top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-08

Mercury Spill

http://www.jefftk.com/p/mercury-spill

11 years ago

764 upvotes – 359 comments

Machine Learning for Developers

http://xyclade.github.io/MachineLearning/

11 years ago

380 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name

http://iyask.me/Instant-Music-Downloader/

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 134 comments

Startup NASA

http://www.technology.nasa.gov/startup

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 55 comments

Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base

https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 208 comments

'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/05/world-bank-extreme-poverty-to-fall-below-10-of-world-population-for-first-time

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 240 comments

62% of Americans Have Under $1,000 in Savings, Survey Finds

http://www.gobankingrates.com/savings-account/62-percent-americans-under-1000-savings-survey-finds/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 355 comments

Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network

https://www.propublica.org/article/verizons-zombie-cookie-gets-new-life

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 94 comments

Volkswagen's U.S. head: individuals engineered emissions cheating

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/volkswagen-emissions-congress-update-1-p-idUSL1N1281B720151008

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 249 comments

Fifth Amendment Flowchart

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2897

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 86 comments

Microsoft’s Very Good Day

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/microsofts-very-good-day

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 240 comments

Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange

https://gemini.com/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 88 comments

Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/technology/seattle-in-midst-of-tech-boom-tries-to-keep-its-soul.html?_r=0

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 295 comments

Sentry 8 is here

http://blog.getsentry.com/2015/10/08/sentry-8-is-here.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 55 comments

The Light L16 – a multi-aperture computational camera

https://light.co/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 111 comments

How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9463225/mubi-streaming-service-independent-films-efe-cakarel-interview

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 87 comments

FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-lack-of-data-on-police-shootings-ridiculous-embarrassing/2015/10/07/c0ebaf7a-6d16-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 232 comments

Show HN: Wriber – Idea Generator

https://www.wriber.com

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book

http://mashable.com/2015/10/07/microsoft-surface-book-inside-story/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 159 comments

Freestart collisions for SHA-1

https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

Amazon EC2 Container Registry

https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 48 comments

Doubling the speed of jpegtran with SIMD

https://blog.cloudflare.com/doubling-the-speed-of-jpegtran/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

Ph.D. recipients in computing fields are primarily non-US residents in the US

http://cra.org/crn/2015/10/ph-d-recipients-in-computing-fields-are-primarily-non-u-s-residents-in-most-states-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=Computing+Research+News&utm_campaign=6c070b446d-October_2015_CRN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26c4052606-6c070b446d-40722449

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 132 comments

AWS IoT Beta

https://aws.amazon.com/iot/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant for Your Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-california-gov-brown-signs-calecpa-requiring-police-get-warrant-accessing

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

New Initiatives for Lyft Drivers

http://blog.lyft.com/posts/wetreatyoubetter

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 145 comments

Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto

Http://phys.org/news/2015-10-blue-sky-red-ice-pluto.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Welcome Jared

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-jared

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Thinking in GraphQL

https://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/thinking-in-graphql.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

Hitler's Drug Addiction

https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/andrea-maurer-high-hitler/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 70 comments

Things you can do with ZFS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXOZmDoy2Co

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

Bqplot: Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks

https://github.com/bloomberg/bqplot

11 years ago

★ 3.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 13 comments

EC2 Instance Update – X1 (SAP HANA) and T2.Nano (Websites)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-update-x1-sap-hana-t2-nano-websites/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook Reactions

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/vb.4/10102412343501081/?type=2&theater

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 100 comments

Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/02/mary-beard-why-ancient-rome-matters

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments

‘Beyond disgusting,’ says journalist Matthew Keys of his hacking conviction

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/08/edward-snowden-miffed-journalist-facing-years-in-prison-for-conspiring-to-deface-an-online-newspaper-article/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers

https://pocketsquare.io

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

HypriotOS: Docker playground for Raspberry Pi

http://blog.hypriot.com/post/get-your-all-in-one-docker-playground-now-hypriotos-reloaded/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Chinese headwear fad grows like weeds

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/asia/china-hair-trend-sprout-plant.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Systemd v227

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-October/034509.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 137 comments

CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator

http://www.nature.com/news/cern-prepares-to-test-revolutionary-mini-accelerator-1.18519

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Full Speed Ahead with HTTP/2 on Google Cloud Platform

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/10/Full-Speed-Ahead-with-HTTP2-on-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

How Do the Yellow Pages Still Make Money?

https://www.thumbtack.com/blog/how-do-the-yellow-pages-still-make-money/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Jet.com changes business plan, drops membership fee

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/an-amazon-rival-jet-com-eliminates-its-membership-fee/?ref=technology

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/press.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter_tweet

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

NPAPI Plugins in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

Libertarian communism

https://libcom.org/notes/about

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 85 comments

What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions [pdf]

http://stanford.edu/~dbroock/papers/broockman_skovron_asymmetric_misperceptions.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

Scholarship, Security and ‘Spillage’ on Campus

https://medium.com/@tcfdotorg/scholarship-security-and-spillage-on-campus-15aa8fb8f38

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Leonardo Taccari

http://beastie.pl/deweloperzy-netbsd-7-0-leonardo-taccari/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Should you use interface builder?

http://engineering.remind.com/should-you-use-interface-builder/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

Light L16 Camera, the world's first multi-aperture camera

https://light.co/camera

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

“Alister Maclin” can break Bitcoin on command

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-broke-bitcoin

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

What the Euro model ‘win’ over the American model means for weather forecasting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/06/what-the-european-model-win-over-the-american-model-means-for-weather-forecasting/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

How a reclusive computer programmer became a GOP money powerhouse

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-reclusive-computer-programmer-became-a-gop-money-powerhouse/2015/10/05/1af0c1bc-50b7-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Are Bosses Necessary? A radical experiment at Zappos

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/are-bosses-necessary/403216/?single_page=true

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments

Catcierge: Image recognition and RFID chip reader for automated cat door

https://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

The Case for Fewer Dimensions

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/the-case-for-fewer-dimensions

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials, but only in US

http://www.nature.com/news/strong-placebo-response-thwarts-painkiller-trials-1.18511

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 55 comments

Learn.co – online coding education with guaranteed job placement

https://learn.co/verified

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

The Competitive World of AOL Disc Collecting

http://www.vice.com/read/inside-the-weird-world-of-aol-disc-collecting-511

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

Complex living brain simulation replicates sensory rat behaviour

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/08/complex-living-brain-simulation-replicates-sensory-rat-behaviour

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Assange: US Waging 'Lawfare' in Bid to Control the World

http://sputniknews.com/us/20151008/1028223233/us-lawfare-julian-assange.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments

OpenPGP SEIP downgrade attack

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-October/026685.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments
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