top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-26

Why Homejoy Failed

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-homejoy-failed-bb0ab39d901a#.2jviif7sd

11 years ago

421 upvotes – 334 comments

REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside

http://optoutside.rei.com/

11 years ago

367 upvotes – 142 comments

Despite privacy concerns, CISA bill poised for passage

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/26/despite-concerns-cybersecurity-bill-heads-to-vote.html

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 89 comments

Introducing Shadow DOM API

https://www.webkit.org/blog/4096/introducing-shadow-dom-api/

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 149 comments

Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10

https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/CCM4hXzpRTv

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 180 comments

Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/morocco-poised-to-become-a-solar-superpower-with-launch-of-desert-mega-project

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 171 comments

The Okinawa missiles of October 1962

http://thebulletin.org/okinawa-missiles-october8826

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 71 comments

List of the Most Popular MOOCs

http://www.onlinecoursereport.com/the-50-most-popular-moocs-of-all-time/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 85 comments

Paternal stress in mice given to offspring via RNA packed into sperm

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/paternal-stress-given-to-offspring-via-rna-packed-into-sperm/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 67 comments

HAproxy in the era of Microservices

http://47ron.in/blog/2015/10/23/haproxy-in-the-era-of-microservices.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 62 comments

An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 15 comments

Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything

https://medium.com/@bgourlie/java-8-s-new-optional-type-is-worthless-448a00fa672d

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 192 comments

The future of news is not an article

http://nytlabs.com/blog/2015/10/20/particles/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 70 comments

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 106 comments

The Two Asian Americas

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 116 comments

Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science

https://medium.com/@zsupalla/processed-meats-as-bad-as-cigarettes-bad-reporting-on-good-science-ac43a97be603

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fueling in Tennessee

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/first-new-us-nuclear-reactor-in-two-decades-to-begin-fueling-in-tennessee

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 95 comments

A Superconductor That Works at -70 °C

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542856/the-superconductor-that-works-at-earth-temperature/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 38 comments

Did Times Underplay Drone Program Leak?

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/did-times-underplay-drone-program-leak/?ref=opinion

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

Gravity Payments' Revenue and Profits Doubled After $70,000 Minimum Wage Set

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/23/remember_dan_price_of_gravity_payments_who_gave_his_employees_a_70_000_minimum.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 132 comments

An AI system has become the third-most important signal to Google search results

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-26/google-turning-its-lucrative-web-search-over-to-ai-machines

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments

Webwatch

https://github.com/jgrahamc/webwatch

11 years ago

★ 613 Go MIT
105 upvotes – 57 comments

Easily Create D3 Examples

http://blockbuilder.org/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

cOS on commodore 64: Modern user interface with optional touchscreen

http://64jim64.blogspot.com/2015/09/cos-has-been-released-for-commodore-64.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: SVG Path Builder

http://anthonydugois.com/svg-path-builder/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications

http://lemire.me/blog/2015/10/26/crazily-fast-hashing-with-carry-less-multiplications/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

​Giant Squid Babies Found for the First Time

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/giant-squid-babies-found-in-japan-for-the-first-time

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs

http://www.metachris.com/pdfx/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Deep learning for NLP resources

https://github.com/andrewt3000/DL4NLP/blob/master/README.md#deep-learning-for-nlp-resources

11 years ago

★ 2.1k
91 upvotes – 14 comments

Ruby gaining a safe navigation operator: '.?'

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11537

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 82 comments

WHO says processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who?src=hn

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 102 comments

The Fukushima accident was preventable

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/2053/20140379

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 106 comments

Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-most-important-startups-hardest-worker-isnt-a-person/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

The Cold Logic of Drunk People (2014)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/?single_page=true

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

The Hot Dog Report

http://www.clearfood.com/food_reports/2015/the_hotdog_report

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Arriving in Berlin – A map made by refugees

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/arriving-in-berlin-a-map-made-by-refugees-english-_42855#12/52.4991/13.4926

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 95 comments

As sites move to SHA2 encryption, millions face HTTPS lock-out

http://www.zdnet.com/article/as-sha1-winds-down-sha2-leap-will-leave-millions-stranded/?linkId=18208342

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

How eSports are saving the PC industry

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/video-games/216719-esports-competitive-gaming-pc-nvidia

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 79 comments

Letter of Recommendation: Bamba

http://nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-bamba.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Fuzzing with american fuzzy lop

http://lwn.net/Articles/657959/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Are tarballs obsolete?

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6875

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 82 comments

Why It's So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-its-so-hard-to-design-arabic-typefaces/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 62 comments

Grave of ‘Griffin Warrior’ at Pylos Could Be a Gateway to Ancient Civilizations

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/a-warriors-grave-at-pylos-greece-could-be-a-gateway-to-civilizations.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Let's Write Some Bad Ruby

http://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/lets-write-some-bad-ruby

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/the-phlogiston-theory-wonderfully-wrong-but-fantastically-fruitful/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

RFC: Improving license and patent issues in the LLVM community

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091536.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

The ethics of digital disruption (why top tech companies are the most TOXIC)

https://www.squareweave.com.au/blog/2015/10/21/the-ethics-of-digital-disruption/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

Ex-NSA Chief’s Cybersecurity Startup Draws Funding

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-nsa-chiefs-cybersecurity-startup-draws-funding-1445819345

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

The Story of Surface Book

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/surface-book-behind-the-scenes/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/russian-presence-near-undersea-cables-concerns-us.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree) (1996) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.44.2782&rep=rep1&type=pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

The Swift Reflection API and what you can do with it

http://appventure.me/2015/10/24/swift-reflection-api-what-you-can-do/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

The Oldest Galaxies in the Universe

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-oldest-galaxies-ever-glimpsed/412300/?single_page=true

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: CV Boilerplate – Easing the Process of Building a CV Using LaTeX

https://github.com/mrzool/cv-boilerplate

11 years ago

★ 1.1k TeX
53 upvotes – 31 comments

How is the work quality at Blizzard as a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449402

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

SXSW cancels panels on overcoming harassment in games

http://www.sxsw.com/news/2015/sxsw-statement-hugh-forrest

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Switzerland Offers Counterpoint on Deflation’s Ills

http://www.wsj.com/articles/switzerland-offers-counterpoint-on-deflations-ills-1445189695?alg=y

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 78 comments

Things to Avoid When Writing CSS

https://medium.com/@Heydon/things-to-avoid-when-writing-css-1a222c43c28f#.sgvlf0u3s

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 72 comments
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