top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-29

Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

11 years ago

638 upvotes – 232 comments

Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android

http://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-google-to-fold-chrome-operating-system-into-android-1446151134

11 years ago

510 upvotes – 480 comments

For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-godsey/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html

11 years ago

468 upvotes – 228 comments

Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/novena-a-laptop-with-no-secrets

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 109 comments

China to begin two-child policy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 432 comments

An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/880

11 years ago

★ 63k JavaScript GPL-3.0
323 upvotes – 113 comments

Learn C and build your own Lisp

http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 49 comments

PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/10/pypy-400-released-jit-with-simd.html

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 144 comments

Random Acts of Optimization

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/random-acts-optimization

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 125 comments

A lot happens

http://jessenoller.com/blog/2015/9/27/a-lot-happens

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 138 comments

You're Eight Times More Likely to Be Killed by a Police Officer Than a Terrorist

http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-killed-police-officer-terrorist

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 190 comments

Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better

https://rework.withgoogle.com/

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 65 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-29/mark-zuckerberg-signed-the-wrong-document

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 108 comments

Front-end Developer Handbook

https://frontendmasters.gitbooks.io/front-end-handbook/content/index.html

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 42 comments

Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/master/QSBs/qsb-022-2015.txt

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 80 comments

Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 169 comments

How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

https://medium.com/@dconrad/how-new-long-range-radios-will-change-the-internet-of-things-ed8e6b5e367f

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 108 comments

Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-messenger-beta-chat-over-tor-easily

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Federal appeals court says NSA phone metadata collection can continue

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/court-says-its-again-legal-for-nsa-to-spy-on-you-because-congress-says-its-ok/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 31 comments

UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-use-terror-powers-to-seize-bbc-newsnight-journalists-laptop-a6712636.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 90 comments

New technique can weld “un-weldable” metals

https://news.osu.edu/news/2015/10/29/vfaweld/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 39 comments

Time zone news

http://time.is/time_zone_news

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 83 comments

Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers

https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_content=bufferd7420&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 133 comments

Breaches, traders, plain text passwords, ethical disclosure and 000webhost

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/10/breaches-traders-plain-text-passwords.html?m=1

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 38 comments

Bread is Broken

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/magazine/bread-is-broken.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 89 comments

Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/stingray-government-spy-tools-can-record-calls-new-documents-confirm/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 36 comments

Legofy – Python program to make an image to look as if it was created with Legos

https://github.com/JuanPotato/Legofy

11 years ago

★ 3.1k Python MIT
131 upvotes – 39 comments

OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation

http://oberonstation.x10.mx

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 96 comments

Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20151025-column.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook

http://thehustle.co/how-one-17-year-old-coded-a-number-one-app-and-got-hired-by-facebook

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

Atom 1.1 is out

http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/29/atom-1-1-is-out.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Robocalls

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/28/boehnerland-lobbyists-win-right-to-bombard-student-borrowers-with-robocalls/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 109 comments

The EU’s new internet rules will hurt the continent’s startups

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21677175-eus-new-internet-rules-will-hurt-continents-startups-multi-speed-europe

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Code4Startup - Learn to code by cloning real life startups

http://www.code4startup.com

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Interview Humiliation

http://deliberate-software.com/on-defeat/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 87 comments

What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?

http://priceonomics.com/what-happens-when-you-enter-the-witness-protection/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Pijul version control system

https://pijul.org/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Introducing Twitch Creative

http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/10/introducing-twitch-creative/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

18F micro-purchase experiment bid down to $1

https://github.com/18F/calc/issues/255#issuecomment-152193310

11 years ago

★ 7
101 upvotes – 58 comments

Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/open-sourcing-pinterest-mysql-management-tools

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 8 comments

Medication errors found in half of surgeries

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/medication-errors-found-in-1-out-of-2-surgeries/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Announcing Rust 1.4

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/10/29/Rust-1.4.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 5 comments

BitTorrent's DHT

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

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

What's new in TeX

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/662053/1729d17e91b68d47/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

European Parliament asks member states to grant protection to Edward Snowden

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151022IPR98818/html/Mass-surveillance-EU-citizens%27-rights-still-in-danger-says-Parliament

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

License Plate Readers Exposed – How Public Safety Agencies Responded

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake

https://theconversation.com/the-astronomer-and-the-witch-how-kepler-saved-his-mother-from-the-stake-49332

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

TB Is Now the Top Infectious Killer

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/28/452565249/tb-is-now-the-top-infectious-killer-even-though-deaths-are-down

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Babel 6.0 Released

https://babeljs.io/blog/2015/10/29/6.0.0/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline (2013)

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/general-programming/a-journey-through-the-cpu-pipeline-r3115

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

From 0 to 5,000 Planets in 20 Years

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2015/10/06/from-0-to-5000-planets-in-exactly-20-years/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Paris chefs catering for diners in their own homes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34581898

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

Harvard Law Library sacrifices trove of legal volumes to digitize them

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove-for-the-sake-of-a-free-database.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Jump Threading

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/jump_threading.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Uber Surge Price? Research Says Walk a Few Blocks, Wait a Few Minutes

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/29/452585089/uber-surge-price-research-says-walk-a-few-blocks-wait-a-few-minutes

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Canvid.js – tiny library for playing video on canvas elements

http://gka.github.io/canvid/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

A Genocide in Colonial Africa Finally Gets Recognition

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brutal-genocide-colonial-africa-finally-gets-its-deserved-recognition-180957073/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

The Contest Between Gravity and Quantum Physics

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/will-quantum-mechanics-swallow-relativity

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

For the future of solar, we’ve got the tech – it’s the economics

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/for-the-future-of-solar-weve-got-the-tech-its-the-economics-stupid/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 81 comments

Vert.x: A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM

http://vertx.io/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Germany Hardens Line on U.S. Data Transfers

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/29/germany-hardens-line-on-u-s-data-transfers/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P in 'most surprising discovery to date'

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/28/rosetta-finds-oxygen-on-comet-67p-in-most-surprising-discovery-to-date

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Upthere, a cloud storage service, wants to make file syncing a thing of the past

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9632904/upthere-cloud-file-storage-bertrand-serlet

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

Color Psychology: Guide for Marketers

http://www.nickkolenda.com/color-psychology/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Cryptographic Libraries

https://developer.apple.com/cryptography/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research

http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/usda-scientist-punished-for-pollinator-research.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/business/theranos-facing-criticism-says-it-has-changed-board-structure.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 63 comments
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