top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-09

Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/japan-keeps-this-defunct-train-station-running-for-just-one-passenger/423273/

10 years ago

606 upvotes – 191 comments

Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode

https://charliehorse55.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/how-nvidia-breaks-chrome-incognito/

10 years ago

474 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images

http://gradient.quasi.ink

10 years ago

448 upvotes – 94 comments

Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/

10 years ago

365 upvotes – 151 comments

Why I Write Games in C

http://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 298 comments

Hacker Monthly Shuts Down

http://blog.hackermonthly.com/shuts-down.html

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 79 comments

802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved

http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-halow

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 105 comments

An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff

https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/a-simple-technique-to-learn-hard-stuff-ffaa7879bf7c#.lubnbmj5y

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 48 comments

Netflix's async sendfile now in FreeBSD-current

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-January/080924.html

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 28 comments

Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spying-juniper-idUSKBN0UN07520160109

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871410

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 41 comments

How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014)

http://blog.sumall.com/journal/optimizely-got-me-fired.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 78 comments

Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data

https://cloud.google.com/genomics/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 53 comments

Don't Assume It's Difficult Until It Is

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2016/1/9/dont-assume-its-difficult.html

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

Fast Servers

http://geocar.sdf1.org/fast-servers.html

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb

https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/the-other-side-is-not-dumb-2670c1294063#.390rmt479

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872233

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

How Qantas Ferried an Engine on the Wing of a 747

http://www.flightradar24.com/blog/how-qantas-ferried-an-engine-on-the-wing-of-a-747/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

China Shows How Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/china-shows-how-backdoors-lead-software-censorship

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising

http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/ad-tech-worst-thing-happened-advertising/301992/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 63 comments

Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/670488/4350e3873e2fa15c/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/san-francisco-office-rents-pass-manhattan-as-most-expensive-in-country/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 146 comments

“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also”

https://twitter.com/JGamblin/status/685617755479871489

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Be your own video hoster with Docker and Nginx

https://datarhei.github.io/restreamer/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Analysis of Software Architectures

http://www.firatatagun.com/blog/2016/01/09/analysis-of-software-architectures/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 37 comments

Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/08/mixpanel-layoffs/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

How does alcohol influence the brain?

http://theneurosphere.com/2016/01/09/how-does-alcohol-influence-the-mind-a-look-into-the-brain-and-its-genes/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Smashing the Z/OS LE "Daisy" Chain for Fun and Cease and Desist Letters

https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/400ogh/smashing_the_zos_le_daisy_chain_for_fun_and_cease/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Britney Spear's Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Simple instructions for freezing a Skylake Processor

https://communities.intel.com/thread/96157?start=15&tstart=0

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

A Backyard Fight Club as an Alternative to Gun Violence

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/us/a-backyard-fight-club-as-an-alternative-to-gun-violence.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (2013)

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Replacing Judgment with Algorithms

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/01/replacing_judgm.html

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Fastdom – a weapon in the war against jank

https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom

10 years ago

★ 6.9k JavaScript
77 upvotes – 16 comments

All NYC Subway Stations to Receive Wi-Fi by End of 2016

http://www.mta.info/news-technology-governor-wi-fi/2016/01/08/new-rapid-approach-station-redevelopment-will-expedite

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: I'm a dull person since software doesn't excite me anymore. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10873327

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 57 comments

Long range forecast

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/long-range-forecast.html

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 53 comments

Exxo – build portable Python binaries

https://github.com/mbachry/exxo/

10 years ago

★ 460 Python ISC
74 upvotes – 11 comments

What is the performance impact of using int64_t on 32-bit systems?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16841382/what-is-the-performance-impact-of-using-int64-t-instead-of-int32-t-on-32-bit-sys

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Was Mac OS X really the most vulnerable in 2015?

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2016/01/was-mac-os-x-really-the-most-vulnerable-in-2015/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Unix Delenda Est (2015)

http://housejeffries.com/page/3

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

Schrödinger's Firefox OS

http://elioqoshi.me/en/2016/01/schrodingers-firefox-os/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth

https://play.freeciv.org/freeciv-earth/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

We’re Probably Not Mostly Microbes

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/youre-probably-not-mostly-microbes/423228/?utm_source=SFFB&single_page=true

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Frama-C: Function Contracts and Static Analysis for the C Language

http://frama-c.com/index.html

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (2011)

https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Deep learning pipeline for orbital satellite data for detecting clouds

https://github.com/BradNeuberg/cloudless

10 years ago

★ 301 Python Apache-2.0
60 upvotes – 17 comments

Stephen Hawking's New Black-Hole Paper, Translated: An Interview

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dark-star-diaries/stephen-hawking-s-new-black-hole-paper-translated-an-interview-with-co-author-andrew-strominger/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Mikhail Baryshnikov’s new “anti-ballet”

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/12/01/the-resurrection-of-joseph-brodsky/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

The Making of Dungeon Master

http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/dungeon-master-part-1-the-making-of/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Ooc – a small programming language that compiles to C99

https://ooc-lang.org/

10 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments
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