top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-10

Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

https://medium.com/@arikaleph/facebook-m-the-anti-turing-test-74c5af19987c

11 years ago

438 upvotes – 156 comments

Six years of Go

http://blog.golang.org/6years

11 years ago

405 upvotes – 317 comments

Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-1b-visa-program-leaving-smaller-ones-in-the-cold.html

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 392 comments

TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/11/official-release-of-tpp-text-confirms-massive-loss-to-canadian-public-domain/

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 119 comments

Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-hardware/

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 216 comments

Google launches offline maps

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigate-and-search-real-world-online.html

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 115 comments

The most powerful mobile electromagnetic railgun built by a non-government

http://imgur.com/a/GrAiE

11 years ago

304 upvotes – 147 comments

Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web

http://qz.com/545048/death-by-a-thousand-likes-how-facebook-and-twitter-are-killing-the-open-web/

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 175 comments

Gmail, We Need to Talk

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/gmail-we-need-to-talk/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 240 comments

How our freemium plan failed

https://baremetrics.com/blog/freemium-saas-implode

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 83 comments

Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/twitter-sees-6-increase-in-like-activity-after-first-week-of-hearts/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 138 comments

Counting Things in Python: A History

http://treyhunner.com/2015/11/counting-things-in-python/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 51 comments

A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just one is online

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 95 comments

Pledge() – a new mitigation mechanism in OpenBSD

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00001.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 109 comments

Leaf: machine intelligence framework in Rust

https://github.com/autumnai/leaf

11 years ago

★ 5.5k Rust Apache-2.0
166 upvotes – 18 comments

F.C.C. Sides with Hot Spots, and Hospitality Industry Feels a Chill

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/business/mobile-hot-spots-fcc-hotels-convention-centers.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 123 comments

Veles: Distributed platform for rapid deep learning application development

https://velesnet.ml

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 14 comments

Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust?

https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-future-in-replacement-of-C-between-D-Go-and-Rust-And-Why/answer/Andrei-Alexandrescu?share=1

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 209 comments

U.S. airlines have shifted maintenance work to developing countries

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-disturbing-truth

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 109 comments

Why improving kernel security is important

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38158.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Every Domain

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-dnssec/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 130 comments

DMTK: Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit from Microsoft

http://www.dmtk.io/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 20 comments

Playing Fasttracker2 .XM files in JavaScript

http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/barack-obama-lawyer-in-chief-213342

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 103 comments

Windows 2000 CSS Theme

https://win2k.brod.io

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 30 comments

Scrum is the new waterfall

http://www.adambourg.com/2015/11/10/scrum-is-the-new-waterfall/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 177 comments

A US judge’s ruling against the NSA is a big win for Edward Snowden

http://qz.com/545978/a-federal-judges-ruling-against-the-nsa-is-a-big-win-for-edward-snowden/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

Federal judge puts limits on FBI use of “stingray” cell site simulators

https://plus.google.com/+DeclanMcCullagh/posts/3gc6o6B3Pex

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

How to Tell Good Studies from Bad? Bet on Them

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-good-studies-from-bad-bet-on-them/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

The Microsoft Surface Book Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9767/microsoft-surface-book-2015-review

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 108 comments

This page streams information about the pages I'm visiting on the internet

http://icreacharound.xyz/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European buildings – where are they now?

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-the-early-1900s-dozens-of-centuriesold-european-buildings-came-to-america-where-is-medieval-america-now

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Clojure and the technology adoption curve

http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/clojure-curve.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 62 comments

Updates to Chrome platform support

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/science/stonehenge-begins-to-yield-its-secrets.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Introducing PaaSTA: An Open, Distributed, Platform as a Service

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/11/introducing-paasta-an-open-platform-as-a-service.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

The Opposite of a Bloom Filter (2012)

http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2012/05/21/the-opposite-of-a-bloom-filter/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

A woman rants about man bashy stuff written by “women in tech”

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-woman-rants-about-man-bashy-stuff.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

Beyond TCP: The evolution of Internet transport protocols

http://www.slideshare.net/obonaventure/beyond-tcp-the-evolution-of-internet-transport-protocols

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Prejudice against accents is due to our lazy brains

https://www.braindecoder.com/judged-by-the-sound-of-your-voice-1446330758.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

Rare early photographs of Peking

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34697724

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/how-airbnb-makes-property-investors-rich-despite-the-neighbors

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 161 comments

The United States API and How We Use It

https://medium.com/@dget/the-united-states-api-and-how-remix-uses-it-5c4b21f5b332

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

What Valve got right and wrong with the Steam Machine

http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/15/9536047/steam-machine-alienware-hands-on-video

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

NY Attorney General Tells Daily Fantasy Sports to Stop Taking Bets in the State

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/sports/football/draftkings-fanduel-new-york-attorney-general-tells-fantasy-sites-to-stop-taking-bets-in-new-york.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

Mummified Hand from Yorkshire May Be Last Hand of Glory in Existence

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/mummified-hand-yorkshire-may-be-last-hand-glory-still-existence-004457

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Wood carving tools overview

http://davidffisher.com/frequently_asked_questions

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Amazon Kind of Sucks and We’ve All Just Come to Accept It

http://mattmaroon.com/2015/11/10/amazon-kind-of-sucks-and-weve-all-just-come-to-accept-it/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 69 comments

It was once socially acceptable to send children by post [pdf]

http://www.centralfloridastampclub.org/pages/pics3/022015insa.pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines

https://peerj.com/articles/1273/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: MarkRight – Electron-powered GitHub-flavored Markdown editor

https://github.com/dvcrn/markright

11 years ago

★ 916 Clojure GPL-3.0
57 upvotes – 18 comments

How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151110-evolution-of-big-brains/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

An open letter on side projects

https://pippinsplugins.com/an-open-letter-on-side-projects/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

A few things about Redis security

http://www.antirez.com/news/96

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

A sliding puzzle, built with Elm

http://moroshko.github.io/sliding-puzzle/?width=4&height=4&start=P,L,A,Y,T,H,I,S,G,A,M,E,N,W,O,&goal=P,L,A,Y,T,H,I,S,G,A,M,E,N,O,W,&shuffle=0

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

North Korea runs short of ingredients for winter kimchi supplies

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/10/north-korea-runs-short-of-ingredients-for-winter-kimchi-stores

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

I thought the Amazon store was a terrible idea, then went there

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/7/9687852/i-thought-the-amazon-store-was-a-terrible-idea-then-i-actually-went

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Sodocan.js: Documentation Made Easy

http://www.sodocanjs.com/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 39 comments

In 1975 a Kodak employee invented the digital camera

http://www.brw.com.au/p/tech-gadgets/made_this_kodak_employee_invented_QnYp4iCrFXYwagdCRzszeP

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Computability: The Greatest Law of Physics

http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/thelablunch/2015/11/computability-the-greatest-law-of-physics/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design:How the Trend Slowly Decreases User Efficiency

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design-long-exposure/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments

The Scourge of Arial (2001)

http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: A cleaner alternative to the “Fork Me on GitHub” ribbon

https://github.com/tholman/github-corners

11 years ago

★ 4.9k HTML MIT
45 upvotes – 5 comments

Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines (1996) [pdf]

http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/os/fluke-rvm.pdf

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Partial sleep in the context of augmentation of brain function (2014)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4013465/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments

Wi-FM listens to FM signals to determine best times to send and receive data

http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2015/11/using-fm-to-improve-wireless-networks.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 16 comments

Bank of America Cut Off Finance Sites from Its Data

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bank-of-america-cut-off-finance-sites-from-its-data-20151109-01585

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 56 comments
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