top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-12

A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html

10 years ago

445 upvotes – 146 comments

Code that will break in Python 4

http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2016/01/12/stop-writing-python-4-incompatible-code/

10 years ago

433 upvotes – 221 comments

Stripe now supports ACH payments

https://stripe.com/blog/accept-ach-payments

10 years ago

424 upvotes – 192 comments

Shutting down persona.org in November 2016

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/persona-notices/2016/000005.html

10 years ago

417 upvotes – 136 comments

So You Think You Can Program an Elevator

https://github.com/mshang/python-elevator-challenge/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 1.3k Python MIT
407 upvotes – 112 comments

SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/26

10 years ago

366 upvotes – 121 comments

Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-cisco-must-be-held-accountable-aiding-chinas-human-rights-abuses

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 116 comments

Docker for Beginners

http://prakhar.me/docker-curriculum/

10 years ago

326 upvotes – 62 comments

Two Weeks of Rust

http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/2016/1/10/two-weeks-rust/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 343 comments

Voxel Quest January 2016 Update

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/voxel-quest-january-2016-update

10 years ago

303 upvotes – 128 comments

Lodash 4.0.0 is out

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/releases/tag/4.0.0

10 years ago

★ 61.2k JavaScript
303 upvotes – 96 comments

The pirate game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game

10 years ago

298 upvotes – 135 comments

Ansible 2.0 released

http://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-2.0-launch

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 82 comments

Google recommends inlining small CSS

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCSSDelivery

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative

http://2sli.de

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 64 comments

RemixOS for PC released

http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc#downloadNow

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 134 comments

H.265/HEVC vs. H.264/AVC: 50% bit rate savings verified

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016/01/h-dot-265-slash-hevc-vs-h-dot-264-slash-avc-50-percent-bit-rate-savings-verified

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 107 comments

Canada forgot to plan for its future by leaning on oil and the loonie

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/canada-forgot-to-plan-for-its-future-by-leaning-on-oil-and-the-loonie/article28083772/

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 165 comments

The Unexotic Underclass (2013)

http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011)

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/07/15/ui/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 112 comments

Push notifications when you have 8M followers [video]

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/holy-hell/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 43 comments

How to access the Darknet. The safe way

https://torgeek.pw/how-to-access-the-darknet-the-safe-way/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 88 comments

David Bowie, an Internet pioneer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35279234

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 33 comments

T-Mobile CEO Apologizes for “Offending” EFF and Its Supporters

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/t-mobile-ceo-apologizes-for-offending-eff-and-its-supporters/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 54 comments

Farbfeld – A suckless image format

http://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 88 comments

San Francisco's Fog Over Growth

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-11/san-francisco-can-t-stand-how-much-it-wants-to-grow

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 96 comments

Gates, Bezos invest in cancer blood test

http://quadrangleonline.com/2016/01/11/gates-bezos-invest-in-cancer-blood-test/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

TIS-100P on the App Store

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tis-100p/id1070879899?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

The 40,000-Mile Volcano

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/science/midocean-ridges-volcano-underwater.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Would Anyone Use Perl 6?

http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-use-perl-6.html

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 146 comments

Planetary Defense

http://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

Getting Started with Django REST Framework and AngularJS, Part 2

http://engineroom.trackmaven.com/blog/getting-started-drf-angularjs-part-2/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

How a Game-Playing Robot Coded “Super Mario Maker” onto an SNES

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/01/how-a-game-playing-robot-coded-super-mario-maker-onto-an-snes-live-on-stage/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

A Hydrogen Bomb by any other name

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-hydrogen-bomb-by-any-other-name

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2zo7tzrO8

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Clicking for Love – The Curious, Odious, Hilarious World of Online Dating

http://www.alfiekohn.org/uncategorized/clickingforlove/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Libconcurrent – Coroutines in C

https://github.com/sharow/libconcurrent

10 years ago

★ 367 Assembly Zlib
91 upvotes – 24 comments

Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/twitters-policy-reboot-good-bad-and-ugly

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 78 comments

The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems

https://medium.com/the-development-set/the-reductive-seduction-of-other-people-s-problems-3c07b307732d#.33887c3dj

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS

http://louwrentius.com/the-hidden-cost-of-using-zfs-for-your-home-nas.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

The half strap: self-hosting and Guile

https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Facebook submits to the TRAI supporting differential pricing of data [pdf]

http://trai.gov.in/Comments_Data/Organisation/Facebook.pdf

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol Security Bypass Vulnerability

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-007

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

Scientists struggle to stay grounded after possible gravitational wave signal

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/12/gravitation-waves-signal-rumoured-science

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

The Founder’s Battle for Mental Health

https://medium.com/@tchebotarev/the-founder-s-battle-for-mental-health-c5d8eaff09c#.g7py1ntcc

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

MesoGlue Is a Metallic Glue That Replaces Hot Solder

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/nu-rmg010816.php

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

What Meetups Tell Us About America

http://priceonomics.com/what-meetups-tell-us-about-america/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Remote Desktop Protocol Improvements in Windows 10

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2016/01/11/remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-10-avc-h-264-improvements-in-windows-10-and-windows-server-2016-technical-preview.aspx

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Munchery CEO Tri Tran's harrowing journey to Silicon Valley

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-01-05/how-a-vietnamese-refugee-is-rethinking-food-delivery-in-america

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cocaine-addiction-scientists-discover-back-door-into-the-brain

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: ReactNativeAutoUpdater – support dynamic updates for React Native apps

https://github.com/aerofs/react-native-auto-updater

10 years ago

★ 1.5k Objective-C MIT
68 upvotes – 15 comments

Interest Rates, Unicorns and What the Fed Means to Silicon Valley

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/interest-rates-unicorns-and-what-the-fed-means-to-silicon-valley/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 35 comments

Using two-factor authentication for SSH

http://www.arm-blog.com/using-2-factor-authentication-for-ssh/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Static Analysis Tool for Dockerfiles in Haskell

https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/hadolint

10 years ago

★ 12k Haskell GPL-3.0
63 upvotes – 3 comments

Global Sea Level Rise Map

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

On Vietnamese Writing

http://limdauto.github.io/posts/2015-11-15-on-vietnamese-writing.html

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Open Web Application Security Project issues new secure coding bible

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/owasps_revamped_developer_guide_will_help_you_pass_pen_tests/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Customers now wary of security holes in connected devices, survey finds

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/mobile-device-sales-slow-customers-grow-wary-of-security-holes-in-connected-devices-survey-says/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

How We Approached the Allen A.I. Challenge on Kaggle

http://blog.talla.com/2016/01/how-we-approached-the-allen-a-i-challenge-on-kaggle/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 1 comments
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