top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-22

A story about <input>

http://meowni.ca/posts/a-story-about-input/

11 years ago

693 upvotes – 181 comments

Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792580

11 years ago

450 upvotes – 155 comments

The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates

http://qz.com/530909/the-us-just-lifted-a-crushing-burden-on-prison-inmates-and-their-families/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 189 comments

A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34583642

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 114 comments

Early employees take the most risk today

https://medium.com/@tikhon/founders-it-s-not-1990-stop-treating-your-employees-like-it-is-523f48fe90cb#.c6u481pwn

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 150 comments

Why too much choice is stressing us out

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/21/choice-stressing-us-out-dating-partners-monopolies

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 205 comments

Loophole-free Bell test ‘Spooky action at a distance’, no cheating

http://hansonlab.tudelft.nl/loophole-free-Bell-test/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 145 comments

Deploying a Django App with No Downtime

https://medium.com/@healthchecks/deploying-a-django-app-with-no-downtime-f4e02738ab06

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 93 comments

Introducing the Plex Media Player

https://blog.plex.tv/2015/10/20/introducing-the-plex-media-player/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 151 comments

Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player

https://cmus.github.io

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

Scientists create a working animal limb in a lab

http://bioengineer.org/bioengineering-breakthrough-scientists-create-a-working-animal-limb-in-a-lab/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 49 comments

Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-22/google-launches-a-developer-boot-camp-promising-jobs-for-graduates

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 181 comments

A riddle wrapped in a curve

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/10/a-riddle-wrapped-in-curve.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 54 comments

Urbit user guide, hosted on Urbit

http://urbit.org/docs/user

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 69 comments

Indonesia's palm oil fires emitted more greenhouse gases in a day than the U.S.

http://qz.com/528160/indonesias-palm-oil-fires-are-emitting-more-greenhouse-gases-every-day-than-the-entire-us/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 162 comments

Obstacles on the Path to AI

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKBnD5y2M8NbWN6XzM5UXkwNDA/view?pli=1

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

A Disadvantaged Start Hurts Boys More Than Girls

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/upshot/a-disadvantaged-start-hurts-boys-more-than-girls.html?ref=business

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 93 comments

Adventures in financial and software engineering

https://falconair.github.io/2015/01/30/composingcontracts.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

50 years of Data Science [pdf]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23421017/50YearsDataScience.pdf

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Decentralized Identity Matters

http://continuations.com/post/131622514215/why-decentralized-identity-matters-githubs

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Of kimono and cultural appropriation

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/08/04/commentary/japan-commentary/kimono-cultural-appropriation

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 99 comments

Virtual currencies can be exchanged tax-free in Europe after court ruling

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/22/bitcoin-now-tax-free-in-europe-after-court-ruling.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Swiss-Style Color Picker

http://swisscolors.net/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 17 comments

Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project?

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/20151014090114.60780ad6@marco-toshiba

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

PrettyPing

http://denilson.sa.nom.br/prettyping/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

How to act less stupid, according to psychologists

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/19/how-to-act-less-stupid-according-to-psychologists/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

What Experts Love and Hate About CDNs

https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/cdn-experts-on-cdns/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

Datalog for trees in Clojure

http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/datascript-dom.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his boss

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bourget-688288-math-book.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Clojure all the way down

http://bucharestfp.ro/2015/10/21/clojure-all-the-way-down-finally-a-useful-lisp/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

Tech Prep by Facebook

https://techprep.fb.com/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Scientists discover cheap material that can remove mercury from water

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/10/20/accidental-discovery-reveals-orange-peel-saves-thousands-lives/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/how-to-build-a-search-engine-for-mathematics

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Facebook iOS App Battery Explanation

https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Introducing OpenCypher, the open graph query language project

http://neo4j.com/blog/open-cypher-sql-for-graphs/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

