top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-05

Startup Playbook

http://playbook.samaltman.com

11 years ago

1202 upvotes – 232 comments

Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

http://tpp.mfat.govt.nz/text

11 years ago

755 upvotes – 348 comments

Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/11/03/firefox-now-offers-a-more-private-browsing-experience/

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 200 comments

CodePush by Microsoft

http://microsoft.github.io/code-push/

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 82 comments

The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source

http://blog.fogus.me/2015/11/04/the-100101-method-my-approach-to-open-source/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 58 comments

Release of the Full TPP Text Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/release-full-tpp-text-after-five-years-secrecy-confirms-threats-users-rights

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 37 comments

I found my father living on the street

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34420194

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 143 comments

A lot of websockets in Haskell

https://blog.wearewizards.io/a-lot-of-websockets-in-haskell

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 37 comments

GNU Guile site redesign

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 79 comments

Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – TPP

http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 2 comments

A mobile, desktop and website app with the same code

https://github.com/benoitvallon/react-native-nw-react-calculator

11 years ago

★ 5.2k JavaScript MIT
193 upvotes – 80 comments

GNU Guix 0.9.0 released – Functional package manager and distribution

http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8398

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 61 comments

The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/the-no-1-business-rule-of-this-billionaire-and-buddhist-priest

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 108 comments

8-bit number to binary string

http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/n/c_cpp_number_to_binary_string_01011010

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 49 comments

Lytro announces light field VR video camera

http://uploadvr.com/lytro-immerge-vr-light-field-video-camera/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 72 comments

Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/house-bill-end-warrantless-stingray-surveillance-jason-chaffetz

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 43 comments

Atari Star Raiders Source Code (1979)

https://archive.org/details/AtariStarRaidersSourceCode

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 39 comments

Y Combinator: the X Factor of tech

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21677636-tech-talent-spotter-has-come-dominate-silicon-valleys-startup-scene-y-combinator-x?new

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 37 comments

Deepart.io – Generate images styled like your favorite artist

http://deepart.io

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/?single_page=true

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 66 comments

Canada's R&D tax credit program hurts R&D in Canada

https://medium.com/@wwhchung/sr-ed-hurts-canadian-innovation-4fbcf4898d7d

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 66 comments

Novelist warns against utilitarian trends in higher education

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/november/robinson-humanities-lecture-110315.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 186 comments

127-Year-Old U.S. Aluminum Industry Collapses Under China's Weight

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/when-a-127-year-old-u-s-industry-collapses-under-china-s-weight

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 98 comments

The Curious Tale of MS03-007

http://www.stepto.com/2013/03/the-curious-tale-of-ms03-007/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Let Twitter Be Twitter

http://around.com/let-twitter-be-twitter/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 98 comments

René Girard has died

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/november/rene-girard-obit-110415.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSdWhkMB_A&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Save a Penguin Colony

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/world/australia/australia-penguins-sheepdogs-foxes-swampy-marsh-farmer-middle-island.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

Trying out Let's Encrypt (beta)

https://conorpp.com/blog/trying-out-lets-encrypt/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Open Offices Are Terrible

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/work-education/why-open-offices-are-terrible/index.php

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 60 comments

Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/hurricane-lte-u-dont-let-wi-fi-get-blown-away

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Mobile App Developers Are Suffering

https://medium.com/swlh/mobile-app-developers-are-suffering-a5636c57d576

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Juce C++ framework reaches v4 with live-coding environment

http://www.juce.com/releases/projucer-juce-4

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

A Big Result On Graph Isomorphism

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/a-big-result-on-graph-isomorphism/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Data Is Plural – A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets

https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Intel Storage Performance Development Kit

https://github.com/spdk/spdk

11 years ago

★ 3.5k C
89 upvotes – 30 comments

The first photograph of a human being (1838)

http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/first-photograph-of-a-human/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Big data in genomics: The $1k genome has arrived

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7576_supp/full/527S2a.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

‘Stealth bomb’ antibiotic vanquishes drug-resistant bacteria in mice

http://www.nature.com/news/stealth-bomb-antibiotic-vanquishes-drug-resistant-bacteria-1.18696

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

What is it like to be owned by Warren Buffett?

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-it-be-owned-warren-buffett

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

The kernel of the argument over Linux’s vulnerabilities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-insecurity-the-kernel-of-the-argument/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Team Morale: Myths and Reality

http://www.yegor256.com/2015/03/02/team-morale-myths-and-reality.html?2015-09

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

Singapore employs a mathematics teaching method called productive failure

http://qz.com/535443/the-best-way-to-understand-math-is-learning-how-to-fail-productively/?linkId=18512366

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

One year in #stripe

https://mattarkin.com/1-year-in-stripe/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Big Banks Lock Horns with Personal-Finance Web Portals

http://on.wsj.com/1iDRXGf

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 103 comments

Zombie physics: Baffling results that won't die

http://www.nature.com/news/zombie-physics-6-baffling-results-that-just-won-t-die-1.18685

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Colorado’s muni broadband ban overridden in 44 communities

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/colorados-muni-broadband-ban-overridden-in-44-communities/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Kernel 201 – Let’s write a kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014)

http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/99370248137/kernel-201-lets-write-a-kernel-with-keyboard?hn

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by NY Attorney General

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

We found only one-third of published psychology research is reliable – now what?

https://theconversation.com/we-found-only-one-third-of-published-psychology-research-is-reliable-now-what-46596

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 67 comments

Adventures in debugging: etcd, HTTP pipelining, and file descriptor leaks

http://www.projectclearwater.org/adventures-in-debugging-etcd-http-pipelining-and-file-descriptor-leaks/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

The Big Bang project aims to create a typed language with the feel of scripting

https://pl.cs.jhu.edu/projects/big-bang/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Facing Cash Crunch, Retailer Jet.com Racing to Complete Funding Round

http://www.wsj.com/articles/retailer-jet-com-close-to-finalizing-550-million-cash-infusion-1446659335

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 77 comments

Request: Officially oppose TPP Source Code provision

http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2015-November/022243.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

The Invention of the Wah-Wah pedal

http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-wah-wah-pedal/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments
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