top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-04

Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A25GROL6KJV3QG/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pdp

11 years ago

1524 upvotes – 392 comments

Reconsider

https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f

11 years ago

906 upvotes – 154 comments

Bitcoin Surges Past $400

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/11/03/bitbeat-bitcoin-surges-past-400-on-back-of-the-new-shining-star/

11 years ago

408 upvotes – 249 comments

Ledger, a command-line accounting system

http://www.ledger-cli.org/index.html

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 166 comments

Microsoft and Red Hat partner

http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=54883?wt.mc_id=WW_ABG_CLD_OO_SCL_TW&Ocid=C+E%20Social%20FY16_Social_TW_MSCloud_20151104_268989404

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 167 comments

New Emacs maintainer

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg00118.html

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 61 comments

Norway: photographs taken of the same places separated by long periods of time

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/11/norway-then-and-now-tilbakeblikk/413710/?single_page=true

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 52 comments

Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/special%20projects/SIGAR-16-2-SP.pdf#page=2

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 139 comments

Confidant: an open-source secret management service

https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-confidant-an-open-source-secret-management-service-from-lyft-1e256fe628a3

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 67 comments

The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs (2014)

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs.html

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 112 comments

Details of UK website visits 'to be stored for year'

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-34715872

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 221 comments

Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/expedia-acquires-airbnb-rival-homeaway-for-3-9b/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 59 comments

Dive into Machine Learning with Jupyter and Scikit-Learn

https://github.com/hangtwenty/dive-into-machine-learning

11 years ago

★ 11.4k CC-BY-4.0
204 upvotes – 33 comments

Mexico supreme court rules ban on marijuana use unconstitutional

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/mexico-supreme-court-recreational-marijuana-legal

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 130 comments

NASA confirms that the ‘impossible’ EmDrive thruster really works

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/researchers-conduct-successful-new-tests-of-emdrive/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 179 comments

National Geographic Society sets biggest layoff in its history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-society-sets-biggest-layoff-in-its-history/2015/11/03/2966e1b4-8252-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 142 comments

Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/entire-editorial-staff-of-elsevier-journal-lingua-resigns-over-high-price-lack-of-open-access/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 14 comments

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/03/what-developmental-milestones-are-you-missing/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 147 comments

Fedora 23 released

http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-23-released/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 124 comments

The Most Common Job in Each State 1978-2014

http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/hist-job-map-90/child.html?initialWidth=800

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 151 comments

GNU Guile 2.1.1 released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-11/msg00007.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 36 comments

Rain and Water Effect Experiments

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-experiments/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 30 comments

Announcing Our $3.5M Philanthropic Growth Round

http://blog.watsi.org/growth-round/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 20 comments

Dropbox API v2 launches

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/11/dropbox-api-v2-launches-today/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D

http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 125 comments

Michael D. Hammond, Co-Founder of Gateway, Is Dead at 53

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/technology/michael-d-hammond-co-founder-of-gateway-is-dead-at-53.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 53 comments

Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2521

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

Urbit language tutorial, chapter 0

http://urbit.org/docs/dev/hoon/tutorial/0-nouns

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-administrate

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

Canonical bringing Snappy Ubuntu to phone and desktop

https://rainveiltech.com/posts/prototype-a-gui-friendly-snappy

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 44 comments

Browser Engines 2015: Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts

http://mo.github.io/2015/11/04/browser-engines-active-developers-and-commit-rates.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

Twitter's only black engineer in leadership quits

https://medium.com/@shaft/thought-on-diversity-part-2-why-diversity-is-difficult-3dfd552fa1f7

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 216 comments

Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret

http://qz.com/540571/baidu-found-chinas-ghost-cities-but-it-is-keeping-their-locations-mostly-a-secret/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Sift: Grep on steroids

https://sift-tool.org/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Android now builds with Ninja instead of Make

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-platform/Hhl_4hfOONg/discussion

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

SystemML: Machine learning made easier (open source)

https://developer.ibm.com/open/systemml/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

Avoid Humans: Your temporary respite from the masses

http://avoidhumans.com/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 69 comments

Blue Lion, a new OS/2 distribution

https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion-go/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Theranos Letter Shows Elizabeth Holmes Tried to Take Control from Shareholders

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/03/theranos-letter-shows-elizabeth-holmes-tried-to-take-control-from-shareholders/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Pharo Smalltalk IDE as Visualizer: Mondrian in Action [video]

https://vimeo.com/143858200

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to transition from corporate job to self contractor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10507355

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

From kafkatrap to honeytrap

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

OOSMOS, the Object Oriented State Machine Operating System, Is Now Open Source

http://oosmos.com/?Action=HN

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Abuse is indefensible

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/11/04/abuse-is-indefensible/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 201 comments

Docker Clustering Tools Compared: Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm

http://technologyconversations.com/2015/11/04/docker-clustering-tools-compared-kubernetes-vs-docker-swarm/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

How Carders Can Use EBay as a Virtual ATM

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/how-carders-can-use-ebay-as-a-virtual-atm/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Stable release of Flynn – open-source container deployment

https://flynn.io/blog/flynn-stable-meetup

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

What are the most polarizing programming languages?

http://varianceexplained.org/r/polarizing-technologies/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

FastMail acquires Pobox and Listbox

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/03/fastmail-acquires-pobox-and-listbox/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Rails bindings for Opal

https://github.com/opal/opal-rails

11 years ago

★ 496 Ruby
74 upvotes – 33 comments

Canada creates science-minister post

http://www.nature.com/news/canada-creates-science-minister-post-1.18739

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

SHA-1 Deprecation Update

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/11/04/sha-1-deprecation-update/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf]

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.reconstructed.pdf

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-go-was-the-right-choice-for-cockroachdb/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

FBI official: It’s America’s choice whether we want to be spied on

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/fbi-official-its-americas-choice-whether-we-want-to-be-spied-on/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments
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