top 50% 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

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

Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008)

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

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 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

Io Programming Language (new website design)

http://iolanguage.org/#

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 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

What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?

http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/what-happens-when-you-cant-talk-to-yourself

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: HtmlPy – HTML5-CSS3-JavaScript Based GUI Library in Python

http://amol-mandhane.github.io/htmlPy/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Generating unique IDs: an easy and reliable way

http://antirez.com/news/99

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Clasp 0.4 – Joining Common Lisp and C++

https://drmeister.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/clasp-0-4-joining-common-lisp-and-cxx/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

How period trackers have changed girl culture

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/how-period-trackers-have-changed-girl-culture/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 97 comments

Slackware Live Edition

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

Reflection in C++14: Explanations

http://blog.simon-ninon.fr/reflection-in-c-plus-plus-14/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Hacking GCN via OpenGL

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=EBE7DEDA70D06DA0!107&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AD-O3oq3Ung7pzk

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Now that's what I call a Hacker

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-hacker/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

How Facebook M Works

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/time-to-meet-the-wizard-facebooks-messenger-head-pulls-back?utm_term=.eu56k25XK#.elB0eQL23

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on EBay

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/books/greek-new-testament-papyrus-is-discovered-on-ebay.html?ref=books

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Componentizing the Web

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2844732

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Programs Worldwide

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9764324/welfare-cash-transfer-work

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 80 comments

China Cracks $64B ‘Underground Bank’ Moving Money Abroad

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/china-cracks-64-billion-underground-bank-moving-money-abroad

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 48 comments

Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal abroad?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/21/lost-in-translation/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

The perfect TV

http://technology.siekerman.nl/post/133644449664/the-perfect-tv

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 60 comments

Introducing Sd-Event: The Event Loop API of Libsystemd

http://0pointer.net/blog/introducing-sd-event.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 51 comments

Physics of the Piano (2012) [pdf]

https://nanohub.org/resources/18884/download/2013.06.19-Giordano-REU.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Big data and machine learning

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/11/21/big-data-and-machine-learning/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Browser Plug-In Punches a Hole in China’s Great Firewall

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543711/browser-plug-in-punches-an-unfixable-hole-in-chinas-great-firewall/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

The case of blue-collar Chinese migrants that Kenya is calling “cyber-hackers”

http://qz.com/530427/a-new-wave-chinese-immigrants-seeking-opportunity-in-africa-are-finding-misery-and-struggle-instead/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/19/9757516/ipad-pro-apps-pricing-ios-developers-opt-out

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 61 comments
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