top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-30

A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/decade-old-gag-order-lifted

11 years ago

737 upvotes – 146 comments

The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection

http://blog.jgc.org/2015/11/the-secret-message-hidden-in-every.html

11 years ago

600 upvotes – 119 comments

Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Computing

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lmcinnes/hdbscan/blob/master/notebooks/Python%20vs%20Java.ipynb

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 151 comments

An interesting data structure with search time O(sqrt n)

http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 70 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden in an Xbox Controller

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/11/raspberry-pi-zero-hidden-in-an-xbox-controller/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 41 comments

The C standard formalized in Coq

http://robbertkrebbers.nl/thesis.html

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 109 comments

Repair is a Radical Act

http://www.patagonia.com/us/worn-wear

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 109 comments

Lists

http://avc.com/2015/11/lists-2/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 99 comments

Announcing TypeScript 1.7

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/11/30/announcing-typescript-1-7.aspx

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 87 comments

The 100-Hour Rule

http://codingvc.com/the-100-hour-rule/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 85 comments

DIY Laptop 64 bit ARM

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/a64-olinuxino-oshw-linux-laptop-idea-becomes-more-real/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 78 comments

Perl 6 is fun

http://blog.urth.org/2015/11/29/perl-6-is-fun/

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 145 comments

Launching a Mac App and Becoming the Top Paid App Globally

https://medium.com/developers-writing/how-to-launch-a-mac-app-and-become-1-top-paid-app-globally-4434bbfb51ee

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 55 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero – Conserve power and reduce draw to 30mA

http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-conserve-energy

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 89 comments

This Week in Servo 43 (submitted via Servo itself)

http://blog.servo.org/2015/11/30/twis-43/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 23 comments

Time travel: An isochronic map of travel times from London circa 1914

http://www.intelligentlifemagazine.com/places/cartophilia/time-travel

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 46 comments

Donate mozilla

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 75 comments

Bacteria on the Brain

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/bacteria-on-the-brain

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 36 comments

Brutal baboon battle erupts for throne at Toronto Zoo after matriarch dies

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/11/29/brutal-baboon-battle-erupts-for-throne-at-toronto-zoo-after-matriarch-dies.html

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

A Battery Revolution in Motion

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/a-battery-revolution-in-motion

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua

http://terralang.org/index.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 40 comments

Sqlmap – Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

http://sqlmap.org/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project

http://blog.llvm.org/2015/11/new-elf-linker-from-llvm-project.html?m=1

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

I.M.F. Makes China’s Renminbi One of World’s Select Currencies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/business/international/china-renminbi-reserve-currency.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 110 comments

A Good Night’s Sleep Is Tied to Interruptions, Not Just Hours

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-good-nights-sleep-is-tied-to-interruptions-not-just-hours-1448907227?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

https://github.com/rachelnicole/robokitty

11 years ago

★ 773 JavaScript GPL-2.0
117 upvotes – 69 comments

Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year

https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201241429--OS-X-Dropbox-consuming-a-lot-of-CPU-whenever-any-file-or-folder-is-changed-anywhere

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Lessons Learned After Shutting My Startup, Following a Six-Year Struggle

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/lessons-learned-shutting-startup/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 60 comments

Visual question answering using CNN+RNN

https://github.com/abhshkdz/neural-vqa

11 years ago

★ 488 Lua
108 upvotes – 9 comments

The Japanese Art of Self-Preservation

http://www.damninteresting.com/sokushinbutsu-the-ancient-buddhist-mummies-of-japan/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

What Elm and Haskell are teaching mainstream JS [video]

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-11-30-functional-front-end-coding.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 31 comments

Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

India’s Economic Growth Accelerates

http://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-economic-growth-accelerates-1448886206

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-phase-carbon-diamond-room-temperature.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

Ideas are not cheap

http://www.tillett.info/2015/08/30/ideas-are-not-cheap/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 105 comments

What is a stateless user interface?

http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/11/what-is-stateless-user-interface/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

http://fusion.net/story/238742/tor-carnegie-mellon-attack/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

