top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-20

YC Fellowship

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship

11 years ago

998 upvotes – 378 comments

Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20150720/ARTICLES/150729990

11 years ago

922 upvotes – 136 comments

Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1950

11 years ago

535 upvotes – 234 comments

Dragula: Simple drag and drop

https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula/blob/master/readme.markdown

11 years ago

★ 22.1k JavaScript MIT
339 upvotes – 52 comments

A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/ben-schlappig-airlines-fly-free-20150720

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 173 comments

Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-and-yuri-milner-announce-100m-initiative-to-seek-extraterrestrial-intelligence/

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 226 comments

Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2015/07/20/visual-studio-2015-and-net-4-6-available-for-download.aspx

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 120 comments

Announcing TypeScript 1.5

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 85 comments

Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 353 comments

Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings

http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-cops-fault-shootings-112423

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 106 comments

Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-078

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

Coin Card Teardown

http://www.bitsofcents.com/post/124593977646/coin-card-teardown

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 116 comments

Blog Little Things

http://coffeecoder.net/blog/blog-little-things/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 38 comments

Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle

http://www.endtime.at/?v=0.2

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 36 comments

U.S. Embassy in Cuba Reopens After More Than 50 Years

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/world/americas/cuba-us-embassy-diplomatic-relations.html

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 92 comments

SpaceX CRS-7 Failure Investigation Teleconference Thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3dyvta/rspacex_crs7_failure_investigation_teleconference/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 74 comments

Google, the Wassenaar arrangement, and vulnerability research

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/google-wassenaar-arrangement-and.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/07/under-the-hood-of-the-amazon-ec2-container-service.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/07/08/woman-raised-1-2-million-with-a-spirited-3-minute-speech/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

India blocks Colgate patents for spices

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/490282/india-blocks-colgate-patents-spices.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/?single_page=true

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 110 comments

Do we need browsers?

http://blog.justletit.be/posts/do_we_need_browsers/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 113 comments

The Art of Quitting

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-art-of-quitting

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

Monads in JavaScript

https://curiosity-driven.org/monads-in-javascript

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 125 comments

The Next Wave

http://edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Richard Feynman on the Challenger disaster (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpDg7MjHps&feature=youtu.be&t=157

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

The euro is a disaster even for the countries that do everything right

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/17/the-euro-is-a-disaster-even-for-the-countries-that-do-everything-right/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 105 comments

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money

http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 87 comments

Doas – Dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/doas

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

Airbnb Business Travel

https://www.airbnb.com/business/signup

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 86 comments

Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/google-photos-is-shutting-down-on-august-1st/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 114 comments

Password Hashing Competition winner and special recognitions

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crypto-competitions/3QNdmwBS98o

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch

https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb

11 years ago

★ 4.7k PLpgSQL
88 upvotes – 17 comments

A history of backdoors

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/07/a-history-of-backdoors.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Frequency Counting Algorithms Over Data Streams

http://micvog.com/2015/07/18/frequency-counting-algorithms-over-data-streams/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Opal-native – React Native in Ruby

https://github.com/zetachang/opal-native

11 years ago

★ 399 Ruby MIT
82 upvotes – 20 comments

Box's HHVM Migration

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1607907626123431/under-the-hood-box-s-hhvm-migration/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/20/us-space-comet-idUSKCN0PU17920150720

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

Call9 (YC S15) Delivers On-Demand Doctors in Emergency Situations

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/call9-delivers-on-demand-doctors-in-emergency-situations/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 85 comments

Ibis: Scaling the Python Data Experience

http://www.ibis-project.org/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

“File descriptor table isn't something system wide”

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-07/msg00037.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

What are Bloom filters?

https://medium.com/the-story/what-are-bloom-filters-1ec2a50c68ff

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

The Story of Mel Explained

http://jamesseibel.com/blog/?p=109

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Affair Website Ashley Madison Is Hacked

http://www.wsj.com/articles/affair-website-ashley-madison-hacked-1437402152?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript

https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch

11 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript MIT
67 upvotes – 31 comments

Welcome to Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

Banner “Fraud” Doesn’t Matter

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/banner-fraud-doesn-t-matter-fc84413fe59c

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

A visual timeline of programming languages

http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1KcZdsCI3G832QTfx3kCn8zcxi8jH2qFWttB-xuPjYTM&font=Default&lang=en&height=650

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/asia/in-china-a-supercity-rises-around-beijing.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

C++: Return value optimization vs. std::move

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/5894415f-be62-4bc0-81c5-3956e82276f3/entry/RVO_V_S_std_move?lang=en

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

Hacking Ubuntu Touch

https://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/touch/2015/05/07/hacking-ubuntu-touch-index/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

A Quine Puzzle

http://wgreenberg.github.io/quine.zip/index.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://oeis.org/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Now You Can Buy Solar Power from Your Neighbor

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3047758/with-this-airbnb-for-energy-now-you-can-buy-solar-power-from-your-neighbor

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

The Divorce of eBay and PayPal

http://mashable.com/2015/07/19/ebay-paypal-divorce/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Logic, Languages, Compilation, and Verification Technical Lectures

http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer12/curriculum.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 2 comments

The Unquiet Slumbers of the Apollo Moonwalkers

http://www.americaspace.com/?p=84406

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly Missed It

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/the-long-strange-trip-to-pluto-and-how-nasa-nearly-missed-it.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

What caffeine does to your brain

http://fusion.net/story/166708/what-caffeine-does-to-your-brain/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security (1999)

https://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.php

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Jake Dyson Lighting

http://www.dyson.com/lighting/csys.aspx

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 66 comments

A failed strut caused the SpaceX rocket explosion

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9004463/space-x-falcon-9-rocket-explosion-cause-explained

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Electric life forms that live on energy

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25894-meet-the-electric-life-forms-that-live-on-pure-energy/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments
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