top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-13

Twitter announces layoffs

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459015008360/twtr-ex991_6.htm

11 years ago

582 upvotes – 381 comments

Flux is the new WndProc

http://bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/

11 years ago

532 upvotes – 126 comments

Complete LiDAR Scan of England Publicly Available

https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open-data/

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 67 comments

Judge: NYC Seizing Thousands of Cars Without Warrants Is Unconstitutional

http://www.amny.com/news/taxi-and-limousine-commission-seizing-of-cars-is-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules-1.10911628

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 102 comments

Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 58 comments

Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks

http://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-with-recurrent-neural-networks/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 64 comments

Emacs maintainer steps down

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-09/msg00849.html

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 71 comments

There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/theres-no-drm-jpeg-lets-keep-it-way

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 120 comments

The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-13/if-you-re-young-the-job-outlook-is-grim-no-matter-where-you-live

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 477 comments

If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/?single_page=true

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 124 comments

MH17 Report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-34514727

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 140 comments

Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34516907#?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 124 comments

All the UML you need to know

http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/pvg/misc/uml/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 102 comments

Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)

http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/P328.html

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 69 comments

Convicted by Code: Defendants should be able to inspect code used in forensics

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/06/defendants_should_be_able_to_inspect_software_code_used_in_forensics.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

Things men have actually said to me at tech events

http://leahweitz.com/things-men-have-actually-said-to-me-at-tech-events/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 198 comments

Lorentz forces and cheating at the Pinewood Derby

http://ch00ftech.com/2015/10/12/lorentz-forces-and-cheating-at-the-pinewood-derby/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 32 comments

Playboy to Drop Nudity as Internet Fills Demand

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 96 comments

Out of the Darkness: How two psychologists and CIA devised torture program

https://www.aclu.org/feature/out-darkness

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 60 comments

Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3og4hs/down_the_rabbit_hole_of_the_ol_reddit_switcharoo/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 19 comments

The Case for Building Scalable Stateful Services

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/12/making-the-case-for-building-scalable-stateful-services-in-t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HighScalability+%28High+Scalability%29

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 16 comments

The Law That Makes U.S. Expats Toxic

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-law-that-makes-u-s-expats-toxic-1444330827-lMyQjAxMTI1MTE1MjkxOTI0Wj

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 164 comments

Web Development with React, Falcor, and ES6

http://engineering.widen.com/blog/future-of-the-web-react-falcor/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Judge to DOJ: Not All Writs

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/judge-doj-not-all-writs/?

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Nobody’s Talking About Nanotech Anymore

http://time.com/4068125/nanotech-sector/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Capsule Shield: A Docker Alternative for the JVM

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/10/08/container-capsules/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

Living with Microsoft C++ Compiler Bugs and Ambiguities

http://blog.jetbrains.com/rscpp/microsoft-cpp-compiler-bugs-ambiguities/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

A tale of software maintenance: OpenSSL and EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144472550016118&w=2

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands

http://mimimatthews.com/2015/09/28/19th-century-marriage-manuals-advice-for-young-husbands/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/business/media/conde-nast-buys-pitchfork-media.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 77 comments

Slouchy – a small Python script that warns you if you're slouching

https://github.com/pyskell/slouchy

11 years ago

★ 794 Python GPL-3.0
99 upvotes – 26 comments

How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop

http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-fool-themselves-and-how-they-can-stop-1.18517

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Languages to improve your Python

http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/10/languages-to-improve-your-python.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

That self-appendectomy

http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy1/appendix.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-videogames-are-saving-the-symphony-orchestra-1444696737

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

Nibbler 4 Bit CPU

http://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Resigning from the Haskell Platform

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-October/010068.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Lexika – Search Engine for Spoken Words/Phrases in YouTube Videos

http://www.lexika.io

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Pragmatic app pricing

http://www.marco.org/2015/10/13/pragmatic-pricing

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Photon – Framework for Electron apps

http://photonkit.com/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Optimizely Raises $58M

https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/10/13/optimizely-series-c-funding/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/words-mom-dad-similar-languages/409810/?single_page=true

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

The Unseen Theft of America's Literary History

http://lithub.com/the-unseen-theft-of-americas-literary-history/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

Neuroscientists use maps of people’s brains to predict reasoning ability

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/scientists-can-now-predict-intelligence-brain-activity/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

NoSQL Benchmark Compares PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, OrientDB and ArangoDB

https://www.arangodb.com/2015/10/benchmark-postgresql-mongodb-arangodb/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Inside LAN Sync

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/10/inside-lan-sync/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Why I Left the .NET Framework (2013)

http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 108 comments

How Tasteless Suburbs Become Beloved Urban Neighborhoods

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/suburbs-immaculate-conception/408025/?single_page=true

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 58 comments

On therapy and intrusive thoughts

http://steveworsley.com/on/therapy

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Login and Firebase CLI 2.0.0

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2015-10-13-google-login-and-firebase-cli-2.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

Transistor Wall Clock

http://www.transistorclock.com/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: CPU simulator in 60 lines of code

https://github.com/wkoszek/cpu60.git

11 years ago

★ 161 C BSD-2-Clause
60 upvotes – 33 comments

Design Your Own Database (2004) [pdf]

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bknauff/dwebd/2004-02/DB-intro.pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Simple Sequential A/B Testing

http://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Suffering Is One Very Long Moment: How Oscar Wilde’s Prison Sentence Changed Him

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/10/13/suffering-is-one-very-long-moment/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 1 comments

Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma (2006) [pdf]

http://www.people.hbs.edu/nwasserman/Rich_vs_King-Proceedings_with_abstract.pdf

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

Dutch report: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/13/a-dutch-report-will-say-what-downed-mh17-it-wont-blame-the-russians/?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Annotated version of the paper that led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/oscillation-of-atmospheric-neutrinos

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

The Lost Canals of Venice of America

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/the-lost-canals-of-venice-of-america.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Struct Iteration Through Abuse of the C Preprocessor

https://natecraun.net/articles/struct-iteration-through-abuse-of-the-c-preprocessor.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

The Vision Intel, AMD and Nvidia Are Chasing: Heterogeneous Computing

http://wccftech.com/intel-amd-nvidia-future-industry-hsa/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple: Magic Accessories

http://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 99 comments

Inside the lab: Why Apple still sweats the details on iMac

https://medium.com/backchannel/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-sweating-the-details-on-imac-531a95e50c91

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 62 comments

Are Fats Unhealthy? The Battle Over Dietary Guidelines

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/upshot/are-fats-unhealthy-the-battle-over-dietary-guidelines.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

The merger of Dell and EMC stems from the rise of cloud computing

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21673523-clouded-marriage-merger-dell-and-emc-more-proof-it-industry-shifting

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

The Investment Secrets of Al Gore

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/the-planet-saving-capitalism-subverting-surprisingly-lucrative-investment-secrets-of-al-gore/407857/?single_page=true

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Intelligence Augmentation and the Myth of the “Golden Lost Age”

http://codinginparadise.org/ebooks/html/blog/ia_vs__ai.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

Thresholds of Violence: How School Shootings Spread

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence?currentPage=all

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 63 comments

Debugging a Memory Leak on Heroku

http://blog.codeship.com/debugging-a-memory-leak-on-heroku/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested

https://medium.com/backchannel/what-i-saw-inside-apple-s-top-secret-input-lab-6637e2e5492e

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments
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