top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-10-28

Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485

11 years ago

1121 upvotes – 339 comments

Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore

http://www.yegor256.com/2015/10/27/outsourcing-doesnt-work.html

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 311 comments

Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/26/6977315/buy-car-hassle-free

11 years ago

378 upvotes – 315 comments

IBM to Acquire the Weather Company

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/technology/ibm-to-acquire-the-weather-company.html

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 175 comments

How to detect lies with a storytelling technique

http://www.anecdote.com/2015/05/how-to-detect-lies/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 113 comments

Sustaining Digital Certificate Security

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-certificate-security.html

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 89 comments

Inside The Fine Art Factories of China

https://instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to-paint-10000-paintings/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 83 comments

VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/28/vmware-update/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 97 comments

List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked)

https://introvertmac.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/list-of-y-combinator-companies-i-have-hacked/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 77 comments

Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced

https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 51 comments

The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop

http://photofocus.com/2014/05/04/the-nightmare-of-replacing-a-battery-on-a-mac-laptop-why-your-machine-might-be-lying-to-you/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 237 comments

Faxes from the far side of the moon

http://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side/#read-more

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 35 comments

Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches

https://medium.com/@jeremyrubin/caution-copy-pasting-urls-from-google-search-can-leak-previous-searches-11940508e79

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 71 comments

Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

https://medium.com/swlh/turning-the-iphone-6s-into-a-digital-scale-f2197dc2b6e7#.yven3rw7c

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

Onion names reserved by the IETF

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/landmark-hidden-services-onion-names-reserved-ietf

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 66 comments

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 83 comments

Why you might want to choose Ceylon

http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/10/27/why/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 146 comments

Rreverrse Debugging

http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/10/rreverse-debugging/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 46 comments

Cancer-fighting viruses win approval

http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-fighting-viruses-win-approval-1.18651?WT.mc_id=SFB_NNEWS_1508_RHBox

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 23 comments

NASA's last original Voyager engineer retires at 80

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/technology/voyager-nasa/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments
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