top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-04

Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

https://blog.filippo.io/ssh-whoami-filippo-io/

11 years ago

836 upvotes – 245 comments

Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

http://www.hscott.net/twitter-contest-winning-as-a-service/

11 years ago

578 upvotes – 97 comments

A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers

http://firstround.com/review/this-90-day-plan-turns-engineers-into-remarkable-managers/

11 years ago

388 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

https://github.com/servant-app/JAWS

11 years ago

★ 46.9k JavaScript
375 upvotes – 124 comments

How to get gmail.com banned (2011)

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-banned-not-that-i.html

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 60 comments

Linus Torvalds did not commit this

https://github.com/amoffat/masquerade/commit/9b0562595cc479ac8696110cb0a2d33f8f2b7d29

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 184 comments

Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’

http://shadowproof.com/2015/08/03/federal-judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-defends-undercover-investigations-of-food-industry/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 152 comments

Emacs X Window Manager

https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

11 years ago

★ 2.8k
199 upvotes – 50 comments

I am shutting down my bookstore in New Delhi

http://www.dailyo.in/arts/fact-and-fiction-bookstore-new-delhi-independent-book-shops-india/story/1/5415.html

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 123 comments

Io.js v3.0.0

https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
159 upvotes – 49 comments

Is Extended Random a Malicious NSA Plot?

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/04/is-extended-random-malicious/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 51 comments

After 20 years, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thrives on the web

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/july/online-encyclopedia-philosophy-073115.html?a=1

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 30 comments

German prosecutor sacked over Netzpolitik treason probe

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33772316

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-doug-williams-war-on-lie-detector/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

Mercurial 3.5 Released

http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2015/07/31/mercurial-3.5-released/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43146.pdf

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Paternity Leave Program

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/04/netflix-announces-its-new-unlimited-maternity-and-paternity-leave-program/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 139 comments

GNU Mailman is now hosted on GitLab

http://www.list.org/devs.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 174 comments

A Eulogy for Objective-C

https://realm.io/news/altconf-aaron-hillegass-eulogy-for-objective-c/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

AtomPair – Pair-programming plugin for Atom, now with multi-tab syncing

http://github.com/pusher/atom-pair

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript MIT
117 upvotes – 51 comments

What happened when we got subpoenaed over our Tor exit node

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/04/what-happened-when-the-fbi-sub.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

Satoshi Nakamoto moves his 6.5 yr old bitcoins

https://blockchain.info/address/12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 67 comments

Don't test with SQLite when you use Postgres in Production

http://michael.robellard.com/2015/07/dont-test-with-sqllite-when-you-use.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 105 comments

How baseball’s tech team built HBO Now

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-streaming-internet-tv-nhl-hbo-now-espn

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

Wi-Fi and LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum Bands

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/06/encouraging-innovation-wi-fi-and-lte-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GooglePublicPolicyBlog+(Google+Public+Policy+Blog)

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle and a Black Heart

http://nautil.us/blog/inside-the-goth-chicken-black-bones-black-muscle--a-black-heart

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/how-the-witcher-3s-economy-was-saved-by-polynomial-least-squares/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

U.S. Paychecks Grow at Record-Slow Pace

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/07/31/us/politics/ap-us-employments-costs.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 81 comments

Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secret?CMP=share_btn_fb

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 110 comments

How language gives your brain a break

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/how-language-gives-your-brain-break-0803

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

Physicists announce graphene’s latest cousin: stanene

http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-announce-graphene-s-latest-cousin-stanene-1.18113

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 52 comments

Hackers Exploit 'Flash' Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/08/03/hackers-exploit-flash-vulnerability-in-yahoo-ads/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002791

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

You May Have Seen My Face on BART

https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/you-may-have-seen-my-face-on-bart-8b9561003e0f

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Collaborative Editing in ProseMirror

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

A deep look at BIND9 CVE-2015-5477

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-deep-look-at-cve-2015-5477-and-how-cloudflare-virtual-dns-customers-are-protected/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Bertrand's Paradox

http://web.mit.edu/tee/www/bertrand/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

Dotfiles are your Digital Backpack

http://www.madewithtea.com/dotfiles-are-your-digital-backpack.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Shooting Down Drones

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/shooting_down_d.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 82 comments

Developing V8 with Guix

https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/08/04/developing-v8-with-guix

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It

https://sugarrae.com/rants-in-bitchland/women-tech-conferences-and-bs/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 97 comments

Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2

http://www.callapple.org/software/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

EFF Tells Federal Appeals Court: Google Subpoena Threatens Online Speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/eff-tells-federal-appeals-court-google-subpoena-threatens-online-speech-and

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission Trip Record Data for 2014-2015

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtml

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

The Great Canadian Vowel Shift

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/in-the-midst-of-the-canadian-vowel-shift/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

The list monad in Perl and Python

http://blog.plover.com/prog/monad-search-2.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

More Money for Better Open-Source Software

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/sustainable-maintenance.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

The Great Sushi Craze of 1905, Part 1

http://eccentricculinary.com/the-great-sushi-craze-of-1905-part-1/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Computer Chronicles: a complete archive

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

C++ Internals: STL Vector, Part I

http://www.gahcep.com/cpp-internals-stl-vector-part-1/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

US DoD starts using 11.0.0.0/8

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-August/078057.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Reinventing Performance Management

https://hbr.org/2015/04/reinventing-performance-management

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments

The fantastic YouTube-dl team

http://rg3.name/201408141628.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Data on Uber Usage in the U.S.

http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2015/07/28/people-ride-uber-more-than-you-think/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Vector-based graphics in HTML and CSS

http://www.callumhart.com/blog/vector-based-graphics-in-html-and-css

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Exploring Qualcomm's TrustZone Implementation

http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2015/08/exploring-qualcomms-trustzone.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments
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