top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-07-14

Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-cause-issues-are-on-blocklist

11 years ago

931 upvotes – 377 comments

New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33524589

11 years ago

558 upvotes – 297 comments

A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/?

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 41 comments

Starfighter, Summer 2015

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/07/13/starfighter

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 105 comments

Interview: Larry Wall

http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-larry-wall/

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 102 comments

Iran Nuclear Deal Reached

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-is-reached-after-long-negotiations.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 288 comments

Outlier Detection at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/tracking-down-villains-outlier.html

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 62 comments

Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-14/banks-forgot-who-was-supposed-to-own-dell-shares

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 104 comments

Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/match-group-buys-plentyoffish-for-575m-to-bag-more-singles/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 183 comments

How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

http://txfx.net/2015/07/14/apple-icloud-drive-deletes-your-files/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 137 comments

How Big is Space?

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 90 comments

Echochamber.js

https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js

11 years ago

★ 4.1k JavaScript
196 upvotes – 62 comments

Deriving the Reddit Formula

http://www.evanmiller.org/deriving-the-reddit-formula.html

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-strategy-make-two-of-everything/1/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 70 comments

Google’s Eddystone – a flexible, open-source iBeacon alternative

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/meet-googles-eddystone-a-flexible-open-source-ibeacon-fighter/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 44 comments

The Gig Economy

http://avc.com/2015/07/the-gig-economy/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 118 comments

Google Takes Stricter Approach to Costs

http://on.wsj.com/1K2Zfze

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising

http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/14/flash-vulnerability-html5-replacement/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 114 comments

Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/14/nearly-every-job-in-america-mapped-in-incredible-detail/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Reddit Chief Engineer Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job

https://recode.net/2015/07/13/reddit-chief-engineer-bethanye-blount-quits-after-less-than-two-months-on-the-job/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 143 comments
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