980s-max-headroom/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 81 comments

Porting third-party programs to TempleOS

http://blog.jwhitham.org/2015/07/porting-third-party-programs-to-templeos.html?

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Optimization Tools

https://developers.google.com/optimization/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 40 comments

The Mob's IT Department

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-mob-technology-consultants-help-drug-traffickers/

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 66 comments

Two months in inner Mongolia

http://jack.ventures/inner-mongolia-2014/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 56 comments

A Profitable and Legal Way to Game the Stock Market

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-07/the-hugely-profitable-wholly-legal-way-to-game-the-stock-market

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 79 comments

Why is finance so complex? (2011)

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 144 comments

To Be Continuous

http://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/to-be-continuous

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 51 comments

YC startups that are hiring

https://triplebyte.com/ycombinator-startups

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 75 comments

Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go

http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

http://lc.cx/Zf2P

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111373

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 69 comments

Prime Number Patterns

http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple Watch Pixels

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2015/07/apple-watch-pixels/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: ttystudio – a terminal-to-gif recorder without the headaches

https://github.com/chjj/ttystudio

11 years ago

★ 3.2k JavaScript
118 upvotes – 29 comments

Can You Really Game Index Funds?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-07/can-you-really-game-index-funds-

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

Chrome is developing a Sidebar API

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477424

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Pykrete

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

How the Tech Press Forces a Narrative on Companies it Covers

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-narrative-on-companies-it-covers-5f89fdb7793e

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844090

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packets

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

11 years ago

★ 3.4k C ISC
100 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Self-Driving Car Project Monthly Report [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-0615.pdf

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 80 comments

Those people who need very little sleep

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150706-the-woman-who-barely-sleeps

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 83 comments

China's stock market crash: A red flag

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/chinas-stockmarket-crash

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments

BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33409311

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM

http://www.linuxvoice.com/sophie-wilson-acorn-and-the-development-of-arm/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 74 comments

Our Universities: The Outrageous Reality

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/our-universities-outrageous-reality/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Keys Under Doormats [pdf]

http://www.crypto.com/papers/Keys_Under_Doormats_FINAL.pdf

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

How to avoid the software salary ceiling

http://thinkfaster.co/2015/07/how-to-avoid-the-software-salary-ceiling

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 79 comments

Basic Facebook

https://mbasic.facebook.com/home.php

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Targeted Attacks Against Tibetan and Hong Kong Groups Exploiting CVE-2014-4114

https://citizenlab.org/2015/06/targeted-attacks-against-tibetan-and-hong-kong-groups-exploiting-cve-2014-4114/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

http://rtail.org

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Biotech in the Garage

http://sethbannon.com/biotech-in-the-garage

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments

Iranian Comfort Food

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/the-iranian-comfort-food/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

OS X BSD System Calls Reference

http://dyjakan.sigsegv.pl/osx-bsd-syscalls/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2015/06/30/david-cameron-twitter-and-facebook-privacy-is-unsustainable

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

Remnant of Boston’s Brutal Winter Threatens to Outlast Summer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/us/remnant-of-bostons-brutal-winter-threatens-to-outlast-summer.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

How I trained sheet reading using the Web MIDI API

http://scm.io/blog/hack/2015/07/piano-trainer/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Multiple choice

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/07/06/multiple-choice/comment-page-1/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Human Curation Is Back

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/07/05/human-curation-is-back/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/the-pen-is-back/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 81 comments

Easy HTTPS Unikernels with mirage-seal

https://mirage.io/blog/mirage-seal

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

DewDrop – A Formal Language for Social Networks

https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop

11 years ago

★ 136 Python
51 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Where do you go for sound career advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845238

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments

“Points of View”, Essays in Honour of Alan Kay

http://vpri.org/pov/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (1961)

http://www.vogue.com/3241115/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

The abolition of work

http://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 72 comments
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