top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-02

Free Lossless Image Format

http://flif.info/

11 years ago

1254 upvotes – 362 comments

Image diffing using CSS

http://franklinta.com/2014/11/30/image-diffing-using-css/

11 years ago

488 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes

http://www.airpaperinc.com/

11 years ago

386 upvotes – 257 comments

Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

http://www.businessinsider.com/adblock-gets-sold-acceptable-ads-2015-10

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 166 comments

One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue

http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one-of-australias-most-profitable-online-companies-and-has-zero-staff/

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 144 comments

Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China's Rich Kids

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-01/children-of-the-yuan-percent-everyone-hates-china-s-rich-kids

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Dtab – Spreadsheet for Data Science

http://dtab.io/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 67 comments

World map of the difference between solar and clock time

http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the-time/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 39 comments

LibreSSL, and the new libtls API

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00001.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 66 comments

Lessons learned writing highly available code

https://medium.com/imgur-engineering/lessons-learned-writing-highly-available-code-7eaf3d7aae00

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

A poetic vision of Paris’ crumbling suburban high rises

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/10/01/a-poetic-vision-of-paris-crumbling-suburban-high-rises/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 122 comments

Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/gigabytes-of-user-data-from-hack-of-patreon-donations-site-dumped-online/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 142 comments

Surprisingly Turing-Complete

http://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 61 comments

Why are little kids in Japan so independent?

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/09/why-are-little-kids-in-japan-so-independent/407590/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 123 comments

Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/flux-new-approach-to-system-intuition.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

PICO-8

http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

Mapzen Search: An open source geocoding api built on open data

https://mapzen.com/projects/search

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 12 comments

How Bernie Sanders Tech Volunteers Code the Bern

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/10/02/how-bernie-sanders-tech-volunteers-code-the-bern/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 85 comments

The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-joyful-illiterate-kindergartners-of-finland/408325?single_page=true

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 105 comments

Birds that fear death

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150930-the-birds-that-fear-death

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)

http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Crypto problems you actually need to solve

http://unhandledexpression.com/2015/10/01/crypto-problems-you-actually-need-to-solve/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in prison

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/02/mass_incarceration_a_provocative_new_theory_for_why_so_many_americans_are.single.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 180 comments

30 years a sysadmin

http://www.itworld.com/article/2987198/operating-systems/30-years-a-sysadmin.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

The Emerging Field of Health Data Science in Boston

http://insighthealthdata.com/blog/blog1_EmergingField/blog1_emerging_field.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters

http://www.mattfriz.com/#/outbursts/recruiter-email

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 75 comments

Foundations of probability theory

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/275a-notes-0-foundations-of-probability-theory/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

TTNT: Test This, Not That

https://github.com/Genki-S/ttnt

11 years ago

★ 263 Ruby MIT
92 upvotes – 30 comments

Noteslate

http://www.noteslate.com/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: Implementing a graph database using Postgres tables for nodes and edges?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316872

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

Introducing Network Containers

https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=490

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

The Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out

http://www.gq.com/story/untold-story-texas-biker-gang-shoot-out

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

Babadook: Connectionless, Persistent Powershell “Backdoor”

http://wroot.org/posts/babadook-connection-less-powershell-persistent-and-resilient-backdoor/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Dolphin Progress Report

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/10/01/dolphin-progress-report-september-2015/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Soylent Shipping Delay Root Cause Analysis

http://blog.soylent.com/post/130348210172/shipping-delay-root-cause-analysis

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 65 comments

How Distributed Systems Respond to Degraded Hardware

http://danluu.com/limplock/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

90% of People Don't Know How to Use Ctrl+F (2011)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-90-percent-of-people-dont-know-how-to-use-ctrl-f/243840/?single_page=true

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Zube.io – Simple project management for your GitHub issues

https://zube.io

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

UX Designer Salaries Around the World

http://uxdesignersalaries.com/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

On Monoliths and Microservices

http://dev.otto.de/2015/09/30/on-monoliths-and-microservices/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

What I Learned Reading the F# Source

http://andredublin.github.io/fsharp/.net/2015/09/30/what-I-learned-reading-the-fsharp-source.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

What Old Age Is Really Like

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-old-age-is-really-like

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

The History of the Design of Unix’s Find Command (1995)

http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 73 comments

Using wget and grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data

https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/26e5922614dc22053745

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Sentencing Overhaul Proposed in Senate with Bipartisan Backing

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/us/politics/senate-plan-to-ease-sentencing-laws.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Anything better than Tableau for data viz, dashboards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319777

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Dnsteal – DNS exfiltration tool for stealthily sending files over DNS requests

https://github.com/m57/dnsteal

11 years ago

★ 1.7k Python GPL-2.0
53 upvotes – 18 comments

PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers

https://www.kentik.com/postgresql-foreign-data-wrappers/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/?single_page=true

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 71 comments

Using Apache Kafka for Consumer Metrics

http://product.hubspot.com/blog/kafka-at-hubspot-part-1-critical-consumer-metrics

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments
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