top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-06

Thank you, Y Combinator

http://blog.garrytan.com/thank-you-y-combinator

11 years ago

515 upvotes – 73 comments

Ramanujan surprises again

https://plus.maths.org/content/ramanujan

11 years ago

465 upvotes – 41 comments

Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google

http://flutter.io/faq/

11 years ago

455 upvotes – 275 comments

Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/articles/dept/musings/quality-issues-brick-buildings

11 years ago

406 upvotes – 277 comments

TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software

http://keionline.org/node/2363

11 years ago

384 upvotes – 147 comments

Five hours with Edward Snowden

http://fokus.dn.se/edward-snowden-english

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 219 comments

24/192 music downloads make no sense

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 228 comments

MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34729139

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 150 comments

The Mathematics of Paul Graham's Bias Test

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/paul_grahams_bias_test.html

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 78 comments

Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security

https://grsecurity.net/~spender/interview_notes.txt

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 76 comments

Prescription painkiller deaths fall in medical marijuana states

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/25/us-medical-marijuana-deaths-idUSKBN0GP1UJ20140825

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 113 comments

Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 147 comments

Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix

http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/11/corporations-and-oss-do-not-mix.html

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 122 comments

The Decay of Twitter

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/?single_page=true

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 135 comments

Modernizing Python's IDLE

http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/idle.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 41 comments

I rewrote Firefox's BMP decoder

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/11/06/i-rewrote-firefoxs-bmp-decoder/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Hidden in plain sight: Brute-forcing Slack private files

https://www.ibuildings.nl/blog/2015/11/hidden-plain-sight-brute-forcing-slack-private-files

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 51 comments

The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9567/the-power-8-review-challenging-the-intel-xeon-

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 71 comments

Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon

http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-security-at-linuxcon.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

Assembly Language: Still Relevant Today

http://wilsonminesco.com/AssyDefense/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

GNU Artanis: A web framework for Guile Scheme

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/szdiy/YCagR9OSgI8

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

A vulnerability in WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Jenkins, OpenNMS and others

http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/childcare-workers-cant-afford-childcare/414496/?single_page=true

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 231 comments

Square’s IPO Terms Put Valuation Below Latest Funding Round

http://www.wsj.com/articles/square-outlines-ipo-terms-1446812826

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 86 comments

Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla

http://nypost.com/2015/11/06/mysterious-billion-dollar-car-company-is-taking-on-tesla/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 85 comments

PageFair: Economist hacked

http://www.economist.com/help/pagefair

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

Toyota to Invest $1B in AI and Robotics R&D

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/toyota-to-invest-1-billion-in-ai-and-robotics-rd

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Protopiper: physically sketching room-sized objects at actual scale

http://robertkovax.com/protopiper-physically-sketching-room-sized-objects-at-actual-scale

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 1 comments

Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-swifts-string-api-so-hard.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 114 comments

Russian Domesticated Red Fox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

CIA Email Hackers Return with Major Law Enforcement Breach

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/cia-email-hackers-return-with-major-law-enforcement-breach/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

ChucK: Strongly-Timed Music Programming Language

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/11/06/micro-purchase-lessons/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Visual cryptography

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november32013/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 6 comments

Urinals and Usability

http://www.propelics.com/ux-of-up-urinals-and-usability/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 59 comments

Shift.js: Swift to JavaScript Transpiler

https://github.com/shift-js/shift-js

11 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript
85 upvotes – 46 comments

Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/05/layoffs-hit-gumroad-as-the-payments-startup-restructures/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

133 Years Later, Gaudí’s Cathedral Nears Completion

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151105-gaudi-sagrada-familia-barcelona-final-stage-construction/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

Spaceship Engineers Who Build Their Own Planes

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-spaceship-engineers-who-build-their-own-planes

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

An open source 3D printable acoustic violin

http://www.hovalin.com/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=34363

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments

Peak detection on signals in Python

http://blog.ytotech.com/2015/11/01/findpeaks-in-python/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Self-compiling Android application

https://github.com/Tribler/self-compile-Android

11 years ago

★ 509 C LGPL-2.1
76 upvotes – 5 comments

Fwupd: Updating Firmware in Linux

http://www.fwupd.org/index.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: SHML (shell markup language)

https://maxcdn.github.io/shml/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Health Inequality in the US

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/11/health-inequality.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Yaybahar [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aY6TxC1ojA

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

The future of the postdoc

http://www.nature.com/news/the-future-of-the-postdoc-1.17253

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History and Stays Relevant

http://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/behind-the-brand/the-bloomberg-terminal?cmpid

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

The Hardest Logic Puzzle: A step-by-step guide to true, false, and random

http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-to-solve-the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

What software is made of

http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html#cutid1

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

What programmers can learn from economists: fundamentals and models

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/11/04/0/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

Why are the world’s best loudspeakers so expensive?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150813-in-search-of-the-perfect-sound

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

Inside the deal that made Bill Gates $350M (1986) [pdf]

https://www.unf.edu/~rlamb/Docs/Microsoftarticle.pdf

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Hampshire College changes speed limits to honor math professor

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/17/hampshire-college-changes-speed-limits-honor-math-professor/LN73juokCzLM217YVF1UzI/story.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

The German Tank Problem (2010)

http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/the-german-tank-problem.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 52 comments

GitHub user 4148 just starred 129k repositories and still counting

https://github.com/4148

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Booming crypto ransomware industry employs new tricks to befuddle victims

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/booming-crypto-ransomware-industry-employs-new-tricks-to-befuddle-victims/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Visual Guide to 65xx CPU Timing

http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/Visualizing%2065xx%20Timing/Visualizing%2065xx%20CPU%20Timing.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

No, Spooning Isn’t Sexist. The Internet Is Just Broken

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/04/no-spooning-isn-t-sexist-the-internet-is-just-broken.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

Eye Drops Could Clear Up Cataracts Using Newly Identified Chemical

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/11/176886/eye-drops-could-clear-cataracts-using-newly-identified-chemical

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

Cuphead will use 15,000 hand drawn frames of animation

http://www.redbull.com/en/games/stories/1331758042492/cuphead-xbox-one-interview

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Solitary confinement: More than a decade after release, they all come back

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/04/solitary-confinement-prisoners-impact/73830286/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Go library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs

https://github.com/renstrom/shortuuid

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Go MIT
50 upvotes – 14 comments

Not Even Twitter Understands Twitter

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/not-even-twitter-understands-twitter/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 59 comments
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