top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-19

Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

http://ogotechnology.com/

11 years ago

588 upvotes – 182 comments

Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing

https://github.com/basecamp/trix

11 years ago

★ 19.9k JavaScript MIT
510 upvotes – 130 comments

How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-can-we-achieve-age-diversity-in-silicon-valley-11a847cb37b7

11 years ago

420 upvotes – 502 comments

First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]

http://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 227 comments

What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon

https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t-tell-you-a1128aa78931

11 years ago

343 upvotes – 260 comments

OpenSSH for Windows update

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update.aspx

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 138 comments

Chrome Devtools Tips and Tricks

http://mo.github.io/2015/10/19/chrome-devtools.html

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?

https://un-excogitate.org/facebook-ios-clipboard/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 124 comments

The Donut Hustle

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/arron-afflalo-knicks-kendrick-lamar/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 47 comments

iOS Apps Using Private APIs

https://sourcedna.com/blog/20151018/ios-apps-using-private-apis.html

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 79 comments

Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST

https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20151015-rest-vs-relay

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 143 comments

X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 118 comments

Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend

https://blog.jalada.co.uk/heroku-is-no-longer-the-hobbyists-friend/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 111 comments

MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second

https://blog.mariadb.org/10-1-mio-qps/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 73 comments

Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory

https://venngage.com/blog/why-you-need-to-stop-obsessing-over-comments-on-hacker-news/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 112 comments

Evolving Lacing Patterns for Bicycle Wheels

http://master.matsemann.com/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 19 comments

MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom

https://github.com/MagicStack/MagicPython

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript MIT
130 upvotes – 29 comments

AngelList and Y Combinator Continue To Shake The Trees

http://blog.semilshah.com/2015/10/18/angellist-and-yc-continue-to-shake-the-trees/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 8 comments

All Your Modem Are Belong to Us

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=4629

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

A Little Gear That Could Reshape the Jet Engine

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-15/pratt-s-purepower-gtf-jet-engine-innovation-took-almost-30-years

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 78 comments

Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/87

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Destroy all hiring processes

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2015/oct/19/destroy-all-hiring-processes/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 99 comments

Parkinson's patients 'walk and talk again' after receiving cancer drug in trial

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/parkinsons-patients-given-new-lease-of-life-after-receiving-cancer-drug-in-trial-a6699031.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

Dean Baquet Responds to Jay Carney’s Medium Post

https://medium.com/@NYTimesComm/dean-baquet-responds-to-jay-carney-s-medium-post-6af794c7a7c6

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/09/08/wikipedia-amplifying-impact-of-open-access/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Minimal freestanding C runtime for bare-metal/embedded PC projects

http://www.github.com/marssaxman/startc

11 years ago

★ 276 C
97 upvotes – 14 comments

MEGA is genius

https://blog.setec.io/articles/2015/10/18/mega.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

The Language of Choice

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/the-language-of-choice

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account

http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/stoner-high-school-student-says-he-hacked-the-cia/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 84 comments

Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9566935/prohibition-myths-misconceptions-facts

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 168 comments

Beware “mathiness”: Algebra and data to reinforce ideological preconceptions

http://www.johnkay.com/2015/10/07/beware-mathiness-the-use-of-algebra-and-data-to-reinforce-ideological-preconceptions

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

Life on Earth may have begun 300M years earlier than previously thought

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/19/life-on-earth-began-300m-years-earlier-than-previously-thought

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

The Lack of Historic Knowledge Is Frustrating

http://blog.ipspace.net/2015/10/the-lack-of-historic-knowledge-is-so.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Comparing a web service written in Python and Go [pdf]

https://indico.cern.ch/event/449425/session/1/contribution/6/attachments/1168560/1685802/DAS_python_vs_go.pdf

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

Memory Layouts for Binary Search – V2

http://cglab.ca/~morin/misc/arraylayout-v2/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

Reader macros in Common Lisp

https://gist.github.com/chaitanyagupta/9324402

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Notifications for targeted attacks

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifications-for-targeted-attacks/10153092994615766

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments

Windchill Refrigerator: Cheap device to keep food cold without electricity

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/uofc-first-place-biomimicry-1.3273816

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Homan Square, Chicago police's off-the-books interrogation warehouse

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands?CMP=twt_gu

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

The Economics of Male Birth Control

http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-male-birth-control/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 84 comments

Intelligent intelligence – Just how good are government analysts?

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21607765-just-how-good-are-government-analysts-intelligent-intelligence

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

UnReal Estate – Game where you become a real estate mogul

http://xavils.github.io/UEG/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Steel – Open-source command-line password manager

http://www.steelpasswordmanager.org/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

US transportation secretary announces drone registration requirement

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-announces-unmanned-aircraft-registration

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 57 comments

Improving Floating Point Accuracy: A Look at Sums

http://alex.uwplse.org/2015/10/16/improving-accuracy-summation.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

Similarities between the behavioural effects of oxytocin and alcohol

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/uob-tds051515.php

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

An Asynchronous Shell Prompt

http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/02/07/an-asynchronous-shell-prompt/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

A Look Inside the Lowline, NYC’s First Underground Park

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-10-13/inside-the-lowline-new-york-city-s-first-underground-park

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Investment in Spanish startups to surpass $500M in 2015 for the first time

http://novobrief.com/spanish-startups-funding-q1q3-2015/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Computer Utopias

http://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

The fall of the meritocracy

http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/09/fall-meritocracy/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 103 comments

How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn

http://fusion.net/story/212078/how-mindgeek-transformed-the-economics-of-porn/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

Even More Brainfuck Optimisations

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2015/10/18/even-more-bf-optimisations/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Microphone – Self-Announcing .NET Services on Top of Consul

https://github.com/rogeralsing/Microphone

11 years ago

★ 457 C# Apache-2.0
54 upvotes – 6 comments
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