top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-01

Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-will-ban-sale-of-apple-google-video-streaming-devices

11 years ago

716 upvotes – 529 comments

El Capitan and Homebrew

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/El_Capitan_and_Homebrew.md#if-usrlocal-does-not-exist

11 years ago

★ 26.8k
540 upvotes – 288 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311580

11 years ago

368 upvotes – 698 comments

Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-firefox-43/

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 176 comments

Why Fogbugz lost to Jira

http://movingfulcrum.com/why-fogbugz-lost-to-jira/

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 243 comments

Microsoft Edge gets native ECMAScript 7 async/await support in latest build

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2015/09/30/javascript-goes-to-asynchronous-city.aspx

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 105 comments

The sky's gone dark

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/09/the-skys-gone-dark.html

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 175 comments

Git Large File Storage 1.0

https://github.com/blog/2069-git-large-file-storage-v1-0

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 75 comments

Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 130 comments

To Master Vim, Use It Like Language

https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/?fb_ref=118ef0e03ab54c0d8197214328648a68-Hackernews

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 119 comments

East Texas judge throws out 168 patent cases

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/east-texas-judge-throws-out-168-patent-cases-in-one-fell-swoop/

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 84 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/01/445026470/apple-ceo-tim-cook-privacy-is-a-fundamental-human-right

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 178 comments

France's Government Aims to Give Itself Carte Blanche to Spy on the World

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/frances-government-aims-give-itself-and-nsa-carte-blanche-spy-world

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

Embed Node.js on any website

http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/30/embedded-tonic.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

Gear Generator

http://geargenerator.com/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 46 comments

Study: people who eat and exercise the same as people 20 years ago are fatter

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/?single_page=true

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 174 comments

Samsung TVs appear less energy efficient in real life than in tests

http://theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/01/samsung-tvs-appear-more-energy-efficient-in-tests-than-in-real-life

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 70 comments

How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina with HP iPod

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-steve-jobs-fleeced-carly-fiorina-79d1380663de

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

GitHub supports Universal 2nd Factor authentication

https://github.com/blog/2071-github-supports-universal-2nd-factor-authentication

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 79 comments

Mexico’s Missing Forty-Three: One Year, Many Lies, and a Theory

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mexicos-missing-forty-three-one-year-many-lies-and-a-theory-that-might-make-sense

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Trying Rust for web services

https://blog.wearewizards.io/trying-rust-for-web-services

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 97 comments

Maps.me goes open source

https://github.com/mapsme/omim

11 years ago

★ 4.6k C++ Apache-2.0
115 upvotes – 37 comments

On Quitting

http://lindaeliasen.com/version-history/2015/9/28/on-quitting

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 138 comments

Secret developers of the video game industry

http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/30/9394355/the-secret-developers-of-the-video-game-industry

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

Postgres – EXPLAIN explained

http://jberkus.github.io/explain_explained/index.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email#1

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 9 comments

Curated list of speech and natural language processing resources

https://github.com/edobashira/speech-language-processing

11 years ago

★ 2.2k
101 upvotes – 27 comments

The Cost of Mobile Ads on News Websites

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/science/ibm-scientists-find-new-way-to-shrink-transistors.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

My gamedever wishlist for Rust

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/my-gamedever-wishlist-for-rust/2859

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 69 comments

Using imagemagick, awk and kmeans to find dominant colors in images

http://javier.io/blog/en/2015/09/30/using-imagemagick-and-kmeans-to-find-dominant-colors-in-images.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Outgrowing Apache Storm: why we built in-house distributed stream processing

http://libra.to/1L8WTjv

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 26 comments

Carbon: The Next Generation of Weebly

http://www.weebly.com/carbon

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-248d9ac7-9784-4769-936a-8d3b435857a8

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 140 comments

In Praise of Idleness (1932)

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

ESLint: A Next-Generation JavaScript Linter

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/eslint-the-next-generation-javascript-linter/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3B after bribing doctors to increase drug sales (2012)

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior (2010)

http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavior

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Popmotion – JavaScript animation, physics and input tracking

http://popmotion.io/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

High-Speed Trading Firm Deleted Some Code by Accident

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-30/high-speed-trading-firm-deleted-some-code-by-accident

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Commander, the spaceship to the Galaxy of PyPI

https://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/galaxy/python?cx=-2700&cy=377&cz=5622&lx=-0.0869&ly=-0.2315&lz=-0.0338&lw=0.9684&ml=150&s=1.75&l=1

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

What If You Used iOS 9's Low Power Mode All the Time?

http://www.birchtree.me/blog/wqoc7twm9a26g29pbwkvjikqju8tz7

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

Merch by Amazon

https://merch.amazon.com/landing

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

On Bazel and Open Source

http://julipedia.meroh.net/2015/04/on-bazel-and-open-source.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Scientists Invent a New Steel as Strong as Titanium

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a13919/new-steel-alloy-titanium/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Terence Tao's Answer to the Erdős Discrepancy Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151001-tao-erdos-discrepancy-problem/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

The Cobra Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 26 comments

Why the Internet of Things Is Going Nowhere

https://medium.com/@patburns/why-the-internet-of-things-is-going-nowhere-112540e79ae

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

The End of College Tuition Pricing as We Know It?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/09/01/are-we-nearing-the-end-of-college-tuition-pricing-as-we-know-it/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 56 comments

Important Security Notice from Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-notice-3457485

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311581

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 102 comments

The student who discovered water on Mars says it was a 'lucky accident'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34390462/the-student-who-discovered-water-on-mars-says-it-was-a-lucky-accident

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Peer-to-Peer Insurance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_insurance

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Send Messages by Carrier Pigeons

https://flypigeon.co/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Table-top games are booming in the video-game age

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21669930-table-top-games-are-booming-video-game-age-not-twilight-sunrise

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311582

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 93 comments

Transpose: A structured alternative to Evernote

https://transpose.com/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Neumann Space Ion Engine Sets Record for Specific Impulse

http://www.neumannspace.com/p/science.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

Golang proposal: Dense mark bits and sweep-free allocation

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12800-sweep-free-alloc.md

11 years ago

★ 3.4k HTML BSD-3-Clause
54 upvotes – 10 comments

The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. And China Headed for War?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/united-states-china-war-thucydides-trap/406756/?single_page=true

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 64 comments

Pushing the Limits of Kernel Networking

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/09/29/pushing-the-limits-of-kernel-networking/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Hadoop filesystem at Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hadoop-filesystem-at-twitter

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

Tell HN: ggventurini, author of python-deltasigma and akhab, has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309711

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

The Best Job Candidates Don't Always Have College Degrees

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/ernest-young-degree-recruitment-hiring-credentialism/406576/?single_page=true

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 29 comments

Classic bug reports

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1270

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

Rebuilding Android proprietary SDK binaries

http://blog.beuc.net/posts/Rebuilding_Android_proprietary_SDK_binaries/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: Tax Havens

http://qz.com/510520/the-global-economy-has-giant-vortex-that-is-sucking-away-the-worlds-wealth-its-called-switzerland/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 38 comments

Safe-commit-hook: prevent developers from checking in sensitive files

https://github.com/jandre/safe-commit-hook

11 years ago

★ 328 Python MIT
42 upvotes – 8 comments

The Digital Comic Museum – Free and Public Domain Comic Books

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Flexible Feature Control at Instagram

http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/496049610561948/flexible-feature-control-at-instagram

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 11 comments

The challenging task of sorting colours

http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/09/30/colour-sorting/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

W3C Web Payments Roadmap

http://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/Roadmap/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments
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