top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-15

Opposition to Facebook's new internet.org

https://www.techinasia.com/talk/facebooks-internetorg-evil/

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 136 comments

Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/walmarts-10-smartphone-has-better-specs-than-the-original-iphone

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 199 comments

18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1

http://www.brendansudol.com/writing/18f-micropurchase/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 135 comments

Use micromorts to fight terrorism

https://blog.arty.name/2015/миллимортом-по-террору/en.html

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 115 comments

We dissent

http://claremontindependent.com/we-dissent/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 124 comments

Sigma.js: a JavaScript library for graph drawing

http://sigmajs.org/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 34 comments

“f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS for four years, but we need Apple's help.”

https://www.facebook.com/justgetflux/posts/932125010157582

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 120 comments

Kashmir: A statically typed Lispy language compiling to Go

https://owickstrom.github.io/kashmir/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 71 comments

Working remotely is hard

http://www.moishelettvin.com/2015/10/16/remotes/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 158 comments

The Birth of ZFS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcV2PaMTAJ4

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

Writing a Compiler by Proving It Correct

http://liamoc.net/posts/2015-08-23-verified-compiler.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 10 comments

Run containers on bare metal already [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Nixar – New design of Linux command line

http://nixar.work

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

Writing an OS in Rust: Allocating Frames

http://os.phil-opp.com/allocating-frames.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 14 comments

Words matter in ‘ISIS’ war, so use ‘Daesh’

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/09/words-matter-isis-war-use-daesh/V85GYEuasEEJgrUun0dMUP/story.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4401541/Intel-4004-is-announced--November-15--1971?_mc=sm_edn&hootPostID=bb26124c8ce81ebfc63e8bbda3c037e4

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Marc Andreessen Sold 73 Percent of His Facebook Stock in the Last Two Weeks

https://recode.net/2015/11/14/marc-andreessen-sold-73-percent-of-his-facebook-stock-in-the-last-two-weeks/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

How Facebook's Safety Check Works

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/14/how-facebooks-safety-check-works.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

HangoverApp – Share pics without Internet, only visible if all devices present

http://www.hangoverapp.com

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Study finds improved self-regulation in kindergartners who wait a year to enroll

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-gse-research-finds-strong-evidence-mental-health-benefits-delaying-kindergarten

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 104 comments

Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code

http://devwp.eu/dont-call-yourself-a-developer-if-you-dont-code/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 105 comments

Atom 1.2

http://blog.atom.io/2015/11/12/atom-1-2.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: ied – an alternative package manager for Node

https://github.com/alexanderGugel/ied

11 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript MIT
86 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: ClojureScript REPL within Excel

https://github.com/cfelde/cljs4excel

11 years ago

★ 139 Clojure EPL-1.0
83 upvotes – 10 comments

Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?

http://nautil.us/blog/can-a-wandering-mind-make-you-neurotic

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

When I stopped hearing the voices in my head

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/13/hearing-voices-head-drugs-therapy

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Spectral Graph Theory: A Confluence [video]

https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/openlectures2014-fall-4

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

The world is becoming less welcoming to tax dodgers

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21677647-index-financial-secrecy-highlights-american-hypocrisy-mega-haven?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/themegahaven

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 106 comments

Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34744859

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Why Sand Is Disappearing (2014)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/opinion/why-sand-is-disappearing.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Banish the Kardashians from the web

http://kblocker.co/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple’s App Store Gets a Smarter Search Engine

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/13/app-store-search-just-got-smarter/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Mmap(2)

http://jmoiron.net/blog/mmap2/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

California Owns, Collects, and Sells Infant DNA Samples

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/11/12/california-collects-owns-and-sells-infants-dna-samples/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

English is not normal

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

How Snowmaking Works

https://www.skiroundtop.com/how-snowmaking-works

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

The Sparkling Programming Language

http://h2co3.github.io/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Lector – an interface to Tesseract OCR

https://github.com/zdenop/lector

11 years ago

★ 129 Python GPL-2.0
53 upvotes – 4 comments

Pythran: A Python subset to C++ compiler that takes advantage of SIMD

https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran

11 years ago

★ 2.1k C++ BSD-3-Clause
51 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Record a podcast completely in the browser

http://www.epishow.com/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Ragel State Machine Compiler

https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

Human-in-the-loop computing is the future

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3004013/robotics/why-human-in-the-loop-computing-is-the-future-of-machine-learning.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

http://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

Smallest RPN Calculators

https://www.swissmicros.com/#

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

The ATS Programming Language

http://www.ats-lang.org

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments
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