top 50% 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

Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Highways

http://www.ewao.com/a/1-these-forested-overpasses-allow-animals-to-cross-safely-over-highways

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)

http://squid314.livejournal.com/350090.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 56 comments

Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical-sessions/presentation/zheng

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 63 comments

JustFab: The Billion Dollar Startup with a Dark Past

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/justfab-the-billion-dollar-startup-with-a-dark-past#.wfgpk3DY5

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

Emacs Artist Mode

http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Stupid Apps and Changing the World

http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

What's new in Rails 5?

http://blog.michelada.io/whats-new-in-rails-5

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

Whose xterm is it anyway?

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/whose-xterm-is-it-anyway

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 52 comments

Powering CRISPR with AWS Lambda

http://benchling.engineering/crispr-aws-lambda/?hn

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geospatial data

https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB?hn=2015-09-25

11 years ago

★ 1.5k PHP CC-BY-4.0
108 upvotes – 52 comments

Call Me Maybe: Percona XtraDB Cluster

https://aphyr.com/posts/328-call-me-maybe-percona-xtradb-cluster

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

The Incredible Proof Machine

http://incredible.nomeata.de/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

NewLisp

http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Home

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 81 comments

How a $2.7B air-defense system became a 'zombie' program

http://graphics.latimes.com/missile-defense-jlens/??ftcamp=crm/email//nbe/FirstFTEurope/product#navtype=notification

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free

http://www.vladalexandruionescu.com/2015/09/dear-tech-giants-if-you-love-someone.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/boeing-publishes-photos-of-secret-1960s-stealth-plane-experiment/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Electrifying flight: very different aircraft may end up taking to the sky

http://economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21664944-using-electric-and-hybrid-forms-propulsion-very-different-looking-aircraft?cid1=cust/ednew/n/n/n/20150917n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/email

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

The life and death of a laptop battery

http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Kafka in a Nutshell

http://sookocheff.com/post/kafka/kafka-in-a-nutshell/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Can't Startups Get US Government Contracts?

https://news.vice.com/article/why-cant-startup-companies-get-us-government-contracts

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 69 comments

30 second arithmetic challenge

http://christianp.github.io/30secondchallenge/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

iOS 9 space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/ios-9s-space-saving-app-slicing-disabled-for-now-will-return-in-future-update/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

BC Startups: The Government Is Not Your Friend

https://medium.com/@benjaminfox/bc-startups-the-government-is-not-your-friend-195ea432e40f

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Supermassive black holes found spiraling in at seven percent light speed

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/supermassive-black-holes-found-spiraling-in-at-seven-percent-light-speed/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

JSON Lines

http://jsonlines.org/examples/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Virtual human built from more than 5000 slices of a real woman

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730404-000-virtual-human-built-from-more-than-5000-slices-of-a-real-woman/#bx304040B1

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8M cars in Germany, Berlin says

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/25/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN0RP14U20150925

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 79 comments

Chasing the shiny and new

https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Why Is It Still Legal to Use Human Antibiotics on Farm Animals?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-is-it-still-legal-to-use-human-antibiotics-on-farm-animals

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Nonstop Travel in Personal Pods Has yet to Take Off

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/24/440859459/why-nonstop-travel-in-personal-pods-has-yet-to-take-off

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 75 comments

Extreme altruism: caring for strangers at the expense of family

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/extreme-altruism-should-you-care-for-strangers-as-much-as-family

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 71 comments

Ranges and Intervals in Swift

http://oleb.net/blog/2015/09/swift-ranges-and-intervals/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Err – The Pluggable Chatbot

http://errbot.net/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Writing a browser extension for three browsers

http://einaregilsson.com/writing-a-browser-extension-for-three-browsers/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Paraplegic man walks with own legs again

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/24/paraplegic-man-walks-with-own-legs-again

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

For San Francisco Cab Drivers, Once-Treasured Medallions Now a Burden

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 86 comments

Greenkeeper: Always up-to-date npm dependencies

http://greenkeeper.io/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Zzyzx, California, or the Biggest Health Spa Scam in American History

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zzyzx-california-or-the-biggest-health-spa-scam-in-american-history

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify, all without the internet

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9352095/netflix-cuba-paquete-internet

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Can you give me some advice on writing essays?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276466

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

5000 Years of Interest Rates

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-5000-years-of-interest-rates-2015-9

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

The story of a shy academic

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/the-story-of-a-shy-academic?nopaging=1

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 1 comments
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