top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-06

New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/

11 years ago

875 upvotes – 949 comments

Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/3138.html

11 years ago

809 upvotes – 319 comments

Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement

http://uk.businessinsider.com/european-court-of-justice-safe-harbor-ruling-2015-10

11 years ago

563 upvotes – 299 comments

I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)

http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 47 comments

Flux Challenge

https://github.com/staltz/flux-challenge

11 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT
285 upvotes – 52 comments

The microservices cargo cult

http://www.stavros.io/posts/microservices-cargo-cult/

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 173 comments

Reddit Presents: Upvoted

http://upvoted.com

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 151 comments

CBCrypt: Encrypt from the client rather than send passwords to servers

https://cbcrypt.org

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 208 comments

What Zillow doesn't want you to know about its listing gap

https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/zillow-realtor-listing-war

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 180 comments

Introducing AWS WAF

https://aws.amazon.com/waf/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 97 comments

Microsoft Surface Book

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 1 comments

No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/europes-court-justice-nsa-surveilance

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 25 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthur B. McDonald

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/10/06/nobel-prize-physics-idINKCN0S00ZZ20151006

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 29 comments

StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops

https://github.com/StackStorm/st2

11 years ago

★ 6.4k Python Apache-2.0
158 upvotes – 45 comments

We're Replacing Comments with Something Better

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/im-on-twitter-too

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 142 comments

What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode?

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/whats-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode-a-lot/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 56 comments

The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/10/6/end-of-safe-harbor/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 93 comments

Writing a fuzzy receipt parser in Python

http://tech.trivago.com/2015/10/06/python_receipt_parser/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 40 comments

Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 11 comments

Apply for the Microsoft Hololens Development Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/development-edition

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 42 comments

How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made

http://www.outsideonline.com/2017711/path-beta-flash-resistance-route-setters

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 58 comments

Linux kernel dev Sarah Sharp quits

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2988850/opensource-subnet/linux-kernel-dev-sarah-sharp-quits-citing-brutal-communications-style.html

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 155 comments

Imogen Heap releases single on Ethereum-based Mycelia

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/imogen-heap-saviour-of-music-industry

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

In Ben Bernanke’s Memoir, a Candid Look at Lehman Brothers’ Collapse

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/dealbook/in-ben-bernankes-memoir-a-candid-look-at-lehman-brothers-collapse.html?_r=0

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their way out of criticism

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/0408/How-the-Koch-brothers-and-the-super-rich-are-buying-their-way-out-of-criticism

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 71 comments

'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 121 comments

Quantum computing: First two-qubit logic gate in silicon

http://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/news/quantum-computing-first-two-qubit-logic-gate-in-silicon

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book

http://surface.com

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 2 comments

FAA Proposes Nearly $2M Fine Against Drone Operator

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/faa-proposes-million-fine-drone-operator-34283235

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Reddit prepares to launch new news website 'Upvoted'

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/no-comments-allowed-reddits-new-news-site-upvoted/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments

Yield of 0% a First at 3-Month Treasury-Bill Sale

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-treasury-bonds-pull-back-1444052528

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 139 comments

Rogue Wave acquires Zend

http://www.zend.com/en/resources/news-and-events/newsroom/press/3683_rogue-wave-software-acquires-enterprise-php-leader-zend-acquisition-broadens-enterprise-strength-across-top-five-development-languages

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Find rental flats based on commute time to your workplace (Switzerland)

http://wonsch.ch/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

A Criminal Mind – Why did a respected psychiatrist became a drug dealer?

https://story.californiasunday.com/joel-dreyer-criminal-psychiatrist

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Effective Cryptography in the JVM

https://tersesystems.com/2015/10/05/effective-cryptography-in-the-jvm/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Clash of the Titans: MapReduce vs. Spark for Large Scale Data Analytics [pdf]

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p2110-shi.pdf

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

The Rise of the Outrageously Long Commute

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/extreme-commuting/408754/?single_page=true

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 87 comments

How Will We Get Off Mars?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151002-mars-mission-nasa-return-space/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

How I could hack internet bank accounts of Danish largest bank in a few minutes

http://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/584-how-i-could-hack-internet-bank-accounts-of-danish-largest-bank-in-a-few-minutes

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40M

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-06/how-two-guys-lost-god-and-found-40-million

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

A robotic sewing machine could throw garment workers out of a job

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-robotic-sewing-machine-could-throw-garment-workers-low-cost-countries-out

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 71 comments

How the Bloomberg terminal made history

http://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/behind-the-brand/the-bloomberg-terminal#

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

The New Google Logo and Kerning

http://ak.vbroek.org/2015/09/03/the-new-google-logo-and-kerning/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

The Black Hole of Software Engineering Research

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2015/10/05/the-black-hole-of-software-engineering-research/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 69 comments

Hope for Cancer Cure from New Discoveries (1906)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E5DF1F3EE733A25755C2A9619C946797D6CF

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

Is the Theory of Disruption Wrong?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/did-clay-christensen-get-disruption-wrong-

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Five Minute Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-minute_rule

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

The Ideal Mathematician (1998) [pdf]

http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/the-ideal-mathematician.pdf

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments
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