top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-06

Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-is-now-available-around-the-world

10 years ago

1015 upvotes – 497 comments

Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant

http://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html

10 years ago

697 upvotes – 316 comments

Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2874238

10 years ago

424 upvotes – 116 comments

Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685292-critics-argue-mark-zuckerbergs-generosity-cover-landgrab-facebooks-free-internet

10 years ago

394 upvotes – 237 comments

Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)

http://www.nealstephenson.com/social-media.html

10 years ago

379 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

http://www.nodaljs.com/

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 168 comments

Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

https://shop.oculus.com/

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 376 comments

This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/01/05/web-developers-rejoice-internet-explorer-8-9-and-10-die-on-tuesday/

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 175 comments

CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work

http://codereddit.com/

10 years ago

270 upvotes – 118 comments

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976

10 years ago

231 upvotes – 77 comments

North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35240012

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 168 comments

SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy

http://www.sfexaminer.com/yellow-cab-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 224 comments

How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker

http://blog.mailgun.com/security-guide-basic-infrastructure-security/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 39 comments

How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans into Suckers

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/magazine/how-the-daily-fantasy-sports-industry-turns-fans-into-suckers.html

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 147 comments

Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team

https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 116 comments

Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007)

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 89 comments

Reverse Engineering a Real Candle

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/reverse-engineering-a-real-candle/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 37 comments

Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=764

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 13 comments

Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/01/05/jdk-in-android.html

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 155 comments

How the McLaren F1 Got Its Sound

https://soundcloud.com/scuderiazagreb/how-mclaren-f1-got-its-sound

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 40 comments

Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/01/dumb-init-an-init-for-docker.html

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2016/january/06/160106-enigma-naval-hero

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 44 comments

North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydrogen Bomb

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/world/asia/north-korean-tremor-raises-suspicions-of-a-new-nuclear-test.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews&region=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=56876323&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 118 comments

The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier

http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 169 comments

Investigation: Police Shootings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 211 comments

You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 169 comments

Robigalia: seL4 and Rust

https://robigalia.org/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming (2015)

http://crufter.com/2015/01/01/idris-a-language-which-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-programming/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 100 comments

Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 103 comments

You Know Less Than You Think About Guns

https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 116 comments

SLOTH – Security Losses from Obsolete and Truncated Transcript Hashes

http://www.mitls.org/pages/attacks/SLOTH

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/cortana-cyanogen/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

Swiss in CSS – Homage to the International Typographic Style

http://swissincss.com/

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 16 comments

David Chaum Has a Plan to End the Crypto War

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

Man-In-the-Middle Interfering with Increased Security

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/01/06/man-in-the-middle-interfering-with-increased-security/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724334/north-korea-history

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX

https://www.gitbook.com/blog/releases/editor-5-beta

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Nanomsg: Stepping Down

http://garrett.damore.org/2016/01/stepping-down.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

New York Public Library Enhances Public Domain Collections for Sharing and Reuse

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/05/share-public-domain-collections

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later

https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2016-01-06-20-54_ipv6_non_alternatives_djbs_article_13_years_later.html

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/facebook-messenger-bots/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

CEmu – TI-84 Plus/TI-83 Premium Calculator Emulator

https://github.com/MateoConLechuga/CEmu

10 years ago

★ 1.2k C++
76 upvotes – 35 comments

Microwave Thermal Rockets

http://parkinresearch.com/microwave-thermal-rockets/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Remembering the Iran-Iraq War

https://notevenpast.org/remembering-the-iran-iraq-war/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js

http://dataviztalk.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-to-make-tuftes-discrete-sparklines.html

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

'Snooper's charter' will cost British lives, MPs to be warned

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/snoopers-charter-will-cost-british-lives-mps-warned

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

A new Japanese magazine about construction workers

http://ignition.co/460

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

The Green Book Map

http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

The Phablet Era

http://avc.com/2016/01/the-phablet-era

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 83 comments

The Yakuza and the Cause of the Yamaguchi-Gumi Split

http://ignition.co/439

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Astronomers Find New Object, Possible Super-Earth in Our Solar System

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2015/12/10/astronomers-find-new-object-possible-super-earth-in-our-solar-system/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments
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