top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-16

Jessica Livingston

http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html

11 years ago

1740 upvotes – 307 comments

The Advertising Bubble

http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

11 years ago

551 upvotes – 325 comments

Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8

https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial

11 years ago

★ 16.7k Java MIT
404 upvotes – 197 comments

Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/confirmed-pandora-buys-key-rdio-assets-for-75m-in-cash-rdio-files-ch-11-to-shut-down/

11 years ago

374 upvotes – 254 comments

The bug that almost killed Google's Pac-Man doodle

https://medium.com/backchannel/pac-man-s-siren-call-4b589ea1d1e

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 77 comments

Humans are not unitary individuals but superorganisms

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150917-is-another-human-living-inside-you

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 81 comments

Physics Forests

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/sjeong/physicsforests/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 31 comments

The most popular curl download – by a malware

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/16/the-most-popular-curl-download-by-a-malware/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 52 comments

Zenefits launches free payroll software for small businesses

https://www.zenefits.com/payroll/?hn

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 62 comments

FastMail: Shutting down our XMPP chat service

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/16/shutting-down-our-xmpp-chat-service

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 122 comments

The quantum source of space-time

http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 120 comments

Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future

http://lostinjit.blogspot.com/2015/11/python-c-api-pypy-and-road-into-future.html

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 55 comments

A new look for repositories

https://github.com/blog/2085-a-new-look-for-repositories

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 76 comments

How I Quit My Job and Built My First App

https://medium.com/life-learning/how-i-quit-my-job-and-built-my-first-app-d2a2e1086f41

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 79 comments

What happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/whatever-happened-to-microsofts-midori-operating-system-project/?ftag=YHR05c7fbahttp://www.zdnet.com/article/whatever-happened-to-microsofts-midori-operating-system-project/?ftag=YHR05c7fba

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 34 comments

Sct – set color temperature

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperature

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 53 comments

How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday

http://www.fastcompany.com/3053036/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/the-simple-technique-to-fit-a-40-hour-work-week-into-167-h

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 95 comments

NNSA, Nvidia to create an open-source Fortran compiler front-end for LLVM

https://www.llnl.gov/news/nnsa-national-labs-team-nvidia-develop-open-source-fortran-compiler-technology

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 75 comments

Argentina on Two Steaks a Day(2006)

http://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 64 comments

Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/november/14/paris-you-don-t-want-to-read-this/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

SVG Mask Artwork of the Intel 4004

http://www.4004.com/2015-news.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Anyone Can Learn to Code an LSTM-RNN (Part 1: RNN)

http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/11/15/anyone-can-code-lstm/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Open-Sourcing TensorFlow Shows AI's Future Is Data, Not Code

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-open-sourcing-tensorflow-shows-ais-future-is-data-not-code/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 47 comments

Why We Use OCaml

http://tech.esper.com/2014/07/15/why-we-use-ocaml/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 116 comments

Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1895

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 59 comments

The Discovery of Statistical Regression

http://priceonomics.com/the-discovery-of-statistical-regression/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 7 comments

FBI's “imperfect entrapment” of teen may lead to FAA challenge

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolasmedinamora/did-the-fbi-transform-this-teenager-into-a-terrorist

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 78 comments

Debt Market Distortions Go Global as Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-15/debt-market-distortions-go-global-as-nothing-makes-sense-anymore

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/20/us-nasa-tapes-idUSTRE56F5MK20090720

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 96 comments

In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18187/here-is-the-soviet-unions-secret-space-cannon/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

Golang on ARM

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm

11 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
105 upvotes – 63 comments

California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-californias-dna-collection-law-violates-privacy-protections-guaranteed

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's plan for the future of Facebook

http://www.fastcompany.com/3052885/mark-zuckerberg-facebook

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 112 comments

Why Chromium has code owners

http://meowni.ca/posts/chromium-owners/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

How to destroy Bitcoins?

https://medium.com/@alcio/how-to-destroy-bitcoins-255bb6f2142e

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: A React.js yearly calendar component

https://github.com/BelkaLab/react-yearly-calendar

11 years ago

★ 548 JavaScript MIT
94 upvotes – 48 comments

Japan's economy falls back into recession

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34829408

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 104 comments

After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/us/after-paris-attacks-cia-director-rekindles-debate-over-surveillance.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 153 comments