Airbnb Apologizes for Tone-Deaf Hotel Tax Ads, Will Take Them Down

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/that-airbnb-ad

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Google Badwolf: Temporal graph store abstraction layer

https://github.com/google/badwolf

11 years ago

★ 986 Go Apache-2.0
71 upvotes – 28 comments

Functional Reactive Programming in Java

https://realm.io/news/droidcon-gomez-functional-reactive-programming/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Biomedical superstars are signing on with Google

http://www.nature.com/news/why-biomedical-superstars-are-signing-on-with-google-1.18600

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what you read

http://gethibou.com

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

DOS Ain't Done Til Lotus Won't Run? (2005)

http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done_t.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 79 comments

What We Know About the 92M Americans Who Aren’t in the Labor Force

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/10/21/what-we-know-about-the-92-million-americans-who-arent-in-the-labor-force/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 68 comments

Developing Atom Packages, Part 2: So Much Potential, So Many Bugs

https://news.floobits.com/2015/10/14/developing-atom-plugins-so-much-potential-so-many-bugs/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Fuzzing Raft for Fun and Publication

http://colin-scott.github.io/blog/2015/10/07/fuzzing-raft-for-fun-and-profit/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Car and Driver's Review of the 1981 De Lorean (1981)

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/1981-de-lorean-archived-first-drive-review

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

People Want Fairness, Not Economic Equality

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/people-dont-actually-want-equality/411784/?single_page=true

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 144 comments

People who drink human blood

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151021-the-people-who-drink-human-blood

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Open Source Micro-purchasing: An experiment in federal acquisition

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/13/open-source-micropurchasing/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Arsenal’s ‘secret’ signing: club buys £2m revolutionary data company

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/arsenal-place-trust-arsene-wenger-army-statdna-data-analysts

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

Amazon Beats Analyst Expectations with $25.4B in Sales

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/amazon-handily-beats-analyst-expectations-stock-spikes-9/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: A curated list of great puzzles

https://github.com/sharkdp/great-puzzles

11 years ago

★ 836
59 upvotes – 14 comments

A Beginner's Guide to the Synth

http://20khz.gizmodo.com/a-beginners-guide-to-the-synth-1736978695

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Virtual Reality Basics

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/virtual-reality-basics,4220.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

NASDAQ Acquires SecondMarket to Help Startups Sell Shares

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/nasdaq-acquires-secondmarket-to-help-startups-sell-shares/#.jrggkr:F7Ci

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

A small British firm shows that software bugs aren't inevitable (2005)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-exterminators

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 60 comments

Latin Speakers of West Virginia

https://medium.com/eidolon/the-latin-speakers-of-west-virginia-8581835549d3

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Inside Swiss Banks’ Tax-Cheating Machinery

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-swiss-banks-tax-cheating-machinery-1445506381

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments

The Zombie-Mobile: Car brands no longer reflect differentiation

https://medium.com/@ade3/the-zombie-mobile-b03932ac971d#.y9vr35tbl

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments

Winner Takes Most

http://avc.com/2015/10/winner-takes-most/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Staffjoy – Automated Workforce Scheduling

https://www.staffjoy.com

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments

Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce for the Ancient Roman Masses

http://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/10/garum-fermented-fish-sauce-for-the-ancient-roman-masses.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Australian academics seek to challenge 'web of avarice' in scientific publishing

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/14/australian-academics-seek-to-challenge-web-of-avarice-in-scientific-publishing

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

Dutch government puts more weight behind open standard for office

https://www.forumstandaardisatie.nl/actueel/item/titel/dutch-government-puts-more-weight-behind-open-standard-for-office/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Kits Make Tinkerers’ Home-Automation Dreams Come True

http://www.wsj.com/articles/kits-make-tinkerers-home-automation-dreams-come-true-1444870383

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments

Thin Air’s money isn’t created out of thin air

http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/10/how-to-spend-thin-airs-endogenous-money/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments

Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 66 comments

The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-death-amazon-temp/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 11 comments

Expensify’s CEO on the Tactics That Doubled Its Customer Base

http://firstround.com/review/expensifys-ceo-on-the-tactics-that-doubled-its-customer-base-in-just-six-months/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 14 comments
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