top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-11

“Stop reverse engineering our code”

https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t

11 years ago

613 upvotes – 344 comments

Relay Technical Preview

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/08/11/relay-technical-preview.html

11 years ago

474 upvotes – 106 comments

Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/11/lawrence-lessig-wants-to-run-for-president-in-a-most-unconventional-way/

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 197 comments

The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures

http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/

11 years ago

443 upvotes – 48 comments

Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec

http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/world-meet-thor-a-project-to-hammer-out-a-royalty-free-video-codec

11 years ago

422 upvotes – 164 comments

The Teflon Toxin

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 255 comments

Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering

https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 117 comments

Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 302 comments

Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-11/why-not-insider-trade-on-every-company-

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 124 comments

RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.1-release/

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 105 comments

The ethics of modern web ad-blocking

http://www.marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 243 comments

Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/10/ubuntu-one-file-syncing-code-open-sourced

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 83 comments

Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/08/10/hello-windows-10-iot-core/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 166 comments

The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/when-success-leads-to-failure/400925/?single_page=true

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 198 comments

DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/11/digitalocean-teams-up-with-bitnami-now-lets-you-install-over-100-web-apps-with-a-few-clicks/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

https://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 58 comments

Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-serving-new-yorks-outer-boroughs-more-than-taxis-are/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 110 comments

Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details

https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike2_details

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

Best practices for building large React applications

http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/best-practices-for-building-large-react-applications

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 23 comments

A faster way to compute edit distance does not exist

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/10/computer-scientists-have-looked-for-solution-that-doesn-exist/tXO0qNRnbKrClfUPmavifK/story.html

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments
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