top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-06

Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks

https://github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Do-not-underestimate-credentials-leaks.md

11 years ago

★ 1.2k
355 upvotes – 76 comments

Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27945-myth-of-pristine-amazon-rainforest-busted-as-old-cities-reappear/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 67 comments

Building the Tamagotchi Singularity

http://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 13 comments

I Was Internet-Famous

http://nymag.com/following/2015/12/10-viral-sensations-on-life-after-internet-fame.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Patents Needle-Free Blood Draw

http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20150342509&IDKey=9B7DC623905A&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fappft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPG01%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D20150342509.PGNR.%2526OS%3D%2526RS%3D

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 81 comments

After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Nchan – a pub/sub server as an Nginx module

https://nchan.slact.net

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 41 comments

Open-source license plate reader

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/new-open-source-license-plate-reader-software-lets-you-make-your-own-hot-list/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

Base65536 – Unicode's answer to Base64

https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65536

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 50 comments

Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool

https://medium.com/figma-design/design-meet-the-internet-4140774f2872#.x48eovhnq

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 40 comments

Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables

http://philipwalton.com/articles/why-im-excited-about-native-css-variables/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-returns-first-of-the-best-images-of-pluto

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Structor – a user interface builder for React

https://github.com/ipselon/structor/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Market Rate is for Lobsters

https://ernie.io/2015/12/05/market-rate-is-for-lobsters/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fiction-convincing-american-kids-that-they-would-like-turkish-delight

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 145 comments

Make 8-bit art

http://make8bitart.com/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Why the CDC Tracks Wireless-Only Households and Their Risky Behavior

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/03/458225197/the-daredevils-without-landlines-and-why-health-experts-are-tracking-them

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 89 comments

Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tools-for-debugging-testing-and-using-http-2/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Mentat Wiki

http://www.ludism.org/mentat

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

The cost of LIDAR is coming down

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/04/the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

Ways to Avoid Complexity in Modern C++ [pdf]

http://vitiy.info/Slides/MeetingCPP2015/MeetingCPP2015Complexity.pdf

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Braindump, a simple note platform to organize your life

https://github.com/levlaz/braindump

11 years ago

★ 523 Python MIT
91 upvotes – 41 comments

Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online

http://mic.com/articles/129679/anonymous-vs-isis-how-ghostsec-and-ghost-security-group-are-targeting-terrorists

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Postmortem: Server compromised due to publicly accessible Redis

http://kevinchen.co/blog/postmortem-server-compromised/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: ACME Let's Encrypt client – binary releases, works like 'make'

https://github.com/hlandau/acme

11 years ago

★ 2k Go
83 upvotes – 30 comments

ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator

https://github.com/mindeavor/es-pipeline-operator

11 years ago

★ 7.8k HTML BSD-3-Clause
80 upvotes – 73 comments

Let Math Save Our Democracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/let-math-save-our-democracy.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Autocompletion for Swift on Emacs

https://github.com/nathankot/company-sourcekit

11 years ago

★ 206 Emacs Lisp
79 upvotes – 16 comments

One Year of Airbnb

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/realestate/our-year-of-living-airbnb.html?hpw&rref=realestate&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

0AD Pathfinder Design [pdf]

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/docs/pathfinder.pdf

11 years ago

★ 2.8k C++
78 upvotes – 18 comments

Virtual machine inspection, now with added Prolog

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/inspection-now-with-added-prolog/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

NIPS 2015 and Machine Learning Research at Google

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/12/nips-2015-and-machine-learning-research.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Intact, Packed Etruscan Tomb Found

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/intact-packed-etruscan-tomb-found-151204.htm

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Abstract Algebra: The Definition of a Group [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudbrUcVPxk&list=PLi01XoE8jYoi3SgnnGorR_XOW3IcK-TP6

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Examining IPv6 Performance

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/examining-ipv6-performance

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-gave-my-students-ipads--then-wished-i-could-take-them-back/2015/12/02/a1bc8272-818f-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 125 comments

Is There a Future for the Professions?

http://www.thegoodproject.org/is-there-a-future-for-the-professions-an-interim-verdict/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 58 comments

E-Residency in Estonia, Part I

https://www.lawfareblog.com/e-residency-estonia-part-i-wherein-i-apply-digitally-betray-my-country

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Claimed proof of Riemann Hypothesis

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/285720971_An_asymptotic_Robin_inequality

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

In search of a European Google

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/06/europe-google-silicon-valley-digital-industry

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 87 comments

Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever found on seabed

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/06/wreck-spanish-galleon-treasure-haul

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

A History of Commodore’s 8-bit Computers

http://lowendmac.com/2015/a-history-of-commodores-8-bit-computers/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Distributed locks with Redis

http://redis.io/topics/distlock

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Looking for Tom Lehrer, Comedy's Mysterious Genius

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Can’t Put Down Your Device? That’s by Design

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/technology/personaltech/cant-put-down-your-device-thats-by-design.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

We all don't know what we are doing

http://cyberomin.github.io/startup/2015/12/07/nobody-knows-what-they-are-doing.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Science-fictional shibboleths

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/12/science-fictional-shibboleths.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Do you find reading increasingly challenging?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686212

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/what-actually-happens-to-a-recycled-plastic-bottle/418326/?single_page=true

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 45 comments

Voice Quality on Smart Phones Still Sucks (2014)

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/05/3-reasons-voice-quality-on-smart-phones-still-sucks/index.htm

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 45 comments

What a DEC-20 Cost in 1976 (2007)

http://dec20.blogspot.com/2007/11/heres-what-dec-20-cost-in-1976.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

Toxic Workers [pdf]

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/16-057_d45c0b4f-fa19-49de-8f1b-4b12fe054fea.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Ssh2, simplifying EC2 ssh'ing

https://github.com/soheil/ssh2

11 years ago

★ 392 Python
51 upvotes – 50 comments

Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28623-woman-who-has-never-felt-pain-experiences-it-for-the-first-time

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Let Math Save Our Democracy

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/let-math-save-our-democracy.html?referer=

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 33 comments

The Bugs in Our Mindware

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-bugs-in-our-mindware

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments

Capability Based Security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 35 comments
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