top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-19

Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers

https://gist.github.com/Jarred-Sumner/90362639f96807b8315b

11 years ago

645 upvotes – 392 comments

ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor

https://w00tsec.blogspot.com/2015/11/arris-cable-modem-has-backdoor-in.html

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 119 comments

Berlin public transport in real time

http://fahrinfo.vbb.de/bin/help.exe/dn?L=vs_mobilitymap&&tpl=fullmap&tabApp=show&initialX=13354846&initialY=52478287&initialZ=3936&

11 years ago

367 upvotes – 139 comments

Math.random in V8 is broken

https://medium.com/@betable/tifu-by-using-math-random-f1c308c4fd9d#.7p3lk9bvk

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 217 comments

Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16

http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 90 comments

Chuck Forsberg has died – author of Zmodem

http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/obituary/12060_Charles_Alton_Forsberg

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 69 comments

Deep inside the Linux kernel: a network latency spike

https://http2.cloudflare.com/the-story-of-one-latency-spike/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 28 comments

Web login using SSH

https://github.com/altitude/login-with-ssh

11 years ago

★ 723 JavaScript
203 upvotes – 81 comments

Biohackers Creating Open-Source Insulin

http://www.popsci.com/these-biohackers-are-making-open-source-insulin

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

Mo.js – motion graphics for the web

http://mojs.io/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 29 comments

Apache Geode: Distributed, in-memory database

http://geode.incubator.apache.org/

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 62 comments

Strong Legs Associated with Healthy Brains in Twin Study

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/brawn-and-brains/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 129 comments

EU proposal to clamp down on Bitcoin curb terrorism funding

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T81BW20151119?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 156 comments

Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/technology/google-picks-diane-greene-to-expand-its-cloud-business.html

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 90 comments

Square Prices Its IPO at $9, giving it a $2.7B valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/square-prices-its-ipo-at-9/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 175 comments

Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default

http://labs.detectify.com/post/133528218381/chrome-extensions-aka-total-absence-of-privacy

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 74 comments

A Step Toward Protecting Fair Use on YouTube

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-step-toward-protecting-fair-use-on.html?m=1

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

Nintendo Controller Teardown

https://www.fictiv.com/resources/starter/hardware-dna-nintendo-teardown

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 43 comments

Telegram bans public ISIS channels

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/19/founder-of-app-used-by-isis-once-said-we-shouldnt-feel-guilty-on-wednesday-he-banned-their-accounts/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 90 comments

Drupal 8.0.0 released

https://www.drupal.org/8

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 72 comments

The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-version-1-0-of-the-aws-sdk-for-go/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 30 comments

Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/11/19/why-has-whatsapp-accessed-my-contacts-23709-times-in-the-last-7-days/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

Square jumps in market debut

http://reuters.com/article/idUSL3N13E45620151119

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 97 comments

World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34857015

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 119 comments

Nmap 7 Release Notes

https://nmap.org/7/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 18 comments

Submit your finished script to Amazon Studios

https://storywriter.amazon.com/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

OS X and the Unremovable File (2013)

http://galvanist.com/post/67485688849/os-x-and-the-unremovable-file

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Architecture

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/instant-loading-web-apps-with-an-application-shell-architecture-7c0c2f10c73#.anv85ievd

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

How to succeed in language design without really trying [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 15 comments

Vellvm: Verified LLVM

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 89 comments

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

https://lwn.net/Articles/662147/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

MIT graduate student says income inequality is actually about housing

https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-graduate-is-turning-heads-over-his-theory-that-income-inequality-is-actually-2a3b423e0c#.8dd6eoir9

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 99 comments

Einstein’s First Proof

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/einsteins-first-proof-pythagorean-theorem?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

More lessons learned from building machine learning systems

http://www.slideshare.net/xamat/10-more-lessons-learned-from-building-machine-learning-systems

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Canary in the Code Mine: Coal miners learning to code

https://medium.com/backchannel/canary-in-the-code-mine-903884eca853

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Cloud revenue could be bigger than ads

http://uk.businessinsider.com/urs-holze-talks-google-cloud-beat-search-2015-11?r=US&IR=T

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

13 miles of typography on Broadway, from a to Z

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/design/216855-typography-of-broadway-from-a-to-z

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Bot that mentions potential reviewers on pull requests

https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot

11 years ago

★ 3.3k JavaScript
72 upvotes – 13 comments

The Doomsday Scam

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Inside a Hacked SEO Backlink Network

http://www.elite-strategies.com/inside-a-hacked-seo-backlink-network/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Topology looks for the patterns inside big data

https://theconversation.com/topology-looks-for-the-patterns-inside-big-data-39554

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

JavaScript XM Player

http://www.a1k0n.net/code/jsxm/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Recent improvements to Redis Lua scripting

http://antirez.com/news/97

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

The Information Theory of Life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151119-life-is-information-adami/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/facestarter/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

The Economics and Nostalgia of Dead Malls

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/business/the-economics-and-nostalgia-of-dead-malls.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Benefits of Sarcasm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprising-benefits-of-sarcasm/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

Unicorn Fears and Stopping Stops

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-19/unicorn-fears-and-stopping-stops

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

'Power Over Wi-Fi' named one of the year's game-changing technologies

http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/11/18/popular-science-names-power-over-wi-fi-one-of-the-years-game-changing-technologies/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 98 comments

Coding Math

http://www.codingmath.com/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Captagon, the drug fueling Syria’s war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/19/the-tiny-pill-fueling-syrias-war-and-turning-fighters-into-super-human-soldiers

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Grace Hopper Academy

http://gracehopper.com/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 30 comments

Pharma's Bizarre Pricing Shrug

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2015-11-16/drug-price-pressures-have-only-just-begun

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 37 comments

Glacier Costlier Than S3 for Small Files

https://therub.org/2015/11/18/glacier-costlier-than-s3-for-small-files/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Source Code Poetry 2015

http://www.sourcecodepoetry.com/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

Intestinal worms may help women get pregnant more often

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/11/intestinal-worms-may-help-women-get-pregnant-more-often

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other over strips of land

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/19/the-murderers-next-door-romania

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 50 comments

Genetically Engineered Salmon Approved for Consumption

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/business/genetically-engineered-salmon-approved-for-consumption.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 52 comments

Interactive and composable charts with Haskell

http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/11/interactive-and-composable-charts.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 98 comments

Chipmachine: A demoscene/retro jukebox/Spotify-like music player

http://apone.org:8080/chipmachine/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments

Graph Commons: Network Mapping for Everyone

http://neo4j.com/blog/graph-commons-network-mapping/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 0 comments

Simulating the TS808 Tube Screamer in LTSpice

http://cushychicken.github.io/ltspice-tube-screamer/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 18 comments

U.S.-Russian talks on Venus mission resume

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/11/12/u-s-russian-talks-on-venus-mission-resume/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 4 comments
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