top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-31

A native hypervisor is coming to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144104398132541&w=2

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 110 comments

OS X Yosemite Security and Privacy Guide

https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Yosemite-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

11 years ago

★ 22.3k MIT
262 upvotes – 90 comments

Office UI Fabric

https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric

11 years ago

★ 3.7k SCSS
233 upvotes – 67 comments

Myths about /dev/urandom

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 106 comments

Government officials in Amherst, VA can now require employers to fire ex-cons

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/31/government-officials-in-amherst-county-virginia-can-now-require-employers-to-fire-any-ex-con/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 173 comments

Sandstorm Oasis hosting open beta and App Market

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-08-31-oasis-beta-launch.html

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 75 comments

Security concerns with minified JavaScript code

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00427.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 118 comments

Android Wear now works with iPhones

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/android-wear-now-works-with-iphones.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network

http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 119 comments

Google OnHub Review

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/31/9228739/google-onhub-router-wifi-review

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 202 comments

React, Flux, RethinkDB and SageMathCloud – Summer 2015 Update

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/08/react-flux-rethinkdb-and-sagemathcloud.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 62 comments

What is wrong with NULL

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mistake-of-computer-science/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 142 comments

Atari's “The Book” (1980) [pdf]

http://pdf.textfiles.com/technical/atari_thebook.pdf

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 15 comments

How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500

https://www.humankode.com/security/how-a-bug-in-visual-studio-2015-exposed-my-source-code-on-github-and-cost-me-6500-in-a-few-hours

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 108 comments

Unreal Engine 4.9 Released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-49-released

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 50 comments

You are the WM

http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html?hn

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

Designing a garbage collector in Rust

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc-in-rust/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 17 comments

Closure Compiler: a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

Understanding ETF “Flash Crashes”

http://www.factset.com/insight/2015/08/understanding-etf-flash-crashes#.VeRJ69NVhBc

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 141 comments

Rethinking Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/opinion/sunday/rethinking-work.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&_r=0

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 71 comments

Math for Machine Learning (2009) [pdf]

https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/courses/2013S_ML/math4ml.pdf

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 7 comments

The Oliver Sacks Reading List

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/the-oliver-sacks-reading-list/401993/?single_page=true

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 3 comments

I took the $300k (2013)

http://www.boundary.com/blog/2013/05/i-took-the-300k/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

What is ADD?

http://adrusi.com/what-is-add/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 120 comments

Steinway's 600,000th piano, the Fibonacci

http://www.steinway.com/news/press-releases/steinway-sons-marks-a-historic-milestone-with-the-unveiling-of-the-companys-600000th-piano/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Well vs. Equal Temperament (2000)

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/tuning/tuning.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 62 comments

How Imgix Built a Stack to Serve 100k Images per Second

http://stackshare.io/imgix/how-imgix-built-a-stack-to-serve-100-000-images-per-second#stackshare-weekly

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Forth – The Early Years (1991)

http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00037/full

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 85 comments

Sqitch - Sane database change management

http://sqitch.org/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Aphantasia: A life without mental images

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054?ref=hn

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 73 comments

The Disturbing Consequences of Seeing Your Doppelgänger

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150821-the-dangerous-consequences-of-seeing-your-doppelganger

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (2012)

http://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

Fuckit.py – The Python error steamroller

https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

11 years ago

★ 5.2k Python
86 upvotes – 46 comments

India Virtually Eliminates Tetanus as a Killer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/health/india-virtually-eliminates-tetanus-as-a-killer.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Randexp.js: Create random strings that match a given regular expression

https://github.com/fent/randexp.js

11 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript MIT
82 upvotes – 23 comments

What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

How Schools Are Handling an 'Overparenting' Crisis

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/28/434350484/how-schools-are-handling-an-overparenting-crisis/#HNresubmit

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 85 comments

The sleeping beauty paradox

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/41208/the-sleeping-beauty-paradox

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 80 comments

Fibonacci Flim Flam

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Wes Craven, Horror Maestro, Dies at 76

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-818806

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: How to get started with VR?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10146929

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Ruby on Guix

http://dthompson.us/ruby-on-guix.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

The Muen Separation Kernel

http://muen.sk/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Why You Should Hire Computer Science Majors

http://stephen-brennan.com/2015/08/30/why-you-should-hire-cs-majors/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 67 comments

Berkeley DB: Architecture

http://ctrl-c.club/~ksikka/articles/01-berkeley-db/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Cocaine stops you from recognising other people's emotions

http://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S0924-977X(15)00265-5/abstract

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Online streaming sites and URL obfuscation

https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/resistance-is-futile

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Gunther, Christine and Otto (2014)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Hitcount.me – Live Website Popularity

http://benwilber.github.io/nginx/syslog/redis/logging/static/blog/hit/counter/2015/08/31/hitcountme-live-website-popularity.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Pylsy: Python library to represent tabular data in ASCII tables

http://www.github.com/Leviathan1995/Pylsy

11 years ago

★ 461 Python
64 upvotes – 24 comments

Radar Made Easy (1974)

https://archive.org/details/RadarMadeEasy

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2641547

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Ceres: The Planet That Wasn't

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150831-the-planet-that-wasnt

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Breakout in Assembly

https://fotino.me/breakout-in-assembly/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Interview with Bill Joy (1984)

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber Reinforce Evolution Theories (2011)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/dinosaur-feathers-found-in-amber-reinforce-evolution-theories/245094/?single_page=true

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Stanford Statistical Learning Theory – Lecture Notes [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs229t/notes.pdf

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

How a Criminal Network Infiltrated the Bank of England

http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelgillard/sex-lies-and-interest-rates

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Netflix takes gamble with Epix film cull

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34110968

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 74 comments

Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Backprop/index.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

The Fatal Shore, Awash in Plastic

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/the-fatal-shore-awash-in-plastic/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

An Illustrated History of Objc_msgSend

http://sealiesoftware.com/msg/?hn

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

How 'DevOps' is Killing the Developer (2014)

https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/04/15/how-devops-is-killing-the-developer/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 66 comments

The history of alcohol: From the crack cocaine of its day to craft gin

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/08/history-alcohol?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/fromthecrackcocaineofitsdattocraftgin

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

A fast geo database with LevelDB, Go and Geohashes

http://blog.nobugware.com/post/2015/leveldb_geohash_golang/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

What things compute?

http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/thelablunch/2015/07/what-things-compute/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 29 comments

Report: U.S. average daily mobile game time drops over 30% in a year

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252522/Report_US_average_daily_mobile_game_time_drops_over_30_in_a_year.php

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 30 comments

An Introduction to Taxicab Geometry

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/08/31/taxicab-geometry/#.VeRT_Yz-SFs.hackernews

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

PostgreSQL Migration Tool

https://github.com/aphel-bilisim-hizmetleri/pg-migrator

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

UpUp: a tiny script that makes sure your site is always there for your users

https://www.talater.com/upup/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

A 21st-Century Migrant’s Essentials: Food, Shelter, Smartphone

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

IBM Watson Tone Analyzer

https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2015/07/16/ibm-watson-tone-analyzer/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 28 comments

C++ encapsulation for Data-Oriented Design

http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2015/08/c-encapsulation-for-data-oriented-design.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments
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