top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-11-18

Visual Studio Code is now open source

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_vs-code-is-open-source

11 years ago

1325 upvotes – 391 comments

Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/doctors-want-ban-on-prescription-drug-device-advertisements/

11 years ago

582 upvotes – 314 comments

Dockercraft: Manage Docker containers from Minecraft

https://github.com/docker/dockercraft

11 years ago

★ 7.4k Lua Apache-2.0
462 upvotes – 109 comments

Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/39102

11 years ago

447 upvotes – 129 comments

The Space Doctor’s Big Idea

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-space-doctors-big-idea-einstein-general-relativity?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

409 upvotes – 90 comments

A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-18/a-back-door-to-encryption-won-t-stop-terrorists

11 years ago

406 upvotes – 266 comments

Gaming the H-1B system for good

http://blog.triplebyte.com/gaming-the-h-1b-system-for-good

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 219 comments

Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/11/18/announcing-net-core-and-asp-net-5-rc.aspx

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 130 comments

Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/google-and-asus-launch-the-85-chromebit-a-chrome-os-desktop-on-an-hdmi-stick/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 186 comments

John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-calls-anti-encryption-legislation-paris-attacks-isis-back-doors-2015-11

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 188 comments

Python 3 makes it easier to develop high-quality software

http://migrateup.com/main-difference-python-3/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 238 comments

Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 96 comments

Go-style concurrency in C

http://libmill.org/index.html

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 83 comments

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (2014)

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 57 comments

Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward

https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/leave-work-unassigned-and-see-who-steps-forward

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 93 comments

How Inflight Wifi Works

http://thepointsguy.com/2015/11/how-in-flight-wi-fi-works/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 124 comments

Suspension Bridges of Disbelief

http://hackaday.com/2015/11/18/suspension-bridges-of-disbelief/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: How best to break up with cofounder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586258

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 86 comments

Infamous Software Bugs

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/the-5-most-infamous-software-bugs-in-history/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 57 comments

Elsevier Says Content-Mining Research Papers 'Could Be Considered' Stealing

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151117/09383132839/elsevier-says-downloading-content-mining-licensed-copies-research-papers-could-be-considered-stealing.shtml

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments
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