top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-19

Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

https://www.desktopneo.com

10 years ago

798 upvotes – 314 comments

The Rails Doctrine

http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine

10 years ago

497 upvotes – 357 comments

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years

10 years ago

493 upvotes – 83 comments

A free shipping mystery

http://romain.goyet.com/articles/free_shipping_from_china/

10 years ago

410 upvotes – 195 comments

“Subject: Urgent Warning”

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warning/

10 years ago

407 upvotes – 174 comments

How Elon Musk Stole My Car

https://www.atlantic.net/blog/how-elon-musk-ceo-of-telsa-motors-stole-my-car/

10 years ago

397 upvotes – 146 comments

India's telecom regulator cracks down on Facebook for its Free Basics campaign [pdf]

http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/Miscelleneus/Document/201601190319214139629TRAI_letter_to_FB_dated_18_01_2016.pdf

10 years ago

379 upvotes – 102 comments

Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765

10 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
346 upvotes – 122 comments

Riemann – A network monitoring system

http://riemann.io/

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 104 comments

2^74207281-1 is Prime

http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281

10 years ago

304 upvotes – 124 comments

Clojure 1.8

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/19/clojure-18

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 60 comments

Did European Court Just Outlaw “Massive Monitoring of Communications” in Europe?

https://cdt.org/blog/did-the-european-court-of-human-rights-just-outlaw-massive-monitoring-of-communications-in-europe/

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 40 comments

Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

https://twitter.com/iamkoby/status/689521611611971588

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 132 comments

OpenFace: Free and open source face recognition with deep neural networks

http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 45 comments

Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

http://togelius.blogspot.com/2016/01/why-video-games-are-essential-for.html

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 130 comments

Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab

http://blog.wolfram.com/2016/01/19/announcing-wolfram-programming-lab/

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 140 comments

Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability

http://perception-point.io/2016/01/14/analysis-and-exploitation-of-a-linux-kernel-vulnerability-cve-2016-0728/

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 65 comments

What I learnt from being sexually harassed at Google

http://www.gadgette.com/2016/01/19/what-i-learnt-from-being-sexually-harassed-at-google/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 259 comments

Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/19/trello-hits-12m-users-launches-power-ups-platform-with-partners-giphy-join-me-surveymonkey-and-zendesk/

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 95 comments

Is it still possible to get away with a heist?

http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/Hatton-Garden-is-it-still-possible-to-get-away-with-a-heist/index.html

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 110 comments

Why Violins Have F-Holes

http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/why-violins-have-f-holes-the-science-history-of-a-remarkable-renaissance-design.html

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively

https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier

10 years ago

★ 35.3k TypeScript MIT
162 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple May Be Using Congo Cobalt Mined by Children, Amnesty Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-19/apple-may-be-using-congo-cobalt-mined-by-children-amnesty-says

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 216 comments

Berkeley AI Materials

http://ai.berkeley.edu/project_overview.html

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 17 comments

Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed computing synchronization

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2878574

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/01/19/penny-game-software-dev/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 71 comments

Nim 0.13.0 has been released

http://nim-lang.org/news.html#Z2016-01-18-version-0-13-0-released

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 79 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs

http://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 159 comments

Running 50km after 82h of fasting

http://blog.xavivives.com/post/134198815248/running-50km-after-82h-of-fasting-my-conclusions

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 120 comments

The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads

http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

Serving 6.8M requests per second at 9 Gbps from a single Azure VM

http://www.ageofascent.com/azure-cloud-high-speed-networking/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/patreon-gains-30-million-series-b-funding-experiencing-major-growth/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-pries-more-transparency-zero-days-governments-grasp

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

VR First by Crytek

http://vrfirst.cryengine.com/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 59 comments

Announcing Minecraft: Education Edition

http://education.minecraft.net/announce011916/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 55 comments

“Heroes of CRISPR” Disputed

http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/45119/title/-Heroes-of-CRISPR--Disputed/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

Tcpdive – A TCP Performance Profiling Tool

https://github.com/fastos/tcpdive/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Shell GPL-2.0
113 upvotes – 15 comments

Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens

http://www.mondaynote.com/2016/01/18/googles-amp-poised-to-take-the-lead-from-facebooks-and-apples-walled-gardens/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Daily%202016-01-19&utm_term=Digiday%20UK%20Newsletter

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/us/drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-us.html

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 135 comments

Mihai Pătrașcu, 1982–2012

http://pressone.ro/genius/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 2 comments

Gilt Groupe Is a Cautionary Tale for Startup Employees Banking on Stock Options

http://recode.net/2016/01/19/gilt-groupe-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startup-employees-banking-on-stock-options/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

President of Finland writes code with 4-9 year old children

http://reaktor.com/president-of-finland-codes-with-children

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story

https://medium.com/@brianwill/object-oriented-programming-a-personal-disaster-1b044c2383ab#.rneb9gtzc

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 82 comments

Tips to Unlock the Potential of Microsoft OneNote (2014)

http://onthehub.com/blog/10-tips-to-unlock-the-potential-of-microsoft-onenote

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 88 comments

On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct

http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/6214

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years ago

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/grisly-find-suggests-humans-inhabited-arctic-45000-years-ago

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 79 comments

Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (1969)

https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-profile.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

How Valeant Went from Wall St. Darling to Pariah

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/valeant-wall-st-darling-to-pariah.html

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for Npm Scripts

https://medium.com/@housecor/why-i-left-gulp-and-grunt-for-npm-scripts-3d6853dd22b8

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

Unboxing in Guile

https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/19/unboxing-in-guile

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Visualizing K-Means equilibria

http://bl.ocks.org/blacki/ebba08223eba20b56b62

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Tell HN: Please don't add noise to the conversation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10933288

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

High-Touch Onboarding

http://blog.magicbus.io/post/137622700537/do-things-that-dont-scale

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Deep sea frogfish that walks on the ocean floor found in New Zealand

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/12108262/Frogfish-Meet-the-curious-creature-that-walks-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea.html

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Tricks That Make Virtual Reality Feel Real

http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/these-tricks-make-virtual-reality-feel-real

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Lamb chop weight enforcers want warrantless access to Australians' metadata

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/lamb-chop-weight-enforcers-want-warrantless-access-to-australians-metadata

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Dead Certainty: How “Making a Murderer” Goes Wrong

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/dead-certainty

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Ghana Started a Space Program

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/why-ghana-started-a-space-program

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Visual, multi-language XKCD-style password generator

http://password.optionfactory.net/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: A personal Heroku on local hardware to easily connect smart devices

https://experimental-platform.github.io/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (1996)

http://lipas.uwasa.fi/stes/step96/step96/hyotyniemi1/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

https://gmelius.com/?ref=hn

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 26 comments

The Future of Real-Time SLAM and “Deep Learning vs. SLAM”

http://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/01/why-slam-matters-future-of-real-time.html

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments
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