top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-23

Google Launches Android Studio 2.0

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/android-studio-2-0-with-improved-android-emulator-and-instant-run/

11 years ago

532 upvotes – 168 comments

Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA

https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_ships_laptops_with_rogue_root_ca_exactly/

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 105 comments

The End of the Internet Dream

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-end-of-the-internet-dream-ba060b17da61#.csugaho35

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 203 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx

http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html#

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 126 comments

The Story Behind the New WordPress.com

https://developer.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/the-story-behind-the-new-wordpress-com/

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 84 comments

If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice

https://lwn.net/Articles/665175/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 132 comments

How do Promises Work?

http://robotlolita.me/2015/11/15/how-do-promises-work.html

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 88 comments

A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques

https://github.com/markdregan/Bayesian-Modelling-in-Python

11 years ago

★ 2.5k Jupyter Notebook
218 upvotes – 15 comments

Garden path sentence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 81 comments

AMD Open Source Driver Supports Latest GPUS

http://news.softpedia.com/news/open-source-amdgpu-linux-driver-released-supports-the-latest-amd-gpus-496545.shtml

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 71 comments

EC2 Dedicated Hosts

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ec2-dedicated-hosts/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 142 comments

Post-human mathematics

http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4678

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 101 comments

OpenTraffic: a free, global traffic speed data set linked to OpenStreetMap

http://opentraffic.io/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 26 comments

Native OpenBSD hypervisor hits -current

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20151122214050&mode=expanded

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 98 comments

Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is spying on its own people

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/20/why-its-so-hard-to-keep-up-with-how-the-u-s-government-is-spying-on-its-own-people/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 93 comments

Maxwell's Equations first published 150 years ago

http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2015/nov/22/maxwells-equations-150-years-of-light

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool in California

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/google-launches-mortgage-shopping-tool-in-california-more-states-coming-soon/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 81 comments

Sense2vec – A Fast and Accurate Method for Word Sense Disambiguation

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06388

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

A guide to Linux signals

http://www.linuxvoice.com/core-technology-signals/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

C11 atomic variables and the Linux kernel (2014)

https://lwn.net/Articles/586838/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it

http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 84 comments

Weblog.sh – hosted blogging from the command-line

https://weblog.sh/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

How the 'Quiet Eye' Technique Makes Athletes More Coordinated

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/what-athletes-see/416388/?single_page=true

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

When You’re Just Drawn That Way: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/05/when-youre-just-drawn-that-way-who-framed-roger-rabbit/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js

http://betamode.de/2015/11/23/what-happens-if-your-wordpress-is-hacked/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/20/9757186/netflix-video-rental-store

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 76 comments

NASA not ready for dangers of deep space, auditors say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/23/nasa-not-ready-for-dangers-of-deep-space-auditors-say/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 91 comments

Slack is down

https://slack.com/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 56 comments

New Dell computer comes with a eDellRoot trusted root certificate

http://joenord.blogspot.com/2015/11/new-dell-computer-comes-with-edellroot.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 4 comments

A New Microscope Can See Inside Moving Cells in Real Time (2014) [video]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/new-microscope-can-see-inside-moving-cells-in-real-time-and-there-are-videos

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

DRAM chip failures reveal surprising hardware vulnerabilities

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/drams-damning-defects-and-how-they-cripple-computers

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 67 comments

Ethiopia's planned railway network

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34871074

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Put the “Ph” Back in PhD

http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2015/summer/forum/rethinking-put-the-ph-back-in-phd

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like

http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-future-of-working-at-home-may-look-like-1448248050

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming

http://priceonomics.com/stack-overflow-and-the-zeitgeist-of-computer/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Inside the Sony Hack

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/11/sony_employees_on_the_hack_one_year_later.single.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Stark images of Shackleton's struggle

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Broken Performance Tools [pdf]

http://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/QCon2015_Broken_Performance_Tools.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

Is there a Belgium? (1999)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1999/dec/02/is-there-a-belgium/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

The End of Dynamic Languages

http://elbenshira.com/blog/the-end-of-dynamic-languages/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: How did you get to your current job/startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614416

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 79 comments

Scala.js has a new website

http://www.scala-js.org/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Only 3 northern white rhinos left on Earth

http://www.rawstory.com.proxy.parle.co/2015/11/only-3-northern-white-rhinos-left-on-earth/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

http://news.mit.edu/2015/biomedical-imaging-lower-cost-1123

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools

http://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 82 comments

MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates

http://mycpu.thtec.org/www-mycpu-eu/index1.htm

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Berlin social housing winning the residential race

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2015/11/21/berlin-social-housing-winning-the-residential-race/14480244002645

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

Slack is Down

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/slack-is-having-a-panic-attack/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 55 comments

“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People Debate at Dinner

https://redef.com/original/facebook-is-the-internet-and-13-other-things-media-people-debate-at-dinner

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

Searchcode: Source code search engine

https://searchcode.com/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Forgiveness in a vengeful age

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4900/forgiveness-in-a-vengeful-

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

Forgo JavaScript packaging? Not so fast

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/js-packaging-http2.htm

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

A Tale of Two Onboardings

https://convox.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-onboardings/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 47 comments

As China's workforce dwindles, the world scrambles for alternatives

http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-chinas-workforce-dwindles-the-world-scrambles-for-alternatives-1448293942?tesla=y

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments

One of the three OpenBSD users

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2015/11/22/one-of-the-three-openbsd-users.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Wox – an open source launcher for windows inspired by Alfred and Launchy

https://www.getwox.com/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Agony to ecstasy: on taking children to museums

http://www.intelligentlifemagazine.com/culture/authors-on-museums/agony-to-ecstasy

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

History of Silicon Valley and the Toxic Remnants of the First Computers

http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-and-the-toxic-remn-1743622225

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Cyber Spying Is Out, Cyber Lying Is In

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/20/u-s-fears-hackers-will-manipulate-data-not-just-steal-it/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Evidence-based programming language design (PhD thesis)

https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/47698#

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or Specialists?

http://blog.apterainc.com/custom-software/should-custom-software-developers-be-generalists-or-a-specialists

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 58 comments

Caltech Potato Chips (1996)

http://www.async.caltech.edu/~mika/potato/potato.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

The Soap Opera Effect and how to make it go away

http://hometheaterreview.com/what-is-soap-opera-effect-and-how-to-make-it-go-away/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 43 comments

In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-first-majority-muslim-us-city-residents-tense-about-its-future/2015/11/21/45d0ea96-8a24-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 66 comments
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