top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-20

Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted

https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/11/20/introducing-the-shift-card/

11 years ago

632 upvotes – 342 comments

NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-orders-spacex-crew-mission-to-international-space-station

11 years ago

593 upvotes – 136 comments

The Macro

http://macro.ycombinator.com

11 years ago

454 upvotes – 133 comments

Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/baseless-calls-expand-surveillance-fit-familiar-cynical-pattern

11 years ago

375 upvotes – 118 comments

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html

11 years ago

333 upvotes – 265 comments

Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/11/18/pythons-hidden-re-gems/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 47 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/20/mark-zuckerberg-will-take-two-months-off-from-facebook-for-paternity-leave/?sr_share=facebook

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 314 comments

File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/us/politics/records-show-email-analysis-continued-after-nsa-program-ended.html

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 54 comments

Domain-validated SSL will soon be free from the large CAs

https://certsimple.com/blog/domain-validated-ssl-will-be-free

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 151 comments

We know the city where HIV first emerged

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151119-we-know-the-city-where-hiv-first-infected-a-human

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Tesla recalling 90,000 Model S sedans to check seat belts

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/20/us-tesla-recall-idUSKCN0T92CR20151120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 99 comments

You should try FreeBSD (2014)

http://blog.pascalj.com/article/you-should-try-freebsd/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 154 comments

Genetic Algorithm 2D Car Thingy

http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 57 comments

Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions on Go

http://features.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/1748247/interviews-alan-donovan-and-brian-kernighan-answer-your-questions

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 106 comments

How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School

http://priceonomics.com/how-to-be-a-lawyer-without-going-to-law-school/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 73 comments

An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21678223-obsession-safe-spaces-not-just-bad-education-it-also-diminishes-worthwhile-campus

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 197 comments

Happy Little Words – Analyzing the Bob Ross Twitch Chat

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/happy-little-words/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 37 comments

What every programmer should know about memory (2007)

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20151120-batchattacks.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Releases the Full Version of Their Search Quality Rating Guidelines

http://searchengineland.com/google-releases-the-full-version-of-their-search-quality-rating-guidelines-236572

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

Multimedia on Linux Command Line: wget, PdfTK, ffmpeg, flac, SoX

https://sandilands.info/sgordon/multimedia-on-linux-command-line

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

How R Took the World of Statistics by Storm

http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/8585391/Created-by-statisticians-for-statisticians-How-R-took-the-world-of-statistics-by.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

China Has a $1.2 Trillion Ponzi Finance Problem

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/china-has-a-1-2-trillion-ponzi-finance-problem-as-debt-piles-up

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

To ECC or Not to ECC

http://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 52 comments

Why root for Groupon?

https://medium.com/@andrewmason/why-root-for-groupon-8f95dea7f234#.a2x85odlg

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 63 comments

BPG Image Format Specification

http://bellard.org/bpg/bpg_spec.txt

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Cheap DNA Sequencing Is Here – Writing DNA Is Next

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/making-dna/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

Baltic Dry Index Falls Below 500 for First Time

https://gcaptain.com/baltic-dry-falls-below-500-for-first-time-ever/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

TrueCrypt Is Safer Than Previously Reported

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/truecrypt-is-safer-than-previously-reported-detailed-analysis-concludes/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598766

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

LivingSocial Offers a Cautionary Tale to Today’s Unicorns

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/technology/livingsocial-once-a-unicorn-is-losing-its-magic.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

The Cult of the Toto Toilet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/fashion/the-cult-of-the-toto-toilet.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

The FBI files on D. B. Cooper

https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper%20/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

New research reignites concerns that pesticides are harming bees

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/11/18/new-research-reawakens-the-huge-controversy-over-whether-pesticides-are-harming-bees/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You

http://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to start a successful tech non-profit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601326

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

In Patagonia 2k years ago, it was common for people to modify skulls of babies

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151119-the-people-who-reshaped-their-skulls

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Comcast May Have Found a Net Neutrality Loophole

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/comcast-may-have-found-a-major-net-neutrality-loophole/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 50 comments

Recurrent Neural Networks Hardware Implementation on FPGA

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05552v1

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

How Scientists Can Thrive in the Startup World

http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/science-startups/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

Seattle’s micro-housing boom offers an affordable alternative

http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/seattles-micro-housing-boom-offers-an-affordable-alternative/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 66 comments

Virtual Planes, Virtual Airports: Inside the World of VATSIM

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/18/vatsim/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Hands-on with PS4's PlayStation 2 emulation

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-hands-on-with-ps4-playstation2-emulation

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Generic Programming in PureScript

http://www.purescript.org/learn/generic/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

A billionaire targeting contrarian, underappreciated causes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/a-legendary-trader-is-making-few-friends-as-he-donates-billions?cmpid=BBD111915_BIZ

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 93 comments
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