top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-13

Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/

11 years ago

453 upvotes – 257 comments

Ember.js 2.0 Released

http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/08/13/ember-2-0-released.html

11 years ago

376 upvotes – 127 comments

Ferrolic

http://www.ferrolic.com/

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 71 comments

Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked

https://blog.kaspersky.com/blackhat-jeep-cherokee-hack-explained/

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 133 comments

Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 211 comments

Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/samsung-unveils-2-5-inch-16tb-ssd-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 166 comments

Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes

https://stripe.com/blog/distributed-ruby-testing

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 106 comments

One trillion edges: graph processing at Facebook scale [pdf]

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1804-ching.pdf

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 25 comments

FreeBSD 10.2

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/relnotes.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 50 comments

Tesla Announces $500M Common Stock Offering

http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=927533

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 155 comments

The Bail Trap

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.html?_r=0

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: Guess which government programs work

https://80000hours.org/articles/can-you-guess/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 53 comments

Markdown and LaTeX Editor

http://tex.s2cms.ru/page/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 61 comments

Android libstagefright still exploitable

http://blog.exodusintel.com/2015/08/13/stagefright-mission-accomplished/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 144 comments

Disable Windows 10 Tracking

https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

11 years ago

★ 4.9k Python LGPL-3.0
148 upvotes – 141 comments

Open Sourcing Our SDKs

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/open-sourcing-our-sdks/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera

http://www.media.mit.edu/research/highlights/unbounded-high-dynamic-range-photography-using-modulo-camera

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Perseids meteor shower from space

http://www.ianww.com/meteor-showers/perseids/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 19 comments

NYC Mesh is trying to get around the big ISPs one node at a time

http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2015/08/11/brooklyn-mesh-networks-red-hook-initiative/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

Chaos Communication Camp 2015 Live Streams [video]

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 18 comments

Gitfs

http://www.presslabs.com/gitfs/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks

http://www.sketchdeck.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-designing-200-pitch-decks

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33907874

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 166 comments

Go 1.6 GC improvements

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kBx98ulj5V5M9Zdeamy7v6ofZXX3yPziAf0V27A64Mo

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Experiences Using Go as a Teaching Language with Young Programmers

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/FIRSDBehb3g/BFiHYVNCwzUJ

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/frege-haskell-for-jvm

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 114 comments

Announcing Docker ToolBox

https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/docker-toolbox/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 70 comments

WebRTC file sharing broker using Elixir Phoenix

http://zohaib.me/p2p-webrtc-file-sharing-app-broker-using-phoenix/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

Nomic: A Game of Self-Amendment

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 28 comments

The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades

http://dancounsell.com/articles/the-mac-app-store-still-needs-paid-upgrades

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

The story behind ITA's $700M sale to Google (2014)

http://mixergy.com/interviews/david-baggett-ita-software-interview/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium

https://blog.octopart.com/archives/2015/08/octopart-is-joining-altium-2

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

How Google bought Waze

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-bought-waze-the-inside-story-2015-8

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/emscripten-discuss/gQQRjajQ6iY

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2015-shading-course/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

The FCC could soon give more power to cable companies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/08/13/the-fcc-is-moving-to-end-tv-blackouts-once-and-for-all-heres-how/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/renting-in-america-has-never-been-this-expensive

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Oracle Adds New Android Versions to Copyright Battle with Google

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-12/oracle-files-new-complaint-against-google-in-android-battle

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 91 comments

Indian immigrants are tech's new titans

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-indians-in-tech-20150812-story.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 70 comments

Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to Local Police

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-software-moves-from-overseas-wars-to-local-police.html?_r=0

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Hasp – A minimal CSS preprocessor using the M4 macro language

https://github.com/djanowski/hasp

11 years ago

★ 157 Shell MIT
72 upvotes – 42 comments

Can America cope with a resurgence of tropical disease?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/can-america-cope-with-a-resurgence-of-tropical-disease/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

‘Sesame Street’ to Air First on HBO for Next 5 Seasons

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/business/media/sesame-street-heading-to-hbo-in-fall.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 84 comments

Robinhood: At a Play Store Near You

http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2015/8/12/robinhood-at-a-play-store-near-you

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

Unix System V Release 1 Programming Guide (1983) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_1/341-930_Programming_Guide_UNIX_System_Jan83.pdf

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Evil ML: ML to C++ template language

http://akabe.github.io/evilml/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

The daemontools family

http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/daemontools-family.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Droners.io – Get anything filmed by a drone

https://droners.io

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes

http://en.blog.nic.cz/2015/08/12/embedding-luajit-in-30-minutes-or-so/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

The Rise of Phone Reading

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rise-of-phone-reading-1439398395

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

The Noise Around You Could Strengthen Your Passwords

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/noise-around-strengthen-passwords/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

“(null)” is a bad idea

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-13-null-is-a-bad-idea.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 73 comments

The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren't Keeping Up

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-why-wages-arent-keeping-up

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 91 comments

Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2015/08/12/harvard-student-loses-facebook-internship-after-pointing-out-privacy-flaws/zASZFdUjn6PoliUiR9kVHJ/story.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Books That Shaped America

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Portal – Personal Cloud Servers

https://portalplatform.net/developer-release

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

For Evolving Brains, a ‘Paleo’ Diet Full of Carbs

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/science/for-evolving-brains-a-paleo-diet-full-of-carbs.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

LA is dumping millions of plastic balls into its reservoir to tackle the drought

http://www.sciencealert.com/la-is-dumping-millions-of-small-plastic-balls-into-its-reservoir-to-tackle-the-drought?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencealert-latestnews+%28ScienceAlert-Latest%29

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 73 comments

Resflash – Resilient OpenBSD images for flash memory

https://github.com/bconway/resflash

11 years ago

★ 5
50 upvotes – 11 comments

Lenovo Is Laying Off 3,200

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/12/lenovo-is-laying-off-3200-staff-after-a-poor-quarter-of-business/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 69 comments

Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready

https://resize.ly/#

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 50 comments

Movie Recommendation with MLlib

http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course/movie-recommendation-with-mllib.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Eye movements 'change scenes' during dreams

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33860994

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Peaks.js: Audio waveform rendering

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/10/audio-waveforms

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments

Inside Industrial Light and Magic's Secret Star Wars VR Lab

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9131805/ilm-ilmxlab-interview-virtual-reality-star-wars-movies

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/03/how-bees-revealed-a-pot-farm-beneath-the-maraschino-cherries.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 54 comments
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