top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-31

Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club tvOS application

http://pastebin.com/zT1n0RPV

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 159 comments

Linux TCP will have lockless listener processing 3.5M SYNs per sec

https://lwn.net/Articles/659199/

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 48 comments

Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need

http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 26 comments

A Way to Detect Bias

http://www.paulgraham.com/bias.html

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 211 comments

Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (2013)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/creditcards/10231556/Man-who-created-own-credit-card-sues-bank-for-not-sticking-to-terms.html

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 84 comments

Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitration-everywhere-stacking-the-deck-of-justice.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 133 comments

GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2015-10-31-releases.html

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 111 comments

Busybox removes support for systemd

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=accd9eeb719916da974584b33b1aeced5f3bb346

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 197 comments

Protopiper: Physically Sketching Room-Sized Objects at Actual Scale

http://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/protopiper.html

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 16 comments

Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/rikers-island-plea-bargains-213223

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 105 comments

Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings

http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-ratings.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 26 comments

Fountain – A markup language for screenwriting

http://fountain.io

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editor

http://kakoune.org/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 34 comments

CPython internals: Codewalk through the Python interpreter source code (2014)

http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 16 comments

How many people are in jail based on faked data?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/10/massachusetts_crime_lab_scandal_worsens_dookhan_and_farak.single.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 33 comments

Snapchat’s new ‘scary’ privacy policy

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/snapchats-new-scary-privacy-policy-has-left-users-outraged-2015-10-29

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

Transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ with Just a Raspberry Pi

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/transmitting-fm-am-ssb-sstv-and-fsq-with-just-a-raspberry-pi/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Blabr – Scientific Computing for the Web

http://blabr.io/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

New APA Policy Banning Psychologists from National Security Interrogations

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/10/banning-psychologists-interrogations.aspx

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Rust Lifetimes

http://www.charlesetc.com/rust/2015/10/29/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (1968)

https://mises.org/library/confessions-right-wing-liberal

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Curio: A Modern Library for Reliable Concurrent I/O Using Python Coroutines

https://github.com/dabeaz/curio

11 years ago

★ 4.1k Python
95 upvotes – 13 comments

Witch Burnings in Papua New Guinea

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/they-burn-witches-here/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet

http://mashable.com/2015/10/29/kim-dotcom-meganet/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

What does it feel like to be fired from Google?

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-fired-from-Google?share=1

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

A better way to profile multithreaded programs

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/10/31/papers-are-amazing-profiling-threaded-programs-with-coz/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Failed Architecture

http://www.failedarchitecture.com/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-users-librarian-congress-renews-and-expands-protections-fair-uses

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Congolese Rocketeer's Personal Space Race Turns Vermin into Astronauts

http://www.wsj.com/articles/one-africans-personal-space-race-turns-vermin-into-astronauts-1446239060

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/dotty-scala-bootstraps

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Yolk.js: A user interface library built on RxJS and Virtual-dom

https://github.com/yolkjs/yolk

11 years ago

★ 922 JavaScript MIT
74 upvotes – 10 comments

FBI’s Advice on Ransomware? Just Pay the Ransom

https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-cryptolocker-just-pay-the-ransom/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 73 comments

C++'s SFINAE concept: compile-time introspection of a class

http://jguegant.github.io/blogs/tech/sfinae-introduction.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft Band 2.0 Review

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/the-new-microsoft-band-has-all-the-workouts-you-could-ever-dream-of/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Img2css: convert any image into a CSS “image” using only box shadows

http://javier.xyz/img2css/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

My experience as a business consultant in Dubai (2010)

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

There's a Lot We Don't Know About Ebola

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/17/448380921/so-it-turns-out-theres-a-lot-we-dont-know-about-ebola

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Remote Mexican village uses solar power to purify water

http://news.mit.edu/2015/mexican-village-solar-power-purify-water-1008

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

A Parser Combinator library for C

https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc

11 years ago

★ 2.8k C
58 upvotes – 25 comments

Lithium-air battery research shows potential paths to next-gen batteries

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/lithium-air-battery-research-shows-potential-paths-to-next-gen-batteries/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Buy Coal: the best way for concerned billionaires to fight global warming

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/every-climate-concerned-billionaire-should-do-this-to-save-the-world/413020/?single_page=true

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 66 comments

Academia’s Rejection of Diversity

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/opinion/academias-rejection-of-diversity.html?_r=1

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet California winter

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/3566

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Marvin Minsky Reflects on a Life in AI [video]

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/543031/marvin-minsky-reflects-on-a-life-in-ai/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Why 5 x 3 = 5 and 5 and 5 Was Marked Wrong

https://medium.com/i-math/why-5-x-3-5-5-5-was-marked-wrong-b34607a5b74c

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 147 comments

Title II kills investment? Comcast and other ISPs are now spending more

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/comcast-and-other-isps-boost-network-investment-despite-net-neutrality/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments
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