top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-10

Running costs for running a web app

http://cushionapp.com/expenses/

10 years ago

596 upvotes – 217 comments

YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233970#c25

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 257 comments

Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView

https://lord.io/blog/2016/yayview/

10 years ago

356 upvotes – 117 comments

Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/going-forward-the-tor-project-wants-to-be-less-reliant-on-us-govt-funding/

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 45 comments

Amazon has no idea how to run an app store

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/amazon-has-no-idea-how-to-run-an-app-store

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 169 comments

Tesla Model S can now park itself

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/09/tesla-model-s-can-now-drive-without-you/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29#.xutgnk:vf2N

10 years ago

236 upvotes – 169 comments

Intel CPU Bugs of 2015 and Implications for the Future

http://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 38 comments

The Trouble with the TPP, Day 5: Rights Holders “Shall” vs. Users “May”

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/01/the-trouble-with-the-tpp-day-5-rights-holders-shall-vs-users-may/

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 32 comments

You Don’t Need More Free Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/sunday/you-dont-need-more-free-time.html

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 66 comments

Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs

http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/726/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 51 comments

Category Theory and Declarative Programming

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/04/15/category-theory-and-declarative-programming/

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 23 comments

Getting ahead vs. doing well

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/getting-ahead-vs-doing-well.html

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10874842

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 115 comments

Why I Carry a Newton

http://eggfreckles.net/notes/why-newton/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 138 comments

GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC6-Misleading-Indentation

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 60 comments

Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/technology/yahoos-brain-drain-shows-a-loss-of-faith-inside-the-company.html?

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 142 comments

Building an OpenBSD Router

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 33 comments

Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/summon-your-tesla-your-phone

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 139 comments

What is WebAssembly? (2015)

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-is-webassembly-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-61256ec5a8f6

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 66 comments

A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names

http://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 27 comments

How Facebook makes us dumber

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-08/how-facebook-makes-us-dumber

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 118 comments

AMA: the OpenAI research team

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/404r9m/ama_the_openai_research_team/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 41 comments

Advanced Algebra textbooks

http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~aknapp/download.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 38 comments

Writing high-performance servers in modern C++

https://medium.com/@jamesperry/writing-high-performance-servers-in-modern-c-7cd00926828#.lcsmnff1d

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 73 comments

How to Name Clojure Functions

http://stuartsierra.com/2016/01/09/how-to-name-clojure-functions

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

Conway's game of life computed in WebGL

http://glslsandbox.com/e#207.3

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 29 comments

Homestead High School Newspaper, May 22, 1977

http://imgur.com/st7eyiR

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

A short fable of software engineering vs. regular engineering

http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/thelablunch/2016/01/a-short-fable-of-software-engineering-vs-regular-engineering/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 91 comments

John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8034143/john-ioannidis-interview

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

Intent to implement WASM in v8

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/PInzACvS5I4

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 113 comments

Canadian Company Netsweeper to Censor Bahrain’s Internet for $1.2M

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadian-company-netsweeper-to-censor-bahrains-internet-for-12m?utm_source=mbtwitter

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Antivirus software could make your company more vulnerable

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3020459/security/antivirus-software-could-make-your-company-more-vulnerable.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

dd built-in progress introduced in coreutils 8.24

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/src/dd.c?id=af2a4ed22594badd2719c0123441d69b17bd8328

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

The Lark-Owl Scale: When Couples’ Sleep Patterns Diverge

http://nytimes.com/2016/01/10/fashion/sleep-marriage-couples.html?_r=0

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Viskell: Visual programming meets Haskell

https://github.com/wandernauta/viskell

10 years ago

★ 680 Java
91 upvotes – 21 comments

How a Cray-2 supercomputer was used to decode a movie ham radio transmission

http://swling.com/blog/2016/01/how-bob-mcgwier-used-a-cray-2-supercomputer-to-decode-a-ham-radio-transmission-heard-in-star-trek-iv/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Are Computers Still Getting Faster? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLxX07isNg

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 91 comments

The Scope of Unsafe

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2016/01/09/the-scope-of-unsafe.html

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Inside Pinterest and its ad sales operation

http://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-worth-11-billion-valuation-revenue-grow-5x-2015

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

In 2016, Intel's Entire Supply Chain Will Be Conflict-Free

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3055066/change-generation/in-2016-intels-entire-supply-chain-will-be-conflict-free

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Compilers targeting C - a list of open source compilers that can generate C code

https://github.com/dbohdan/compilers-targeting-c

10 years ago

★ 774 JavaScript
74 upvotes – 12 comments

New Erdős Paper Solves Egyptian Fraction Problem

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/uncategorized/new-erdos-paper-solves-egyptian-fraction-problem/#

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

ZipPy – a Python 3 implementation on the JVM

https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

When Teamwork Doesn't Work for Women

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/upshot/when-teamwork-doesnt-work-for-women.html

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Requiem for a Trijet Masterpiece – The Lockheed L-1011

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/09/requiem-trijet-masterpiece-lockheed-l-1011-tristar/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Americans Work So Much Despite Keynes's Prediction

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/inequality-work-hours/422775/?single_page=true

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments

UIKit for the Mac

https://github.com/unifiedh/Chameleon-Swift

10 years ago

★ 350 Swift
58 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Working with a monolithic codebase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10874992

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 49 comments
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