top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-14

Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-shooting-attacks.html

11 years ago

623 upvotes – 624 comments

Xv6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 47 comments

We need less powerful languages

http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 176 comments

Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation

https://www.moore.org/newsroom/in-the-news/2015/11/10/bringing-julia-from-beta-to-1.0-to-support-data-intensive-scientific-computing

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 128 comments

Freeciv founded 20 years ago today

http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2015/11/freeciv-founded-20-years-ago-today/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 51 comments

CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 84 comments

State of emergency in France

https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/faa2ae629d22f325beb7

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 226 comments

Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadas-muzzled-scientists-can-speak-freely-again-so-i-called-a-few-up

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 71 comments

Deep Neural Decision Forests [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/255952/ICCV15_DeepNDF_main.pdf

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 35 comments

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority [pdf]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/minority.pdf

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 52 comments

Bug: Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1463112

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 39 comments

Desk: A lightweight workspace manager for the shell

https://github.com/jamesob/desk

11 years ago

★ 2.5k Shell MIT
124 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s, Then Blew It

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/microsofts-terraserver-was-google-earth-before-there-was-google-earth

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

What Can You Put in a Refrigerator?

http://prog21.dadgum.com/212.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 86 comments

The Other France

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-france

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 152 comments

How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History

http://priceonomics.com/how-filipino-soldiers-were-written-out-of-the/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Otto: Meet the Successor to Vagrant

https://ottoproject.io/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-dont-we-know-where-all-the-trains-are/415152/#hn?single_page=true

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

What will be the legacy of Go?

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/15/the-legacy-of-go

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 107 comments

Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151113-why-do-we-still-not-know-whats-inside-the-pyramids

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

How Tracking Protection Works in Firefox

http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-tracking-protection-works-in-firefox/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Death in Airbnb Rental Raises Liability Questions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/your-money/death-in-airbnb-rental-raises-liability-questions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 105 comments

Edward Snowden and spread of encryption blamed after Paris terror attacks

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/paris-attack-encryption-snowden/?fb=dd

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 97 comments

Why Free Can Be a Problem on the Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/why-free-can-be-a-problem-on-the-internet.html?ref=opinion

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 64 comments

The Math Behind the Rolling Shutter Phenomenon

http://petapixel.com/2014/10/13/math-behind-rolling-shutter-phenomenon/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Software Totemism

http://250bpm.com/blog:67

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Suckless conference 2015

http://suckless.org/conference/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2015/02/04/the-realities-of-installing-ibeacon-to-scale/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

The Secret Life of Photons: Simulating 2D Light Transport

http://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Devmag.io: A network for software developers

https://devmag.io/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Biking The Ho Chi Minh Highway

https://medium.com/@craigcannon/biking-the-ho-chi-minh-highway-5d8c798f310d

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Jury convicts brothers in H-1B fraud case, jail possible

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3005272/it-careers/jury-convicts-brothers-in-h-1b-fraud-case-jail-possible.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

Turing Tarpit

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

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

Scheme to transform a remote island into the new Dubai

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/the-bizarre-scheme-to-transform-a-remote-island-into-new-dubai-comoros

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

Differential Topology – Lecture 1 by John W. Milnor (1965) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LwkljjLBns&list=PLelIK3uylPMFHC6Xny11XFXgwwtv9_PO3&index=1

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Thursday Beirut suicide bombings kill 43

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/middleeast/beirut-explosions/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

The Exploitation of Paris

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/opinion/the-exploitation-of-paris.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

WordPress was b2/cafelog (2004)

http://cafelog.com/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Pattern matching using Z algorithm in Python

https://ivanyu.me/blog/2013/10/15/z-algorithm/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 0 comments

For Better or for Worse

http://jmoiron.net/blog/for-better-or-for-worse/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments
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