top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-13

Gene Amdahl has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/technology/gene-amdahl-pioneer-of-mainframe-computing-dies-at-92.html

11 years ago

740 upvotes – 111 comments

Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-12/stop-and-seize-turns-police-into-self-funding-gangs

11 years ago

547 upvotes – 261 comments

0.30000000000000004

http://0.30000000000000004.com/

11 years ago

533 upvotes – 240 comments

Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/?

11 years ago

473 upvotes – 230 comments

State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/13/shootings-reported-in-eastern-paris-live

11 years ago

464 upvotes – 454 comments

Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

http://liminality.xyz/self-hosting/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 142 comments

Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/all-mac-store-apps-stopped-working-due-to-expired-security-certificate/#.y37x7x:xhzD

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 152 comments

Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths

http://manuel.bernhardt.io/2015/11/13/5-years-of-scala-and-counting-debunking-some-myths-about-the-language-and-its-environment/

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 152 comments

Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/11/13/urgent-reports-.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 50 comments

Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_29110712/mountain-view-google-self-driving-car-pulled-over

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 208 comments

How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name

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

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 137 comments

Writing code doesn't mix well with oration

https://inconshreveable.com/11-13-2015/your-live-coding-demo-is-boring/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 88 comments

CoreOS Introduces Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for Your Containers

https://coreos.com/blog/vulnerability-analysis-for-containers/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/the-tech-talent-shortage-is-a-lie/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook#.avliqr:5ahD

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 147 comments

Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget

http://alexrecker.com/our-new-sid-meiers-civilization-inspired-budget/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

The Making of Gyroscope Running, a React Native App

https://blog.gyrosco.pe/the-making-of-gyroscope-running-a4ad10acc0d0?x

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 22 comments

Ne: the nice editor

http://ne.di.unimi.it/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft Open Sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit

http://www.dmtk.io/index.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-as-a-time-series-data-store

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 17 comments

How I Work with Color

https://medium.com/@JustinMezzell/how-i-work-with-color-8439c98ae5ed

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 7 comments

Breaking all the Eggs in C++

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 105 comments

Reverse Engineering Challenges

http://challenges.re/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

How transistors really work (1995)

http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Carl Sagan's idea for Contact video game (1983) [video]

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/099/099.pdf

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

Foreword to “High-Output Management”, Second Edition

http://www.bhorowitz.com/high-output-management

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Yahoo and FreeBSD (1997)

http://zer0.org/daemons/yahoobsd.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/23/what-lies-beneath-numec-apollo-zalman-shapiro/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

When Disney Got Adult and Trippy

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151112-when-disney-got-adult-and-trippy

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network

https://chrisc36.github.io/deep-go/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Justice officials fear nation's biggest wiretap operation may not be legal

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/11/dea-wiretap-operation-riverside-california/75484076/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Network of ‘Scouts’ Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley

http://www.wsj.com/articles/secretive-sprawling-network-of-scouts-spreads-money-through-silicon-valley-1447381377

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Indoor Google Street View of the British Museum

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/asset-viewer/british-museum/AwEp68JO4NECkQ

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

The Original EPCOT Project: Walt Disney's prototype community

https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/the-florida-project

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

The woes of building an index of the web

https://moz.com/blog/mozscape-index-2015

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Emulators written in JavaScript

https://github.com/BigEd/jsemu

11 years ago

★ 287
68 upvotes – 9 comments

I’ve been delivering for Postmates and DoorDash

https://medium.com/backchannel/your-pizza-s-cold-blame-your-food-app-not-your-courier-9d1d123ad2e8

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Civil Forfeiture and the Supreme Court (2014)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/02/civil-liberties-and-supreme-court?foo=bar

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps

http://colorbrewer2.org/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

MBrace: .NET engine for large-scale data processing

http://mbrace.io/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

KLOS: Kernel-Less Operating System Architecture (2005) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.59.2606&rep=rep1&type=pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Jack Yufe dies at 82; he was raised Jewish, his identical twin as a Nazi

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-yufe-20151111-story.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

YouTube Music

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/12/9723496/youtube-music-app-offline-background

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Traveling from China to Europe on a cargo ship

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2013/11/27-days-on-a-cargoshipfromchina.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments
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