top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-23

NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth

11 years ago

851 upvotes – 294 comments

Airbnb, My $1B Lesson

https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/

11 years ago

504 upvotes – 138 comments

NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98

http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html?2015-07-23

11 years ago

410 upvotes – 162 comments

iLoo

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

11 years ago

354 upvotes – 56 comments

LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/23/linkedin-quietly-removes-option-to-export-contacts-makes-users-wait-up-to-72-hours-for-their-data-archive/

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 125 comments

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli

11 years ago

★ 13.1k Python BSD-3-Clause
304 upvotes – 44 comments

How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup

https://medium.com/@492727ZED/steve-jobs-made-warner-music-sue-my-startup-9a81c5a21d68

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 94 comments

How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berlin-s-futuristic-airport-became-a-6-billion-embarrassment

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 205 comments

Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/07/23/amazons-cloud-makes-the-cut/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 142 comments

YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/wheelys/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 235 comments

Today, 30 years ago, Commodore introduced the Amiga

http://amiga30.com/

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 80 comments

rm -r fs/ext3

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/651645/f0f5d5e6460edc60/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 92 comments

Storage for Photographers, Part 2

http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers-part-2/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 173 comments

Continuum Analytics Raises $24M Series A for Anaconda Python and PyData

http://continuum.io/blog/the-journey

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 42 comments

The Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem

http://www.aaronstannard.com/the-profound-weakness-of-the-net-oss-ecosystem/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 207 comments

Compose Is Joining IBM

https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-is-joining-ibm/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 120 comments

Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-research-comparing-how-security.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 119 comments

Open Source at IFTTT

https://ifttt.github.io

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/22/os_x_root_hole/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Bosun – open-source monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange

http://bosun.org/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Britain has ‘ghost trains’

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150723-why-britain-has-secret-ghost-trains

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

The $9 CHIP Computer Reveals Its Open Source Details

http://makezine.com/2015/07/22/with-linux-and-creative-commons-the-9-chip-computer-reveals-its-open-source-details/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

ES6 in Depth: Classes

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/07/es6-in-depth-classes/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 62 comments

Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes

http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965/learn-to-read-korean-in-15-minutes?resubmit=hn

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

New law proposal makes The Netherlands privacy-unfriendly

https://www.voys.nl/weblog/startups-stay-away-netherlands-if-you-value-privacy

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers

https://appcanary.com/hey_hn

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 59 comments

Transaction ID Wraparound in Postgres

http://blog.getsentry.com/2015/07/23/transaction-id-wraparound-in-postgres.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

Roslyn and Mono

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2015/Jul-21.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Cook rice in a coffee percolator to avoid arsenic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33638321

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-i-love-the-nothingness-inside-a-float-tank/?/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-video-game-about-terminal-cancer?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Time-Series Database patented by GE

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9087098.PN.&OS=PN/9087098&RS=PN/9087098

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Chrome React extension that highlights components on the page

https://github.com/cymen/show-me-the-react

11 years ago

★ 566 JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/07/Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-graduates-to-general-availability.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Selected Papers in Anonymity

http://freehaven.net/anonbib/date.html#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Designing a CPU in VHDL, Part 6: Program Counter, Instruction Fetch, Branching

http://labs.domipheus.com/blog/designing-a-cpu-in-vhdl-part-6-program-counter-instruction-fetch-branching/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster Case, Part 2

https://pocketcluster.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/raspberry-pi-2-cluster-case-pt2/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

Can we colonize the moon?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0722/Can-we-colonize-the-moon

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

The Library of Babel as Seen from Within: Reproducing Borges’s Library Online

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/23/the-library-of-babel-as-seen-from-within/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Optimizing CRISPR: Sub-second searches on a 3 billion base genome

http://benchling.engineering/optimizing-crispr/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Census Project – Identifying popular open-source projects that are at risk

https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/programs/census-project

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

SL-1: The only fatal nuclear reactor accident in US history

https://passingstrangeness.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/sl-1-murder-by-nuclear-reactor/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Engelbart/Engelbart_AugmentIntellect.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

What's the Matter with San Francisco?

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/07/whats-the-matter-with-san-francisco/399506/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: What data visualisation tools do data scientists and developers use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936897

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/inside_the_worlds_largest_fact.php?page=all&resubmit=hn

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

Create your own erasure code

https://hackthe.computer/problems/recover

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Why we're all-in on virtual reality

https://www.campfireunion.com/blog/post/26/why-were-all-virtual-reality

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 85 comments

What's new in Magit 2.x

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/what-new-in-magit-2x

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

http://www.submetrics.org/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

1985: “Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever”

http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/07/1985-oil-prices-will-go-forever.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 34 comments

Four RCE Zero-Day Flaws Plague Internet Explorer

http://www.securityweek.com/four-rce-zero-day-flaws-plague-internet-explorer-zdi

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 33 comments

Forcing Wordpress sites to use https even when not directed

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=505268

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments
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