The new kings of YouTube botting

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/15007/cheap-youtube-views/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

The Cost of Frameworks

https://aerotwist.com/blog/the-cost-of-frameworks/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

GPL Licenses Logos Now Available

http://www.gnu.org/graphics/license-logos.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Tech entrepreneur, diversity advocate Hank Williams has died

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/15/tech-entrepreneur-diversity-advocate-hank-williams-dies-50/75841942/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Client-Side Encryption: The Right Security Model for the Cloud

https://blog.balboa.io/yet-another.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook and the Media Have an Increasingly Landlord-Tenant Style Relationship

http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/facebook-media/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007)

http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-functional-programs/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Suburban Ride-Sharing Is Mathematically Unlikely

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/suburban-ride-sharing-is-mathematically-impossible/415494/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 66 comments

SQL interface for Elasticsearch

https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 7k Java Apache-2.0
76 upvotes – 23 comments

China's Tsinghua Unigroup to invest $47B to build chip empire

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T50DU20151116

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Aims a $50M Moonshot at Curing Heart Disease

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-aims-a-50-million-moonshot-at-curing-heart-disease/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996)

http://fpgacpu.org/usenet/fpgas_as_pc_coprocessors.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

Nasdaq to develop blockchain services in Estonia

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/14/us-nasdaq-blockchain-estonia-idUSKCN0T301H20151114#YZG4GYQ1mEtXQ72K.97

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

A bird's eye view on API development

http://blog.madewithlove.be/post/birdseye-view-on-api/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

The Paris Attacks and the Abuse of History

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-humphries/the-paris-attacks-and-the-abuse-of-history/919018744800165

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Birdseed – A silly way to get random numbers by hashing tweets

https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/birdseed

11 years ago

★ 78 Python MIT
68 upvotes – 22 comments

Blind teacher loses job after rinsing his mouth with Listerine

http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/blind-teacher-loses-job-after-rinsing-his-mouth-with-listerine/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 Specifications

http://khr.io/fx

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

A distributed, tag-based pub-sub service for modern web applications

https://github.com/nanopack/mist

11 years ago

★ 664 Go MIT
67 upvotes – 32 comments

2,000% price hike for infant seizure drug called 'absurd'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/infantile-seizures-drug-1.3318183

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

Zenefits CEO responds to rumors of company's struggles

http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-refutes-the-naysayers-2015-11

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

A hangover led to the discovery of ibuprofen

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34798438

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Independent bookstore fan showrooms Amazon Books

http://seattlereviewofbooks.com/notes/2015/11/06/independent-bookstore-fan-showrooms-amazon-books/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Goodbye Google plus photos

https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/d1XubVAZ5hV

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments cannot be reassembled

https://code.google.com/p/google-compute-engine/issues/detail?id=87

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 65 comments

Scale Testing Docker Swarm to 30,000 Containers

http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/scale-testing-docker-swarm-30000-containers/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates

https://www.fcc.gov/blog/clearing-air-wi-fi-software-updates

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Improved secondary indexing with new query capabilities for Cassandra

https://github.com/xedin/sasi

11 years ago

★ 146 Java Apache-2.0
60 upvotes – 0 comments

Facebook allows Google to crawl and index its mobile app

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/11/16/google-gets-surprise-ally-in-mobile-app-search-push-facebook/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

An app recreating the experience of controlling trains in the NYC Subway system

http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/NXSYS,_Signalling_and_Interlocking_Simulator

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-attacks-paris.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

The Microcomplaint: Nothing Too Small to Whine About

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/the-microcomplaint-nothing-too-small-to-whine-about.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 67 comments

Anne Frank’s Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 51 comments

Climate Scientists refuse subpoena from Congress

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/16/climate-scientists-to-be-grilled-by-congressional-investigators-but-their-e-mails-are-still-off-limits/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 69 comments

A Brief History of Chat Services [pdf]

https://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

​How to easily defeat Linux Encoder ransomware

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-fix-linux-encoder-ransomware/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Linux has matured into a robust desktop operating system

http://liminality.xyz/year-of-the-linux-desktop/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 87 comments

Auto companies are lacking key ingredients for the future of the automobile

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-auto-industry-won-t-create-the-future-ba1867c9f0d7

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Japanese Government Workers Wary of My Number Cards as ID

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002532635

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments
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