top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-28

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/space/mars-life-liquid-water.html

11 years ago

1011 upvotes – 178 comments

Otto, the successor to Vagrant

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/otto.html

11 years ago

772 upvotes – 177 comments

The Case of Richard Glossip

http://pg.posthaven.com/the-case-of-richard-glossip

11 years ago

595 upvotes – 223 comments

Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone

http://makeit.netflix.com/the-switch

11 years ago

399 upvotes – 84 comments

Why Airbnb is dead to me

http://drupaler.drupalgardens.com/content/why-airbnb-dead-me

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 230 comments

Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

https://medium.com/@USDigitalService/introducing-u-s-web-design-standards-aff21383afd6

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 88 comments

Sex, Circuits and Deep House

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4484

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 26 comments

Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

http://shaky.github.bushong.net/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 70 comments

Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland

https://realm.io/news/droidcon-michael-pardo-kotlin/

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 223 comments

Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad.html

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 46 comments

Data first, not code first

http://etodd.io/2015/09/28/one-weird-trick-better-code/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 89 comments

Full Reddit Submission Corpus now available for 2006 thru August 2015

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3mg812/full_reddit_submission_corpus_now_available_2006/

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 92 comments

When Schools Overlook Introverts

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/introverts-at-school-overlook/407467?single_page=true

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 147 comments

How does the iPhone 6s camera compare to other iPhone generations?

http://snapsnapsnap.photos/iphone-6s-camera-comparison/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 99 comments

Guide to Logging

https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 93 comments

Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 94 comments

The KGB’s success identifying CIA agents in the field

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_amazing_success_identifying_cia_agents_in_the_field/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 55 comments

MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die

http://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 42 comments

Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts

https://medium.com/@mach/the-secret-of-san-francisco-fonts-4b5295d9a745

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 78 comments

Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel

https://gandro.github.io/2015/09/27/rust-on-rumprun/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 17 comments

EPA opposed DMCA exemptions that could have revealed Volkswagen fraud

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/epa-opposed-dmca-exemptions-that-could-have-revealed-volkswagen-fraud

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 24 comments

Google introduces 'Customer Match' – target web ads to email addresses

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2015/09/Google-brings-you-closer-to-your-customers.html

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 84 comments

How social networks can create the illusion that something rare is common

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538866/the-social-network-illusion-that-tricks-your-mind/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 33 comments

Icebergs.io Brings Linux Desktop to the Browser

https://icebergs.io

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

Apparatus: graphics editor and programming environment for interactive diagrams

http://aprt.us/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 14 comments

Math Mistakes

http://mathmistakes.org/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

Architectural patterns of resilient distributed systems

https://github.com/Randommood/Strangeloop2015

11 years ago

★ 1.2k
124 upvotes – 3 comments

Medium Raises $57M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/28/medium-raises-54m-will-hold-event-on-october-7th-to-announce-new-features-and-partnerships/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 103 comments

How a two-day sprint moved an agency twenty years forward

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/09/how-a-two-day-spring-moved-an-agency-twenty-years-forward/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2015/09/28/vp9-encodingdecoding-performance-vs-hevch-264/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr

http://code.flickr.net/2015/09/25/perceptual-image-compression-at-flickr/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Airbnb and San Francisco

http://blog.samaltman.com/airbnb-and-san-francisco

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 137 comments

Interview Questions for Hiring Top Performers

http://firstround.com/review/hire-a-top-performer-every-time-with-these-interview-questions/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 74 comments

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9662/iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-preliminary-results

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/technology/india-replaces-china-as-next-big-frontier-for-us-tech-companies.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-do-floppy-disks-still-exist-the-world-isnt-ready-to-move-on/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments

Inside the iPhone 6s

http://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/inside-the-iphone-6s

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a “second sight”

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150925-blindsight-the-strangest-form-of-consciousness

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Gatsby – Static Site Generator with React and Webpack

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 55.9k JavaScript MIT
88 upvotes – 38 comments

Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/business/complex-car-software-becomes-the-weak-spot-under-the-hood.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 52 comments

New Severity Level, "Critical"

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/09/28/critical-security-level/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-are-the-two-forgotten-architects-of-the-silk-road

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages

http://m50d.github.io/2015/09/28/when-rust-makes-sense.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 82 comments

Blackphone 2 Review

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/09/paranoid-android-redux-going-dark-with-silent-circles-blackphone-2/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201509/declining-student-resilience-serious-problem-colleges

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 89 comments

The College President-To-Adjunct Pay Ratio

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/income-inequality-in-higher-education-the-college-president-to-adjunct-pay-ratio/407029/?single_page=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

How We Grew a SaaS Company To 4M Users

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/how-we-bootstrapped-a-saas-company-to-4-million-users-and-why-google-owes-us-400000-euro/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I Fucking Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/09/27/why-i-fucking-hate-unicorns-and-the-culture-they-breed/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/facebook-ads-are-all-knowing-unblockable-and-in-everyone-s-phone

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments
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