top 50% 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

Unikernels, meet Docker

http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/unikernels-meet-docker/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Practical NLP for Finding Wifi in Hostels

http://www.racketracer.com/2015/11/18/practical-natural-language-processing-for-determing-wifi-quality-in-hostels/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 10 comments

Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor

http://blog.bethcodes.com/confidence-through-feedback

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 18 comments

Visual Studio now available in cloud subscriptions

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/how-to-buy-vs

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

What ISIS Really Wants

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/?single_page=true

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 82 comments

Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)

http://chalain.livejournal.com/68788.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

Software development: do good manners matter?

https://peerj.com/preprints/1515v1/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 94 comments

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Depression-Fighting SAD Lamps Aren't Just for Your Winter Blues

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/depression-fighting-sad-lamps-arent-just-for-your-winter-blues

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/geek-life/tools-toys/teaching-a-3yearold-to-programwithout-a-computer-screen

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Interviews can be stressful – give take-home projects instead

https://www.remoteinterview.io/takehome

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 127 comments

The mid-Victorian diet was a mini golden age of nutrition

https://health.spectator.co.uk/forget-paleo-go-mid-victorian-its-the-healthiest-diet-youve-never-heard-of/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 97 comments

Life as a drone operator

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/life-as-a-drone-pilot-creech-air-force-base-nevada

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

Using OpenStreetMap and GraphHopper to visit every pub in Dublin

https://graphhopper.com/blog/2015/11/18/visiting-every-pub-in-dublin/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Telegram probably isn't as secure as ISIS thinks

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/encryption-app-telegram-probably-isnt-as-secure-for-terrorists-as-isis-thinks

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

DEC's No Output Division Memo (1982) [pdf]

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.bell.no_output_division_C-I_TF;productivity_review.1982.102630376.pdf

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple's iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/itunes-alternatives/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 108 comments

NIH to retire all research chimpanzees

http://www.nature.com/news/nih-to-retire-all-research-chimpanzees-1.18817

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Investigating npm3 performance

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10380

11 years ago

★ 17.6k
76 upvotes – 10 comments

Making Popcorn: Adding a Disk to a Rust Rumprun Unikernel

https://polyfractal.com/post/adding-a-disk-to-a-rust-rumprun-unikernel/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Free and Freer Monads: Putting Monads Back into Closet

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/free-monad.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Tus.io: Open Protocol for Resumable File Uploads

http://tus.io/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft Open-Sources Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/11/18/visual-studio-team-services-git-credential-manager-for-mac-and-linux.aspx

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/congress-says-yes-to-space-mining-no-to-rocket-regulations/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Barren islands that countries never stop fighting over

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151117-the-islands-that-countries-never-stop-fighting-over

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

MCU based PicoLisp machines for sale

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05717.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

Lyft looking to raise $500M in new funding at valuation of about $4B

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/business/dealbook/lyft-said-to-seek-dollar500-million-in-funding.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Klong – a simple array language

http://t3x.org/klong/index.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Can you think yourself into a different person?

http://mosaicscience.com/story/neuroplasticity

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Transducers for Python

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/transducers-python

11 years ago

★ 204 Python Apache-2.0
63 upvotes – 36 comments

My Home-Built TTL Computer Processor

http://cpuville.com

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Introducing Mapbox Studio

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/announcing-mapbox-studio/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician, to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20151116/GZ01/151119605/1101

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

http://caret.io/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments

An Ode to Kai's Power Goo

http://www.macworld.com/article/3005783/software-graphics/an-ode-to-kais-power-goo.html#tk.rss_all

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Start Your First Podcast (2013)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToStartYourFirstPodcastEquipmentEditingPublishingAndMore.aspx

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments
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