top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-09-25

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

https://www.zulip.org/

11 years ago

755 upvotes – 313 comments

From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/

11 years ago

450 upvotes – 236 comments

How Chromium Works

https://medium.com/@aboodman/in-march-2011-i-drafted-an-article-explaining-how-the-team-responsible-for-google-chrome-ships-c479ba623a1b

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 71 comments

Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/forcing-suspects-to-reveal-phone-passwords-is-unconstitutional-court-says/

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 187 comments

Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware

http://glowforge.com/gpl-licensed-open-source-firmware-for-glowforge/

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 53 comments

Elixir v1.1.0 Released

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/tree/v1.1.0

11 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0
266 upvotes – 138 comments

Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches

https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 80 comments

I Have Read Prop F

https://medium.com/@emeyerson/prop-f-is-worse-than-you-think-17e395ca8761

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 170 comments

Urbit: an operating function

http://urbit.org/preview/~2015.9.25/materials/whitepaper

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 169 comments

Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/09/25/rejuvenating-the-microsoft-c-c-compiler.aspx

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 134 comments

Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-the-jetbrains-toolbox-announcement/#more-7340

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 47 comments

Google voice search: faster and more accurate

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-voice-search-faster-and-more.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 67 comments

Keybase's New Key Model

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 79 comments

Car industry 'buried report revealing US car safety flaws over fears for TTIP'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/new-ttip-scandal-car-industry-buried-report-revealing-us-car-safety-flaws-10514716.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 116 comments

iOS at Facebook [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5463eca4e4b09c644a61f99a/t/55fa801ae4b008853e3de038/1442480154751/SimonWhitaker.pdf

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 109 comments

Is curl|bash insecure?

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-pgp-verified-install.html?hn=1

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 160 comments

Why Quirky Failed

https://medium.com/bolt-blog/the-real-reason-why-quirky-failed-c362b3a3abd7?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_YFF-CV_7thd-dZ70Nb56eXFBYUosOvLnErGRHdymfITh2DHLBOMX7copUioz_wULBqhkmCh5FW7LjaZ3Pc35F4439Fg&_hsmi=22330702

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 87 comments

Chaos Engineering Upgraded

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 6 comments

New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34358723

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 71 comments

John Carmack's VR Script Live Coding Session at Oculus Connect [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMItsZq_n20

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 32 comments
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