top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-30

Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

https://twitchinstalls.com

11 years ago

802 upvotes – 250 comments

Do One Thing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/10/do-one-thing.html

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 128 comments

New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21677188-it-rare-new-animal-species-emerge-front-scientists-eyes?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20151029n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/n

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 140 comments

‘The Senator Be Embezzling’

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/mag-prison-smith-213098

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 126 comments

Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/10/30/developing-in-stockfighter-with-no-trading-experience/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 186 comments

EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/eff-asks-appeals-court-to-shut-down-the-eastern-district-of-texas/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 51 comments

Node.js 5.0 Released

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v5.0.0/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
278 upvotes – 123 comments

Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-5fKzmy38

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 195 comments

Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code

https://github.com/cristicbz/rust-doom?updated

11 years ago

★ 2.4k Rust Apache-2.0
262 upvotes – 155 comments

NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-ancient-earthworks.html

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 63 comments

What’s Really Killing Digital Health Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/30/whats-really-killing-digital-health-startups/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 154 comments

Apple’s Secrecy Hurts Its AI Software Development

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/apple-s-secrecy-hurts-its-ai-software-development

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 103 comments

After guilty plea, judge confused why prosecutors still want iPhone unlocked

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/feds-apple-must-still-unlock-iphone-5s-even-after-defendant-pled-guilty/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com

http://www.vertexshaderart.com

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 50 comments

UK police seek powers to access browsing history of computer users

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/30/police-seek-powers-to-access-browsing-history-of-uk-computer-users

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 25 comments

Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent in Fortran and Assembly Language

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-engineer/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Department After Six Months

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/10/29/23084403/programmer-tim-clemans-resigns-from-police-department-over-turf-battle

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

The Economist's US college rankings

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-university

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 104 comments

A $99.99 Surfboard Upends the Industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/wavestorm-s-99-99-surfboard-upends-the-industry

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/stuffy-offices-can-halve-cognitive-scores/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/10/29/making-it-easier-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 168 comments

Clang-format configurator

http://zed0.co.uk/clang-format-configurator/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

S.E.C. Gives Small Investors Access to Equity Crowdfunding

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/business/dealbook/sec-gives-small-investors-access-to-equity-crowdfunding.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

Inside the ubiquitous 741 op amp, the circuits in silicon

http://www.righto.com/2015/10/inside-ubiquitous-741-op-amp-circuits.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Inside Yubikey Neo

http://www.hexview.com/~scl/neo/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Code Review – A Needed Habit in Science

http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/10/code-review-habit.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a single data item

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-mongodb-cassandra-hbase-dynamodb_28.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477943

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 74 comments

Don’t Assume PostgreSQL Is Slow

http://thebuild.com/blog/2015/10/30/dont-assume-postgresql-is-slow/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479620

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Learning to Deal with the Impostor Syndrome

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/your-money/learning-to-deal-with-the-impostor-syndrome.html?_r=1&utm_source=YNAB+Weekly+Roundup&utm_campaign=2d6f225c23-Weekly_Roundup_10_30_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8929890d04-2d6f225c23-102579533&ct=t%28Weekly_Roundup_10_30_2015%29&mtrref=undefined&gwh=01B73C24C8AC89465EDA99BC203546D8

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Making daylight saving time permanent could reduce crime

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/29/the-case-for-year-round-daylight-saving-time-just-got-billions-of-dollars-stronger/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 81 comments

ESPN suspends publication of Grantland

http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Researchers determine how many years of life you lose to a stressful job

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/28/researchers-have-determined-how-many-years-of-life-you-lose-to-a-stressful-job

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

The Real Population Problem (2013)

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 100 comments

Source of AmigaOS 4 Firefox port Timberwolf now open to the public

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7095&forum=3

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference (2011)

https://petdance.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/hanging-out-at-the-vascular-surgery-conference/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Parachuting robots – a programming puzzle

http://david-peter.de/parachuting-robots/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

Map style changes on OpenStreetMap.org

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/10/30/openstreetmap-org-map-changing/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Mancy: JavaScript REPL

http://www.mancy-re.pl/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars

http://qz.com/536483/why-its-compeltely-ridiculous-to-think-that-humans-could-live-on-mars/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 76 comments

How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/cyphon-wired-archive-migration/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Is Programming Poetry?

https://medium.com/unpublishable-elsewhere/is-programming-poetry-aa137a2ac3ca#.rppg59c00

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

HeLa, the oldest and most commonly used human cell line

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

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Dart-rpg – a browser-based RPG game maker written in Dart

https://github.com/brad811/dart-rpg

11 years ago

★ 97 Dart
53 upvotes – 8 comments

A Killer Adversary for Quicksort (1999) [pdf]

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments

As Heroin Use by Whites Soars, Parents Urge Gentler Drug War

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/heroin-war-on-drugs-parents.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 40 comments
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