top 10 hacker news stories for 2015-10-16

Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/

11 years ago

658 upvotes – 216 comments

Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/google-wins-appeals-court-approval-of-book-scanning-project-iftpwxl3

11 years ago

374 upvotes – 85 comments

From Python to Go and Back Again

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LO_WI3N-3p2Wp9PDWyv5B6EGFZ8XTOTNJ7Hd40WOUHo/mobilepresent?pli=1#slide=id.g70b0035b2_1_168

11 years ago

366 upvotes – 165 comments

Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

https://mocko.org.uk/b/2015/10/14/dont-feed-the-beast-the-great-tech-recruiter-infestation/

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 313 comments

Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15015

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 155 comments

Red Hat is buying Ansible

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/source-red-hat-is-buying-ansible-for-more-than-100m/

11 years ago

336 upvotes – 182 comments

TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/15/trans_pacific_partnership_could_thwart_computer_security_research_and_tinkering.html

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 72 comments

How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nsa-attacks-1024-bit-DH

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 130 comments

Soviet PCs

http://rbth.co.uk/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 145 comments

Markdeep

http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 78 comments
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