top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-16

The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

11 years ago

949 upvotes – 447 comments

Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/16/10288182/cisa-surveillance-cyber-security-budget-proposal

11 years ago

580 upvotes – 121 comments

Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

http://makeit.netflix.com/netflix-socks

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 191 comments

Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform

http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/friends-hue-program-update

11 years ago

441 upvotes – 164 comments

Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/fed-ends-zero-rate-era-signals-4-quarter-point-2016-increases

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 351 comments

I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-emoji-in-my-password-and-now-i-cant-log-in-to-my-account-on-yosemite

11 years ago

392 upvotes – 144 comments

Slack Platform Launch

http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform

11 years ago

366 upvotes – 219 comments

Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

http://rejected.us/

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 201 comments

LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3014654/open-source-tools/libreoffice-as-a-service-offers-alternative-to-google-docs-office-365.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 139 comments

ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/reactos-open-source-windows-clone-173145859.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 174 comments

Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hZ_w7zMC6CyeF_DHc2Mls7q7N67I1pP_9ntXlt4apvk/viewform?c=0&w=1

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 98 comments

Phoenix 1.1 Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phoenix-core/TBacwj0U7rY

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 62 comments

I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views

http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/i-was-denied-admission-to-a-phd-program-because-of-my-perceived-political-views-reflections-of-a-sellout-how-diversity-would-strengthen-social-science

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 361 comments

Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review

http://www.candyjapan.com/2015-year-in-review

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-update-t2-nano-instances-now-available/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 110 comments

Google to Make Driverless Cars an Alphabet Company in 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/google-said-to-make-driverless-cars-an-alphabet-company-in-2016

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

Yahoo open sources Anthelion web crawler for parsing structured data

https://github.com/yahoo/anthelion

11 years ago

★ 2.8k Java Apache-2.0
159 upvotes – 9 comments

Kojima Productions

http://www.kojimaproductions.jp/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

The Insults of Age

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/may/1430402400/helen-garner/insults-age

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

The Reasoned Lisper

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math

http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/04/think-like-a-statistician-without-the-math/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 23 comments

Python Is Not C: Take Two

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Is_Not_C_Take_Two

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting

http://www.nature.com/news/biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-in-limbo-after-cryptic-meeting-1.19035

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: What is a way of making residual income with $5K a month?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10743315

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 71 comments

PS4 security article follow up

https://cturt.github.io/ps4-2.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

AirBar: Brings touch to PCs – works with gloves/paintbrush

http://air.bar

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

SEC Approves Plan to Issue Overstock.com Stock via Blockchain

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/sec-approves-plan-to-issue-company-stock-via-the-bitcoin-blockchain/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

The discovery of lunar water has changed everything for human exploration

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/why-were-going-back-to-the-moon-with-or-without-nasa/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

DataGrip 1.0 (formerly 0xDBE): A New IDE for DBs and SQL

http://blog.jetbrains.com/datagrip/2015/12/16/datagrip-1-0-formerly-0xdbe-a-new-ide-for-dbs-and-sql/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

O(1) Data Lookups with Minimal Perfect Hashing

http://blog.demofox.org/2015/12/14/o1-data-lookups-with-minimal-perfect-hashing/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

RxJS is great. So why have I moved on?

https://medium.com/@puppybits/rxjs-is-great-so-why-have-i-moved-on-534c513e7af3#.h482688wk

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Optimizing Software in C++ [pdf]

http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage is now in open beta

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a New Particle

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/science/physicists-in-europe-find-tantalizing-hints-of-a-mysterious-new-particle.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs

http://www.searchablepdfs.org/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Owns Their Newspaper

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporters-in-las-vegas-try-to-crack-case-of-who-owns-their-newspaper.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

This Christmas, give the gift of a blameless life to someone you love

http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2015/12/this-christmas-give-gift-of-blameless.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Trying to speed up binary search

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2015/09/trying-to-speed-up-binary-search.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

12 Coders Get Naked for a Good Cause

http://coderswithoutclothes.org

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

University of California launches $250M fund for student startups on campus

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/15/university-of-california-launches-250-million-venture-fund/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

A Guide to Fully Homomorphic Encryption

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1192

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

A Cosmonaut on the Moon: Korlev’s N-1/L3 Plan

https://thehighfrontier.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/a-cosmonaut-on-the-moon-korlevs-n-1l3-plan/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Too many open files: Tracking down a bug in production

http://techblog.roomkey.com/posts/too-many-files.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Government surveillance is as old as the telegraph

https://www.timeline.com/stories/the-us-government-has-been-monitoring-customers-since-the-telegraph

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: The new Windria – 2-5km precision wind forecasts

https://windria.net/map#new

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Why the bottom has dropped out of the antiques market

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683982-why-bottom-has-dropped-out-antiques-market-out-old

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 65 comments

Loss aversion is not what we think it is

http://www.basilhalperin.com/blog/2015/12/loss-aversion-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

DNS Terminology

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7719

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Hacking the iPod: How I Earned $65K in High School (2012)

http://gizmodo.com/5906616/hacking-the-ipod-how-i-earned-65k-in-high-school

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments
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