top 50% 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

Starfighter, Summer 2015

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

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 105 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

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

Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures

http://mokacoding.com/blog/functor-applicative-monads-in-pictures

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 100 comments

Open Source CPU Core Advances

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1327129&

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

A $200 privacy device has been killed, and no one knows why

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/a-200-privacy-device-has-been-killed-and-no-one-knows-why

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 71 comments

Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming in JavaScript

https://github.com/DrBoolean/mostly-adequate-guide

11 years ago

★ 23.8k JavaScript
114 upvotes – 64 comments

Hacking Team Uses UEFI BiOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent in Target Systems

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/hacking-team-uses-uefi-bios-rootkit-to-keep-rcs-9-agent-in-target-systems/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Telegram Suffers DDOS, Criticism For Enabling Human Rights Lawyers In China

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/13/did-china-take-down-messaging-app-telegram/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

AeroFS Raises $10M Series B

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/aerofs-raises-10m-series-b/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles

http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2015/07/cerns-lhcb-experiment-reports-observation-exotic-pentaquark-particles

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Do you get impatient when learning new things?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883882

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

Cincinnati Subway

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

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Digital colours and digital photography

http://pomax.github.io/1436836360570/we-are-really-terrible-at-digital-colours-and-digital-photography

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

TPP Leak Reveals Take-Down Measures Softened – But DRM Rules Remain Harsh

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2015/07/08/tpp-leak-reveals-take-down-measures-softened-but-drm-rules-remain-harsh/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Gevent now supports Python 3

https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/38#issuecomment-121001665

11 years ago

★ 6.4k Python
92 upvotes – 8 comments

NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502072

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators

http://pcg-random.org/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

Nexus 4 battery bloating

http://blog.testmunk.com/nexus-4-devices-are-about-to-explode/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

How I got XSS’d by my ad network

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/how-i-got-xssd-by-my-ad-network.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

The General Video Game AI Competition

http://www.gvgai.net/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 4 comments

The Web We Have to Save

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

User feedback on Pocket submitted to Mozilla

https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=pocket&date_start=2015-01-01#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 98 comments

Zesty (YC W14) Raises $17M Series A to Improve the Health of Humanity

http://blog.zesty.com/zesty-series-a/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

The Los Alamos Primer: The Introductory Course for Scientists at Los Alamos

http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-00001

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

The POODLE has friends

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/entry/the-poodle-has-friends

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

An architectural overview of the GNU Hurd

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Nadella talks Microsoft's mobile ambitions, Windows 10 strategy, HoloLens

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ceo-nadella-talks-microsofts-mobile-ambitions-windows-10-strategy-hololens-and-more/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

The Rising Appeal of Apprenticeship

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/business/economy/a-new-look-at-apprenticeships-as-a-path-to-the-middle-class.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

The Disney Recipe (2013)

https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-makes-a-good-corporate-st

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece

http://newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/07/exclusive-yanis-varoufakis-opens-about-his-five-month-battle-save-greece

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 120 comments

The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-biggest-tech-problems-so-obvious-we-aren-t-fixing-them-87f4b708a7f1

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax

http://jjuliano.github.io/markdown-ui/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon backs large-scale wind farm

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article27125410.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

New Horizons: Probe sends detailed view of Pluto

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33524589

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Implausible and overfunded CPAP machine on Indiegogo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884345

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

The number 3608528850368400786036725

http://www.blog.republicofmath.com/the-number-3608528850368400786036725/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Don't Attend a Hackathon

http://caseysoftware.com/blog/dont-attend-a-hackathon

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Lost Highways: Old roads in Vermont

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/lost-highways.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Witness – Livestreaming for Emergencies

https://getwitness.com

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

Bringing Windows Server to Google Cloud Platform

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/07/Bringing-Windows-to-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Atomic Bomb: Decision – Target Committee, May 10-11, 1945

http://www.dannen.com/decision/targets.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

Official Sneak Peak of NASA's Latest Pluto Photo

https://instagram.com/p/5HTXKMoaFL/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: What do you do when you are lethargic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885120

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

The 18F Content Guide

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/07/06/18f-content-guide/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

On the Origin of Circuits (2007)

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

I think string theories are wrong

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-t-solomon/strings-are-dead_b_7560444.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

How EA Lost Its Soul

http://www.polygon.com/a/how-ea-lost-its-soul

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

Standing Desks – Save your back, change your life

http://getthinktank.com/2015/06/19/standing-desks/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 80 comments
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