top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-11-17

VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html

11 years ago

1368 upvotes – 705 comments

Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack

http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/

11 years ago

643 upvotes – 296 comments

Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement

https://plot.ly/javascript/open-source-announcement/

11 years ago

515 upvotes – 70 comments

Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15

http://news.mit.edu/2015/ahaan-rungta-mit-opencourseware-mitx-1116

11 years ago

416 upvotes – 217 comments

Introducing the new Google+

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/introducing-new-google.html

11 years ago

346 upvotes – 287 comments

Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen

http://www.martinvigo.com/even-the-lastpass-will-be-stolen-deal-with-it/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 156 comments

U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-has-no-record-of-thwarting-large-terror-attacks-regardless-of-snowden-leaks/

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 112 comments

Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery

https://github.com/nanopack/yoke

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Go
215 upvotes – 54 comments

The War ISIS Wants

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/16/paris-attacks-isis-strategy-chaos/?mod=e2this

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 214 comments

Nanobox: Local development done right

https://desktop.nanobox.io/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 81 comments

Defense Claims Courthouse Was Illegally Bugged

http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202742595279/Defense-Claims-Courthouse-Was-Illegally-Bugged?slreturn=20151017120052#ixzz3rlZnXKdh

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 100 comments

Erlang beauty

http://blog.ikura.co/posts/erlang-beauty.html

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 88 comments

Patronizing Passwords

http://joelcalifa.com/blog/patronizing-passwords/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 103 comments

Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/technology/microsoft-once-infested-with-security-flaws-does-an-about-face.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 176 comments

What happens when you eject at 780mph (2010)

http://www.f-15e.info/joomla/stories/181-back-in-the-saddle

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 39 comments

The Trip Planners: The Unusual Couple Behind Erowid

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-planners

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: How to form deep friendships later in life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10579893

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 81 comments

Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 24 comments

Princess Pricklepants, Startup Founder Extraordinaire

http://princesspricklepants.com/2015/06/22/princess-pricklepants-startup-founder/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 23 comments
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