top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-15

The Icy Mountains of Pluto

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-icy-mountains-of-pluto

11 years ago

591 upvotes – 136 comments

Potato paradox

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

11 years ago

559 upvotes – 132 comments

1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes

http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20archives

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 73 comments

Thanks Pivotal, Hello Redis Labs

http://antirez.com/news/91

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 36 comments

Keybase raises $10.8M

https://keybase.io/blog/2015-07-15/keybase-raises-series-a

11 years ago

343 upvotes – 122 comments

New Horizons phones home

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33531811

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 91 comments

Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input

http://geoff.greer.fm/vim/#realwaitforchar

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 231 comments

The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses

https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 121 comments

The anatomy of a credit card form

https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/the-anatomy-of-a-credit-card-payment-form-32ec0e5708bb

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 124 comments

Three Dead Protocols

http://blog.annharter.com/2015/07/15/three-dead-protocols.html

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 75 comments

An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Account

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-15/an-identity-thief-explains-the-art-of-emptying-your-bank-account

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 63 comments

Socket.IO P2P

http://socket.io/blog/socket.io-p2p/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 27 comments

Work for a remote culture

http://www.higginsninja.net/Blog/work-for-a-remote-culture/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 141 comments

A Complete Guide to Rails Caching

http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/07/15/the-complete-guide-to-rails-caching.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/victory-cloudflare-against-sopa-court-order-internet-service-doesnt-have-police

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 14 comments

Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (2009)

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/users_rationall.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 91 comments

Driving for Uber as an Iraq War Vet

https://www.vice.com/read/driving-uber-as-an-iraqi-war-veteran

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Bitcoin Trends in the First Half of 2015

https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/07/15/bitcoin-trends-in-1h-2015/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Democracy.io by EFF – Write to your representatives

https://democracy.io

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

http://tronclub.com

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 97 comments

Why “Whiplash” Won an Oscar for Best Editing

http://williamdickersonfilmmaker.com/why-whiplash-won-an-oscar-for-best-editing/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/magazine/gerard-de-villiers-the-spy-novelist-who-knows-too-much.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Web Pages Suck

https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 114 comments

Practical attack against TLS/SSL and RC4

http://www.rc4nomore.com/?hn

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Actor Messaging platform

https://github.com/actorapp/actor-platform

11 years ago

★ 3.2k Java AGPL-3.0
110 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891531

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 41 comments

Tesla CTO: Batteries and Solar Will Lead to Cheap Electricity Within 10 Years

http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2015/07/14/tesla-cto-batteries-solar-will-lead-to-cheap-electricity-within-10-years/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Securing Go web applications

https://stablelib.com/blog/securing-golang-web-apps/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 11 comments

Getting into Linux Kernel Development

https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/getting-into-linux-kernel-development

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Tricki, a repository of mathematical know-how

http://www.tricki.org

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or the Reality

https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

Malware and Hacking Forum Darkode Is Shut Down; Dozens Arrested

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/15/423196810/malware-and-hacking-forum-darkode-is-shut-down-dozens-arrested

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 89 comments

Jopwell (YC S15) Is Building the Missing “Pipeline” of Diverse Candidates

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/15/jopwell/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 110 comments

NSA releases open-source infosec tool

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/406509,nsa-releases-linux-based-open-source-infosec-tool.aspx

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Nestor – Your team's intelligent assistant on Slack

https://www.asknestor.me/join/hacker-news

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Programmatic access to the call stack in C++

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/programmatic-access-to-the-call-stack-in-c/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Debugging Lisp Part 2: Inspecting

http://malisper.me/2015/07/14/debugging-lisp-part-2-inspecting/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

The Camera Behind The New Pluto Photos

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-camera-behind-the-new-horizons-pluto-photos-ralph/398549/?single_page=true

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Scaling Data Science at Airbnb

http://nerds.airbnb.com/scaling-data-science/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Former Reddit CEO says the site's about to be purged

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/15/yishan-wong-reddit-purge/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 133 comments

The Science of Mental Fitness (2012)

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-science-of-mental-fitness

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: GoWork – A Go Distributed Work Library

https://github.com/ryanskidmore/GoWork

11 years ago

★ 314 Go MIT
68 upvotes – 25 comments

Three decades of the Commodore 64

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/three-decades-of-the-commodore-64/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

DARPA - Our Research

http://www.darpa.mil/our-research?ppl=viewall&tFilter=&oFilter=3&sort=undefined

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: HomeControl – HomeKit implementation in Go

https://github.com/brutella/hc

11 years ago

★ 1.7k Go Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Freelancers in the US: What do you do for health insurance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891064

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 101 comments

Uber should be suspended in California and fined $7.3M, judge says

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-fi-uber-suspended-20150715-story.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 146 comments

I taught myself Python on the Internet and so can you

http://aysinoruz.com/i-taught-myself-python-on-the-internet-and-so-can-you/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

A Step by Step Backpropagation Example

http://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagation-example/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

No Bad Things: Growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/15/no-bad-things/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Hipster Sound – Coffee shop booster

http://hipstersound.com

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

SFC and FSF Achieve GPL Compliance for Canonical IP Policy

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Two ways of thinking about economics

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/ways_of_thinkin.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments

A gentle introduction to statistical relational learning

http://phdp.github.io/posts/2015-07-13-srl-code.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891487

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Belle – Configurable React Components with Great UX

http://nikgraf.github.io/belle/#/guide/introducing-belle

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

Does one have to be a genius to do maths? (2007)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

New iPod touch

http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 63 comments

Algorithms Had Themselves a Treasury Flash Crash

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-13/algorithms-had-themselves-a-treasury-flash-crash?repost

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Extract numerical data from plot images

https://github.com/ankitrohatgi/WebPlotDigitizer

11 years ago

★ 3k JavaScript AGPL-3.0
47 upvotes – 10 comments

Sick kids, desperate parents, and the battle for experimental drugs

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/07/15/sick-kids-desperate-parents-and-battle-for-experimental-drugs/Hle3CTwriFfTXoOvQ7TbZP/story.html#

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang

http://stratus3d.com/blog/2015/05/19/sliding-window-data-store-in-erlang/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889352

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Yinyang K-Means: A Replacement for Classic K-Means with Consistent Speedup

http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/ding15.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments
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