top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-03

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

11 years ago

586 upvotes – 228 comments

Computer, Respond to This Email

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html

11 years ago

562 upvotes – 194 comments

I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil

11 years ago

498 upvotes – 187 comments

Why nuclear energy is our best option at the moment

http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear-energy-vs-wind-and-solar/

11 years ago

398 upvotes – 384 comments

Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-to-decriminalise-small-amounts-of-drugs-including-heroin-cocaine-and-cannabis-for-personal-a6719136.html

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 157 comments

Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking

http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/docker-1-9-production-ready-swarm-multi-host-networking/

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 79 comments

The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix

http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 46 comments

Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app

https://whispersystems.org/blog/just-signal/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 153 comments

How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/opinion/how-the-fbi-can-detain-render-and-threaten-without-risk.html?_r=0

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 115 comments

Introducing 1Password for Teams

https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/11/03/introducing-1password-for-teams/

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 146 comments

OneDrive Changes

https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 141 comments

DevTools Challenger for Firefox

http://devtoolschallenger.com/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 27 comments

Hearts on Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hearts-on-twitter

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 170 comments

5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color

https://www.cinema5d.com/5k-imac-10-bit-color/

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 96 comments

The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 162 comments

Show HN: React for Beginners

https://reactforbeginners.com/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 43 comments

IRCAnywhere

http://ircanywhere.com/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 51 comments

Activision to Buy King Digital for $5.9B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/activision-to-buy-king-digital-in-5-9-billion-games-merger

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 90 comments

Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/10/09/our-logo-looks-like-underpants-a-case-study-in-internationalization/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 75 comments

Scientists develop 'unbreakable' glass almost as tough as steel

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sci_tech/technology/AJ201510290034

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 72 comments

A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-group-of-middle-aged-american-whites-is-dying-at-a-startling-rate/2015/11/02/47a63098-8172-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 182 comments

Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/03/larry-summers-advanced-economies-are-so-sick-we-need-a-new-way-to-think-about-them/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 189 comments

Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery (2014)

http://www.pgbovine.net/command-line-bullshittery.htm

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 160 comments

Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-02/money-flooding-out-of-canada-at-fastest-pace-in-developed-world

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 67 comments

RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/robovm

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 97 comments

Annotated Version of John McCarthy’s Paper on Lisp

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/recursive-functions-of-symbolic-expressions-and-their-computation-by-machine

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Haskell Web Development: A Freely Available Book

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/haskell-web-development-a-freely-available-book#/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 43 comments

Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

https://mirage.io/blog/introducing-irmin

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 25 comments

Actually, Marty Didn’t Go Back to the Future: Graphing the Train Scene of BTTF3

http://blog.francoismaillet.com/marty-didnt-go-back-to-the-future

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

What we learned from rewriting our robotic control software in Swift

http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2015/11/03/what-we-learned-rewriting-our-robotic-control-software-swift

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 83 comments

Endless Sky: Open-Source Escape Velocity Successor

https://endless-sky.github.io/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Nearly 9,000 Artifacts Uncovered in CA Desert, Spanning 11,500 Years of History

http://westerndigs.org/nearly-9000-artifacts-uncovered-in-california-desert-spanning-11500-years-of-history/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

ClearTax (YC S14) helps India file tax returns in ‘less than five minutes’

https://www.techinasia.com/cleartax-makes-efiling-tax-returns-easy/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 56 comments

Linus meltdown on a Git pull

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02866.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

NASA confirms yet again that the 'impossible' EMdrive thruster works

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasa-latest-tests-show-physics-230112770.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Why I pulled my son out of a school for 'gifted' kids

http://mashable.com/2015/11/03/gifted-school-drawbacks/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed#Au5I_utD3PqI

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 99 comments

Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

https://www.facebook.com/Engineering/videos/10153621562717200/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Why is Japan using cassette tapes and faxes?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34667380

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 75 comments

The Black Box of Product Management

https://medium.com/@brandonmchu/the-black-box-of-product-management-3feb65db6ddb

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

Instagram-Famous Teen Shows the Dark Backstory of Her Perfect Selfies

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/essena-oneill-instagram-selfies-backstory

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

A new history asks: Has all the progress of the past 100 years come undone?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/11/these_united_states_reviewed_history_of_america_by_glenda_gilmore_and_thomas.single.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 70 comments

China's Money Exodus

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-11-02/china-s-money-exodus

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans

http://recode.net/2015/11/03/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-is-super-smart-its-also-probably-a-human/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

VW Emissions Issues Spread to Gasoline Cars [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/volkswagen-emissions-woes-deepen-as-800-000-more-cars-affected

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

Human-powered cranes

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/03/history-of-human-powered-cranes.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: A new general-purpose API solving common and complex problems

https://www.neutrinoapi.com/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Starship Robots – Small robots that travel sidewalks for local delivery

https://www.starship.xyz/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 53 comments

A glimpse inside CryptoWall 3.0

http://blog.brillantit.com/?p=15

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments
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