top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-15

Wikipedia Turns 15

https://15.wikipedia.org/

10 years ago

441 upvotes – 109 comments

Before Growth

http://blog.samaltman.com/before-growth

10 years ago

364 upvotes – 206 comments

Amazon Has Just Registered to Sell Ocean Freight

https://www.flexport.com/blog/amazon-ocean-freight-forwarder/

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 98 comments

Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AETSY&ei=LWGZVoHMOtSSUMmBn6gL

10 years ago

278 upvotes – 262 comments

Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London

https://news.vice.com/article/vice-news-investigation-finds-signs-of-secret-phone-surveillance-across-london

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 98 comments

An open letter of gratitude to GitHub

https://github.com/thank-you-github/thank-you-github

10 years ago

★ 1.9k
248 upvotes – 104 comments

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 20 comments

How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans

http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 207 comments

Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin

http://avc.com/2016/01/bitcoin-is-dead-long-live-bitcoin/

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 193 comments

Doomsday planning for less crazy folk

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 162 comments

36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build

https://ramsdenj.github.io/server/2016/01/01/FreeNAS-Server-Build.html

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 181 comments

13k BTC, 300k LTC Stolen from Cryptsy Exchange

http://blog.cryptsy.com/

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 124 comments

John Romero has released his first Doom level in over two decades

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/263642/John_Romero_just_released_his_first_Doom_level_in_over_two_decades.php

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 40 comments

New York Wants to Force Vendors to Decrypt Users’ Phones

https://www.onthewire.io/new-york-wants-to-force-vendors-to-decrypt-users-phones/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

Finland’s basic income plan could change everything

http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/finlands-basic-income-plan-could-change-everything/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 235 comments

PayPal and zero-dollar invoice spam

http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/01/paypal-and-zero-dollar-invoice-spam.html

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 71 comments

A critique of "How to C in 2016"

https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/how-to-c-response

10 years ago

★ 530
157 upvotes – 178 comments

French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/world/europe/french-drug-trial-hospitalization.html?_r=0

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software

https://oswatch.net/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 73 comments

Dear “Dear GitHub”

http://www.juliandunn.net/2016/01/14/dear-dear-github-from-your-local-friendly-product-person/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 78 comments

Dr. Memory: A Memory Checker Faster Than Valgrind

http://drmemory.org/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

The big sleep

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/interactive/2016/the-big-sleep/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95%

https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

The Happiness Code: Cold, hard rationality

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-code.html?hn=1

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

Free food and misery: the life of a techie

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688390-glamorous-tech-startups-can-be-brutal-places-workers-other-side-paradise?fsrc=rss

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 94 comments

Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/14/463107541/goldman-sachs-will-pay-5-billion-to-settle-financial-crisis-claims

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 113 comments

Why boredom is anything but boring

http://www.nature.com/news/why-boredom-is-anything-but-boring-1.19140

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Things I learned from OpenSSH about reading very sensitive files

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ReadingSensitiveFilesLessons

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

Publishers Gave Away 123M Books During World War II

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/publishers-gave-away-122951031-books-during-world-war-ii/379893/?single_page=true

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Drupal: 15 years old

http://buytaert.net/drupal-15-years-old-and-still-gaining-momentum

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

What do economists say about inequality?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/14/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-understand-about-inequality/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 119 comments

Intel Software Guard Extensions – Memory Encryption Engine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzm_4XrWnl5zOXdTcUlEMmdZem8/edit

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

A brief introduction to C++'s model for type- and resource-safety [pdf]

http://www.stroustrup.com/resource-model.pdf

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 110 comments

The State of Frequent Flyer Miles

http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2016/01/10/the-state-of-the-hobby-frequent-flyer-miles-in-2016/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Getting back into programming with a hacker’s mindset?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907963

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

Alphabet Shakes Up Its Robotics Division

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/technology/alphabet-shakes-up-its-robotics-division.html?smid=tw-nytimestech&smtyp=cur

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

Netflix cracks down on proxy streaming

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35320436

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 108 comments

A beautiful fractal zoomer, directly in our web browser

https://github.com/solendil/FractalJS

10 years ago

★ 139 TypeScript MIT
69 upvotes – 24 comments

A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection

http://www.filfre.net/2016/01/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-3-case-studies-in-copy-protection/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Coroutines and Fibers: Why and When

https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/coroutines-and-fibers-why-and-when-5798f08464fd

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

Odor biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-odor-biomarker-alzheimer-disease.html

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Lessons from being sexually harassed at Google

https://medium.com/@juliachou/it-s-not-your-fault-3e5ad1ccb95c#.4y3a3ov71

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

Monthly HN Office Hours

http://blog.ycombinator.com/monthly-hn-office-hours

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Usenet Archives

http://yarchive.net/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

The Forgotten World of BBS Door Games

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/340587/the-forgotten-world-of-bbs-door-games/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

Plankalkül

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: 1dollarthings.com – an internet dollar store

http://www.1dollarthings.com

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

OweFS – One-way encrypted file system

http://owefs.firelet.net/

10 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

A Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Needs Big Data

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-cancer-moonshot-needs-big-data-1452813330

10 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

Rescuing Resque again (2015)

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rescuing-resque-again?hn

10 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments

Hipster Mattresses: Why?

http://tedium.co/2016/01/14/hipster-mattresses-casper-yogabed/

10 years ago

45 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: RaftLib – Stream Computation library for C++

http://www.raftlib.io

10 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments
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