top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-09

The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared

11 years ago

667 upvotes – 180 comments

Guide to Your Equity

https://github.com/clef/handbook/blob/master/Hiring%20Documents/Guide%20to%20Your%20Equity.md

11 years ago

★ 2.7k CC0-1.0
442 upvotes – 113 comments

LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/

11 years ago

422 upvotes – 417 comments

I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360911

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 545 comments

Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/gene-patents-probably-dead-worldwide-following-australian-court-decision/

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 154 comments

TPP final negotiated text – IP chapter

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 69 comments

Chromoscope: The milky way at different wavelengths

http://www.chromoscope.net/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 38 comments

A new approach to web performance

https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 172 comments

18F launches cloud.gov

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/09/cloud-gov-launch/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 84 comments

Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-08/why-do-high-frequency-traders-cancel-so-many-orders-

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 236 comments

Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/partial-victory-obama-encryption-policy-reject-laws-mandating-backdoors-leaves

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 77 comments

Piston – A modular game engine written in Rust

http://www.piston.rs/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 15 comments

Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform

https://segment.com/blog/rebuilding-our-infrastructure/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 20 comments

More than 10k problems fixed through 'Improve Detroit' app

http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2015/10/09/more-than-10000-problems-fixed-through-improve-detroit-cell-phone-app/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 42 comments

Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs

https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-with-netmap/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it

http://youpronounce.it/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 50 comments

81-year-old man driven to death by phone scammers

http://q13fox.com/2015/10/07/81-year-old-man-driven-to-death-by-phone-scammers/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 141 comments

Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does

http://fortune.com/2015/10/06/wind-cheap-coal-gas/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 174 comments

A simple puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking

http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/majority-illusion/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

Serial over webaudio

http://substack.net/serial_over_webaudio

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/mercedes-honda-mazda-mitsubishi-diesel-emissions-row?CMP=twt_gu

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

Free resources made by designers at Facebook

http://design.facebook.com

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/10/improving-youtube-video-thumbnails-with_8.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Announcing NetBSD 7.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/announcing_netbsd_7_0

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

How we served 20k IPython notebooks for Nature readers

https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/how-did-we-serve-more-than-20000-ipython-notebooks-for-nature/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

https://blog.lastpass.com/nl/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 2 comments

Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/09/segment-raises-27-million-for-its-one-api-to-rule-them-all/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

GADTs Meet Their Match [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/pattern-matching/gadtpm-acm.pdf

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

MakerBot lays off 20% of its staff for the second time this year

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/8/9477999/makerbot-layoffs-employees-lawsuit

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

SpaceCurve: A Unique and Fast Geospatial Database

http://www.jandrewrogers.com//2015/10/08/spacecurve/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook listening to conversations through microphone?

https://np.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/3nxjwt/discussion_facebook_listening_to_conversations/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 95 comments

Reviving Smalltalk-78: The First Modern Smalltalk Lives Again (2014) [pdf]

http://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Smalltalk78.pdf

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Vorpal: a framework for interactive CLIs in Node.js

https://github.com/dthree/vorpal/#

11 years ago

★ 5.6k JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 8 comments

Why unikernels might kill containers in five years

http://viethip.com/2015/10/10/why-unikernels-might-kill-containers-in-five-years/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Lazy, composable, and modular JavaScript

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/lazy-composable-and-modular-javascript

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Padding is hard

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/10/09/padding-is-hard

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

From Gongkai to Open Source (2014)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: A simple bare-metal Forth for the PDP-10

https://github.com/aap/tenth

11 years ago

★ 39 C MIT
71 upvotes – 14 comments

Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States

http://www.datainnovation.org/2015/09/mapping-neighborhood-level-obesity-in-the-united-states/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

Why this year's Nobel Prize is key to the future of physics

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ethansiegel/2015/10/09/massive-neutrinos-arent-just-this-years-nobel-prize-theyre-the-future-of-physics/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

Quantum effects in relatively large systems

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/how-big-can-schr246dingers-kittens-get

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Twitter Plans Company Wide Layoffs Next Week

http://recode.net/2015/10/09/twitter-is-planning-company-wide-layoffs-for-next-week/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Can Cinder, the World's Most Precise Griddle, Replace Sous-Vide?

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/10/worlds-most-precise-griddle-replace-sous-vide.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

Software That Lasts 200 Years (2004)

http://www.bricklin.com/200yearsoftware.htm

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments

Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton

http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments

When surgeons and engineering students join forces

http://pulse.embs.org/september-2015/rethinking-education/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

A Brief History of the End of the Comments

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/brief-history-of-the-demise-of-the-comments-timeline

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments

The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago’s most vital newspaper

http://www.theawl.com/2015/10/the-chicago-end-times

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Are global wages about to turn?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34488950

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 64 comments

How companies use RethinkDB in production

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/case-studies/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Dropbox, why are you ruining Mailbox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360356

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

How both TCP and Ethernet checksums fail

http://www.evanjones.ca/tcp-and-ethernet-checksums-fail.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 26 comments

Speaking out against Sarah Sharp (2013)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/142

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

For decades, government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/for-decades-the-government-steered-millions-away-from-whole-milk-was-that-wrong/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 102 comments
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