top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-21

BMW i8 in WebGL

http://car.playcanvas.com

11 years ago

479 upvotes – 135 comments

Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/twitter-ceo-dorsey-apologizes-to-developers-says-he-wants-to-reset-relations/

11 years ago

474 upvotes – 268 comments

YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 302 comments

Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool

http://www.metabase.com/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 121 comments

YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-offer-creators-cant-refuse/

11 years ago

286 upvotes – 191 comments

Jepsen: Distributed Systems Safety Analysis

http://jepsen.io/

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 60 comments

23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-and-you/a-new-23andme-experience/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 89 comments

Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011)

http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/06/26/obfuscated-c-yahoo-logo.html

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 41 comments

Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-34572462

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 207 comments

CIA Director John Brennan emails

https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Clojure for the Brave and True – now free online

http://www.braveclojure.com/?updated

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 30 comments

Docker Acquires Tutum

http://blog.docker.com/2015/10/docker-acquires-tutum/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 65 comments

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9727/the-microsoft-surface-pro-4-review-raising-the-bar

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 137 comments

Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-21/has-it-become-impossible-to-prosecute-white-collar-crime-

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 135 comments

Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-21/western-digital-agrees-to-buy-sandisk-for-about-19-billion

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 48 comments

Sabotage

https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-10-18-sabotage

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428008

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 96 comments

Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hacker-who-broke-into-cia-director-john-brennan-email-tells-how-he-did-it/

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 135 comments

Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

http://requestdiff.com/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 33 comments

The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/20/the-collapse-of-the-us-eu-safe-harbor-solving-the-new-privacy-rubiks-cube/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 83 comments

W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20151021191401

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

How the war on drugs creates violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-war-on-drugs-creates-violence/2015/10/16/6de57a76-72b7-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 112 comments

Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnaround Flounders

https://recode.net/2015/10/19/yahoo-talent-exodus-accelerates-as-marissa-mayers-turnaround-flounders/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 127 comments

Khan Academy's React style guide

https://github.com/Khan/style-guides/blob/master/style/react.md

11 years ago

★ 2.1k Shell
128 upvotes – 74 comments

Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future

http://rnduja.github.io/2015/10/21/scientific-nim/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook

http://vgel.me/posts/cracking-online-textbook/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (2005)

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Female violinist exposes 10 years of lewd, fetishizing messages from men online

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/21/a-woman-violinist-exposes-10-years-of-lewd-fetishizing-messages-from-men-online/?tid=sm_fb

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler tax deals 'illegal' in Europe

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34591476

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 109 comments

Automatic SIMD vectorization support in PyPy

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/10/automatic-simd-vectorization-support-in.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioning Among Children [pdf]

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2015.0055

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

San Francisco May Let Bicyclists Yield at Stop Signs

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/us/san-francisco-may-let-bicyclists-yield-at-stop-signs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 154 comments

Venmo Five Years Ago

https://medium.com/@thenewb/venmo-five-years-ago-3d361563b98f

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments

Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

https://www.hashfav.com/page/HashFavTech/1593

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

The Right Thing?

http://prog21.dadgum.com/211.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Negative Gross Margins

http://avc.com/2015/10/negative-gross-margins/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

Xamarin acquires RoboVM

https://robovm.com/robovm-acquired-by-world-leader-in-cross-platform-mobile-xamarin/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

A Former Twitch Employee Has One of the Most Reproduced Faces

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-former-twitch-employee-has-one-of-the-most-reproduced-faces-ever/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

DNSSEC is Open for Beta

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dnssec-is-open-for-beta/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

The Lost History of Gay Adult Adoption

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/magazine/the-lost-history-of-gay-adult-adoption.html?mod=e2this&_r=0

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 69 comments

Fedora opens up to bundling

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/660429/b749a0be5843e95a/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Bill Gurley: startups seeking funding are starting to lower their expectations

http://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-capitalist-sees-signs-of-caution-in-private-tech-arena-1445366864

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Hubzilla: Build a community of connected websites

http://hubzilla.org/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Rust-Bio – Bioinformatics library for Rust

https://rust-bio.github.io/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

How we’re changing Colombia through open-source communities

https://medium.com/colombia-dev/how-we-re-changing-colombia-through-open-source-communities-and-why-we-need-your-help-7825a9fd020e

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Histography – Timeline of History

http://histography.io

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28370-carbon-nanotubes-found-in-childrens-lungs-for-the-first-time/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

The Fats You Don’t Need to Fear, and the Carbs That You Do

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/the-fats-you-dont-need-to-fear-and-the-carbs-that-you-do/?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 110 comments

IBM Runs World’s Worst Spam-Hosting ISP?

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/ibm-runs-worlds-worst-spam-hosting-isp/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

British Library offers over 1M free vintage images for download

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/british-library-offers-over-1-million-free-vintage-images-for-download/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Prices for starter homes are crowding out millennials

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/prices-for-starter-homes-are-crowding-out-millennials

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 88 comments

Control your server using Whatsapp

http://funnybretzel.com/control-your-server-using-whatsapp/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

“People like her should kill themselves”: Discussing sexism in tech

http://leahweitz.com/what-happens-when-we-talk-about-sexism-in-tech/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

Overcomplexifying, Underdelivering

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/overcomplexifying-underdelivering

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

When Organized Crime Applies Academic Results [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/963.pdf

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

http://www.giantsofit.org/1/charles-babbage

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments

Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/your-brain-is-on-the-brink-of-chaos

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’

http://www.drivesncontrols.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/4938/Fruit-sorting_robot__91will_disrupt_the_industry_92.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: 10MinuteStorage – Filesharing simplified with three words

https://www.10minutestorage.com

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/A-23-year-old-Google-employee-lives-in-a-truck-in-6579549.php

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 91 comments

Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Stimulation

https://luciding.com/#/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

Thoughts on Campus, a Failed Housing Startup

http://rossgarlick.com/2015/07/14/thoughts-on-campus-the-failed-startup-that-almost-reinvented-how-we-live/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Reading all the small print on the Internet for a week

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/i-read-all-the-small-print-on-the-internet

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove ‘Spooky’ Interactions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/science/quantum-theory-experiment-said-to-prove-spooky-interactions.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Top curling teams say they won't use high-tech brooms

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/top-curling-teams-say-they-won-t-use-high-tech-brooms-1.3274903

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Python bytecode is heavily trusted by CPython

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/BytecodeIsTrusted

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

When and Where Do You Stress? Ambitious Project Aims to Map Daily Life

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/07/boston-stress-study

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments
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