top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-25

Write like you talk

http://paulgraham.com/talk.html

11 years ago

647 upvotes – 272 comments

Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?

http://computers-are-fast.github.io/

11 years ago

557 upvotes – 174 comments

What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook secretly lobbying for CISA?

https://boingboing.net/2015/10/24/petition-facebook-betrayed-us.html

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 37 comments

Writing an OS in Rust

http://blog.phil-opp.com/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 34 comments

Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/21/uber-goes-unconventional-using-driver-phones-as-a-backup-dat.html

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X

https://freezeapp.net/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 50 comments

Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries

https://pascalhertleif.de/artikel/good-practices-for-writing-rust-libraries/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 40 comments

Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember

https://medium.com/@garywiz/five-things-old-programmers-need-to-remember-e78caf0b0973

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Things I did to reboot my life

https://medium.com/@wilw/7-things-i-did-to-reboot-my-life-a4bab2d409e#.bpi55ncii

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 56 comments

Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/judge-tosses-wikimedias-anti-nsa-lawsuit-because-wikipedia-isnt-big-enough/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Interactive constraint solving in Haskell

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/constraints/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 11 comments

C++17 progress update

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/3q4agc/c17_progress_update_oct_2015/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

OpenBSD developers: Ted Unangst

http://beastie.pl/deweloperzy-openbsd-ted-unangst/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

Getting to “Philosophy”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

IoT Intro: SMS me when I leave my garage door open

http://hammerproject.com/post/130804023369/iot-intro-sms-me-when-i-leave-my-garage-door-open

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API

https://github.com/quilljs/quill/

11 years ago

★ 47k TypeScript BSD-3-Clause
100 upvotes – 47 comments

Finding UI crashes by fuzzing input events with american fuzzy lop

http://caolanm.blogspot.com/2015/10/finding-ui-crashes-by-fuzzing-input.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

Sony Filed a Copyright Claim Against the Stock Video I Licensed to Them

http://petapixel.com/2015/10/25/sony-filed-a-copyright-claim-against-the-stock-video-i-licensed-to-them/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/the-myth-of-welfares-corrupting-influence-on-the-poor.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: Desk – lightweight workspace management for the shell

https://github.com/jamesob/desk

11 years ago

★ 2.5k Shell MIT
94 upvotes – 9 comments

An 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/this-11-year-old-is-selling-cryptographically-secure-passwords-for-2-each/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 136 comments

Closing the Loopholes in Europe's Net Neutrality Compromise

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/closing-loopholes-europes-net-neutrality-compromise

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

FreeBSD Status Report, Jul-Sep 2015

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

My Dark California Dream

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/my-dark-california-dream.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 63 comments

Medium's Technology Stack

https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-stack-that-helped-medium-drive-2-6-millennia-of-reading-time-e56801f7c492#.h8zu8v8qh

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Qui-binary arithmetic: how a 1960s IBM mainframe does math

http://www.righto.com/2015/10/qui-binary-arithmetic-how-1960s-ibm.html?m=1

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Karachi Vice

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/karachi-vice-inside-city-riven-by-killings-kidnappings-and-terrorism

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

NTPsec is not quite a full rewrite

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6881

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Distance to Mars

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/10/24/distance-to-mars/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

Obesity is rising in Silicon Valley

http://fortune.com/2015/10/23/is-silicon-valley-bad-for-your-health/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 72 comments

The End of Software Versions

http://hintjens.com/blog:85

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

The diary of Stalin's man in Churchill's London

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/10/07/the-secret-diary-stalin-man-churchill-squad/iCGkqUynjw62nqXpSdXVVN/story.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

RAP: RIP ROP [pdf]

https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/PaXTeam-H2HC15-RAP-RIP-ROP.pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

First reported case of a paternity test fooled by a human “chimera”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by R.Taylor and A.Wiles (1995) [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/199507/faltings.pdf

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Save for Later: Bookmarking Apps and the Wish Economy

https://medium.com/@dianakimball/save-for-later-b2fa64782078

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I Still Get Shunned by Taxi Drivers

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/why-i-still-get-shunned-by-taxi-drivers/411583/?single_page=true

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments

A curious result hints at the possibility dementia is caused by fungal infection

http://www.economist.com/node/21676754/print

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/before-u-s-called-igor-oystacher-a-spoofer-he-was-known-as-990

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

Are Cats Domesticated?

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/are-cats-domesticated

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

A new model, “The Big Splat”, explains the strange asymmetry of the moon

http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/when-the-earth-had-two-moons

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

A data-driven guide to creating successful HN posts (HN is similar to Reddit)

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2015/1025_a_data-driven_guide_to_creating_successful_hacker_news_posts

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments

Debugging a Debugger

http://www.idrisr.com/2015/10/12/debugging-a-debugger.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments
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