top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-24

The Verge's web sucks

http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 133 comments

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)

https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a-talk-about-empathy-bd6321c66b37

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 335 comments

Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/24/amazon-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart/?mod=ST1

11 years ago

294 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

http://showgoers.tv/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 84 comments

Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10969223#

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 69 comments

Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars after Jeep hack

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33650491

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 289 comments

The Singular Mind of Terry Tao

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 41 comments

Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number

https://phonejanitor.com/

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 145 comments

A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers

http://3v4l.org/dMbat

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 119 comments

The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/copyright-office-belongs-library

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 57 comments

How to implement a spreadsheet

http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-implement-spreadsheet.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 68 comments

Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3

http://glandium.org/blog/?p=3573

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 123 comments

Functional Programming in Python [pdf]

http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/functional-programming-python.pdf

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 59 comments

Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/07/21/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

Your Startup's Pitch Needs Only These 10 Slides

http://blog.visual.ly/10-slides-pitch/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 23 comments

Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web

http://jacquesmattheij.com/one-million-websites

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 123 comments

Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-17-billion-transistors-32-gb-hbm2-vram-arrives-in-2016/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: I know how to reset any Nexmo.com account, but nobody cares

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941459

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 56 comments

The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-openssh-bug-that-wasnt.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 86 comments

French Constitutional Council Widely Approves Surveillance Law

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/shame-on-france-french-constitutional-council-widely-approves-surveillance-law

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Differential Line

https://github.com/inconvergent/differential-line

11 years ago

★ 695 Python MIT
123 upvotes – 9 comments

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress: A Conflict of Ideology

https://poststatus.com/thesis-automattic-and-wordpress/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

See Android Go

http://www.codingvelocity.com/2015/07/23/go-mobile-intro.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942144

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Dear Unicorn, Exit Please

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/dear-unicorn-exit-please/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 120 comments

Additional C/C++ Tooling

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2015/07/23/additional-c-slash-c-plus-plus-tooling/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 67 comments

Everything About Tor [pdf]

https://ritter.vg/p/tor-v1.6.pdf

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 4 comments

Excel_to_code – Converts some Excel spreadsheets to C

https://github.com/tamc/excel_to_code

11 years ago

★ 228 Ruby MIT
92 upvotes – 59 comments

Binary pattern matching in Elixir

http://zohaib.me/binary-pattern-matching-in-elixir

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Socialism, American-Style

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/opinion/socialism-american-style.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 100 comments

Frontback Shutting Down

http://www.frontback.me/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

Beginner's Guide to Time Series Analysis

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Beginners-Guide-to-Time-Series-Analysis

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Malaria vaccine gets 'green light'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33641939

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Tracing JITs and modern CPUs

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/5

11 years ago

★ 566
78 upvotes – 42 comments

Death of a Russian Cop

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/the-double-sting

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

“Why are you releasing a full exploit just minutes after the patch is released?”

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/17

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 69 comments

Who's the guy in the in-flight entertainment system?

https://anders.io/whos-the-guy-in-the-in-flight-entertainment-system/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: 'rebaser' improves on 'git rebase -i'

https://gist.github.com/koreno/5893d2d969ccb6b8341d

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

OpenWrt switches to musl by default, replacing uClibc

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/32651

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Java mixed-mode flame graphs

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/java-in-flames.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

RESTful considered harmful

http://www.nurkiewicz.com/2015/07/restful-considered-harmful.html?m=1

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Kontena – Docker Platform Written in Ruby

http://www.kontena.io

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: I just released my first self-published book

http://magetdd.com/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Image segmentation and background removal in JavaScript

https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/ImageSegmentation

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

At 78, Scientist Is Starting a Hedge Fund

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-78-scientist-is-starting-a-hedge-fund-1437693849

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Create Google Deep Dream-style images in your browser

https://dreamscopeapp.com

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Unum Computing: An Energy Efficient and Massively Parallel Approach to Numerics

http://www.slideshare.net/insideHPC/unum-computing-an-energy-efficient-and-massively-parallel-approach-to-valid-numerics

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943069

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 95 comments

Using machine learning to compose drum rhythms

http://www.trivedigaurav.com/blog/machines-learn-to-play-tabla/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Two years after LASIK eye surgery

http://www.bemmu.com/lasik-2-years-later

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 102 comments

Palantir Technologies Raises $450M

http://on.wsj.com/1CTAHq9

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 78 comments

Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-24/google-has-way-to-unclog-drone-filled-skies-like-it-did-the-web

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Can Desalination Counter the Drought?

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/can-desalination-counter-the-drought

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 94 comments

Remove Mentions of Low Fees and Instant Transactions from Bitcoin.org

https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/972

11 years ago

★ 1.7k HTML
48 upvotes – 23 comments

What if anything have we learned from C++? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2egL4y_VpYg

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 53 comments

The Essence of FRP [video]

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-07-22-essence-of-frp.html?hn=2

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

The $5B Battle for the American Dinner Plate

http://www.fastcompany.com/3046685/most-creative-people/the-5-billion-battle-for-the-american-dinner-plate?Src=longreads

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 45 comments

TeaBOT (YC S15) Makes Customized Cups of Tea with the Touch of a Button

https://blog.ycombinator.com/teabot-yc-s15-makes-customized-cups-of-tea-with-the-touch-of-a-button

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments

Open-sourcing my new blogging engine implementation

http://nikolay.rocks/2015-07-24-how-i-blog-now

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 44 comments

HP bans T-shirts at work

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/24/hp_dress_code/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO

https://hbr.org/1992/01/japanese-style-entrepreneurship-an-interview-with-softbanks-ceo-masayoshi-son

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 13 comments

Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/decoding-the-remarkable-algorithms-of-ants/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 5 comments
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