top 50% 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

Google Pagespeed Test Fails Itself on Mobile

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.google.com%2Fspeed%2Fpagespeed

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 29 comments

A detailed data-centric exposé on how the market is rigged (2014)

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4661.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Real-Time Collaborative Watercolor Painting Using Twitch

https://www.instapainting.com/twitch-paints

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

An Abrupt End to Debian Live

https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00024.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Osborne’s National Spider Plan – Replacing “cyber” with “spider” in a gov speech

http://jackofkent.com/2015/11/george-osbornes-national-spider-plan/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

Spinnaker: Global Continuous Delivery by Netflix

http://spinnaker.io/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader

http://firstround.com/review/the-keys-to-scaling-yourself-as-a-technology-leader/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Misusing Bootstrap

http://10clouds.com/blog/why-you-misuse-bootstrap-and-why-you-should-stop-doing-this/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

Pediatricians say farm use of antibiotics harms children

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/pediatricians-say-farm-use-of-antibiotics-harms-children/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 70 comments

Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application

http://abailly.github.io/posts/cm-arch-design.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/encrypted-messaging-apps-face-new-scrutiny-over-possible-role-in-paris-attacks.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 120 comments

New Research Finds That Algorithms Are Better Than Humans at Hiring

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/machines-are-better-than-humans-at-hiring-top-employees

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

Lock Pick Laws, Rules and Regulations: Is the Hobby a Crime in Your State?

http://united-locksmith.net/blog/lock-pick-laws-rules-and-regulations-is-your-hobby-a-crime-in-your-state?utm_content=buffer0d209&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Scaling Tor Hidden Services

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2015/11/17/scaling-tor-hidden-services/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

DRM in TIG welders

http://boingboing.net/2015/11/17/drm-in-welders.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 86 comments

Intel's 72-Core “Knight's Landing” Xeon Phi Chip Cleared for Takeoff

http://hothardware.com/news/intels-72-core-knights-landing-xeon-phi-supercomputer-chip-cleared-for-takeoff

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

More Privacy, Less Latency – Improved Handshakes in TLS v1.3

https://timtaubert.de/blog/2015/11/more-privacy-less-latency-improved-handshakes-in-tls-13/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

The Double Life of John Le Carré

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-double-life-of-john-le-carre/413152/?curator=MediaREDEF&single_page=true

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

How Ancient Microbes Gave Us Iron

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-ancient-microbes-gave-us-iron

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Interview with a Tor developer who works on hidden services

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/nine-questions-about-hidden-services

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Designing an Intel 80386SX development board

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/77-lsepc-intro.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

ULA bows out of Pentagon launch competition, paving way for SpaceX

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ula-bows-out-of-pentagon-launch-competition-paving-way-for-spacex/2015/11/16/2aae2aa4-8c99-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Rdio died

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/17/9750890/rdio-shutdown-pandora

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Plan for New Stock Exchange Stirs Debate

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/business/dealbook/plan-for-new-stock-exchange-stirs-furious-debate.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Microsoft's plan to port Android apps to Windows proves too complex

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3005670/microsoft-subnet/microsofts-plan-to-port-android-apps-to-windows-proves-too-complex.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Resurrecting Duckhunt

http://hackaday.com/2015/11/16/resurrecting-duckhunt/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Design Classes [pdf]

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDC/htdc.pdf

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

The rebirth of the HP-12C: How one man reimagined a calculator from 1981

http://www.alphr.com/technology/1001717/the-rebirth-of-the-hp-12c-how-one-man-reimagined-a-calculator-from-1981

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Notie.js: A JavaScript notification plugin without dependencies

https://github.com/jaredreich/notie.js

11 years ago

★ 6.2k JavaScript MIT
62 upvotes – 31 comments

The design of the Strict Haskell pragma

http://blog.johantibell.com/2015/11/the-design-of-strict-haskell-pragma.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Empire of Code: a space game with a mix of strategy, tactics and coding

https://empireofcode.com/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Goo.js WebGL Engine goes open-source

https://github.com/GooTechnologies/goojs

11 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT
60 upvotes – 7 comments

Spinnaker – open source multi-cloud Continuous Delivery platform by Netflix

https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker

11 years ago

★ 9.7k Java Apache-2.0
60 upvotes – 2 comments

Pricing Soylent Efficiently

http://blog.soylent.com/post/133420708272/pricing-soylent-efficiently

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Neural Programmer: Inducing Latent Programs with Gradient Descent [pdf]

http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/1511.04834v1.pdf

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Startup Communities

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/how-early-exit-disease-stunts-the-growth-of-midwest-startup-communities/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments

TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

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

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Monitoring at Spotify: Introducing Heroic

https://labs.spotify.com/2015/11/17/monitoring-at-spotify-introducing-heroic/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Copy any code to clipboard in OS X, adding proper syntax highlighting

https://github.com/minimaxir/copy-syntax-highlight-osx

11 years ago

★ 379 MIT
55 upvotes – 42 comments

DegDB, an open-source distributed graph database

https://github.com/degdb/degdb

11 years ago

★ 217 Go MIT
55 upvotes – 14 comments
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