top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-28

Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

http://spotthedrowningchild.com

11 years ago

1215 upvotes – 378 comments

Stop pushing the web forward

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html

11 years ago

569 upvotes – 299 comments

Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production

http://sirupsen.com/production-docker/

11 years ago

502 upvotes – 280 comments

Who's doing this to my internet?

http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/

11 years ago

366 upvotes – 293 comments

Amazon Aurora Now Available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora/

11 years ago

342 upvotes – 105 comments

New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers?

http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/07/27/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-installing-openwrt-on-wifi-routers/

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 144 comments

A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html?_r=0

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 103 comments

New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-court-evidence-reveals-hollywoods-plans-smear-google/

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Flexbox.io – a free video series on learning CSS Flexbox

http://flexbox.io/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 57 comments

Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/07/filmmakers-fighting-happy-birthday-copyright-find-their-smoking-gun/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 87 comments

Metal Captcha

http://metalcaptcha.heavygifts.com/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 79 comments

A Response to Your Petition on Edward Snowden

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/edward-snowden

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 150 comments

Pilots Say That the F-16-Cessna Crash Illustrates a Civil-Military Difference

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/07/can-the-right-stuff-become-the-wrong-stuff/399632/?single_page=true

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 95 comments

3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33675734

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 96 comments

Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/stripe-digital-payments-start-up-raises-new-funding-and-partners-with-visa.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 103 comments

DefCon Hackers Tell How They Cracked Brink's Safe in 60 Seconds

http://www.eweek.com/security/defcon-hackers-tell-how-they-cracked-brinks-safe-in-60-seconds.html

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 92 comments

“We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC”

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893#c116

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 151 comments

GopherCon 2015 videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBf-_z-gHCOR2N156Nw930Hm

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 26 comments

N.S.A. Will Not Be Allowed to Keep Old Phone Records

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/us/politics/nsa-will-not-be-allowed-to-keep-old-phone-records.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 33 comments

Database expert on why NoSQL mattered – and SQL still matters

https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/database-guru-on-why-nosql-matters-and-sql-still-matters-c64239fe84fd

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons

http://studenthackers.devpost.com

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 61 comments

Binary in JavaScript

http://danthedev.com/2015/07/25/binary-in-javascript/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 29 comments

John Conway – The world’s most charismatic mathematician

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world?id=

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

Optimized Go gzip/zip packages, 30-50% faster

http://blog.klauspost.com/optimized-gzipzip-packages-30-50-faster/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 11 comments

Git 2.5.0

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt

11 years ago

★ 60.5k C
113 upvotes – 23 comments

Go-fuzz: Randomized testing for Go

https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz#go-fuzz-randomized-testing-for-go

11 years ago

★ 4.8k Go Apache-2.0
111 upvotes – 5 comments

Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on SoundCloud

http://www.popsci.com/now-you-can-listen-voyager-golden-records-soundcloud

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Which oils are best to cook with?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 101 comments

A Field Study on Technical Debt

http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/field-study-technical-debt-208

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 76 comments

Ctypes.sh, a foreign function interface for bash

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki#resubmit

11 years ago

★ 2.1k C MIT
98 upvotes – 14 comments

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/technology/code-academy-as-career-game-changer.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 138 comments

TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

11 years ago

★ 28.6k Kotlin AGPL-3.0
86 upvotes – 24 comments

YC Startup School Radio, Episode 1: Alexis Ohanian and Kaz Nejatian

https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-yc-startup-school-radio-podcast

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Virgin Galactic Executive Summary of Submission on SpaceShipTwo Accident

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/07/28/ntsb-executive-summary-spaceshiptwo-accident/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Uber Engineering's Great Data Migration: Project Mezzanine

https://eng.uber.com/mezzanine-migration/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-28/how-goldman-sachs-became-a-tech-investing-powerhouse

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

A Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World’s Poorest People

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/leila-janah-samagroup/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

1,000 tech experts warn against AI arms race

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33686581

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: A career test for people who want to have a social impact

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/career-recommender/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

The Death of Patient Zero

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a36695/death-of-stephanie-lee-0815/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Profiling in Python

http://blog.thehumangeo.com/2015/07/28/profiling-in-python/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Think women in tech is just a pipeline problem?

https://medium.com/@racheltho/if-you-think-women-in-tech-is-just-a-pipeline-problem-you-haven-t-been-paying-attention-cb7a2073b996

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 110 comments

New model may explain emergence of self-replication on early Earth

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-life-emergence-self-replication-early-earth.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

Even – Get your average pay, every payday

https://even.me/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: A pipelined RISC-V processor written in VHDL

https://github.com/inforichland/freezing-spice

11 years ago

★ 96 VHDL BSD-3-Clause
65 upvotes – 29 comments

Growth vs. Retention

http://avc.com/2015/07/growth-vs-retention/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship phone can be

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/27/9051753/oneplus-2-smartphone-hands-on

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 77 comments

Standard Treasury's Series A Pitch Deck

http://blog.zactownsend.com/standard-treasurys-series-a-pitch-deck

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

The Open Logic Project

http://openlogicproject.org/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Electric Planes Usher in the Second Great Age of Aviation

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/electric-planes-usher-second-great-age-aviation/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

The Itanium processor, part 2: Instruction encoding, templates, and stops

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/07/28/10631038.aspx

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Underworld: How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Digs Its Tunnels

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/underworld-monte-reel

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Tcl Static Prime: experimental compiler for Tcl that produces C or Java code

https://github.com/tpoindex/tsp

11 years ago

★ 64 Tcl
61 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH

http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (1988)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Resumable OpenZFS send/receive

http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2015/03/25/resumable-zfs-sendreceive/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

The tech boom may get bumpy, but it will not end in a repeat of the dotcom crash

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21659722-tech-boom-may-get-bumpy-it-will-not-end-repeat-dotcom-crash-fly?fsrc=permar|image1

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

Loop optimizations in Guile

http://wingolog.org/archives/2015/07/28/loop-optimizations-in-guile

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind (2013)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/7/8/capitulation

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

http://yougotthenod.com

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 51 comments
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