top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-07

The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink

https://juliareda.eu/2015/11/ancillary-copyright-2-0-the-european-commission-is-preparing-a-frontal-attack-on-the-hyperlink/

11 years ago

421 upvotes – 192 comments

Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

http://www.gregkroleski.com/2015/11/03/life-in-a-studio-apartment-with-my-wife-and-two-sons/

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 180 comments

ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/crypto-e-mail-service-pays-6000-ransom-gets-taken-out-by-ddos-anyway/

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 219 comments

Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client

http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08555

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 160 comments

Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/fisherman-lost-at-sea-436-days-book-extract?CMP=fb_gu

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 59 comments

Why I Quit Ordering from Uber-For-Food Startups

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-food-delivery-start-up-you-havent-heard-of/414540/?single_page=true

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 186 comments

StarCraft: The past, present and future

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/6/9670176/starcraft-2-future-history-dlc-blizzard

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 100 comments

Interview by a 15 Year Old

http://paulgraham.com/int15.html

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 97 comments

Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28454-gene-editing-saves-life-of-girl-dying-from-leukaemia-in-world-first/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 27 comments

Leaked Comcast docs prove 300GB cap has nothing to do with network congestion

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/leaked-comcast-docs-prove-300gb-data-cap-nothing-003027574.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 83 comments

Socialist millionaire protocol

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

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 63 comments

News is bad for you (2013)

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Fermented foods probably deserve their healthful reputation

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-fermented-foods/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 49 comments

We can't see our culture very well, because we see with it

https://medium.com/hand-brain/william-gibson-57e75f87e525

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 89 comments

Countries That Don't Exist

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151103-the-countries-that-dont-exist

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 41 comments

GoFundMe Gone Wild

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/fashion/gofundme-gone-wild.html?smid=re-share

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 77 comments

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 3 comments

The Case Against the Universal Basic Income

http://intergalacticproletarian.blogspot.com/2015/11/more-welfare-or-more-weekend.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 259 comments

Ask HN: How do I stop comparing myself to others?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523788

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

Cello High Level C: A Fat Pointer Library

http://libcello.org/learn/a-fat-pointer-library

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

How to blink a light in 10 different programming languages

http://www.mcconn.xyz/posts/blinklight-10-languages/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Sam Altman Is Bullish on Biotech Startups

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/y-combinator-sam-altman-interview-on-investing-in-biotech-startups/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Y Combinator and Paul Graham are bad for the world (Part 1)

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/y-combinator-and-paul-graham-are-bad-for-the-world-part-1/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Creating purpose-built TinyCoreLinux Images

http://fabianstumpf.de/articles/tinycore_images.htm

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

NASA's New Horizons Completes Record-Setting Kuiper Belt Targeting Maneuvers

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20151105

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Beyond Zork

http://www.filfre.net/2015/11/beyond-zork/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Serious Software SpecLisp for Sinclair ZX Spectrum

http://blog.funcall.org//lisp/2015/10/30/zx-spectrum-lisp/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

The KeyKOS Nanokernel Architecture (1992)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/NanoKernel/NanoKernel.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android

https://medium.com/keepsafe-engineering/the-perils-of-loading-native-libraries-on-android-befa49dce2db

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

A Seismic Shift in How People Eat

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/opinion/a-seismic-shift-in-how-people-eat.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

Cheerp 1.1 – C++ for the Web with fast startup times, dynamic memory

http://leaningtech.com/cheerp/blog/2015/06/17/Cheerp-1.1/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/business/smaller-overseas-entrepreneurs-find-china-too-frustrating.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 47 comments

Encryption ransomware threatens Linux users

http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=9686&lng=en&c=5

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn's a People's History Falls Short (2012) [pdf]

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Wineburg.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Dumb Cuneiform

http://dumbcuneiform.com/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21676774-africans-are-mainly-rich-or-poor-not-middle-class-should-worry

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 75 comments

Y Combinator and Paul Graham are bad for the world (Part 1)

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/y-combinator-and-paul-graham-are-bad-for-the-world-part-1/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

Embeddable Common-Lisp Android 0.0.1 released

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Opaleye’s sugar on top: SQL in the type system

http://ren.zone/articles/opaleye-sot

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Steam-powered submarines of WWI

http://warisboring.com/articles/his-majestys-scary-steam-subs-2/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

When Gold Isn’t Worth the Price

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/opinion/when-gold-isnt-worth-the-price.html?_r=0

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments
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