top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-27

EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software

https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=1234

11 years ago

730 upvotes – 107 comments

Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/cutting-sugar-improves-childrens-health-in-just-10-days/

11 years ago

546 upvotes – 402 comments

Vue.js 1.0.0

http://vuejs.org/2015/10/26/1.0.0-release/

11 years ago

376 upvotes – 88 comments

The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About

http://adage.com/article/datadriven-marketing/24-billion-data-business-telcos-discuss/301058/

11 years ago

314 upvotes – 170 comments

CISA passes Senate

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/eff-disappointed-cisa-passes-senate

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 73 comments

Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 169 comments

Please Do Not Steal My Code, Mock My Analysis, and Present My Ideas as Your Own

http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/code-steal/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 137 comments

Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox

https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/sniffly/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 94 comments

Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

http://classeur.io/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 93 comments

PostgreSQL on the Command Line

http://phili.pe/posts/postgresql-on-the-command-line/

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 43 comments

How to Legally Own Another Person [pdf]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/employee.pdf

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 150 comments

Running the Let's Encrypt Beta

https://lolware.net/2015/10/27/letsencrypt_go_live.html

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-2g-tuesdays-to-slow-employee-internet-speeds-down-2015-10?op=1

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 159 comments

More parents, students saying 'no' to homework

http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20151026_More_parents__students_saying__no__to_homework.html#c5m34J1fBGIPuuwg.99

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 289 comments

CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters

https://github.com/una/CSSgram

11 years ago

★ 5.3k HTML MIT
176 upvotes – 40 comments

The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/10/27/history_of_screenwriting_a_master_book_of_plots.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 65 comments

European Parliament votes against net neutrality amendments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34649067

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 38 comments

Making Sense of Dell and EMC and VMware

http://a16z.com/2015/10/26/dell-emc-vmware/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple unlock: Judge compares request to execution order

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34647704

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 100 comments

Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/prison_architect_s_crowdfunding_proves_the_kickstarter_model_for_video_games.single.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 87 comments

How to Build a Low-Tech Internet

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

Homeless model: New York's hidden homeless

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34574818

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 96 comments

Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/europe-abolishes-mobile-phone-roaming-charges

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 67 comments

Software Is the New Oil

http://avc.com/2015/10/software-is-the-new-oil/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 83 comments

Alive v1.0 – Live Programming for C#

http://blog.comealive.io/Alive-Version-1.0

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 47 comments

Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/9618390/Theranos-glaxosmithkline-denies-partnership-pfizer-blood-test

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 111 comments

U of California policy extends free access to all articles by UC employees

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/groundbreaking-presidential-oa-policy-covers-all-employees/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

A sociologist on the international wealth-management profession

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/?single_page=true

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/27/adp-drops-lawsuit-against-human-resources-startup-zenefits/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Rubinius, Inc. – A Benefit Company

http://rubini.us/2015/10/27/rubinius-inc-a-benefit-company/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 44 comments

Visualizing Docker Containers and Images

http://merrigrove.blogspot.com/2015/10/visualizing-docker-containers-and-images.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 2 comments

Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/10/27Apple-Reports-Record-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 124 comments

Ethereum Alarm Clock

http://www.ethereum-alarm-clock.com/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

How an episode of the Simpsons is made

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9457247/the-simpsons-al-jean-interview?curator=MediaREDEF

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Cyber Squirrel 1 Disrupting at the highest levels

http://cybersquirrel1.com/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456290

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k software development [pdf]

http://a-eon.biz/PDF/News_Release_Developer.pdf

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 52 comments

Brainstorm – Deep Learning library, successor to PyBrain

https://github.com/IDSIA/brainstorm

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Python
78 upvotes – 18 comments

NIH’s mental health chief on why he’s leaving for Google

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/08/nihs-mental-health-chief-on-why-hes-leaving-for-google-technology-may-hold-key-to-better-diagnosis/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-humans-evolve-to-see-things-as-they-really-are/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Om Next Quick Start

https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Quick-Start-%28om.next%29

11 years ago

★ 6.6k Clojure
71 upvotes – 22 comments

Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/asia/china-war-internet-great-firewall/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: NotCRUD – Hacker News of India

http://notcrud.com/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie

http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-top-level-domains-a-money-grab-and-a-mistake-paul-vixie/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

Life with My Robot Secretary

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3052646/innovation-by-design/life-with-my-robot-secretary

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

A Cartoon Guide to Flux

https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207#.5djvnad79

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Collections of ants are both solid-like and liquid-like

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ants-solid-like-liquid-like.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/complex-academic-writing/412255/?single_page=true

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 67 comments

A Penny for Your Books

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/a-penny-for-your-books.html?_r=0

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Walgreens announces deal to buy Rite Aid for $9 a share

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/27/walgreens-announces-deal-to-buy-rite-aid-for-9-a-share.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 74 comments

The NSA cracked the Kryptos sculpture years before the CIA (2013)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/nsa-solved-kryptos

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

The Messy Story Behind the Making of “Destiny”

http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 39 comments

Physicists uncover novel phase of matter

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-physicists-uncover-phase.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Sift4: Fast and accurate string distance algorithm

http://siderite.blogspot.com/2014/11/super-fast-and-accurate-string-distance.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Shrine – A new solution for handling file uploads in Ruby

http://twin.github.io/introducing-shrine/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

How to De-Identify Your Data: Balancing Accuracy and Privacy

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2838930

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

The New Data Engineering Ecosystem: Trends and Rising Stars

http://insightdataengineering.com/blog/new-ecosystem/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments
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