top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-13

The Really Big One

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

11 years ago

612 upvotes – 274 comments

Pure UI

http://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui/

11 years ago

603 upvotes – 102 comments

Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around

http://dustri.org/b/firefox-youre-supposed-to-be-in-my-pocket-not-the-other-way-around.html

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 259 comments

After the Layoffs

https://42floors.com/blog/startups/after-the-layoffs

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 171 comments

iTerm2 Shell Integration

https://iterm2.com/shell_integration.html

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 98 comments

Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator

http://shop.soloshot.com/

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API

http://www.density.io/?ref=hn

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 145 comments

You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/620641902770159616?s=09

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 87 comments

The Disadvantages of Single Page Applications (2014)

http://adamsilver.io/articles/the-disadvantages-of-single-page-applications/

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 104 comments

First Java Zero-Day Attack in Two Years Targets NATO and US Defense Organizations

http://blog.trendmicro.com/pawn-storm-first-java-zero-day-attack-in-two-years-targets-nato-us-defense-organizations/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 105 comments

The Electric Car

http://blog.geoffralston.com/the-electric-car

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 340 comments

Ceramic – Turn Lisp web applications into desktop apps

http://ceramic.github.io/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 73 comments

The boring front-end developer

http://thebfed.com/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 143 comments

Ivy: iOS app written in Go

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivy-big-number-calculator/id1012116478?mt=8

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/hacking-team-orchestrated-brazen-bgp-hack-to-hijack-ips-it-didnt-own/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 17 comments

Wargames

http://overthewire.org/wargames/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 17 comments

The easiest bug bounties I have won

http://josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-easiest-bug-bounties-i-have-ever-won.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: I'm going to have to lay people off, and want your advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876009

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 140 comments

We don’t trust drinking fountains anymore, and that’s bad for our health

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-dont-trust-drinking-fountains-anymore-and-thats-bad-for-our-health/2015/07/02/24eca9bc-15f0-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 193 comments

Beware the IP non-assert clause in AWS cloud service agreement

http://www.iam-media.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=16404f83-82a0-4a0f-bc79-38ba53ceaf2d

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/how-microsoft-bing-censors-middle-east

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Durat.io

http://durat.io/?q=08%3a00+until+16%3a30+-+1+hour+-+15+minutes&%3f=

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

A first GraphQL Server

https://medium.com/@clayallsopp/your-first-graphql-server-3c766ab4f0a2

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Cthulhu

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/07/any-sufficiently-advanced-tech.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 60 comments

Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor’s Dismissal at Reddit

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/details-emerge-about-victoria-taylors-dismissal-at-reddit/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 127 comments

Re: C as used/implemented in practice

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/87749

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: How do you stay sharp?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878991

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 83 comments

Lessons from Airbnb's Rejections

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/7-important-lesson-from-airbnbs-7-rejections

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 63 comments

Day One with the Amazon API Gateway

https://blog.hiramsoftware.com/blog/day-one-aws-api-gateway/index.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

Wikileaks Global Intelligence File Dump Contained Malicious Software

http://www.joshwieder.net/2015/03/wikileaks-global-intelligence-file-dump.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive

http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/marie-curies-research-papers-are-still-radioactive-100-years-later.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

An open source Xilinx Spartan 6 miniPCIe development board

https://github.com/polysome/aggregate-1

11 years ago

★ 146 ANTLR GPL-3.0
92 upvotes – 45 comments

Removal of Unsafe in Java 9 – A disaster in the making

http://blog.dripstat.com/removal-of-sun-misc-unsafe-a-disaster-in-the-making/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 136 comments

Facebook's new chief security officer wants to set a date to kill Flash

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/13/8948459/adobe-flash-insecure-says-facebook-cso

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

A DDoS in Asia Pacific

https://telegram.org/blog/ddos

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

Immutable Infrastructure: No SSH

https://boxfuse.com/blog/no-ssh.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

A look at EarthBound's text system and scripting language (2011)

http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?

http://jeremykun.com/2015/07/13/what-does-it-mean-for-an-algorithm-to-be-fair/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 76 comments

'Happy Birthday' Hits Sour Notes When It Comes to Song's Free Use

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/12/422327673/happy-birthday-hits-sour-notes-when-it-comes-to-songs-free-use?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150712

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

Fuse – Write cross platform native apps using C# and JavaScript

http://fusetools.com

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%

http://on.wsj.com/1M4WXQx

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 121 comments

Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/paradoxical-crystal-baffles-physicists/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

What's inside Google's new Go app for iOS and Android

https://sourcedna.com/blog/20150712/golang-on-ios.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

GPG is awesome; GPG is terrible

https://blog.setec.io/2015/07/12/gpg-generation.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

Science vs. Engineering

http://jadagul.tumblr.com/post/123631186748/ive-decided-lately-that-people-regularly-get

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

H4sh – Exposing the Haskell List library as a set of shell utilities

https://github.com/cpennington/h4sh

11 years ago

★ 70 Haskell GPL-2.0
58 upvotes – 13 comments

Find Waldo Faster

http://blog.wolfram.com/2015/02/27/find-waldo-faster/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

A History of London at Night

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/06/29/vagabonds-crafty-bauds-and-the-loyal-huzza-a-history-of-london-at-night/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Two big challenges in machine learning [pdf]

http://icml.cc/2015/invited/LeonBottouICML2015.pdf

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

How Google Sparsehash achieves two bits of overhead per entry using sparsetable

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

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

First Year University Expenses in Canada

https://bopeng.io/first-year-university-expenses/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

Finnish study: Smoking and drinking coffee might prevent Parkinson's disease

http://www.metropolitan.fi/entry/study-smoking-and-drinking-coffee-might-prevent-parkinsons-disea

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

Hillary Clinton Plans to Campaign Against Uber’s Contractor Economy

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/12/clinton-uber/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 58 comments

Containership: A simple, distributed container management platform

https://containership.io/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments

The Inferno Operating System (1997)

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments
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