top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-29

Two HN Announcements

http://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements

11 years ago

698 upvotes – 284 comments

Amazon Flex

https://flex.amazon.com/

11 years ago

593 upvotes – 461 comments

Google Nexus 5x and 6P

http://www.google.com/nexus/

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 550 comments

Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/29/a-note-from-chris-oneill/

11 years ago

412 upvotes – 448 comments

New Chromecast 2015

https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 251 comments

Alex King, an original Wordpress developer, has died

https://poststatus.com/alex-king/

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple’s approach to privacy

http://www.apple.com/privacy/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 164 comments

Doing an HD Remake the Right Way

http://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right-way/

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 29 comments

How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”

https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/5604e5e10fc1786b0152a51a

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 98 comments

Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 122 comments

Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktyMmzZ6WeM

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 219 comments

Redox: A Rust Operating System

https://github.com/jackpot51/redox

11 years ago

★ 16.2k Rust MIT
194 upvotes – 51 comments

Servo WebRender Overview

https://github.com/glennw/webrender/wiki

11 years ago

★ 5 Rust MPL-2.0
191 upvotes – 47 comments

Surprises in GopherJS Performance

http://www.gopherjs.org/blog/2015/09/28/surprises-in-gopherjs-performance/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 28 comments

Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline algorithm

http://rangevoting.org/GerryExec.html

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 175 comments

Senator Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Even Easier to Abuse

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/senator-sheldon-whitehouse-wants-make-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-even-easier

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-document-reveals-us-spied-on-german-intelligence-a-1055055.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 152 comments

OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-the-ars-technica-review/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 127 comments

BBC iPlayer begins to trial HTML5 player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/19d875b8-c966-465b-880a-e38c71900c4c

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 84 comments

Introducing Pixel C

http://pixel.google.com/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 85 comments

71% of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture

https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/08/28/poll-results-civil-asset-forfeiture/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

LALRPOP, an LR(1) parser generator for Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/09/14/lalrpop/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 26 comments

Singapore's open data portal

http://beta.data.gov.sg/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 8 comments

Orchestra: An open-source system to orchestrate teams of experts and machines

http://orchestra.unlimitedlabs.com/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/death-athens-rogue-nsa-operation/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 8 comments

Thoughts on RethinkDB and GraphQL

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3711

11 years ago

★ 26.9k C++
112 upvotes – 31 comments

Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy

http://betterexplained.com/articles/adjective-fallacy/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 110 comments

Functional-navigational programming in Clojure with Specter

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/functional-navigational-programming-in-clojurescript-with-sp.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

ClojureScript on Android

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-07-15-clojurescript-on-android.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

https://www.holbertonschool.com

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Haskell's Type Classes: We Can Do Better

http://degoes.net/articles/principled-typeclasses/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

C# and F# approaches to illegal states

http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/09/28/c-and-f-approaches-to-illegal-states/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 92 comments

Temporary Visas, Meant to Import Talent, Help Ship Jobs Abroad

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/temporary-visas-meant-to-import-talent-help-ship-jobs-abroad.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 121 comments

Perl secret operators and constants

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlsecret/lib/perlsecret.pod

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

Negative effects of driving and living near traffic

http://qz.com/509604/driving-even-living-near-traffic-makes-us-dumb-sick-and-lonely/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Beyond ad blocking – the biggest boycott in human history

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/?utm_content=buffer56cc9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 75 comments

Basic Block Versioning – My Best Result Yet

http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/09/24/basic-block-versioning-my-best-result-yet/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Nexus 5x on sale now

https://store.google.com/product/nexus_5x

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Darpa is testing implanting chips in soldiers’ brains

http://fusion.net/story/204316/darpa-is-implanting-chips-in-soldiers-brains/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=/feed/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Tontines may make sense despite their history of disrepute

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/28/this-sleazy-and-totally-illegal-savings-scheme-may-be-the-future-of-retirement/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 73 comments

Mocha.jl: Deep Learning for Julia

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mocha-jl-deep-learning-julia/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

Axel Springer Acquires Business Insider

http://www.axelspringer.de/en/presse/Leading-Digital-Publisher-Axel-Springer-Acquires-Business-Insider_24619096.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

What is TF-IDF?

http://michaelerasm.us/tf-idf-in-10-minutes/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Kudu – Fast Analytics on Fast Data

http://getkudu.io/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Promise Visualization Playground

http://bevacqua.github.io/promisees?

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

The Lemon Parser Generator

http://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/doc/lemon.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

@Snowden

https://twitter.com/snowden

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a public live-in high school

http://www.wired.com/2013/05/hogwarts-for-hackers/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

Trading Meat for Tires as Bartering Economy Grows in Greece

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/international/trading-meat-for-tires-as-bartering-economy-grows-in-greece.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Tongan Shell Game: How Apple and Google File Trademarks in Secret

http://blog.altlegal.com/section-44-uspto-filings

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Support for 100MB APKs on Google Play

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/09/support-for-100mb-apks-on-google-play.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

Linearized map of Lake Michigan: a matter of perspective

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/a-matter-of-perspective/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession

https://www.thumbtack.com/blog/building-thumbtack/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Your DI framework is killing your code

http://blog.activelylazy.co.uk/2015/09/25/your-di-framework-is-killing-your-code/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 58 comments

US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation

http://blog.flytenow.com/us-court-of-appeals-takes-on-ridesharing-in-aviation

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/creating-your-own-ec2-spot-market.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Adblockers: The Only Way Out

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/09/27/adblockers-the-only-way-out/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 62 comments

We Are Living in a Robot Moment

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/we-are-living-in-a-robot-moment-rejoice-cower-and-copulate/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Nemo: computer algebra package for Julia

http://nemocas.org/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

Apache Flink: Juggling with Bits and Bytes

https://flink.apache.org/news/2015/05/11/Juggling-with-Bits-and-Bytes.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

A Breast Cancer Surgeon Who Keeps Challenging the Status Quo

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/health/a-breast-cancer-surgeon-who-keeps-challenging-the-status-quo.html?_r=0

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Out There

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-enough-men-253

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

The Real Price of Oil

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/fossil-fuels/the-real-price-of-oil

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and launch my own startup

http://www.maaxmarket.com/marketing-automation/story-of-maaxmarket/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 53 comments

Whence function notation?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2015/09/28/whence-function-notation/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

On Bullshit (1986) [pdf]

http://www.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments
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