top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-05

Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-reached.html?_r=0

11 years ago

478 upvotes – 371 comments

The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-most-important-thing-and-its-almost-a-secret.html

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 209 comments

Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client

https://www.nylas.com/N1

11 years ago

413 upvotes – 124 comments

Closing a door

http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 190 comments

Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/users-have-been-betrayed-final-tpp-deal-help-us-tell-washington-how-you-feel

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 98 comments

Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

http://nytimes.com/2015/10/06/technology/twitter-names-jack-dorsey-chief-executive.html

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 203 comments

Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34444233

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 135 comments

Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/global-coalition-facebook-authentic-names-are-authentically-dangerous-your-users

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 254 comments

IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards

http://mthompson.org/keyboard.html

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 154 comments

Microsoft, stop sending user identifiers in clear text

https://annoyedmicrosoftuser.blogspot.com/2015/10/microsoft-stop-sending-user-identifiers.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Intel Added Cache Partitioning

http://danluu.com/intel-cat/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 53 comments

A cartoon guide to Flux

https://medium.com/code-cartoons/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 29 comments

Terrorism is not about terror

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Tutorial

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/tutorial/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 16 comments

Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside Information

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/sports/fanduel-draftkings-fantasy-employees-bet-rivals.html

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 105 comments

Immutable Data Structures and JavaScript

http://jlongster.com/Using-Immutable-Data-Structures-in-JavaScript

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 70 comments

The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceschneier/2015/09/29/the-era-of-automatic-facial-recognition-and-surveillance-is-here/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 155 comments

402: Payment Required

https://medium.com/@humphd/402-payment-required-95bc72f06fcd

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 213 comments

Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications

http://info.meteor.com/blog/announcing-meteor-galaxy

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 41 comments

In China, Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Political Opinions

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 87 comments

Project Ballista

https://github.com/chromium/ballista/

11 years ago

★ 538 JavaScript Apache-2.0
154 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy

http://www.someone.io

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 81 comments

Scientists to nudge asteroid off course as practice for protecting Earth

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/end-of-the-world-plan-scientists-to-nudge-asteroid-off-course-as-practice-for-protecting-the-earth-a6675041.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

HP announces OpenSwitch, an open-source network operating system

http://www.openswitch.net/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 51 comments

Android 6.0 Marshmallow Reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 135 comments

Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/mecca-then-and-now-128-years-of-growth/408013/?single_page=true

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 80 comments

One of few places on Earth where an international boundary can be seen at night

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86725&src=fb

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

http://www.youtransfer.io

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 76 comments

The New York Times reaches 1M digital only subscribers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/business/the-new-york-times-reaches-a-milestone-thanks-to-our-readers.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

Elon Musk needs a vacation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/29/elon-musk-needs-a-vacation/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

New Perl 6 Homepage

http://perl6.org/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 94 comments

Alan Kay: Computer Applications – A Medium for Creative Thought (1972) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzi9R_55Iw

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 15 comments

The economics of software correctness

http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/10/the-economics-of-software-correctness/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/american-apparel-files-for-bankruptcy.html?_r=0

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 62 comments

Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

http://blog.scalingo.com/post/130326633413/heroku2scalingo-migrate-from-heroku-to-scalingo

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

How Not to Measure Latency

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generator-is-probably-lying-to-you-take-the-red-pi.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

KeepassC – Curses based keepass written in Rust

http://raymontag.github.io/keepassc/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/vw-emissions-probe-zeroes-in-on-two-engineers-1444011602

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 92 comments

Why Cats Were Hated in Medieval Europe

http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/02/why-cats-were-hated-in-medieval-europe

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 78 comments

Reverse Engineering Proves Journalist Security App Is Not Secure

https://gist.github.com/FredericJacobs/b1b518125b7066880359

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

How to Write a Pac-Man Game in JavaScript (2004)

http://www.masswerk.at/JavaPac/pacman-howto.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js

http://blog.workshape.io/the-3ree-stack-react-redux-rethinkdb-express-js/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Origin of the name “Google”

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-22/vw-s-scandal-will-lead-to-the-demise-of-diesel

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 125 comments

CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (1985)

http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/22/why-free-markets-make-fools-us/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 98 comments

Zappos’ experiment to end the office workplace

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122965/can-billion-dollar-corporation-zappos-be-self-organized

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Goxel, an open-source 3D voxel editor

https://github.com/guillaumechereau/goxel

11 years ago

★ 3.1k C++ GPL-3.0
71 upvotes – 10 comments

Free, automated SSL certificates for Sandstorm self-hosters

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-10-01-free-ssl-certificates.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

TCP/UDP/ICMP traffic over UDP tunneling

https://github.com/astroza/udptunnel

11 years ago

★ 711 C GPL-2.0
66 upvotes – 18 comments

Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/225512

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 92 comments

Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence?trk_source=popular

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 89 comments

A Single Neuron May Cary Up to 1000 Genetic Mutations

http://neurosciencenews.com/single-neuron-genetic-mutations-2813/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

The nuke detectives – New ways to detect covert nuclear weapons

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662652-clandestine-weapons-new-ways-detect-covert-nuclear-weapons-are-being-developed

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015: Therapies against roundworm and malaria [pdf]

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2015/press.pdf

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Blendle Is Up to Something Big

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/05/blendle-is-up-to-something-big/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Turning 8-Bit Sprites into Printable 3D Models (2012)

http://0fps.net/2012/09/18/turning-8-bit-sprites-into-printable-3d-models/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Ship.io says goodbye

https://ship.io/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments
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