top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-14

Tesla Model S Autopilot Features

http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot

11 years ago

378 upvotes – 308 comments

Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative

http://www.mattermost.org/open-source-slack-alternative-reaches-1-0/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 136 comments

Square files for IPO

https://squareup.com/news/sq

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 204 comments

WebKit removes the 350ms click delay for iOS

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/191072

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 141 comments

Kilogram conflict resolved at last

http://www.nature.com/news/kilogram-conflict-resolved-at-last-1.18550

11 years ago

294 upvotes – 131 comments

Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis

https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-vs-r/

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 195 comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics are free online

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 20 comments

Smartcrop.js – content-aware image cropping in JavaScript

https://github.com/jwagner/smartcrop.js/

11 years ago

★ 12.9k JavaScript MIT
244 upvotes – 28 comments

Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift

http://www.cnet.com/news/engineer-builds-working-thors-hammer-only-he-can-lift/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 56 comments

Running Swift code on Android

http://romain.goyet.com/articles/running_swift_code_on_android/

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 69 comments

What’s new in HAProxy 1.6

http://blog.haproxy.com/2015/10/14/whats-new-in-haproxy-1-6/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 40 comments

A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming

http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 34 comments

The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/?single_page=true

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 81 comments

Let's Learn GraphQL

https://learngraphql.com/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format

https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

11 years ago

★ 1.9k Clojure
164 upvotes – 118 comments

The Rocket Man Who Wants To Beat the Billionaires

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a17574/masten-space-systems/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34524785

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 141 comments

Visual Information Theory

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 21 comments

Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 77 comments

Journalists Trespass, Assault Tesla Employees at the Gigafactory

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/journalists-trespass-assault-tesla-employees-gigafactory

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 75 comments

The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts

http://blog.slaks.net/2015-10-13/web-authentication-arms-race-a-tale-of-two-security-experts/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 20 comments

Usefulness of mnesia, the Erlang built-in database

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-October/086429.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 36 comments

Self-tiling tile set

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-tiling_tile_set

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 21 comments

“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”

http://www.scarfolk.blogspot.com/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 21 comments

Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-confusing-consumers-profit

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 56 comments

Homemade synthetic aperture radar

http://hforsten.com/homemade-synthetic-aperture-radar.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

Side Project Launch Checklist

http://keepwomen.com/static_pages/checklist_tool

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-taking-millions-of-manhattan-rides-away-from-taxis/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 165 comments

Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/14/sitting-for-long-periods-doesnt-make-death-more-imminent-study-suggests/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

23andMe Wins a Second Life, Raises $115M

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/14/23andme-prepares-a-comeback-raising-115-million-at-a-1-1-billion-valuation/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 112 comments

From $250M to $6.5B: The Bay Bridge Cost Overrun

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-65-billion-the-bay-bridge-cost-overrun/410254/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Seeing stars again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/ph-ac-cn-celestial-navigation-1014-20151009-story.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 72 comments

Declassified documents offer a new perspective on Yuri Gagarin’s flight

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2844/1

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Rune.js – Graphic design systems with SVG in the browser or Node.js

http://runemadsen.github.io/rune.js/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

UI Screen Graphics: The Martian [video]

http://www.territorystudio.com/work/motion/?p=Martian

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Companies Have Stopped Outsourcing IT

http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/10/14/why-companies-have-stopped-outsourcing-it/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 56 comments

Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q3 2015

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Convolutional neural networks and feature extraction with Python

http://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/convolutional-neural-networks-and-feature-extraction-with-python/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

Babun: a Windows shell

http://babun.github.io/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment

http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-partys-over-eu-data-protection-law.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments

Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/phics.pdf

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

On the manifestos killers leave behind

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n20/andrew-ohagan/whos-the-alpha-male-now-bitches

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 91 comments

How IBM Stacks Up Power8 Against Xeon Servers

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/10/13/how-ibm-stacks-up-power8-against-xeon-servers/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

What a City Would Look Like If It Were Designed for Only Bikes

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052018/what-a-city-would-like-if-it-was-designed-for-only-bikes-no-cars-allowed

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 93 comments

How MacArthur Geniuses Handle Their Windfalls

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/your-money/how-macarthur-geniuses-handle-their-money-windfalls.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 65 comments

Chrome kills the HTTP-HTTPS “mixed content” warning

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/chrome-finally-kills-off-the-http-https-mixed-content-warning/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Raiders of the Lost Web

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=true

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com

http://m.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/racial-profiling-via-nextdoorcom/Content?oid=4526919&showFullText=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 65 comments

Uber launches Uber Rush, merchant delivery service, in three cities

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-rush-fedex-killer-released-2015-10

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Automatic Keyword Extraction from Text

http://blog.urx.com/urx-blog/2015/10/13/keyword-finder-automatic-keyword-extraction-from-text

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

China's telescope on the moon

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28323-china-has-had-a-telescope-on-the-moon-for-the-past-two-years/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

‘Rewilding’ process could soon return wolves to Scotland

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33017511

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 72 comments

Prototypes vs. MVPs

http://pathsensitive.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-prototype-stereotype.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9528441/high-deductible-insurance-kolstad

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 62 comments

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/freeman_dyson_interview/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Faroo: Peer-To-Peer Web Search

http://www.faroo.com/hp/p2p/p2p.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Chromecast + NFC

http://maxwellito.tumblr.com/post/130977884131/nfc-the-killer-feature-for-chromecast

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

Brian Eno Examines the Ecology of Culture in John Peel Lecture [pdf]

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/6music/johnpeellecture/brian-eno-john-peel-lecture.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App

https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-background-data-and-battery-usage-of-facebooks-ios-app/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34053740

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 113 comments

Open source projects for modern COBOL development

https://opensource.com/life/15/10/open-source-cobol-development

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

I Would Rather Be Herod’s Pig: The History of a Taboo

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pig-the-history-of-a-taboo/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

The simplicity and power of Elixir: the ws2048 case

https://medium.com/@azzarcher/the-simplicity-and-power-of-elixir-the-ws2048-case-b510eaa568c0

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

An in-depth look into React Native's iOS core

http://tadeuzagallo.com/blog/react-native-bridge/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments
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