The Grim and Gory Reality of Surgery in Space

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151125-the-challenges-of-carrying-out-surgery-in-space

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

Using Wayland from Rust, Part 1

http://blog.levans.fr/rust_wayland_1-en.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments

The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture

http://www.daedtech.com/the-beggar-ceo-and-sucker-culture

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Why the Public Can't Read the Press

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/washington-trade-press/417366/?single_page=true

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Handy Guide to Distinguishing

https://medium.com/@abhasvc/unicorns-vs-donkeys-your-handy-guide-to-distinguishing-who-s-who-f1b30942b2b6

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

FBI launches eFOIA System for faster FOIA requests

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/november/new-efoia-system

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008)

http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Fix Everything: Spending a few days at iFixit

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-race-to-create-elon-musks-hyperloop-heats-up-1448899356?mod=e2tw

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with-law-and-order-will-not-be-enough/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 171 comments

Minimizing the Pain of Lockstep Multiplayer

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielCollier/20151124/251987/Minimizing_the_Pain_of_Lockstep_Multiplayer.php

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Chrome DevTools: A Glimpse into the Future and RAIL Profiling

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/11/devtools-digest-cds-edition

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

We don't need a thinner iPhone if that means killing the headphone jack

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/30/9820416/apple-rumors-headphone-jack-lightning-port-iphone?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 117 comments

Why ContentEditable is Terrible (2014)

https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480#.mqvm5uq1o

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces to Invest in Clean Energy Technology

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/29/breakthrough-energy-coalition/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Learning (needlessly) hard technology

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/11/29/learning-hard-technology/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

Anger at 'stolen' online courses on Udemy

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34952382

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

Khan Academy's LearnStorm: A math challenge to help students learn how to learn

http://www.learnstorm2016.org/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Mmm – manual memory management for Go

https://github.com/teh-cmc/mmm

11 years ago

★ 400 Go MIT
72 upvotes – 29 comments

Overfitting, Regularization, and Hyperparameter Optimization

http://dswalter.github.io/blog/overfitting-regularization-hyperparameters/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

An Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/business/media/an-anonymous-satire-of-silicon-valley-now-has-a-publisher.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

Tested: Why the iPad Pro really isn't as fast a laptop

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3006268/tablets/tested-why-the-ipad-pro-really-isnt-as-fast-a-laptop.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

Nokia Tries to Reinvent Itself, Again, by Taking Over Alcatel-Lucent

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/nokia-tries-to-reinvent-itself-again-by-taking-over-alcatel-lucent/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Mobile&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Sugar reduction: from evidence into action

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-from-evidence-into-action

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 85 comments

The most beautiful theory

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21679172-century-ago-albert-einstein-changed-way-humans-saw-universe-his-work?

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Owning materials from an asteroid now legal in United States

http://marketbusinessnews.com/owning-an-asteroid-now-legal-in-united-states/113158

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Refactoring a 300-line if

http://groupserver.org/vanpy-2015/slides.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Empathy as a hidden motor of human history

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4962/is-empathy-the-hidden-motor-of-human-history

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

How Cocaine Changes the Brain

http://neurosciencenews.com/cocaine-dopamine-vta-3167/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

GNU Coreutils Gotchas

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Deloitte Joins Adobe and Accenture in Dumping Performance Reviews

http://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/deloitte-joins-adobe-and-accenture-in-dumping-performance-reviews-360-feedback

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room

http://bit-player.org/2015/ramsey-theory-in-the-dining-room

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

What photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about work

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30/what-these-photos-of-facebooks-new-headquarters-say-about-the-future-of-work/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 62 comments

Pattern: Back ends for front ends

http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

What we learned from building custom analytics over Amazon Redshift

https://www.alooma.com/blog/custom-analytics-amazon-redshift

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

Why the Economic Fates of America’s Cities Diverged

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/cities-economic-fates-diverge/417372/?single_page=true

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 64 comments

Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs

https://www.techinasia.com/coins-ph-people-atms/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments
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