top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-20

Let's Encrypt is Trusted

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted.html

11 years ago

1260 upvotes – 311 comments

OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo

http://www.gisdoctor.com/site/2015/10/12/reasons-openstreetmap/

11 years ago

529 upvotes – 138 comments

The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-nypd-is-using-mobile-x-rays-to-spy-on-unknown-targets/411181/?single_page=true

11 years ago

515 upvotes – 283 comments

Httpie: A CLI http client

http://radek.io/2015/10/20/httpie/

11 years ago

391 upvotes – 49 comments

Guide to Sending Email Like a Startup

https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/guide/?

11 years ago

363 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-apple-court-encryption-idUSKCN0SE2NF20151020

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 193 comments

Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/goodbye-coffeescript-hello-typescript/

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 256 comments

BoringSSL

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/boringssl.html

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 112 comments

Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile

https://theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/searches-average-mobile-google-problem/

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 237 comments

The Trading Game

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-stock-chart-trading-game/

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 99 comments

Tesla shares dive after Consumer Reports yanks recommendation for Model S

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-consumer-reports-tesla-models-20151020-story.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 239 comments

How to listen to (and delete) everything you've ever said to Google

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/13/google-voice-activity-listen-delete-recordings

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 88 comments

The viability of JavaScript frameworks on mobile

https://joreteg.com/blog/viability-of-js-frameworks-on-mobile

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 80 comments

Gnuspeech

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 55 comments

NetSurf: Small, fast, free web browser

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 70 comments

MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit

http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

So you're learning OCaml

http://hyegar.com/blog/2015/10/19/so-you%27re-learning-ocaml/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

Amazon Spars With The Times Over Investigative Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/business/amazon-spars-with-the-times-over-investigative-article.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=Media&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 111 comments

Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser

http://www.dillo.org/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

When a dev dies, their apps should live on

http://www.stuff.tv/features/when-dev-dies-their-apps-should-live

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Apifier – hosted web crawler for developers

https://www.apifier.com/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Bolivian women knit parts for hearts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32076070

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 10 comments

Turning a climbing wall into a video game

http://joinrandori.com/blog

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning

http://rinuboney.github.io/2015/10/18/theoretical-motivations-deep-learning.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major savings

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/government-open-source-office-deal-set-to-provide-major-savings.php

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

Product Design of the Stripe Dashboard for iPhone

https://medium.com/swlh/exploring-the-product-design-of-the-stripe-dashboard-for-iphone-e54e14f3d87e

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Unofficial uBeam FAQ

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

How The Fast Times Of The Paparazzi Came to a Halt

http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiarosenbaum/downfall-of-the-paparazzi

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Nucleon, a dynamic TCP load balancer written in Rust

https://github.com/NicolasLM/nucleon

11 years ago

★ 435 Rust BSD-2-Clause
78 upvotes – 23 comments

‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/clock-kid-ahmed-mohamed-and-his-family-will-move-to-qatar/2015/10/20/a95ed296-7762-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 139 comments

Google Pumps $2B into Africa’s Biggest Wind Power Project

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/google-pumps-2b-into-africas-biggest-wind-power-project/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Ideas for a New Elliptic Curve Library

https://briansmith.org/GFp-0

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

8088 MPH, partially working under emulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2n8Fp7F2g

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

Trap Streets

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/47/bridle.php

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

The rise of the zero-day market

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/the-rise-of-the-zero-day-market/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain

http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2015-news/ItskovCurto10-2015

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Floating IPs: Architect Your Applications for High Availability

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/floating-ips-start-architecting-your-applications-for-high-availability/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings

http://hackaday.com/2015/10/20/the-curious-case-of-ultrasonic-power-transfer/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Brain structure generates pockets of sleep within the brain

http://news.mit.edu/2015/brain-controls-sleep-1013

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

The Cray Files

http://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-cray-files/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

Ex-U.S. agent gets over six years for Bitcoin theft in Silk Road probe

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/19/us-usa-bitcoin-silkroad-idUSKCN0SD2IA20151019

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations

https://age-of-product.com/agile-failure-patterns-in-organizations/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 83 comments

A Man in India Is Selling States Illegally Imported Execution Drugs

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismcdaniel/this-is-the-man-in-india-who-is-selling-states-illegally-imp#.quLyegYNJ

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

In Nigeria, Solar-Powered Fridges at Outdoor Markets Save Food from Spoiling

http://gizmodo.com/in-nigeria-solar-powered-fridges-at-outdoor-markets-sa-1737306287

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Getting started with OTP: creating process families

https://medium.com/@kansi/getting-started-with-otp-creating-psycho-families-b4f6ce01d1e4#.68pprpxgj

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

A new visa that will allow UK tech startups to hire entire teams

http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-tech-team-visa-hailed-revolutionary-2015-10?nr_email_referer=1&utm_content=emailshare&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20Mondays%202015-10-19&utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 62 comments

Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-startups-feel-an-ipo-chill-1445309822

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don't)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/the-jobs-that-offer-great-work-life-balance-and-some-that-don-t-

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 39 comments
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