top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-10

Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/technology/ellen-pao-reddit-chief-executive-resignation.html?_r=1

11 years ago

862 upvotes – 822 comments

Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2

http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html

11 years ago

592 upvotes – 231 comments

The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

http://www.wsj.com/articles/moxie-marlinspike-the-coder-who-encrypted-your-texts-1436486274

11 years ago

473 upvotes – 180 comments

Is Kickstarter covering up a scam? An open letter to CEO Yancey Strickler

http://joanielemercier.com/is_kickstarter_covering_up_a_scam/

11 years ago

351 upvotes – 77 comments

Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015

http://blog.venanti.us/web-app-2015/

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 177 comments

The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 137 comments

Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founders-acquitted-in-criminal-copyright-case-150710/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 9 comments

Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 51 comments

Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/psychologists-shielded-us-torture-program-report-finds.html?_r=0

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 78 comments

Hack.chat – A minimal, distraction-free chat application

https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat

11 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT
183 upvotes – 68 comments

Relation Between Type Theory, Category Theory and Logic

http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/relation+between+type+theory+and+category+theory

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 70 comments

Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking

http://blog.bofh.it/id_456

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 30 comments

OpenResty – A fast web app server by extending Nginx

http://openresty.org/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 37 comments

Solving multi-core Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/650521/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple and IPv6 – Happy Eyeballs

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

Low-Power $5 FPGA Module

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1327108

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 55 comments

You're in a space of twisty little mazes, all alike

http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/youre-in-a-space-of-twisty-little-mazes-all-alike

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 16 comments

Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more

https://buffer.com/transparency

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 176 comments

DeepDreamVideo

https://github.com/graphific/DeepDreamVideo

11 years ago

★ 2.1k Python GPL-2.0
145 upvotes – 30 comments

New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150710-genetic-alphabet/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 52 comments

Car Hacker's Handbook

http://opengarages.org/handbook/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/computer-program-fixes-old-code-faster-than-expert-engineers-0609

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 62 comments

Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence?

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/sai.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 174 comments

Pluto image revealed by Nasa offers closest look yet at dwarf planet

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/10/pluto-image-revealed-by-nasa-offers-closest-look-yet-at-dwarf-planet

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

Coq: Certified Programming with Dependent Types

http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Replete – a standalone ClojureScript REPL for iOS

https://github.com/mfikes/replete/wiki/Beta

11 years ago

★ 396 C EPL-1.0
106 upvotes – 21 comments

How Go was Made

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123748269730

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 75 comments

Java 7 changed the structure of String

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue230.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

Tell HN: If your HN submission doesn't get any upvotes, don't worry about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid

http://priceonomics.com/impulsive-rich-kid-impulsive-poor-kid/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012)

http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html?ref=goog

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What?

http://blog.onename.com/americans-hacked-opm/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

A Garbage Collector for C and C++

http://www.hboehm.info/gc/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 73 comments

The myths of bioinformatics software

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/the-myths-of-bioinformatics-software/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

To help poor people, give them money

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/06/16/to-help-poor-people-give-them-money-draft-excerpt-from-economics-in-two-lessons

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 126 comments

Things will not change

https://tobiastom.name/articles/things-will-not-change

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?

https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c295bea021429848a3666647827/lib/rcs-common/evidence/file.rb#L17

11 years ago

★ 135 Ruby
77 upvotes – 30 comments

How Doom got ported to NeXTSTEP (2013)

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2013/12/my-doom-20th-anniversary-stories.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

ClojureCL – Parallel computations with OpenCL 2.0 in Clojure

http://clojurecl.uncomplicate.org/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Confronting New Madrid

http://www.idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

In Technology, Small Fish Almost Always Eat Big Fish

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/technology-small-fish-almost-always-eat-big-fish

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

All the steps needed to create deep dream animations on EC2

https://github.com/JohnMount/CaffeECSExample

11 years ago

★ 126 GPL-3.0
72 upvotes – 28 comments

HTML5 Anonymous Bitcoin Poker

https://www.bearcoinpoker.com

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

I Am Sam Altman, Reddit Board Member and President of Y Combinator. AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Bubblin – Next-generation books

https://bubbl.in

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Glass is Alive

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/google-glass-is-alive/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 54 comments

Jackline: XMPP client in OCaml

https://github.com/hannesm/jackline

11 years ago

★ 255 OCaml BSD-2-Clause
63 upvotes – 24 comments

Rent my private airport for your hardware startup

https://app.box.com/s/i4gu6lxffloq6sif56uqfezyakmyk37b

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

Huge data breach prompts resignation of OPM director

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33481285

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

James Watt: A Twelve-Year Flash of Genius

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-twelve-year-flash-of-genius/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

El Niño weather event is biggest since 1997, may trigger soaking winter storms

http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_28458401/california-drought-el-nino-weather-event-is-biggest

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

The Myth of the Psychopath

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/do-psychopaths-even-exist

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Do you use Vagrant or Docker for active development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863538

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments
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