top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-25

Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter

http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html

11 years ago

556 upvotes – 315 comments

The Yale Problem Begins in High School

http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/

11 years ago

525 upvotes – 491 comments

Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 162 comments

Booting Linux in One Second [pdf]

http://elinux.org/images/9/97/Boot_one_second_altenberg.pdf

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 108 comments

My life after 44 years in prison

http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/shorts/life-after-prison/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 125 comments

A blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/24/the-blind-woman-who-switched-personalities-and-could-suddenly-see/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/business/dealbook/dream-of-new-kind-of-credit-union-is-burdened-by-bureaucracy.html?_r=0

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 1 comments

DspGuru

http://www.dspguru.com

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 17 comments

Difficult Times at Our Credit Union

https://blog.archive.org/2015/11/24/difficult-times-at-our-credit-union/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 151 comments

Worg, the Org-Mode Community

http://orgmode.org/worg/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

Jessica Livingston on the Accidental Origin of Y Combinator

http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/jessica-livingston-startup-school-radio/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 10 comments

Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-might-have-hairy-dark-matter

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Booking.js – Availability and Scheduling API

http://booking.timekit.io/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

http://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-faces-morale-challenge-1448326486

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 235 comments

How Google Is Bankrolling Friendly Academics

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/24/googles_insidious_shadow_lobbying_how_the_internet_giant_is_bankrolling_friendly_academics_and_skirting_federal_investigations/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

A Simple Way to Route with Redux

http://jlongster.com/A-Simple-Way-to-Route-with-Redux

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

Hugo v0.15 releasedL Higher performance, Jekyll import, template improvements

https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/tag/v0.15

11 years ago

★ 87.7k Go Apache-2.0
122 upvotes – 33 comments

The Dribbblisation of Design

https://medium.com/intercom-inside/the-dribbblisation-of-design-406422ccb026#.urul8bvil

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 51 comments

I was falsely arrested

http://iwasfalselyarrested.com

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 104 comments

Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)

http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Einstein was no lone genius

http://www.nature.com/news/history-einstein-was-no-lone-genius-1.18793

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/20/lisa-jones-girlfriend-of-undercover-police-office-mark-kennedy-interview

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 98 comments

An 80-Year-Old Prank Revealed, Hiding in the Periodic Table

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/23/an-80-year-old-prank-is-revealed-hiding-in-the-periodic-table/?sf15759139=1

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Montana Standard newspaper plans to retroactively unmask anonymous commenters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/11/25/montana-standard-newspaper-plans-to-retroactively-unmask-anonymous-commenters/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 60 comments

Dell, Google, and Internet Security

https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/11/dells-tumble-googles-fumble-and-how-government-sabotage-of-internet-security-works/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Gridlex – Just a Flexbox Grid System

http://gridlex.devlint.fr/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-even-scientists-can-easily-explain-p-values/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: Commandcar – a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API

https://github.com/tikalk/commandcar

11 years ago

★ 736 JavaScript
82 upvotes – 12 comments

My car was damaged with FlightCar and they don't care – here's the 3-month story

https://www.facebook.com/michael.morgenstern/posts/10100906573381481

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 64 comments

Did we reached webdesign's coolness boundaries?

http://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek/design-conference/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 63 comments

Ways to Design the Letter 'M'

http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/06/77-ways-to-design-the-letter-m-in-your-metro-logo/395045/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

Ca-certificates: removal of SPI CA

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796208

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Re-base: A Relay inspired library for building React.js and Firebase applications

https://github.com/tylermcginnis/re-base

11 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
68 upvotes – 17 comments

Timeout: Ruby's Most Dangerous API

http://www.mikeperham.com/2015/05/08/timeout-rubys-most-dangerous-api/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Rump Kernel FAQ

https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki/Info:-FAQ

11 years ago

★ 463
62 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627192

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 52 comments

Vine mistakenly ships iOS app with debug mode enabled

http://www.scoopnest.com/user/MattNavarra/669211053188849664

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments

Why most public apologies suck

http://blog.statuspage.io/why-public-apologies-suck

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 60 comments

New copyright law in Poland heralds new era for libraries

http://www.eifl.net/news/new-copyright-law-poland-heralds-new-era-libraries

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

The day I became a millionaire

https://medium.com/@dhh/the-day-i-became-a-millionaire-55d7dc4d8293#.r3zuj348m

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

FunctionalPlus – helps you write concise and readable C++ code

https://github.com/Dobiasd/FunctionalPlus

11 years ago

★ 2.2k C++ BSL-1.0
57 upvotes – 32 comments

Ava – Asynchronous test runner

https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava

11 years ago

★ 20.8k JavaScript MIT
56 upvotes – 11 comments

OpenBSD support in psutil 3.3.0

http://grodola.blogspot.com/2015/11/openbsd-support-for-psutil.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Brontosaurus dino name is revived

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32205289

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

The reverse job applicant (2010)

http://www.reversejobapplication.com/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

The Ghost of Statistics Past

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/pr/ghost.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Maybe Clockless Chip Design's Time Has Come

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/5196-maybe-clockless-chip-designs-time-has-come.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments

Physicists use photons to carry messages from electrons 1.2 miles apart

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/november/cryptography-quantum-tangle-112415.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

1,000 True Fans (2008)

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Selling Feelings

https://stratechery.com/2015/selling-feelings/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

'Anti-malarial mosquitoes' created using controversial genetic technology

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/23/anti-malarial-mosquitoes-created-using-controversial-genetic-technology

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

As thousands of new apartments open, Seattle's rental market weakens

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2015/11/bad-timingas-thousands-of-new-apartments-open.html?ana=twt

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 52 comments

Finding a Ruby memory leak using time analysis

https://gist.github.com/wvengen/f1097651c238b2f7f11d

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 0 comments

PCs running Dell support app can be uniquely ID’d by snoops and scammers

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/pcs-running-dell-support-app-can-be-uniquely-idd-by-snoops-and-scammers/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 1 comments
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