top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-14

Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights

https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/

11 years ago

561 upvotes – 293 comments

Koel: A personal music streaming server

https://github.com/phanan/koel

11 years ago

★ 17.1k PHP MIT
499 upvotes – 248 comments

Plan to throw one away

http://garethrees.org/2015/12/14/javascript/

11 years ago

492 upvotes – 79 comments

Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/calendar/UhfpcwO0X0c/paA4iQNen9IJ

11 years ago

454 upvotes – 291 comments

How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days

http://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days.html

11 years ago

429 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock

https://github.com/Mechazawa/FuckFuckAdblock

11 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript WTFPL
353 upvotes – 298 comments

Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 92 comments

Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/email_overload_building_my_own_email_app_to_reach_inbox_zero.html?wpsrc=sp_all_native_by-section

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 159 comments

A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal

http://dswalter.github.io/blog/machine-learnings-first-cheating-scandal/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 51 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 131 comments

The sad economics of being famous on the internet

http://fusion.net/story/244545/famous-and-broke-on-youtube-instagram-social-media/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 154 comments

Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse

http://www.quantamagazine.org/20151214-graph-isomorphism-algorithm/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 75 comments

My adventures in medical tourism

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/medical_tourism.html

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 195 comments

Onboarding teardowns

https://www.useronboard.com/onboarding-teardowns/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 60 comments

Gaffer: Large-scale graph database by GCHQ

https://github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/Gaffer

11 years ago

★ 1.7k Java Apache-2.0
172 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: TDB: A Visual Debugger for TensorFlow

https://github.com/ericjang/tdb

11 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript Apache-2.0
144 upvotes – 7 comments

A domain move disaster

http://www.paulingraham.com/domain-move-disaster.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 91 comments

Regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work

http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 55 comments

Google has quietly launched a CDN

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-cloud-cdn/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 42 comments

The ‘Backends for Frontends’ Pattern at SoundCloud

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/bff-soundcloud

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 23 comments

Western Digital and OwnCloud Team Up to Bring OwnCloud to Home Users

https://owncloud.org/blog/western-digital-and-owncloud-team-up-to-bring-owncloud-to-home-users/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

Antidepressants taken during pregnancy increase risk of autism

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/antidepressants-taken-during-pregnancy-increase-risk-of-autism-by-87-percent

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 95 comments

New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drones-registration-idUSKBN0TX1RP20151214

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 238 comments

Seattle Considers Measure to Let Uber and Lyft Drivers Unionize

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/technology/seattle-considers-measure-to-let-uber-and-lyft-drivers-unionize.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 162 comments

Shem: A Haskell-Derived Compile-to-JavaScript Lisp

https://github.com/xixixao/Shem

11 years ago

★ 391 CoffeeScript MIT
117 upvotes – 36 comments

A Collection of CSS Tips

https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips

11 years ago

★ 30k CC0-1.0
112 upvotes – 48 comments

Tor hires former EFF chief as executive director

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3014505/tor-hires-former-eff-chief-as-executive-director.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad

http://decider.com/2015/12/11/the-radicalization-of-luke-skywalker-a-jedis-path-to-jihad/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 184 comments

The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/driverless-cars-are-this-centurys-space-race/417672/?single_page=true

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 155 comments

German court rules in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/24/victory-germany-court-ruling/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014)

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper

http://news.mit.edu/2015/3q-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-computing-paper-1211

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

Did You Really Agree to That? The Evolution of Facebook’s Privacy Policy

http://techscience.org/a/2015081102/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Visual Transistor-Level Simulation of ARM1 with WebGL

http://visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Rapidoid – No-Bullshit Web Framework for Java

http://www.rapidoid.org/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Early exit is a tail call optimization of procedural languages

http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/12/14/early-exit-is-a-tail-call-optimization-of-procedural-languages/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Rediscovering MVC

https://github.com/ciscoheat/mithril-hx/wiki/Rediscovering-MVC

11 years ago

★ 182 Haxe
92 upvotes – 18 comments

Baidu says it's developed China's first fully autonomous self-driving car

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/baidu-says-its-developed-chinas-first-fully-autonomous-self-driving-car/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 68 comments

Where do all the bytes come from?

https://medium.com/@duhroach/where-do-all-the-bytes-come-from-f51586690fd0

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

The Homeless in Silicon Valley

https://newrepublic.com/article/124476/dispossessed-land-dreams

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 89 comments

The C++ community is polarized about C++11's random-number facility

http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/ease-of-use-without-loss-of-power.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 61 comments

Electron lifetime is at least 66,000 yottayears

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/dec/09/electron-lifetime-is-at-least-66000-yottayears

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Dissecting a Chinese Knockoff Guitar Pedal

http://cushychicken.github.io/dissecting-ts-clone/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Fighting Human Trafficking: Open Data, Big Data, and Python

https://wiredcraft.com/blog/human-trafficking-open-data-python/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Plumber sues Ford dealer after truck with logo was used by extremists in Syria

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/14/plumber-sues-ford-dealer-after-truck-with-company-logo-was-used-by-jihadists-in-syria/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Postmortem: Outage due to Elasticsearch’s flexibility and our carelessness

http://lambda.grofers.com/2015/12/14/postmortem-of-our-app-downtime-elasticsearchs-flexibility-bites/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook's mental health problem

https://medium.com/@katikrause/facebook-s-mental-health-problem-9c48374c1bd8#.b26037nu2

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

Reactive Ruby

http://guidosalva.github.io/ReactiveRubyTruffle/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

How the Washington D.C. Metro got so bad

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/transportation/why-does-metro-suck-dangerous-accidents-escalator-outages.php

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 86 comments

Distributed systems for fun and profit (2013)

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

Software Copyright and Innovation After Oracle v Google

http://epiclaw.net/sean-hogle-articles/oracle-v-google

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Software from Disney Research Seamlessly Blends Faces from Different Takes

http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/facedirector/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

New PC malware loads before Windows, is virtually impossible to detect

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/219027-new-pc-malware-loads-before-windows-is-virtually-impossible-to-detect?mailing_id=1524318&mailing=ExtremeTech&mailingID=D019A13C4B613C0E860C7EA8741CF8F6

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

The slowing in population growth in Africa has been less than anticipated

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21679781-fertility-rates-falling-more-slowly-anywhere-else-africa-faces-population

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 60 comments

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse and How We Got It Wrong

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-myth-of-galloping-gertie

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Swift String Cheat Sheet

http://useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-string-cheat-sheet.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: Introduction to Deep Learning, Deep Belief Nets (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJdWESd543Y

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Google to start sending search traffic to fast-loading AMP articles in Feb 2016

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-will-start-sending-search-traffic-to-fast-loading-amp-news-articles-in-february-2016/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments
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