top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-28

Introducing d3-scale

https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f#.9qmfpjj3d

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 73 comments

Free Springer math books

https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a

10 years ago

322 upvotes – 68 comments

Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/stupid-patent-month-microsofts-design-patent-slider

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 212 comments

191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 99 comments

How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/26/how-i-created-a-350m-software-company-knowing-nothing-about-software/#.e2pipa:kPAt

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 108 comments

China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys

http://betanews.com/2015/12/27/china-passes-law-requiring-tech-firms-to-hand-over-encryption-keys/

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 112 comments

Judge: Drinking tea, shopping at garden store probable cause for SWAT raid

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 139 comments

When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21683979-what-happened-when-slaves-and-free-men-were-shipwrecked-together-lu00e8se

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 131 comments

AVG: “Web TuneUP” extension multiple critical vulnerabilities

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=675

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 109 comments

Mysterious Android codebase commit

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/51b1b6997fd3f980076b8081f7f1165ccc2a4008

10 years ago

236 upvotes – 158 comments

SQL Tabs – Rich SQL Console for Postgresql

http://www.sqltabs.com/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Engineers Can’t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak

http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 87 comments

A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing

http://ignition.co/398

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 44 comments

React/JavaScript fatigue

https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 183 comments

2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/2015-the-year-that-microsoft-started-getting-the-benefit-of-the-doubt/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 170 comments

Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-windows-computer-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 56 comments

I worked at Amazon to see if anything's changed

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/inside-amazon-at-christmas-929

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 160 comments

AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell

10 years ago

★ 7.3k Python Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 21 comments

How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21684687-high-school-students-want-citizens-rate-their-interactions-officers-how-three

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 128 comments

U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3017196/it-careers/u-s-predicts-zero-job-growth-for-electronics-engineers.html

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 152 comments

MirrorMirror: A Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror

http://blog.dylanjpierce.com/raspberrypi/magicmirror/tutorial/2015/12/27/build-a-magic-mirror.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-theranos-many-strategies-and-snags-1451259629

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 125 comments

MIT Mathlets: Interactive mathematics visualizations

http://mathlets.org/mathlets/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 10 comments

Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

The future of the Crystal language

http://crystal-lang.org/2015/12/24/the-future-of-crystal.html?hn

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 36 comments

A Modern Architecture for FP

http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon Invades India

http://fortune.com/amazon-india-jeff-bezos/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

This Is Your Brain on Nature

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/call-to-wild-text

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

How Blue Lights on Train Platforms Combat Tokyo’s Suicide Epidemic

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how-blue-lights-on-train-platforms-combat-tokyos-suicide-epidemic

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 100 comments

How to Program an NES game in C

https://nesdoug.wordpress.com/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Is Being a Digital Nomad a Lie?

http://coastery.com/2015/digital-nomad-truth/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

Test results for Broadwell and Skylake

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=415

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: CodeHalf – Write Code Everyday, new design and new features

http://codehalf.com

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

3 Degrees of LinkedIn Separation from the Military-Industrial-Surveillance State

http://linkedd.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Animals think, therefore...

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21676961-inner-lives-animals-are-hard-study-there-evidence-they-may-be-lot-richer-science-once-thought

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 81 comments

Implementing a programming language in D: Lexical Analysis

http://blog.felixangell.com/implementing-a-programming-language-in-d-part-1

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/upshot/why-preventing-cancer-is-not-the-priority-in-drug-development.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (2014)

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astronomy-resource-guides/science-fiction-stories-with-good-astronomy-physics-a-topical-index/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Hashcat and oclHashcat have gone open source

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-4880-post-27401.html

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/26/460803440/if-doctors-learned-to-cook-they-might-give-better-advice

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

NSA knew about Juniper backdoors and kept quiet about them

http://thenextweb.com/us/2015/12/24/nsa-knew-about-juniper-backdoors-and-kept-quiet-about-them/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 7

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part7/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 1 comments

ParparVM – Open Source JVM for iOS

https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/tree/master/vm

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Java
74 upvotes – 12 comments

The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

http://daithiocrualaoich.github.io/kolmogorov_smirnov/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

TSA Body Scan? Just Say 'No,' Leading Expert Says

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisabrownlee/2015/12/24/tsa-body-scan-just-say-no-leading-expert-says/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 139 comments

Lazy Authentication Still the Norm

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/2016-reality-lazy-authentication-still-the-norm/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 67 comments

Color harmony and color design

http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech13.html

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 5 comments

How Hollywood Caught the UK's Most Prolific Movie Pirates

https://torrentfreak.com/how-hollywood-caught-the-uks-most-prolific-movie-pirates-151227/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Former Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny”

http://www.avclub.com/article/four-columbia-house-insiders-explain-shady-math-be-219964

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80

http://baugues.com/trs-80/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

The Ultimate Amiga 500 Talk [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7468-the_ultimate_amiga_500_talk#video&t=70

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/the-app-ocalypse-can-web-standards-make-mobile-apps-obsolete/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 69 comments

Eye Contact: How Long Is Too Long?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eye-contact-how-long-is-too-long/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Irish DNA originated in Middle East and eastern Europe

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/28/origins-of-the-irish-down-to-mass-migration-ancient-dna-confirms?CMP=share_btn_fb

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Getting Docker running on a high-end 64-bit ARM gaming console

http://blog.hypriot.com/post/getting-docker-running-on-a-highend-arm-gaming-console-for-fun-and-profit/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Glass Enterprise Edition passes through the FCC with improved hardware

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-glass-enterprise-edition-passes-through-fcc-664698/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

Elemental: C++ library for distributed-memory linear algebra and optimization

https://github.com/elemental/Elemental

10 years ago

★ 516 C++
56 upvotes – 22 comments
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