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

Show HN: Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp

http://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/index.html

11 years ago

674 upvotes – 134 comments

What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money

https://medium.com/@ystrickler/resist-and-thrive-1d36819853ca

11 years ago

669 upvotes – 485 comments

Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users?

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/did-fbi-pay-university-attack-tor-users

11 years ago

482 upvotes – 131 comments

Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7

https://justgetflux.com/sideload/

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 67 comments

Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X

http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/2015-11-10-osx-progress/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 198 comments

Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-is-committed.html

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 68 comments

FastMail under DDoS Attack

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/11/ddos-attack-may-lead-to-potential-service-disruption-this-week/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 129 comments

The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 119 comments

On Being Smart (2009) [pdf]

http://sma.epfl.ch/~moustafa/General/onbeingsmart.pdf

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 130 comments

IP traffic over ICMP tunneling

https://github.com/DhavalKapil/icmptunnel

11 years ago

★ 3.2k C
193 upvotes – 83 comments

Getting rid of free office snacks doesn't come cheap

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-09/why-getting-rid-of-free-office-snacks-doesn-t-come-cheap

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 190 comments

A Basic Guide for Curious Minds: Review of “Thing Explainer”

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Thing-Explainer

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 70 comments

Asm.js Chess Battle

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive/demos/chess/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 37 comments

The sad state of SMTP encryption

https://blog.filippo.io/the-sad-state-of-smtp-encryption/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 62 comments

UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/un_privacy_head_slams_uk_surveillance_bill/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 65 comments

Not So Securus - Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/11/securus-hack-prison-phone-company-exposes-thousands-of-calls-lawyers-and-clients/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 31 comments

Unreal Engine 4.10 is Released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-10-released

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Bare Metal Rust 2: Retarget your compiler so interrupts are not evil

http://www.randomhacks.net/2015/11/11/bare-metal-rust-custom-target-kernel-space/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

Call this phone to become a part of William Binney's social graph at the NSA

http://hop3.de/konzept_en.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 50 comments

Cable companies have started showing fewer ads because of Netflix

http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-companies-cut-ads-because-of-netflix-2015-11?IR=T

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 123 comments

Microsoft unveils German data plan to tackle US internet spying

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0%2F540a296e-87ff-11e5-9f8c-a8d619fa707c.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 50 comments

Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/court-says-tracking-web-histories-can-violate-wiretap-act/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 18 comments

Fidelity Devalues Stake in Blue Bottle, Dataminr, Zenefits Following Snapchat

http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/snapchat-isnt-the-only-startup-in-fidelitys-crosshairs/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-Person Payment Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-in-talks-with-u-s-banks-to-develop-mobile-person-to-person-payment-service-1447274074

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 196 comments

How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

https://experiment.com/projects/how-does-a-parasite-create-zombie-like-behavior/results

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Sortition

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

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootstrapping this one

https://medium.com/swlh/after-raising-125m-at-my-last-company-i-m-bootstrapping-this-one-here-s-why-70f0d914f2fb

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/business/dealbook/dizzying-ride-may-be-ending-for-start-ups.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 122 comments

Safeway, Theranos Split After $350M Deal Fizzles

http://www.wsj.com/articles/safeway-theranos-split-after-350-million-deal-fizzles-1447205796

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 66 comments

Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video archive

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-amateur-film-collection-challenges-narratives-about-life-nazi-austria-180957193/?no-ist

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

TensorFlow Benchmarks

https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues/66

11 years ago

★ 2.6k Python MIT
98 upvotes – 55 comments

Shopify grows Q3 revenue 93%

https://www.internetretailer.com/2015/11/09/e-commerce-platform-vendor-shopify-grows-q3-revenue-93

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Habits of a Happy Node Hacker

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/11/10/node-habits-2016

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

The iPad Pro

http://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 109 comments

The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony

https://www.cloudflare.com/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Star of “Startup.com” Charged with Accounting Fraud

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/09/09/star-of-startup-com-charged-with-accounting-fraud/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum (2012)

http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011)

https://www.azabani.com/pages/gbu/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Marc Andreessen sells nearly half his Facebook stake

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-director-sells-nearly-half-his-stake-2015-11-10-101034616

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-tegra-jtx1&num=1#IOT

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Alibaba's Singles' Day sales surge 60 percent to $14.3B

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34773940

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

Porting a formally proven Tetris to a Pebble smartwatch in Ada

http://blog.adacore.com/make-with-ada-formal-proof-on-my-wrist

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Welsh village adopts multinational tax tactics

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crickhowell-welsh-town-moves-offshore-to-avoid-tax-on-local-business-a6728971.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

How the Wright Brothers Blew It (2003)

http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/1119aviation.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Hoffa: TPP a punch to the gut of U.S. workers

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2015/11/10/hoffa-trans-pacific-partnership-us-workers/75555086/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

US homes have gotten huge – offsetting the gains from energy efficiency

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/10/9705824/home-size-efficiency

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

NASA's interactive climate time machine

http://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

The Mobile Downturn (continued)

http://avc.com/2015/11/the-mobile-downturn-continued/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Misused mobile UX patterns

https://medium.com/@kollinz/misused-mobile-ux-patterns-84d2b6930570

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

How I deploy Haskell Code

http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2015-11-03-how-i-deploy-haskell-code.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll

https://github.com/lauris/jekyll-lambda

11 years ago

★ 131 CSS Apache-2.0
61 upvotes – 51 comments

Reproducibility Crisis: The Plot Thickens

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/11/10/reproducibility-crisis-the-plot-thickens/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

Man Accused of Masterminding the Hacks That Shook Wall Street

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/digital-don-accused-of-hacks-at-jpmorgan-dow-jones-over-8-years

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Chess Move Compression

https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/chess-move-compression/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-invisible-library

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/quietly-the-new-space-race-between-spacex-and-boeing-burns-hot/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 36 comments

How Soylent Auto-Transcribes Phone Calls to Build a Database of Legal Advice

https://zapier.com/blog/transcribe-phone-calls/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: PicoTorrent, a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows

http://www.picotorrent.org

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Northface teams with Japanese startup to create spider silk moon parka

http://frequentgadget.com/2015/11/11/northface-teams-with-japanese-startup-to-create-spider-silk-moon-parka-jacket/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Do Loops Explain Consciousness? Review of 'I Am a Strange Loop' (2007) [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Senate Passes Bill to Boost Competitiveness of U.S. Space Industry

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=47294

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Staticman: user-generated content for static sites

https://staticman.net/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Mike the Headless Chicken

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

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Gamma rays from the Milky Way's core look ever more like signs of dark matter

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21678126-powerful-gamma-rays-centre-milky-way-look-ever-more-signs?

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Square’s S-1: Ratchets and Unicorn Valuations

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/squares-s-1-of-ratchets-and-unicorn-valuations/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 36 comments

Amon Five: Self-hosted server and app monitoring tool with a focus on simplicity

https://www.amon.cx/blog/amon5/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

US tries, and fails, to block “import” of digital data that violates patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/us-tries-and-fails-to-block-import-of-digital-data-that-violates-patents/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

Scaling our infrastructure to multiple data centers

http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/548723638608102/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments
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