top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-12

Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal

http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

11 years ago

665 upvotes – 244 comments

f.lux for iOS is no longer available

https://justgetflux.com/sideload/#notanymore

11 years ago

616 upvotes – 400 comments

Firefox for iOS now available

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/11/firefox-users-can-now-choose-their-favorite-browser-on-ios/

11 years ago

548 upvotes – 324 comments

How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU

http://finlandpolitics.org/2015/11/05/710/

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 280 comments

Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/gmail-will-soon-warn-users-when-emails-arrive-over-unencrypted-connections/

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 59 comments

Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

http://qz.com/546799/a-study-forced-people-to-quit-facebook-and-they-were-happier-for-it/

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 137 comments

Why the Tor attack matters

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/11/why-tor-attack-matters.html

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 58 comments

Firefox’s New Memory Tool

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/firefoxs-new-memory-tool/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 26 comments

How Insects Breathe

http://noticing.co/how-insects-breathe/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 35 comments

A Quasipolynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism: The Details

http://jeremykun.com/2015/11/12/a-quasipolynomial-time-algorithm-for-graph-isomorphism-the-details/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 33 comments

The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21678215-world-entering-third-stage-rolling-debt-crisis-time-centred-emerging

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 120 comments

Finite state machines as data structure for representing ordered sets and maps

http://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 25 comments

The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome

http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-the-western-diet-has-derailed-our-evolution

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 131 comments

How to minimize procrastination

https://myelin.io/how-to-minimize-procrastination

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 76 comments

Fuel for nuclear bomb in hands of unknown Russian black marketeer, officials say

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/12/18850/fuel-nuclear-bomb-hands-unknown-black-marketeer-russia-us-officials-say

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 128 comments

Public Beta: December 3, 2015

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/12/public-beta-timing.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 68 comments

The Supreme Court could soon deliver a blow to the Sixth Amendment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/11/11/the-supreme-court-could-soon-deliver-a-crushing-blow-to-the-sixth-amendment/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 115 comments

MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water

http://news.mit.edu/2015/shockwave-process-desalination-water-1112

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 20 comments

Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Privacy

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 31 comments

Tufte CSS

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 26 comments

Rocket Fiber Launches 100GB/s Internet Service in Downtown Detroit

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/rocket-fiber-launches-100gbs-internet-service-in-downtown-detroit/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 110 comments

Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an Experimental Android App

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/firefox-os-2-5-developer-preview-an-experimental-android-app/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 44 comments

Strange Things That Have Been Happening in Financial Markets

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-12/five-strange-things-that-have-been-happening-in-financial-markets

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 113 comments

Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZlhxaT_Ko

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 34 comments

Waterfox – A fast browser

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 108 comments

It’s Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-hospital-hack/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook is now scanning your photos to make sure you send them to your friends

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-now-scanning-cameras-photos-222321479.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 112 comments

What MongoDB got right

https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/11/what-mongodb-got-right/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 110 comments

Things that aren't progress

http://www.aaronkharris.com/things-that-arent-progress

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 16 comments

Browse the .NET Framework source code online

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 24 comments

Dozens of oil tankers cluster off the coast of Texas due to oil price fall

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-95/centery:29/zoom:10

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 80 comments

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 44 comments

Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151110171600.htm

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 55 comments

Why we need to create careers for research software engineers

http://www.scientific-computing.com/news/news_story.php?news_id=2737

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 Minutes (2013)

http://www.emacs-doctor.com/learn-emacs-lisp-in-15-minutes.html

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 14 comments

Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video]

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

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

Cloudflare Introduces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Your Domain

https://www.cloudflare.com/dnssec/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 105 comments

Udacity Raises $105M Series D, Bringing Valuation to $1B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/udacity-raises-105-million-series-d-bringing-valuation-to-1-billion/#.wg5qvi:VBm7

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543486/single-artificial-neuron-taught-to-recognize-hundreds-of-patterns/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/single-course-of-antibiotics-can-mess-up-the-gut-microbiome-for-a-year/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 66 comments

