top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-23

Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy

https://github.com/reinderien/mimic

11 years ago

★ 3.7k Python MIT
408 upvotes – 171 comments

IPFS Pics

https://github.com/ipfspics/server

11 years ago

★ 1.1k TSQL AGPL-3.0
330 upvotes – 113 comments

Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 33 comments

OAuth Has Ruined Everything

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/oauth-has-ruined-everything/?imm_mid=0dac54&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20151021

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 185 comments

System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance

https://medium.com/@mwichary/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f#.v0lk6vj4x

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 119 comments

Tell HN: Full Hacker News dataset now available on BigQuery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 43 comments

How I missed an engineering interview after getting singled out by Münchner cops

http://vid.bina.me/rant/suspicious-profile/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 158 comments

Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/index.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 34 comments

A debtors’ prison in Mississippi

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/10/21/a-debtors-prison-in-mississippi/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 196 comments

Start of Lightning Bolt Caught on Camera

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/10/20/start_of_lightning_caught_on_camera_109418.html

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 35 comments

Dechoker medical device could end deaths by choking

http://insiderlouisville.com/startups/cool-stuff/game-changer-dechoker-medical-device-end-deaths-choking/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 104 comments

Swarm vs. Fleet vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/10/swarm-v-fleet-v-kubernetes-v-mesos.html

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

Xkcd and Bill Gates on Polio Eradication

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 61 comments

'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 79 comments

Social Anxiety

http://inessential.com/2015/10/23/social_anxiety

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 112 comments

Use this instead of press releases

http://mbites.com/2015/07/01/the-press-release-is-dead/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 53 comments

Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat

http://www.google.com/patents/US5443036

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 77 comments

How to Get Press for Your Startup

https://medium.com/user-acquisition-for-hackers/how-to-get-press-for-your-startup-the-complete-guide-b79c57318113#.8gvv4jvzn

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Brain Residency Program

http://g.co/brainresidency

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 58 comments

Study: CEO effect on firm performance could be mostly due to chance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022192337.htm

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 67 comments

US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/idaho-historic-footage-parachuting-beavers

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups

http://news.mit.edu/2015/faster-optimization-algorithm-1023

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 17 comments

Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/8/7511281/labor-share-income

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 119 comments

The Cloud Is Raining Cash on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/the-cloud-is-raining-cash-on-amazon-google-and-microsoft

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 76 comments

Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/should-you-be-allowed-to-invest-in-a-lawsuit.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 101 comments

Rr 4.0 Debugger Released with Reverse Execution

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2015/10/rr-40-released-with-reverse-execution.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 11 comments

Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (2013)

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-big-bowl-“spaghetti”-code

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up Your Memo

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/billionaire-paul-tudor-jones-to-staff-learn-to-write-or-i-ll-rip-up-your-memo

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 84 comments

Wendelstein 7-X – a fusion reactor with a twist

http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

I killed my startup hours before closing a seed round

http://www.tamccann.com/how-i-killed-my-idea-hours-before-closing-a-seed-round

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

Fonts in Use

http://fontsinuse.com

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android

http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

In Defence of Monoliths

http://techblog.bozho.net/in-defence-of-monoliths/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 74 comments

In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-unexpected-discovery-comet-alcohol-sugar.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool

https://twitter.com/jack/status/657351519461707776

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Randomized Decision Forests

http://bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=randomized-decision-forests

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 2 comments

Work on stuff that matters, first principles (2009)

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Mirador: a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets

http://fathom.info/mirador/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

Building a global, free and open IoT network

http://thethingsnetwork.org

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

DoJ to Apple: we can force you to decrypt

http://boingboing.net/2015/10/23/doj-to-apple-your-software-is.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

How NOP Nearly Became a Non-NOP on AMD64 (2007)

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=6

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e#.czg9jk79h

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in the Brain

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/biologists_discover_bacteria_communicate_like_neurons_in_the_brain

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Entrepreneurs are redesigning the basic building block of capitalism

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21676767-entrepreneurs-are-redesigning-basic-building-block-capitalism-reinventing-company

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

We've Spent Billions to Fix Our Medical Records, and They're Still a Mess

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/epic-systems-judith-faulkner-hitech-ehr-interoperability

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

JP Morgan to Grant IPO Access to Everyone

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/jp-morgan-to-grant-ipo-access-to-everyone/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Nearly Every USGS Topo Map Ever Made (2014)

http://equipped.outdoors.org/2014/10/nearly-every-usgs-topo-map-ever-made.html?v=1

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

How Windows 10 Rewrites OS Architecture: Battle of SKM and IUM [pdf]

http://www.alex-ionescu.com/blackhat2015.pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

How Germany Does Prison

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/06/16/how-germany-does-prison

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

India's Great Parcel Race

http://graphics.wsj.com/indias-great-parcel-race/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Evo, the First Prescription-Strength Video Game?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-22/project-evo-the-first-prescription-strength-video-game-

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436466

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 101 comments

CCTV Botnet in Our Own Back Yard

https://www.incapsula.com/blog/cctv-ddos-botnet-back-yard.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Researchers discovered the perfect password that’s easy to remember

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/22/these-researchers-have-discovered-the-perfect-password-thats-also-easy-to-remember/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 74 comments

The Future of Dieting Is Personalized Algorithms Based on Your Gut Bacteria

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/10/future-of-dieting-is-personalized-algorithms.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments

The Benefits of Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-benefits-of-getting-comfortable-with-uncertainty/409807/?single_page=true

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: Sublime Text Database Client

https://sequoiastudios.io/db1

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 41 comments
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