top 50% 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

University Students are Afraid of Everything

https://jpminda.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/university-students-are-afraid-of-everything/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 232 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

OpenSSH 7.0 released

http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 39 comments

PostgreSQL 9.5 New Features with Examples [pdf]

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/hpblogs/attachments/hpblogs/Japan-Enterprise-Topics/124/1/PostgreSQL%209.5%20New%20Features%20English%2020150807-1.pdf

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 38 comments

XMPP Myths

http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/index.php?title=Myths

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 138 comments

SICP in Clojure

http://www.afronski.pl/sicp-in-clojure/2015/08/07/sicp-in-clojure-chapter-2.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 42 comments

Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/08/11/building-the-next-new-york-times-recommendation-engine/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFrVdoOhu1Q

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Firefox Under Fire: Anatomy of latest 0-day attack

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/08/11/firefox-under-fire-anatomy-of-latest-0-day-attack/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 42 comments

Old graph paper

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/old-graph-paper/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

Lenovo announces laptops using new mobile Xeon processors

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo-announces-powerhouse-laptops-powered-by-new-mobile-xeon-processors/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 101 comments

How much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration

http://daily.jstor.org/watergate-nixon-administration/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia for Pay

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/wikipedia-editors-for-pay/393926/?single_page=true

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 66 comments

Gene Therapy Makes Near-Blind Patients See by Strengthening Neural Connections

http://www.dddmag.com/articles/2015/07/gene-therapy-makes-near-blind-patients-see-strengthening-neural-connections

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

Hand-Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity

http://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

An open source JMAP proxy, JavaScript library and webmail demo

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/08/11/an-open-source-jmap-proxy-javascript-library-and-webmail-demo/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

How We Beat C++ STL Binary Search

https://realm.io/news/how-we-beat-cpp-stl-binary-search/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0809/For-sale-in-Spanish-paradise-entire-villages.-Cheap

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 71 comments

Understanding ARM Assembly, Part 1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2013/11/22/understanding-arm-assembly-part-1.aspx

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Kali Linux 2.0 Released

https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

China Moves to Devalue Yuan

http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-moves-to-devalue-the-yuan-1439258401

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693&sid=ddf3e32512932172454de515091db014#p29497693

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Crafting Icons

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/8/4/crafting-icons?utm_campaign=iOS%2BDev%2BWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iOS_Dev_Weekly_Issue_210

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Don’t Hit Send: Angry Emails Just Make You Angrier

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hit-send-angry-emails-just-make-you-angrier-1439227360

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

The Philosopher of Surveillance

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/surveillance-philosopher-nsa/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Tell HN: Kevin will comment on more Show HNs this Friday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043799

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/business/dealbook/insider-trading-sec-hacking-case.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Why $53M Wasn't Enough to Scale Good Eggs

http://www.foodtechconnect.com/foodtechconnect/2015/08/10/why-53m-wasnt-enough-to-scale-good-eggs/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Drive – a tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files

https://github.com/odeke-em/drive

11 years ago

★ 6.7k Go Apache-2.0
69 upvotes – 21 comments

HP Asks That Redacted Documents Be Sealed, Judge Responds with Redacted Refusal

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150807/11181931885/hp-asks-heavily-redacted-documents-to-be-sealed-judge-responds-with-heavily-redacted-refusal.shtml

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

It’s the spec bugs that kill you

http://blog.foretellix.com/2015/07/28/its-the-spec-bugs-that-kill-you/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 38 comments

How We Tested Our Food Blog’s Expected CPM with Premium Images

https://magazine.cucumbertown.com/putting-your-plate-where-your-money-is-the-food-blog-monetization-experiment-part-1-54dde9e5e5a2

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Longevity in JavaScript Frameworks

http://blog.bitovi.com/longevity-or-lack-thereof-in-javascript-frameworks/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

A Large-Scale Study of Flash Memory Failures in the Field

https://research.facebook.com/publications/492813337536234/a-large-scale-study-of-flash-memory-failures-in-the-field/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Assange, the law of limitation, and the next eight days

http://jackofkent.com/2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-and-the-next-eight-days/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 65 comments

GitHub's Atom Switches from the Open Code of Conduct to the Contributor Convent

https://github.com/atom/atom/commit/5a24d550628d76e39c401ee5e10e23ecdb65270b#diff-04c6e90faac2675aa89e2176d2eec7d8

11 years ago

★ 60.8k JavaScript MIT
58 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: How much do you earn with donations vs. ads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042204

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Nebia (YC S15), a Shower Head Start-Up, Receives Funding from Tim Cook of Apple

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/nebia-a-shower-head-start-up-gets-funded-by-apple-ceo-cook/?_r=0

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments
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