top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-24

Stop forcing arbitrary password rules

http://ryanwinchester.ca/post/stop-forcing-your-arbitrary-password-rules-on-me

11 years ago

333 upvotes – 186 comments

What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II

https://www.compose.io/articles/what-postgresql-has-over-other-open-source-sql-databases-part-ii/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 93 comments

Andrew Ng on Life, Creativity, and Failure

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/05/13/andrew-ng_n_7267682.html

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 28 comments

Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/dolphins-often-seem-to-want-to-befriend-us--do-they-know-something-we-dont-10493809.html

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 68 comments

Visualizing popular machine learning algorithms

http://jsfiddle.net/wybiral/3bdkp5c0/embedded/result/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 38 comments

Mozilla Launches Open-Source Support Program

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 18 comments

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership

http://recode.net/2015/10/23/the-new-google-all-the-assholes-have-left/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 95 comments

FE-Schrift – forgery-impeding typeface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Japan's hidden caste of untouchables

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34615972

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 124 comments

The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift

http://flexmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-plum-o-meter-weighing-plums-using.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away

https://savetheinternet.eu/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 16 comments

Running a modern infrastructure stack

https://blog.barricade.io/running-a-modern-infrastructure-stack/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

OS X 10.11 buffer overflow with deep filesystem hierarchy

https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2015100149?

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-santens/universal-basic-income-wi_b_8354072.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 175 comments

LLVM Code Generation in HHVM

http://hhvm.com/blog/10205/llvm-code-generation-in-hhvm

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

Richard Stallman is the hero the internet needs

http://liminality.xyz/richard-stallman-is-the-hero-the-internet-needs/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/amazons-50-fire-tablet-review-suprisingly-it-doesnt-suck/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

Light Table 0.8.0-alpha

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/light-table-discussion/rkfHTplo4ss

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Huge Backlog of Ships Waiting to Pass Through the Panama Canal

https://gcaptain.com/there-is-a-huge-backlog-of-ships-waiting-to-pass-through-the-panama-canal/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

Space Buckets, a Community of DIY LED Gardeners

http://www.spacebuckets.com

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Learning Real Haskell Incrementally [video]

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-10-24-learning-haskell-incrementally.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

USDA to investigate egg lobby as CEO resigns

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/usda-investigate-american-egg-board-hampton-creek-just-mayo

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

The Samsung 950 Pro PCIe SSD Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

GitHub’s Large File Storage is no panacea for Open Source

https://medium.com/@megastep/github-s-large-file-storage-is-no-panacea-for-open-source-quite-the-opposite-12c0e16a9a91#.310ve89hz

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/oklahoma-earthquakes-are-a-national-security-threat

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Can You Get Smarter?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/can-you-get-smarter.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 91 comments

Wind Map

http://hint.fm/wind/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Coding academies are nonsense

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/coding-academies-are-nonsense/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2015/1024/Inside-Mark-Zuckerberg-s-new-school-Private-but-free

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Copyright is Broken

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/10/23/copyright-is-broken/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

“gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages that it compiles”

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-October/026841.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 106 comments

New Giant Tortoise Species Found on Galápagos Islands

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151021-galapagos-tortoise-new-species-animals-science/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Study: Women Twice as Likely to be Hired in STEM Tenure-Track Positions

http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/11133/20150428/women-qualified-men-stem-tenure.htm

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

On the Spline: A Brief History of the Computational Curve

http://www.alatown.com/spline-history-architecture/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/a-tower-of-molten-salt-will-deliver-solar-power-after-sunset

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

An open letter about the terms “F#” and “Visual F#”

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2015/10/23/a-letter-about-quot-f-quot-and-quot-visual-f-quot.aspx

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Pigshell: Shell for the web

http://pigshell.com/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Airbnb's ads make them fools in national news

http://www.sfexaminer.com/airbnbs-ads-make-them-fools-in-national-news/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

How CEO Anne Wojcicki Turned 23andMe Around After Falling Out with the FDA

http://www.fastcompany.com/3052283/most-creative-people/how-ceo-anne-wojcicki-turned-23andme-around-after-falling-out-with-the-

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 0 comments

America’s startups are changing what it means to own a company

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21676760-americas-startups-are-changing-what-it-means-own-company-reinventing-deal

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

LingVM is an Erlang VM that runs directly on Xen

https://medium.com/@kansi/bare-metal-erlang-hello-world-9cea0ea702ea#.x35llacz4

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Could Iran be the next country to legalise cannabis and opium?

https://theconversation.com/could-iran-be-the-next-country-to-legalise-cannabis-and-opium-49183

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 36 comments

Land-value tax: Why Henry George had a point

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-value-tax

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 98 comments

OpenBSD developers: Landry Breuil

http://beastie.pl/deweloperzy-openbsd-landry-breuil/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

The Aluminum Beverage Can (1994) [pdf]

http://www.chymist.com/Aluminum%20can.pdf

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Research: testosterone changes brain structures in female-to-male transsexuals [pdf]

https://www.ecnp.eu/~/media/Files/ecnp/About%20ECNP/Press/AMS2015/Hahn%20PR%20FINAL.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 46 comments

New Jersey town first in U.S. to use Uber to curb drunken driving

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/us-new-jersey-drunken-driving-idUSKCN0SH21M20151023

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

MAGIC: Malicious Aging in Circuits/Cores

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9i8WqXLW451MTIyM2lqR1lpZ3M/view?pli=1

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments
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