top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-12

Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department

http://alexandercoward.com/BlowingTheWhistleOnUCBerkeleyMathematics.html

11 years ago

778 upvotes – 260 comments

Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos

https://github.com/Jack000/Expose

11 years ago

★ 4.4k Perl MIT
548 upvotes – 73 comments

The Little Printf

http://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html

11 years ago

529 upvotes – 84 comments

Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34504474

11 years ago

484 upvotes – 432 comments

Off the Grid, but Still Online

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/off-the-grid-but-still-online

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 159 comments

507 Mechanical Movements (1868)

http://507movements.com/about.html

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 27 comments

Feynman's Letter to His Wife

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead.html

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 60 comments

‘99.99 percent air’: Boeing releases video of revolutionary lightweight metal

https://www.rt.com/news/318280-super-light-air-metal/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 91 comments

Node.js: Some quick optimization advice

https://medium.com/@c2c/nodejs-a-quick-optimization-advice-7353b820c92e

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 72 comments

Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-12/dell-to-acquire-emc-for-67-billion-to-add-data-storage-devices

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 63 comments

Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/netapps-1-4m-fee-smackdown-against-patent-troll-holds-up-on-appeal/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

AngelList Announces $400M Early-Stage Fund

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/coming-soon-from-china-a-400-million-bonanza-for-u-s-startups-1444622462-lMyQjAxMTE1NTEwMjgxMjI2Wj

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 74 comments

USB/IP Project

http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 59 comments

How I Teach Gerrymandering

http://mitesp.tumblr.com/post/130793404248/how-i-teach-gerrymandering

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Micro web framework for low-resource systems – live example on ESP8266

http://www.ureq.solusipse.net

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Embed Linkedin profile page to see who visited your website

http://audiencestack.com/static/blog-hack-linkedin-to-view-website-visitors.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

Tell HN: Unicorns aren't ad-supported

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372789

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 59 comments

Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34484972

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

Fixed, App That Fixes Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked in SF, Oakland and L.A

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/fixed-the-app-that-fixes-your-parking-tickets-gets-blocked-in-san-francisco-oakland-l-a/#.6qjorz:NOCH

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

ARM server market

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2015/10/arm-server-market/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 64 comments

Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34508500

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 80 comments

Teaching is Selling

http://lizthedeveloper.com/teaching-is-selling

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Amazon Building a Tech Business for the Long Haul

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/amazon-building-a-tech-business-for-the-long-haul

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1007-lopez-water-glutton-20151007-column.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 145 comments

Is Money Corrupting Research?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/opinion/is-money-corrupting-research.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

IA or AI?

https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/ia-or-ai-2/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

Node v4.2.0 (Stable)

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.2.0/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

The Importance of Recreational Math

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/opinion/the-importance-of-recreational-math.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Exploring Apple's 3D Touch

https://medium.com/@rknla/exploring-apple-s-3d-touch-f5980ef45af5

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/linux-icmp-type-69

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

California makes electric skateboards street legal

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/12/9512045/electric-skateboards-legalized-california-zboard-boosted

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

Why Is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment?

https://medium.com/eidolon/why-is-stoicism-having-a-cultural-moment-5f0e9963d560

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

Global coalition tells Facebook to kill its Real Names policy

https://boingboing.net/2015/10/06/global-coalition-tells-faceboo.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 85 comments

How to manipulate curve standards: a white paper for the black hat [pdf]

http://bada55.cr.yp.to/bada55-20150927.pdf

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Malaria Drug Won’t Work for Much Longer

https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-nobel-winning-malaria-drug-wont-work-for-much-longer/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

https://labs.foxtype.com

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

Your company is not “too far along” for YC

https://medium.com/@jdotjdotf/your-company-is-not-too-far-along-for-yc-4183344adbc

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

In defense of client certificates

http://blog.bimajority.org/2015/10/05/in-defense-of-client-certificates/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Scala React interface: Cross-platform apps using Scalajs

https://github.com/chandu0101/sri

11 years ago

★ 636 Scala Apache-2.0
63 upvotes – 12 comments

Dell, EMC, HP, Cisco are the walking dead

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/meet-walking-dead-hp-cisco-dell-emc-ibm-oracle

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 70 comments

Programming in a Mad Max Wasteland

http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/10/11/programming-in-a-mad-max-wasteland/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Software Estimation Is a Losing Game (2014)

https://rclayton.silvrback.com/software-estimation-is-a-losing-game

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Ohmu – View space usage in your terminal

https://github.com/paul-nechifor/ohmu

11 years ago

★ 593
58 upvotes – 23 comments

Clojure: If Lisp is so great, why do we keep needing new variants?

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/10/12/clojure-if-lisp-is-so-great-why-do-we-keep-needing-new-variants/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 73 comments

The secretive life of a Michelin inspector

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/top-chefs-michelin-stars

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

A Simpler Vim Statusline

http://www.blaenkdenum.com/posts/a-simpler-vim-statusline/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Getting started with Erlang: a new way to look at Erlang's syntax

https://medium.com/@kansi/getting-started-with-erlang-d6ef711b25db

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Cast-Free Arithmetic in Swift

https://realm.io/news/richard-fox-casting-swift-2/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Wise – Mechanical Turk-like service with a Stripe-like API

http://www.gowise.co

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

Diesel: How it changed Europe and how Europe might change back

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/10/diesel-how-it-changed-europe-and-how-europe-might-change-back/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

In Fantasy Sports, Signs of Insiders’ Edge

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/sports/fantasy-sports-draftkings-fanduel-insiders-edge-football.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

America's newest nuclear plant shows why nuclear power is dying in the U.S

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-america-s-newest-nuke-plant-20151011-column.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 126 comments
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