top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-20

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto

http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

10 years ago

883 upvotes – 150 comments

Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html

10 years ago

778 upvotes – 185 comments

Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup

https://www.brave.com/

10 years ago

667 upvotes – 549 comments

The NICAM Codec replacement project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-01-35-million-people-didnt-notice-a-thing-dot-dot-dot

10 years ago

519 upvotes – 106 comments

Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched

http://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/i-40-search-raises-new-policing-for-profit-questions

10 years ago

437 upvotes – 220 comments

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/

10 years ago

415 upvotes – 117 comments

Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1485

10 years ago

386 upvotes – 269 comments

The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong

https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/the-state-of-meteor-part-1-what-went-wrong/

10 years ago

345 upvotes – 183 comments

How do bank payments actually work?

https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2016/01/20/how-do-bank-payments-work/

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 149 comments

Scrapy Tips from the Pros

http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/01/19/scrapy-tips-from-the-pros-part-1/

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 75 comments

TorFlow

https://torflow.uncharted.software/

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 71 comments

I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas

http://grahamwahlberg.com/business-ideas/

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 144 comments

Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporations-hoarding-trillions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 399 comments

It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator

http://blog.ycombinator.com/getting-into-y-combinator

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 151 comments

Why React/Redux is inferior as a paradigm

http://staltz.com/why-react-redux-is-an-inferior-paradigm.html

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 143 comments

Google proposes its Dataflow batch/stream tech to the Apache Incubator

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DataflowProposal

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 34 comments

It's time to build your own router

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/numbers-dont-lie-its-time-to-build-your-own-router/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 93 comments

2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 238 comments

A Book about Qt5

http://qmlbook.github.io/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: AutoSSH

http://www.everythingcli.org/ssh-tunnelling-for-fun-and-profit-autossh/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 70 comments

Good Design

https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/good-design-a89c15136ba6#.59s9dmzgf

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Chatlio – Live chat with your web visitors directly from Slack

https://chatlio.com/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Adblock Plus blocked from attending online ad industry’s big annual conference

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/01/adblock-plus-blocked-from-attending-online-ad-industrys-big-annual-conference/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 59 comments

ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/news/world/isis-salary-cuts/index.html

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 169 comments

Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629/?&single_page=true

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Detect upsampling in images

https://github.com/0x09/resdet

10 years ago

★ 300 C
113 upvotes – 15 comments

How Sandstorm Works: Containerize data, not services

https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

Microsoft will donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits and universities

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/01/19/how-were-putting-the-microsoft-cloud-to-work-for-the-public-good/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 74 comments

GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/19/key_voice_encryption_protocol_has_backdoor/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Is the neutrino its own antiparticle?

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/is-the-neutrino-its-own-antiparticle

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Ejabberd Massive Scalability: 1 Node – 2+ Million Concurrent Users

https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-massive-scalability-1node-2-million-concurrent-users/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

Sort Faster with FPGAs

http://hackaday.com/2016/01/20/a-linear-time-sorting-algorithm-for-fpgas/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Twitter’s Silence on State-Sponsored Attacks

https://threatpost.com/twitters-silence-deafening-on-state-sponsored-attacks/115937/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Square stock drops 10%, is now less than IPO price

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASQ

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 116 comments

How Ionic Builds on GitHub

http://blog.ionic.io/how-ionic-uses-github-better/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Microchip to Acquire Atmel for $3.56B

http://hackaday.com/2016/01/20/microchip-to-acquire-atmel-for-3-56-billion/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Tech’s ‘Frightful 5’ Will Dominate Digital Life for Foreseeable Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/technology/techs-frightful-5-will-dominate-digital-life-for-foreseeable-future.html?ref=business

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 84 comments

SourceWeb: A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator

http://rprichard.github.io/sourceweb/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Feature Toggles

http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Linux EBPF Off-CPU Flame Graph

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-01-20/ebpf-offcpu-flame-graph.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935499

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments

Increased resident participation in planning produces extreme wealth segregation [pdf]

http://www.its.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/10/PB-Income-Segregation-and-Land-Use.pdf

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Assembly Is Too High Level: SIB Doubles

http://xlogicx.net/?p=456

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments

The Debate on Whether America’s Best Days Are Past, or Ahead

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/business/economy/a-somber-view-of-americas-pace-of-progress.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 93 comments

The story behind National Reconnaissance Office's octopus logo

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/19/octopus-NRO/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Since 2010, Gun Stores Have Grown 4.7 Times Faster Than the Population

https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/since-2010-gun-stores-have-grown-4-7-times-faster-than-the-population

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 111 comments

RISC-V: Free Core, Some Assembly Required

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328620&print=yes

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

J.C. Bose and the Invention of Radio

http://hackaday.com/2016/01/19/j-c-bose-and-the-invention-of-radio/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Rescuing REST from the API Winter

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

Abominable Function Types (C++)

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0172r0.html

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments
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