top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-25

WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

http://wordsafety.com/?hn=1

11 years ago

431 upvotes – 276 comments

UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/uk-surveillance-worse-than-1984-says-new-un-privacy-chief/

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 229 comments

Haskell for Mac

http://haskellformac.com

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 179 comments

Fix Windows 10

https://fix10.isleaked.com/

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN: Ear training using midi.js

http://tonedear.com/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 34 comments

Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

https://medium.com/@BoltVC/will-your-hardware-startup-make-money-677a8e6c665b

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 82 comments

Chebyshev Approximation

http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/152.php

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 60 comments

Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-2-coexistence.html

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 100 comments

Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150818/16495632000/doj-dismisses-case-after-court-explains-that-feds-cant-just-grab-someones-laptop-border.shtml

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 56 comments

Photos at Microsoft Corp (1979)

http://www.sound-photo.com/microsoft/microsoft.htm

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 83 comments

State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 104 comments

GitHub had connectivity problems

https://status.github.com

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 162 comments

What’s New in Bootstrap 4

https://scotch.io/bar-talk/whats-new-in-bootstrap-4

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 43 comments

Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 133 comments

An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

https://github.com/rhiever/Data-Analysis-and-Machine-Learning-Projects/blob/master/example-data-science-notebook/Example%20Machine%20Learning%20Notebook.ipynb

11 years ago

★ 6.6k Jupyter Notebook
174 upvotes – 15 comments

When hardware Kickstarters ship

http://engineering.koalasafe.com/when-kickstarters-ship/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 87 comments

A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/25/stephen-hawking-believes-hes-solved-a-huge-mystery-about-black-holes/?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 95 comments

‘Pharmacy of the developing world’ under attack from the US, EU, Japan

http://handsoff.msf.org/generics-under-attack

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 140 comments

AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection

http://webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att-hotspots-now-with-advertising-injection/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 84 comments

The most profitable source of income for banks? Overdraft fees

https://www.loannow.com/bank-overdraft-policy-reform-overdue/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 216 comments

Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML

https://cmcenroe.me/writ/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 61 comments

What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/08/26/what-does-the-os-x-activity-monitors-energy-impact-actually-measure/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 65 comments

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [pdf]

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/draft_0_2.pdf

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05508

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/as-coursera-evolves-colleges-stay-on-and-investors-buy-in/57267

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 86 comments

Traceroute

http://csvoss.scripts.mit.edu/traceroute

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 45 comments

Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf]

http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/2015-08-17-debconf.pdf

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced

https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e06C-yUwlc

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

How Sick Is the Stock Market?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-24/how-serious-is-the-stock-market-s-decline-

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 116 comments

Writing a Linux Kernel Module — Part 3: Buttons and LEDs

http://derekmolloy.ie/kernel-gpio-programming-buttons-and-leds/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Convert any Python file into a single line of code

https://github.com/csvoss/oneliner

11 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT
108 upvotes – 25 comments

Posture for a Healthy Back

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/ns_overview/hic_Posture_for_a_Healthy_Back

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 94 comments

Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-25/facebook-spam-king-guilty-over-27-million-messages-u-s-says

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/tcl/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 64 comments

The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted

http://epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com/post/127416455028/over-interpreted-epigenetics-study-of-the-week

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Dismaland – Bemusement Park

http://dismaland.co.uk/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Parents' Math Anxiety Is Contagious to Their Kids

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/square-root-of-kids-math-anxiety-their-parents-help/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-it-looks-like-to-use-internet-for-the-first-time

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python

https://github.com/csvoss/retroactive

11 years ago

★ 227 Python
79 upvotes – 8 comments

Shipwrecks Under Istanbul

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-big-dig

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

Yes I Saw Your Text, but Don’t Expect Me to Respond Instantly

https://blog.automateads.com/yes-i-saw-your-text-but-dont-expect-me-to-respond-instantly/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 70 comments

Why China's Economy Is OK but China's Government Is Not

http://globalreports.columbia.edu/blog/2015/08/why-chinas-economy-is-ok-but-chinas-government-is-not/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter

http://qqrs.github.io/blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-typewriter/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers

https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ax

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Mobile TCP optimization – lessons learned in production

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-08-25-tcp-optimization-in-mobile-networks/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/science/mount-tambora-volcano-eruption-1815.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

Why Phone Fraud Starts with a Silent Call

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/24/434313813/why-phone-fraud-starts-with-a-silent-call

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Scaling Analytics at Amplitude

https://amplitude.com/blog/2015/08/25/scaling-analytics-at-amplitude/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts, and that's a good thing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/24/adobe-flash-dying-amazon-google-chrome?

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments

FBI Files on Ray Bradbury (1959)

http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/who-was-afraid-of-ray-bradbury-science-fiction-the-fbi-it-turns-out-1959.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

Benchmarks for Blaze, A high-performance C++ math library

https://code.google.com/p/blaze-lib/wiki/Benchmarks

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Wikipedia is blacklisted in Russia

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/24/russian-wikipedia-editors-weighing-options-after-site-is-blacklisted-in-russia/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 74 comments

Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn-sends-sharper-scenes-from-ceres/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Some Dead OSes Still Matter (2007) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/login/2007-10/openpdfs/mirtchovski.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

Trading in Stocks, ETFs Was Halted More Than 1,200 Times Early Monday

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trading-in-stocks-etfs-paused-more-than-1-200-times-early-monday-1440438173

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 50 comments

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/opinion/the-case-for-teaching-ignorance.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

We only know about a small fraction of the matter in the Universe

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150824-what-is-the-universe-made-of

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

A Photographer Inside the Wildfires

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150820-fighting-forest-fires-first-person/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Mozilla CEO threatens to fire person responsible for anonymous hate speech

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris-beard-reddit-hate-speech

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Staying focused on your project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115514

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150824-how-a-nazi-rocket-could-have-put-a-briton-in-space

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

Announcing the Computation Graph Toolkit

http://joschu.github.io/index.html#Announcing CGT

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments

How and Why We Designed Lucida

http://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/10/how-and-why-we-designed-lucida.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments
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