top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-02

The Tech Bust of 2015

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015

11 years ago

562 upvotes – 175 comments

GTA V – Graphics Study

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/

11 years ago

516 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492086

11 years ago

512 upvotes – 882 comments

Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489499

11 years ago

497 upvotes – 287 comments

Chrome OS is here to stay

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/11/chrome-os-is-here-to-stay.html

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 125 comments

Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

https://www.facebook.com/Lessig2016/videos/vb.832686670149581/909929802425267/?type=2&theater

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 236 comments

Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives

https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/11/five-open-source-slack-alternatives/

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 172 comments

Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 181 comments

Germany is turning on its monster stellarator

http://www.businessinsider.my/germany-is-turning-on-its-monster-stellarator-2015-10/#tqgboZYo4ZsctBCU.97

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 129 comments

E.P.A. Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including in Porsches

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/business/some-porsche-models-found-to-have-emissions-cheating-software.html?_r=0

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 153 comments

New Star Trek Series Premieres January 2017

http://www.startrek.com/article/new-star-trek-series-premieres-january-2017

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 194 comments

The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/11/the-kotlin-language-1-0-beta-is-here/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 91 comments

CSS Based Attack fontface

http://mksben.l0.cm/2015/10/css-based-attack-abusing-unicode-range.html

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Object.observe withdrawn from TC39

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2015-November/044684.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 104 comments

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph

https://www.csail.mit.edu/drone_flies_through_forest_at_30_mph

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

In 1972, Scientists Discovered a Two Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor In Gabon

http://www.iafrikan.com/2015/11/02/did-you-hear-about-how-scientists-discovered-a-two-billion-year-old-nuclear-reactor-in-west-africa/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 38 comments

The Twelve Networking Truths

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 27 comments

80x40

http://blog.mattbierner.com/80x40/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

System design implications of declining network latency vs. disk latency

http://danluu.com/infinite-disk/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

A New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Will Debut in 2017

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/arts/television/a-new-star-trek-tv-series-will-debut-in-2017.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 83 comments

'Escape Rooms' Challenge Players To Solve Puzzles To Get Out

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/20/450239655/escape-rooms-challenge-players-to-solve-puzzles-to-get-out

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 86 comments

European Parliament Says Snowden Should Be Welcomed in Europe

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/european-parliament-says-snowden-should-be-welcomed-in-europe/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 43 comments

nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 102 comments

Indian Government adopts an open source policy

http://opensource.com/government/15/8/india-adopts-open-source-policy

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/11/intellij-idea-15-released-adds-kotlin-to-the-family-of-supported-jvm-languages/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 57 comments

Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2015/10/30/build-portable-hacking-station-raspberry-pi-kali-linux

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 36 comments

Plex on the New Apple TV

https://blog.plex.tv/2015/11/02/plex-on-the-new-apple-tv/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports

https://github.com/yaronn/wopr

11 years ago

★ 3k JavaScript
125 upvotes – 37 comments

Argon2 Wins Password Hashing Competition

https://password-hashing.net/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook is able to identify music and TV when writing status update

https://www.facebook.com/help/android-app/369513256545845

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 153 comments

Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 77 comments

Somebody Just Claimed a $1M Bounty for Hacking the iPhone

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/somebody-just-won-1-million-bounty-for-hacking-the-iphone

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment

https://medium.com/@cdixon/it-s-hard-to-believe-today-but-10-years-ago-wikipedia-was-widely-considered-a-doomed-experiment-a7a0dfd27b8b#.9bk1kti56

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 106 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/simple-sabotage.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, hand deobfuscated and annotated

https://github.com/levskaya/jslinux-deobfuscated

11 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
110 upvotes – 12 comments

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 17 comments

Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html?_r=0

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 98 comments

Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit

http://obe.tv/about-us/obe-blog/item/26-fuzzing-ffmpeg-for-fun-and-profit

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

Google doesn't recognise or penalise stolen content

http://www.pi-datametrics.com/fatal-flaw-googles-inability-recognise-stolen-content/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-opens-first-bricks-and-mortar-bookstore-at-u-village/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013)

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

Top 1% now owns more of the wealth than the remaining 99%

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/13/half-world-wealth-in-hands-population-inequality-report

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 110 comments

Declassified CIA documents detail how to sabotage employers, annoy bosses

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/declassified-cia-documents-detail-how-to-sabotage-employers-annoy-bosses-a6716961.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

All servers at OVH North American datacenters offline due to fiber cut

http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=11304

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

New Tricks for Browser Fingerprinting [pdf]

https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/presentations/toorcon2015.pdf

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-virtual-classes-can-be-better-than-real-ones

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

Facebook’s code quality problem

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? (2004)

https://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/2004/10/multithreaded_t.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

Surnames: Meanings, Origins and Distribution Maps

http://forebears.io/surnames

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Hackers Claim Million-Dollar Bounty for iOS Zero Day Attack

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/hackers-claim-million-dollar-bounty-for-ios-attack/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Invoice Boilerplate – Simple automated LaTeX invoicing system

https://github.com/mrzool/invoice-boilerplate

11 years ago

★ 722 TeX GPL-2.0
72 upvotes – 16 comments

AutoConnect: Computational Design of 3D-Printable Connectors

http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/autoconnect/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Exercising Software Freedom in the Global Email System

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/sep/15/email/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

SGI screen fonts converted for OS X

http://njr.sabi.net/2015/11/01/sgi-screen-fonts-converted-for-os-x/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

What would the taxes be if I exercise my startup options?

https://medium.com/@jaredcohe/what-are-my-taxes-if-i-exercise-my-startup-options-1a36e0c3b401#.tzzg52o1b

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Random: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Dungeon Robber

http://blogofholding.com/dungeonrobber/index.php

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Back to the Futu-Rr-e: Deterministic Debugging with Rr

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/64/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Men account for 76% of suicides in 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/02/men-account-for-76-of-suicides-in-2014-says-charity

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media?CMP=share_btn_tw

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Reasonable System for CSS Stylesheet Structure

https://github.com/rstacruz/rscss

11 years ago

★ 3.8k
56 upvotes – 24 comments

Psychosynth, a synthesizer and modular audio framework inspired by Reactable

http://psychosynth.com/index.php/Main_Page

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

How to Study and Take Notes from a Textbook Using the Cornell Note Taking Method

http://whinkapp.com/how-to-effectively-study-a-textbook-using-cornell-note-taking-techniques/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments
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