Mountain View moves forward with 9,100-unit housing option next to Google

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash/2015/11/9100-housing-units-google-lnkd-intu-msft-goog.html

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 112 comments

Teensy weensy crypto

https://blog.goeswhere.com/2015/11/nano-rc4/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

How to Advertise on a Porn Website (2013)

https://blog.eat24.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-website/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Charities we’d like to see

http://blog.givewell.org/2015/10/15/charities-wed-like-to-see/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

React.js three renderer example

http://toxicfork.github.io/react-three-renderer-example/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name

http://fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 93 comments

Latest Android phones hijacked with one-shot Chrome exploit

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/12/mobile_pwn2own/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

How the Mad Men Lost the Plot

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cd1722ba-8333-11e5-8e80-1574112844fd.html#axzz3qWkMqSSR

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Power Failure Testing with SSDs

http://blog.nordeus.com/dev-ops/power-failure-testing-with-ssds.htm

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Silicon Valley Tries to Alter the Perception of Cannabis

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/technology/marijuana-start-ups-see-an-industry-on-the-cusp-of-a-breakthrough.html?ref=technology

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments

Haskell in ES6: Part 1

http://casualjavascript.com/javascript/es6/haskell/native/implementation/2015/11/12/haskell-in-es6-part-1.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/how-i-ended-up-with-so-much-hacker-news.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 88 comments

FCC: We aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/fcc-we-arent-banning-dd-wrt-on-wi-fi-routers/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Leaving as founder, what happens with equity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551931

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

RethinkDB 2.2: atomic changefeeds, parallel scans, improved runtime

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.2-release/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Assembly is shutting down December 6, 2015

http://assembly.com

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: TensorFlow for AWS on a Real GPU

https://github.com/pavlovml/tensorflow/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 115 C++ Apache-2.0
77 upvotes – 12 comments

Fountain Drinks

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fountain-drinks/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Onyx 0.8.0: Automatic State Management

http://michaeldrogalis.github.io/jekyll/update/2015/11/12/Onyx-0.8.0-Automatic-State-Management.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

Delia Derbyshire – Sculptress of Sound [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0OGeEgwKNs

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Help Us Create vets.gov

https://www.vets.gov/2015/11/11/why-we-are-designing-in-beta.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Academic Assholes and the Circle of Niceness (2013)

http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/02/13/academic-assholes/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

The O-Ring Theory of DevOps

http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/11/the-o-ring-theory-of-devops/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

London-based Improbable unveils SpatialOS for distributed simulation

http://www.alphr.com/technology/1001967/improbable-the-british-tech-startup-with-massive-ambition

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Functional Programming in JavaScript: Interactive Exercises

http://reactivex.io/learnrx/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Usernames reveal the age and psychology of game players

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215301655

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

Sello lets you sell anything to anyone, anywhere – by Shopify

https://getsello.com

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Volkswagen, Offering Amnesty, Asks Workers to Come Forward on Emissions Cheating

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/business/volkswagen-offering-amnesty-asks-workers-to-come-forward-on-emissions-cheating.html?ref=business

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

The Expanding Ecosystem For GPU Computing

http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/09/the-expanding-ecosystem-for-gpu-compute/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy Is Actually Longer Vacations

http://www.cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/why-the-cure-for-a-sluggish-economy-is-actually-longer-vacations

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 101 comments

Transit Projects Are About to Get Easier in California

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/07/transit-projects-are-about-to-get-much-much-easier-in-california/374049/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/in-n-out-files-lawsuit-against-food-delivery-startup-doordash/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 73 comments

Evidence That Bike Helmet Laws Don't Help Rider Safety

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/the-latest-evidence-that-helmet-laws-dont-help-bike-safety/415101/?utm_source=atlfb

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 98 comments

Defusing a binary bomb with gdb – Part 1

http://blog.carlosgaldino.com/2015/11/12/defusing-a-binary-bomb-with-gdb-part-1.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments
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