top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-30

I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/

11 years ago

965 upvotes – 574 comments

Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/07/30/an-open-letter-to-microsofts-ceo-dont-roll-back-the-clock-on-choice-and-control/

11 years ago

497 upvotes – 290 comments

Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco

https://42floors.com/blog/cre/landlords-are-trying-not-to-rent-startups

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 290 comments

The story of .io

http://citizen-ex.com/stories/io

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 75 comments

Face swapping with Python, dlib, and OpenCV

http://matthewearl.github.io/2015/07/28/switching-eds-with-python/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 95 comments

Preferred number

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

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 40 comments

The adblocking revolution is months away

https://theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/the-adblocking-revolution-is-months-away-with-ios-9-with-trouble-for-advertisers-publishers-and-google/

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 350 comments

Tor Exit Nodes in Libraries – Pilot

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-exit-nodes-libraries-pilot-phase-one

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 58 comments

RobotJS – Node.js Desktop Automation

https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs

11 years ago

★ 12.7k C MIT
198 upvotes – 59 comments

SQLite Release 3.8.11.1

https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_11_1.html

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 53 comments

Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change

https://paul.reviews/behavioral-profiling-the-password-you-cant-change/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian

https://guillaumepaumier.com/2015/07/29/autistic-wikipedian/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 148 comments

Decentralization for the web

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/652580/ddb64b1eb568fe87/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 41 comments

DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kjdObjZpY

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook completes construction of first full-scale aircraft, Aquila [video]

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/vb.4/10102274951725301/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 108 comments

Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33718311

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 174 comments

“Suspicion of treason”: German attorney general investigates journalists

https://netzpolitik.org/2015/suspicion-of-treason-federal-attorney-general-announces-investigation-against-us-in-addition-to-our-sources

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 27 comments

Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X

http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-is-the-most-energy-efficient-chrome-vs-safari-vs-firefox/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 108 comments

Rational fiction

http://rationalfiction.io/wiki/rational-fiction

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

Encryptr – Free, open-source password manager and e-wallet

https://encryptr.org/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Listen to Wikipedia

http://listen.hatnote.com/#en

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

Nasty Truths About U.S. Fintech

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/29/dream-killer-4-nasty-truths-about-u-s-fintech/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 87 comments

World's first white laser

https://asunews.asu.edu/20150728-worlds-first-white-laser

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

Ethereum: what’s about to happen

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ndBAcD72sHJnH0GpWY0pe8_KhkSZHFNTqBAHGBmY9N8/edit

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-need-for-ubiquitous-data-encryption/2015/07/28/3d145952-324e-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

We Need Clean-Energy Innovation, and Lots of It

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Energy-Innovation

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Mycli – A CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

http://mycli.net

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Let’s learn Erlang and fix a bug on a CouchDB Cluster

http://robert-kowalski.de/blog/lets-learn-erlang-and-fix-a-bug-on-a-couchdb-cluster/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

http://blog.taucharts.com/taucharts-data-focused-charting-library/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Google’s Datacenter Network [pdf]

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183.pdf

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Ironclad (YC S15) Is an Automated Legal Assistant for Companies

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/30/yc-backed-ironclad-is-an-automated-legal-assistant-for-companies/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Scheme vs. Python (2011)

https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 118 comments

The wealth gap between young and old people

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/29/millennials-should-no-longer-dream-of-ever-becoming-millionaires/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 67 comments

Help a friend skip Windows 10 and try GNU/Linux

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-a-friend-skip-windows-10-and-try-gnu-linux

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 56 comments

Amazon Sign Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/amazon-sign-top-gears-jeremy-clarkson-richard-hammond-and-james-may-for-new-show-10426102.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 109 comments

SEO hidden text and AJAX

https://devx.lt/en/seo-hidden-text-and-ajax

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar

http://lindzey.github.io/blog/2015/07/27/a-brief-introduction-to-ice-penetrating-radar/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Theo de Raadt on Plan 9 licensing (2003)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/0j5Xa_Bu_fs

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 49 comments

Important Security Announcement from PagerDuty

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/july-2015-security-announcement/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Docker Misconceptions

https://valdhaus.co/writings/docker-misconceptions/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Captain401 (YC S15) Wants to Make Creating a 401k Easier for Businesses

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/30/yc-backed-captain401-wants-to-make-creating-a-401k-easier-for-businesses/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/stupid-patent-month-do-it-computer

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Making Postgres Bloom

http://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/making-postgres-bloom

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Humans accidentally created hidden carbon sink in the desert

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27971-humans-accidentally-created-hidden-carbon-sink-in-the-desert/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Cloudron – Get Your Own Cloud

https://www.cloudron.io/?showhn

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Bay Area Living in Shipping Containers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/wharton-grad-s-got-a-tiny-illegal-solution-to-bay-area-housing

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 81 comments

Philae lander finds complex organic molecules like acetone on comet

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/philae-lander-finds-complex-organic-molecules-like-acetone-on-comet-1.3174326

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/samuel-delany-and-the-past-and-future-of-science-fiction

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

New Yorkers Have Been Illicitly Cracking Open Fire Hydrants For Centuries

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-yorkers-have-been-illicitly-cracking-open-fire-hydrants-for-centuries

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

Angie’s List Sues Amazon Local

https://casetext.com/posts/trade-secrets-behind-a-paywall-angies-list-sues-amazon-local

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Erlbus – scalable pub/sub message bus written in Erlang

http://cabol.github.io/erlbus-erlang-message-bus/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

A collaborative residency program in mathematical biology and deep learning

http://topos.house/cfp

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Programming for four-year-olds – No assembler required

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660077-how-teach-computer-science-nursery-school-no-assembler-required

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Making the new silicon

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/gallium-nitride-electronics-silicon-cut-energy-0729

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Coffee in Crisis

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150728-coffee-the-bitter-end-of-our-favourite-drink?ocid=twfut

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 48 comments

The many ways of parallel computing with Julia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcO-715acM&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: I feel that my submissions are severely underrated. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9975847

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 43 comments

Startup Stock Option Changes

https://medium.com/@beninato/startup-stock-option-changes-5df706da0317

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 54 comments

Diving into Spark Streaming's Execution Model

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/07/30/diving-into-spark-streamings-execution-model.html?utm_content=18370285&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

A Drug Hits Cycling Before It Hits the Market

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/sports/cycling/fabio-taborre-and-carlos-oyarzun-drug-tests-suggest-use-of-chemical-meant-for-research.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 54 comments

Cuvva – Car Insurance by the Hour

https://cuvva.co/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: InBloom – Portable Bloom Filters in Java, Python and Go

https://github.com/EverythingMe/inbloom

11 years ago

★ 302 Java BSD-2-Clause
45 upvotes – 9 comments

Let's Build a Global Power Grid

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-a-global-power-grid/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=073015

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

The Value of Being Transparent, Especially When It's Hard

http://blog.statuspage.io/the-value-of-being-transparent-when-its-hard

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments
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