top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-26

Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/

11 years ago

1271 upvotes – 513 comments

Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More

http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 250 comments

Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi Gets Smaller

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34922561

11 years ago

480 upvotes – 2 comments

The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice

http://www.foodrenegade.com/secret-ingredient-your-orange-juice/

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 262 comments

I may be the only evil bit user on the internet

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/evil-bit-RFC3514-real-world-usage

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 36 comments

Things the media does to manufacture outrage

https://medium.com/@parkermolloy/5-things-the-media-does-to-manufacture-outrage-ba79125e1262#.z786qmwpa

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 90 comments

Hostnames and usernames to reserve

https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 24 comments

Pirate needs 200k video views to avoid being sued

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34932628

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 84 comments

The TTY demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Free Pascal Compiler Version 3.0.0

http://www.getlazarus.org/release/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 111 comments

Panicparse: Crash your Go app in style

https://github.com/maruel/panicparse

11 years ago

★ 3.7k Go Apache-2.0
163 upvotes – 32 comments

KnightOS – an open-source operating system for TI calculators

https://github.com/KnightOS/knightos

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Assembly
158 upvotes – 36 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 18 comments

Today's world is amd64, armv7, and soon aarch64. Everything else is dead

http://pastebin.com/W9RbUUN1

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

The Serial Swatter

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 76 comments

Why the focus should be mass transit instead of tolls to fix traffic congestion

http://economicjustice.ca/2015/11/23/why-the-focus-should-be-mass-transit-instead-of-tolls-to-relieve-traffic-congestion-1/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 147 comments

Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/business/george-zimmer-former-face-of-mens-wearhouse-watches-his-old-company-struggle.html?ref=business&_r=0

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 106 comments

UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/cautionary-note-uuids-should-generally-not-be-used-for-authentication-tokens/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [pdf]

http://ppig.org/sites/default/files/2015-PPIG-26th-Sarkar.pdf

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Easy Forth

http://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-new-universal-law/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

Tardigrade genome has been sequenced – most foreign DNA of any animal

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-tardigrade-genome-has-been-sequenced-and-it-has-the-most-foreign-dna-of-any-animal

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 17 comments

After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release

http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10632809

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 80 comments

White Coke

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

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skilled-devs-low-costs-no-surprise-this-second-city-has-a-booming-startup-scene/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Making a pencil from scratch (2013)

http://gse-compliance.blogspot.com/2013/05/making-pencil.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 39 comments

Flat Will Kill You, Eventually: Why Every Company Needs Structure

http://themodernteam.com/flat-will-kill-you-eventually-why-every-company-needs-structure/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Company is growing and the culture shift is uncomfortable. What do I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10634732

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

The Guardian goes all-in on AWS public cloud after OpenStack 'disaster’

http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/guardian-goes-all-in-on-aws-public-cloud-after-openstack-disaster-3629790/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 70 comments

Iron law of oligarchy

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

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 88 comments

Palestinian territories to get 3G in mid-2016

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1be677b2fcec45f4b073597ed16de228/after-years-delays-palestinians-get-high-speed-mobile

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Tamagothi (1997)

http://www.studiohunty.com/tamagothi/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Ways to start eating insects

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/five-ways-to-start-eating-insects-180957346/?no-ist

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 121 comments

The Many Ways of WeChat

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/26/the-many-ways-of-wechat-how-messaging-is-eating-the-world/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Teardown shows Nest Cam is always on even when you think it’s off

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/teardown-shows-nest-cam-is-always-on-even-when-you-think-its-off/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Reversing Skype Binary – Silver Needle in the Skype [pdf] (2006)

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 5

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part5/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

A Roadmap Towards Machine Intelligence

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08130

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: Alone on Thanksgiving? Come to My House

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10633714

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Williams tube – cathode ray tube used as computer memory

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

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

The Sieve Hypothesis: Human Stomach as Gatekeeper

http://www.robrdunn.com/2014/01/the-sieve-hypothesis-clever-study-suggests-an-alternate-explanation-for-the-function-of-the-human-stomach/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

New study casts doubt on some fingerprick blood tests

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/new-study-spills-doubt-on-some-fingerprick-blood-tests/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

The Birth and Death of Privacy

https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy-3-000-years-of-history-in-50-images-614c26059e

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

W – A simple programming language

https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/projects/49-w-a-simple-programming-language

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

You are much more likely to be killed by mundane things than terrorism (2013)

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/statistics-you-are-not-going-to-be-killed-by-terrorists.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 50 comments
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