top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-11-21

What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answer/Mick-Stute?srid=RBKZ&share=1

11 years ago

476 upvotes – 224 comments

Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

11 years ago

★ 30.8k JavaScript MIT
362 upvotes – 108 comments

How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-little-about-tcp/

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 41 comments

I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse, until now

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/20/antibiotics-apocalypse-research-resistance-threat-breakthrough

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 23 comments

React vs. Angular 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ah9IJ72DhV4AzoZ1TJUnMzj42PzQrLrwQUkg9koO0dg/edit

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

Covariance and Contravariance

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-20-covariance-and-contravariance.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

Non-photo blue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photo_blue

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman

https://medium.com/@odedgolan/what-i-ve-learned-from-sitting-next-to-a-pro-salesman-faa19b5f38c7#.n0q9qnxqd

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 76 comments

YArchive

http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 4 comments

New derivation of pi links quantum physics and pure math

https://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/new-derivation-pi-links-quantum-physics-and-pure-math

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 20 comments

Syria secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death

https://boingboing.net/2015/11/20/assad-government-secretly-sent.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

Goodbye privacy, hello Alexa: Amazon Echo, the home robot who hears it all

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/21/amazon-echo-alexa-home-robot-privacy-cloud

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 123 comments

Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/coffee-drinking-linked-to-lower-mortality-risk-again/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 71 comments

Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.windowsconfidential.aspx

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantmartin/2015/11/17/study-finds-that-asians-take-fewest-vacation-days-europeans-take-most/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 98 comments

Io Programming Language (new website design)

http://iolanguage.org/#

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Secret pagan basilica in Rome emerges from the shadows after 2,000 years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12005864/Secret-pagan-basilica-in-Rome-emerges-from-the-shadows-after-2000-years.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: “If you build it, they will come” doesn't work. How do we market our app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10607018

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Simulacra.js – one-way data binding for web applications

https://0x8890.github.io/simulacra/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Paly student tells of school stress

http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2015/03/26/guest-opinion-on-school-stress-students-are-gasping-for-air

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 85 comments
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