top 50% 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

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

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

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

Evolution of Open Source at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/evolution-of-open-source-at-netflix.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 9 comments

Firebug and DevTools Integration

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/10/firebug-devtools-integration/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 36 comments

The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good

http://www.businessinsider.com/fda-documents-on-theranos-2015-10

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

Carina – High-Performance, Instant-On Docker Containers

https://getcarina.com/blog/announcing-carina/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

Unmanned surveillance blimp breaks tether, floats over Pennsylvania

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/28/the-army-lost-control-of-a-giant-unmanned-surveillance-blimp/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old

http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/n0464-meet-this-extinct-cave-lion-at-least-10000-years-old/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Designing a Mobile App for Maximum Growth

http://firstround.com/review/this-is-how-you-design-your-app-for-maximum-growth/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Gotthard Base Tunnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century

http://mosaicscience.com/story/peak-booze

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 84 comments

Preserving One Couple's Hidden Library

https://blog.archive.org/2015/10/19/preserving-one-couples-hidden-library/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

Souper – A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR

https://github.com/google/souper

11 years ago

★ 2.3k C++ Apache-2.0
84 upvotes – 20 comments

Problems with Go's design

https://medium.com/@tucnak/why-go-is-a-poorly-designed-language-1cc04e5daf2#.pr6pifnky

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

PublicVotes – Ethereum-Based Voting Application

http://publicvotes.org/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-for-profit-schools?mbid=rss

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 111 comments

A Certain Tendency of the Database Community

https://christophermeiklejohn.com/lasp/erlang/2015/10/27/tendency.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

Graph-scroll.js – Simple scrolling events for D3.js graphics

http://1wheel.github.io/graph-scroll/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Does Exercise Slow the Aging Process?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/does-exercise-slow-the-aging-process/?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Internet Radio Copyright Is Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/internet-radio-copyright-is-bad-and-dumb-a-comprehensive-explainer

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Performance in Big Data Land: Every CPU cycle matters

http://eng.localytics.com/performance-in-big-data-land-every-cpu-cycle-matters-part-1/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

Science papers rarely cited in negative ways

http://www.nature.com/news/science-papers-rarely-cited-in-negative-ways-1.18643

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft Unveils Its Arrow Launcher for Android

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/28/microsoft-officially-unveils-its-arrow-launcher-for-android/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 39 comments

Agate: A Data Analysis Library for Journalists

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-agate/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

9.5 Low Latency Decision as a Service Design Patterns

http://tech.forter.com/9-5-low-latency-decision-as-a-service-design-patterns/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/27/the-force-awakens-tractor-beam-becomes-a-reality

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Tabli – A Tab Manager for Google Chrome

http://antonycourtney.github.io/tabli/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Wunderbrain – Indie iOS app to train your brain in a few minutes a week

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1006591384

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

On being a female on a male-dominated engineering team

http://bryanaknight.com/on-being-a-female-on-a-male-dominated-engineering-team/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 74 comments

Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA released

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-2-0-0-released

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption

https://www.datadoghq.com/docker-adoption/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

http://blog.codecombat.com/the-true-ace-of-coders

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

How Old Is Your Globe?

http://www.replogleglobes.com/howOldIsYourGlobe.php

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking”

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/27/9620352/convoy-uber-for-trucking

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 46 comments
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