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

Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/technology/twitter-expected-to-begin-layoffs-and-stop-headquarters-expansion.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

374 upvotes – 390 comments

A Good Vimrc

http://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html

11 years ago

355 upvotes – 170 comments

Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of World Wide Web

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Just-say-no-to-Facebooks-Internet-org-says-inventor-of-World-Wide-Web/articleshow/49257003.cms

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 109 comments

'Great Pause' Among Prosecutors As DNA Proves Fallible

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447202433/-great-pause-among-forensic-scientists-as-dna-proves-fallible

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 81 comments

Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/09/computer-science-is-now-the-top-major-for-women-at-stanford-university/?utm_content=bufferc8924&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 147 comments

Stripe – Outage postmortem

https://support.stripe.com/questions/outage-postmortem-2015-10-08-utc

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 125 comments

Why police could seize a college student's life savings without charging him

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/17/8792623/civil-forfeiture-charles-clarke

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 180 comments

How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names

http://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/09/30/how-to-download-a-list-of-all-registered-domain-names/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 53 comments

From REST to GraphQL

https://blog.jacobwgillespie.com/from-rest-to-graphql-b4e95e94c26b

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

Psychedelics Could Trigger A 'Paradigm Shift' In Mental Health Care

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/psychedelics-mental-health-care_55f2e754e4b077ca094eb4f0

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 130 comments

ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM

http://hackaday.com/2015/10/09/arming-a-breadboard-everyone-should-program-an-arm/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

Python wats

https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat

11 years ago

★ 1.2k
123 upvotes – 122 comments

The Spy Who Fired Me

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/03/the-spy-who-fired-me/?single=1

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

White Hat Hackers Would Have Their Devices Destroyed Under the TPP

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/white-hat-hackers-would-have-their-devices-destroyed-under-the-tpp?utm_s

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Adblockers as the reason for InvalidAccessError

https://wwwtech.de/articles/2015/oct/adblockers-as-the-reason-of-invalidaccesserror

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Clef's company handbook

https://github.com/clef/handbook

11 years ago

★ 2.7k CC0-1.0
99 upvotes – 81 comments

PostgreSQL Monitoring Cheatsheet

http://russ.garrett.co.uk/2015/10/02/postgres-monitoring-cheatsheet/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 1 comments

How We Partitioned Airbnb’s Main Database in Two Weeks

http://nerds.airbnb.com/how-we-partitioned-airbnbs-main-db/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Ad-blocking: a sign that web publishers don’t care about readers

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/10/10/ad-blocking-a-sign-that-web-publishers-dont-care-about-readers/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 109 comments

Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-first-chinese-hackers-are-arrested-at-the-behest-of-the-us-government/2015/10/09/0a7b0e46-6778-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/macplus-darkcastle/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

AWS and EU Safe Harbor

http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx3QAALRNBIK9K1/Customer-Update-AWS-and-EU-Safe-Harbor

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Search now indexes iOS 9 apps with deep links

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/09/google-search-now-indexes-ios-9-apps-with-deep-links-safari-will-show-app-content-by-end-of-the-month/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Who Makes Below Minimum Wage on Mechanical Turk?

http://priceonomics.com/who-makes-below-minimum-wage-in-the-mechanical/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

https://www.staticgen.com/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Is Java more secure than C?

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2015/10/is-java-more-secure-than-c.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/why-japanese-kids-can-walk-to-school-alone/408475/?single_page=true

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 101 comments

London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat with a Facebook of the Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/europe/london-police-super-recognizer-walks-beat-with-a-facebook-of-the-mind.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Drool: automated memory leak detection in JavaScript

https://github.com/samccone/drool

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript
69 upvotes – 6 comments

Library of Words

http://libraryofwords.info/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed ALS Patient to Type Six Words per Minute

Http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/neural-implant-enables-paralyzed-als-patient-to-type-6-words-per-minute

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/business/computer-scientists-wield-artificial-intelligence-to-battle-tax-evasion.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 71 comments

How Does Java Both Optimize Hot Loops and Allow Debugging

http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2015/02/22/how-does-java-both-optimize-hot-loops-and-allow-debugging/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

The Deep Insights of Alan Kay (2013)

http://mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02/27/the-deep-insights-of-alan-kay/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Blip: A bytecode compiler for Python 3

https://github.com/bjpop/blip

11 years ago

★ 157 Haskell BSD-3-Clause
63 upvotes – 12 comments

“Reversible Concrete” May Revolutionize Temporary Architecture

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/mits-reversible-concrete-is-ready-to-revolutionize-temporary-architecture

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/learn-stop-using-shiny-new-things-and-love-mysql

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

The assault on the pie chart

http://priceonomics.com/should-you-ever-use-a-pie-chart/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Getting Started with Emscripten

http://www.davevoyles.com/getting-started-with-emscripten

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

Scott and Scurvy (2010)

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Why Video Games Have Launch Problems

https://playfab.com/blog/why-video-games-have-launch-problems/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/10/i-showed-leaked-nsa-slides-at-purdue-so-feds-demanded-the-video-be-destroyed/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

In Damp Metro Tunnels, Prehistoric Plants Thrive

http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/15/10/09/in_damp_metro_tunnels_prehistoric_plants_thrive

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

The 727 that Vanished (2010)

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-727-that-vanished-2371187/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Inside an FBI Hostage Crisis

http://graphics.wsj.com/hostage/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments
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