top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-13

ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/01/13/chakracore-now-open/

10 years ago

Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright_law_shouldn_t_keep_me_from_fixing_a_tractor.html

10 years ago

Project Rider – A C# IDE

http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a-csharp-ide/

10 years ago

Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/business/media/al-jazeera-america-to-shut-down-in-april.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

10 years ago

Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk

https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

10 years ago

★ 2.4k Awk MIT

Introduction to PostgreSQL physical storage

http://rachbelaid.com/introduction-to-postgres-physical-storage/

10 years ago

Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words

https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/facebook-and-how-uis-twist-your-words-4ceedc5fd93#.uyy3wr30p

10 years ago

US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail, phone hacked

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/us-intelligence-directors-personal-e-mail-phone-hacked/

10 years ago

Private messages at work can be read by EU employers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35301148

10 years ago

Qt Licensing Changes

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/01/13/new-agreement-with-the-kde-free-qt-foundation/

10 years ago

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897460

10 years ago

My first ten-day Vipassana retreat

https://micaelwidell.com/my-first-10-day-vipassana-retreat/

10 years ago

Go 1.5.3 released to address security vulnerability

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/MEATuOi_ei4

10 years ago

OpenBSD laptops

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/openbsd-laptops

10 years ago

What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

http://flexbox.io/#/

10 years ago

Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX

http://webdemo.myscript.com/#/demo/equation

10 years ago

A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/a-tale-of-twenty-two-million-citi-bikes-analyzing-the-nyc-bike-share-system/

10 years ago

Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux

https://www.20papercups.net/programming/sending-receiving-sms-on-linux/

10 years ago

In the Works – AWS Region in Canada

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-canada/

10 years ago

Urban highways destroy wealth

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2015/01/worlds-worst-investment-why-urban.html

10 years ago

GoPro cutting 7 percent of its workforce

http://www.businessinsider.com/gopro-cutting-7-of-jobs-2016-1

10 years ago

How we used Category Theory to solve a problem in Java

http://techblog.realestate.com.au/how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-problem-in-java/

10 years ago

Is PaaS dead?

http://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited

10 years ago

When a Video-Game World Ends

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/when-a-video-game-world-ends/423360/?single_page=true

10 years ago

Show HN: Patchwork – Real-time notifications for OSS vulnerabilities

https://patchworksecurity.com/

10 years ago

Cruncher: An Implementation of Bret Victor's Scrubbing Calculator

https://www.cruncher.io/

10 years ago

Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces

http://hackaday.com/2016/01/12/hackers-and-heroes-rise-of-ccc-and-hackerspaces/

10 years ago

How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an even bigger ripoff

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-powerball-rules-were-tweaked-20160112-column.html

10 years ago

Nanodegree Plus: Get hired within six months of graduating, or tuition refund

https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree/plus

10 years ago

The Japanese Art of Self-Mummification

http://www.damninteresting.com/sokushinbutsu-the-ancient-buddhist-mummies-of-japan/

10 years ago

Gerald Sussman on Flexible Systems, The Power of Generic Operations [video]

https://vimeo.com/151465912

10 years ago

Building Maintainable Software – Free O’Reilly Ebook

https://www.sig.eu/en/building-maintainable-software/

10 years ago

Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android

https://yawnbox.com/index.php/2015/03/14/create-an-anonymous-textsecure-and-redphone-phone-number/

10 years ago

GraphiQL: GraphQL’s Killer App?

https://medium.com/@clayallsopp/graphiql-graphql-s-killer-app-9896242b2125

10 years ago

My Last Day as a Surgeon

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-last-day-as-a-surgeon

10 years ago

Apple Steps Back from Its iAd Advertising Business

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-iad?utm_term=.dcedkJvDgV#.phmYbVDrBL

10 years ago

Complexity of Python Operations (2013)

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~pattis/ICS-33/lectures/complexitypython.txt

10 years ago

The CIA-backed startup that's taking over Palo Alto

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/12/the-cia-backed-start-up-thats-taking-over-palo-alto.html

10 years ago

How a man accused of fraud uncovered the Stingray surveillance device

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/13/10758380/stingray-surveillance-device-daniel-rigmaiden-case

10 years ago

Why is the latest AMD hardware unsupported in libreboot?

https://libreboot.org/faq/#amd

10 years ago

Ask HN: What is your company's on-call rotation like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10892771

10 years ago

Tim Ferriss Major Depression Research

https://www.crowdrise.com/timferriss

10 years ago

It’s 2016 already, how are websites still screwing up these user experiences?

http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/01/its-2016-already-how-are-websites-still.html

10 years ago

Tell HN: Ffmpeg vulnerability allows attacker to get files from server or PC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10893301

10 years ago

Solitaire, written inside the bootloader

https://github.com/masneyb/boot2sol

10 years ago

★ 57 Assembly GPL-3.0

Paribus (YC S15) saves you money when items you purchased online drop in price

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/just-saved-146-amazon-purchase-without-lifting-finger-191223254.html

10 years ago

Crude Falls Below $30 a Barrel for the First Time in 12 Years

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/wti-oil-falls-below-30-for-first-time-since-dec-2003

10 years ago

AI safety engineering, target selection, and alignment theory

https://intelligence.org/2015/12/31/safety-engineering-target-selection-and-alignment-theory/

10 years ago

Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL

https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/

10 years ago

A Fully Functional 3D Printed Watch With Tourbillon

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/a-major-step-forward-in-horological-additive-manufacturing-christoph-laimers-3d-printed-tourbillon

10 years ago

GE will move headquarters to Boston

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/01/13/report-will-move-headquarters-boston/YiBSWeE9IdfI2kFe6ilQQO/story.html

10 years ago

CAD Is a Lie: Generative Design to the Rescue

http://lineshapespace.com/generative-design/

10 years ago

HTML5 Tidy: The granddaddy of HTML tools

http://www.html-tidy.org/

10 years ago

Building a global IoT data network in 6 months

https://medium.com/@wienke/the-things-network-building-a-global-iot-data-network-in-6-months-adc2c0b1ae9b#.r7m9n8458

10 years ago

Show HN: A programmable embedded browser written in pure Java

https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver

10 years ago

★ 814 Java

Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/08/business/the-executive-computer.html?

10 years ago

Knowmail – AI for email

https://www.knowmail.me/

10 years ago