top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-24

MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer

https://github.com/samyk/magspoof

11 years ago

★ 4.1k C
541 upvotes – 108 comments

First Timers Only

https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455

11 years ago

510 upvotes – 66 comments

What can a technologist do about climate change?

http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 289 comments

Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/blue-origin-makes-historic-rocket-landing

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 4 comments

New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34909713

11 years ago

333 upvotes – 223 comments

Microsoft's Software is Malware

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 173 comments

LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB

https://github.com/graemedouglas/LittleD

11 years ago

★ 736 C Apache-2.0
244 upvotes – 103 comments

A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 72 comments

Animated SVG vs. GIF

http://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-vs-gif/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 62 comments

A map of one million scientific papers from the arXiv

http://paperscape.org

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 55 comments

Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

http://www.pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-pokedex-org

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 40 comments

Another Dell root certificate discovered

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3008478/security/and-then-there-were-two-another-dangerous-dell-root-certificate-discovered.html

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 73 comments

Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5

http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2015/11/python-3-5-type-hinting-in-pycharm-5/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 117 comments

Modern SQL: With – Organize Complex Queries

https://modern-sql.com/feature/with

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 61 comments

Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review

https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph@b1af2ab4761618930f6f7e44eb775e08fac3f38e/.tree/README.md

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 132 comments

My bank has an API so I built online banking

https://medium.com/@jamesallison/mondo-hackathon-e504883a4a05#.iye0e0pne

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 108 comments

Apache Kafka 0.9 is released

http://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-0.9-is-released

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 37 comments

The WTO rules against “dolphin-safe” labels on tuna

http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2015/11/wto-just-dealt-blow-us-consumers-and-dolphins

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 97 comments

What is a 'unikernel'?

https://ma.ttias.be/what-is-a-unikernel/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps

https://medium.com/better-humans/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps-6c75cc37ef42#.dy1vpda8b

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 64 comments

Keys to a successful Google team

https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

What's Worked in Computer Science

http://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 63 comments

What I Learned From Blowing An Interview

http://braythwayt.com/2015/11/23/blowing-an-interview.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 120 comments

Young 'to be poorer than parents at every stage of life'

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34858997

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 229 comments

Harir – Reducing Noise in Arabic Script

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/harir

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 46 comments

Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code/tree/gh-pages

11 years ago

★ 3.5k Python MIT
115 upvotes – 25 comments

Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Syrian Border

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia-military-plane.html?_r=0

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 181 comments

Test-Driven Development is Stupid

http://geometrian.com/programming/tutorials/testing/test-first.php

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 149 comments

The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journal explained

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/shortest-paper-ever-published-in-a-serious-math-journal-john-conway-alexander-soifer

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151124-kadison-singer-math-problem/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

IonDB: A key-value store for microcontroller and IoT applications

https://github.com/iondbproject/iondb

11 years ago

★ 595 C BSD-3-Clause
104 upvotes – 3 comments

Planet Elm

http://planet.elm-lang.org/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 8 comments

Hackers do the Haka – Advanced packet and stream manipulation language

http://thisissecurity.net/2015/11/23/hackers-do-the-haka-part-1/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

A family devastated by relentless cyberattacks

http://specialreports.dailydot.com/how-to-destroy-an-american-family

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

The Myth of the Rule of Law (1995)

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 69 comments

China Cuts Mobile Service of Xinjiang Residents Evading Internet Filters

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/international/china-cuts-mobile-service-of-xinjiang-residents-evading-internet-filters.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 62 comments

Pfizer’s Big Breakthrough: Global Tax Avoidance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/opinion/pfizers-big-breakthrough-global-tax-avoidance.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 113 comments

Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/axel-springer-goes-after-ios-9-ad-blockers-in-new-legal-battle/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Response to Concerns Regarding eDellroot Certificate

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2015/11/23/response-to-concerns-regarding-edellroot-certificate

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34904226

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 94 comments

My Family Came to This Country Legally, but Were Almost Deported

https://medium.com/@benhuh/my-family-came-to-this-country-legally-but-we-were-almost-deported-9c7de6e80083#.pxudvbnif

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Why we moved away from GitHub

http://layer0.authentise.com/bitbucket-jira-integration-or-why-we-moved-away-from-github.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Age: It’s All in Your Blood

http://sage.buckinstitute.org/age-its-all-in-your-blood/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

CppMem: Formalised Interactive C/C++ memory model

http://svr-pes20-cppmem.cl.cam.ac.uk/cppmem/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Git as an Encrypted Distributed Version Control System

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA619785

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Slow Deployment Causes Meetings

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/slow-deployment-causes-meetings/1055427371156793

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

US State Dept Issues Worldwide Travel Alert

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/worldwide-travel-alert.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

How Did Michelin Become the World’s Authority on Restaurants?

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/18/so-how-did-a-company-selling-rubber-tyres-become-the-worlds-authority-on-restaurants/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

How farming changed the European genome

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/11/how-farming-changed-european-genome

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 0 comments

Texture Synthesis with deep CNNs

http://bethgelab.org/deeptextures/?utm_campaign=Artificial%2BIntelligence%2BWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Artificial_Intelligence_Weekly_23

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford [video]

http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/education/8989/9033

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Pokemon or Big Data?

http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Betwixt – Web Debugging Proxy Based on Chrome DevTools Network Panel

https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt

11 years ago

★ 4.5k JavaScript MIT
56 upvotes – 6 comments

How PostCSS became 1.5x faster by changing 2 lines of code

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/postcss-1_5x-faster

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

AWS Lambda Makes Serverless Applications a Reality

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/aws-lamda-makes-serverless-applications-a-reality/?ncid=rss#.iqrhs1:mzPV

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 52 comments

The Thirty Million Word Gap

http://literacy.rice.edu/thirty-million-word-gap

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Why do so many ex-offenders go back to prison? A new study suggests they don't

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/10/why_do_so_many_prisoners_end_up_back_in_prison_a_new_study_says_maybe_they.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

When is a ‘travel hack’ unethical?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/when-is-a-travel-hack-unethical/2015/11/19/694b455a-88a0-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html?h

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 87 comments

Git Source Code Review: Diff Algorithms (2013)

http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/diff.php

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

XKCD: Hoverboard

https://xkcd.com/1608/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Problems that warrant Docker orchestration

https://railsadventures.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/docker-orchestration-the-full-story/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Open letter to Jolla community: through the tough times

https://blog.jolla.com/open-letter-jolla-community/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments
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