top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-18

OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English

http://robb.weblaws.org/2015/10/17/os-x-el-capitan-license-in-plain-english/

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 129 comments

1Password Leaks Your Data

http://myers.io/2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 151 comments

MIT's free online classes can now lead to MicroMaster's degree

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/For-1st-time-MIT-s-free-online-classes-can-carry-6556128.php

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 72 comments

Restoration of defocused and blurred images (2012)

http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 46 comments

React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10

https://github.com/gabrielbull/react-desktop

11 years ago

★ 9.4k JavaScript MIT
207 upvotes – 73 comments

Structor – UI Builder for React

http://helmetrex.com

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 28 comments

OpenBSD 5.8 released

http://www.openbsd.org/58.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 34 comments

Super Resolution from a Single Image (2009)

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/10/17/dynamic-def.html

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 86 comments

A Tutorial on Deep Learning Part 2: Autoencoders, CNNs and RNNs [pdf]

http://www-cs.stanford.edu/~quocle/tutorial2.pdf

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 4 comments

Theranos Trouble: A First Person Account

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/18/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-account/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

VW

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/10/14/VW.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2015/09/30/twinplanet/#.ViAmMPmqpBc

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/introducing-amino-desktop-bioengineering-for-everyone

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 13 comments

Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/books/earliest-known-draft-of-king-james-bible-is-found-scholar-says.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 104 comments

Much of the technology in the NY subway hasn't been updated in over 100 years

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-why-the-new-york-city-subway-is-always-delayed-2015-7

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 90 comments

Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]

http://members.efn.org/~paulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-neuroscientists-decode-brain-worm.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (1996) [pdf]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262b/hotos-exokernel.pdf

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

IncludeOS: Run your C++ code directly on virtual hardware

http://www.includeos.org/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Test the Spammyness of your Emails

https://www.mail-tester.com/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: TinyPress – A GitHub Blogging Platform

http://tinypress.co

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542371/a-tale-of-do-it-yourself-gene-therapy/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 74 comments

Amazon Sues Fake Reviewers on Fiverr

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/amazon-targets-web-freelancers-peddling-fake-customer-reviews

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

Fixing the core memory in a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2015/10/repairing-50-year-old-mainframe-inside.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Full-Text Search in JavaScript

http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-full-text-search-in-javascript-relevance-scoring/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Salesforce Lightning Design System

http://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Kexi Project – an open-source visual database applications creator

http://www.kexi-project.org/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Siberite: A Simple LevelDB-Backed Message Queue in Go

https://github.com/bogdanovich/siberite

11 years ago

★ 585 Go
77 upvotes – 35 comments

Estonia's E-Residency Program Is Growing Faster Than Predicted

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/estonias-e-residency-program-is-growing-three-times-faster-than-predicted

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service

http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/09/ocr-api.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

A Tale of Two Ports: Automation at Oakland vs. Rotterdam

https://medium.com/@typesfast/a-tale-of-two-ports-automation-at-oakland-vs-rotterdam-e93628be1e13

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

Layoffs and Loyalty in a Liquid Valley

https://medium.com/@louisgray/layoffs-and-loyalty-in-a-liquid-valley-4b42bd5e26d7

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Hardware requirements for running AltaVista search engine in 1996

https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/655306196128280576

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

IBM Gives the Chinese Government Access to Software Code

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/ibm-gives-limited-access-of-software-code-to-chinese-government

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 85 comments

The quest for Shadow of the Colossus' last big secret (2013)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-02-the-quest-for-shadow-of-the-colossuss-last-big-secret

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Recognising gym excerises in real-time using a neural network

http://dilpreetsingh.me/activity-recognition

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

The CAP FAQ

https://github.com/henryr/cap-faq

11 years ago

★ 848
55 upvotes – 15 comments

Prison Without Punishment

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/09/25/prison-without-punishment

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments

Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets

https://medium.com/@alizauf/rainbow-binary-debt-friendship-bracelets-24b04caf3479

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

How my Apache server became a malicious free internet proxy

http://blog.atrament.net/how-my-apache-server-became-a-malicious-free-internet-proxy/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 41 comments

Will 787 program ever show an overall profit? Analysts grow more skeptical

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/will-787-program-ever-show-an-overall-profit-analysts-grow-more-skeptical/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 57 comments

CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/cdc-warns-coffee-workers-of-hazardous-chemicals-b99588225z1-330424931.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Retro diner in Detroit neighborhood wards off crime

http://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2015/10/17/johns-grill-detroit-crime/73940456/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

The thinking and dollars behind The New York Times’ new digital strategy

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/newsonomics-the-thinking-and-dollars-behind-the-new-york-times-new-digital-strategy/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments
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