top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-15

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/

11 years ago

1005 upvotes – 246 comments

Page Weight Matters (2012)

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

11 years ago

556 upvotes – 165 comments

The Drone Papers

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/

11 years ago

543 upvotes – 221 comments

Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046

11 years ago

520 upvotes – 174 comments

How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

https://medium.com/@Sam_Floy/how-to-know-if-where-you-live-is-up-and-coming-fried-chicken-vs-coffee-shops-546080119f98

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 304 comments

Default Alive or Default Dead?

http://paulgraham.com/aord.html

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 115 comments

YC Continuity

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-continuity-fund

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 70 comments

Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a blockchain to rank it

http://www.slideshare.net/lmatteis/kudos-a-peertopeer-discussion-system-based-on-social-voting

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

Federal Whistleblower Investigator Fired After Blowing the Whistle on Own Agency

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Federal-Whistleblower-Investigator-Fired-After-Blowing-the-Whistle-on-His-Own-Agency-332240782.html

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 21 comments

Data Infrastructure at IFTTT

http://engineering.ifttt.com/data/2015/10/14/data-infrastructure/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 22 comments

We Looked for Work as a Software Development Team

http://chocolatetin.org/2015/09/30/team-job-hunt.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 44 comments

Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/world/europe/homeland-arabic-graffiti.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 170 comments

Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font

http://makkuk.com/kawkab-mono/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 42 comments

Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/15/dropbox-paper-team-collaboration-tools/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 149 comments

Medical Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injuries Was Made by a Computer Program

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052282/the-latest-medical-breakthrough-in-spinal-cord-injuries-was-made-by-a-computer-program

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

Murder in the Alps

http://www.gq.com/story/alps-murder-chevaline

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 55 comments

Coding Interview Tips

http://www.interviewcake.com/article/tips-and-tricks

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 54 comments

Open Source Photography Workflow

http://www.rileybrandt.com/2015/10/15/foss-photo-flow-2015/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

The TV antenna is making a comeback

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/new-generation-discovers-good-old-tv-antenna

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 252 comments

Jack Dorsey giving up 30% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/14/jack-dorsey-is-giving-up-30-of-his-stake-in-square-to-help-underserved-communities/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 86 comments

The porn industry is in a bind

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-porn-business-isnt-anything-like-you-think-it-is/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 165 comments

ElixirConf 2015 Keynote by José Valim [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RB1JCKe3GY

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/hackers-prove-they-can-pwn-the-lives-of-those-not-hyperconnected/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 71 comments

MIT Invents Alterable Pin Surface That Lets Objects Assemble Themselves

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3052266/mit-invents-a-flowing-river-of-3-d-pixels-that-lets-objects-assemble-themselves?partner=rss

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 22 comments

Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/social-media-cracked-the-case-of-mh17

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Chattanooga to offer 10 gigabit internet service starting today

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/oct/15/chattanooga-becomes-first-10-gigabit-city-world/330691/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/gchq-monitor-communications-mps-peers-tribunal-wilson-doctrine

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 72 comments

How Facebook knows who you might be dating online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34518576/how-facebook-knows-who-you-might-be-dating-online

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 59 comments

The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain

http://www.nature.com/news/the-tantalizing-links-between-gut-microbes-and-the-brain-1.18557

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Higher Order Macros in C++

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2012/01/24/higher-order-macros-in-c/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Flirting with Elixir

http://eng.localytics.com/flirting-with-elixir/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

SQLite 3.9.0 Released with JSON support

https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_9_0.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin-NG: A Secure, Faster, Better Blockchain

http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/10/14/bitcoin-ng/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

The Way We Use Social Security Numbers Is Absurd

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-way-we-use-social-security-numbers-is-absurd/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number

http://esciencecommons.blogspot.ca/2015/10/mathematicians-find-magic-key-to-drive.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

How to Pick a Front End Web Framework

http://www.fse.guru/how-to-pick-a-frontend-web-framework

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 78 comments

A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/a-new-golden-age-part-iii-the-basic-income-guarantee

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 101 comments

Unit testing IO in Haskell

https://blog.pusher.com/unit-testing-io-in-haskell/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

New ResearchKit Studies for Autism, Epilepsy and Melanoma

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/10/15Apple-Announces-New-ResearchKit-Studies-for-Autism-Epilepsy-Melanoma.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Researchers Find ‘Impossible to Trace’ Spyware in 32 Countries

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/researchers-find-impossible-to-trace-spyware-in-32-countries

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Civic Tech Startup OpenGov Raises $25M, Adds Marc Andreessen to Board

http://recode.net/2015/10/15/civic-tech-startup-opengov-raises-25-million-adds-marc-andreessen-to-its-board/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

What it's like to write for content farms, from Brooklyn to the Philippines

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/what_do_you_do/216643-content-farm-writers-philippines

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian

http://news.mit.edu/2015/no-driverless-cars-1013

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 102 comments

The Dark Reality of Sports Betting and Daily Fantasy Games

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/15/us/sports-betting-daily-fantasy-games-fanduel-draftkings.html?action=click&contentCollection=Middle%20East&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Guix-tox, a functional version of tox

http://blogs.rdoproject.org/7843/guix-tox-a-functional-version-of-tox

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-banknotes-for-a-japanese-occupied-hawaii

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

The Case for Getting Rid of Borders Completely

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/?single_page=true

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 73 comments
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