top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-21

Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it

https://medium.com/@hteumeuleu/super-mail-forward-an-email-that-evolves-as-you-forward-it-84466596f30d

10 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.6

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/01/21/Rust-1.6.html

10 years ago

Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?

http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-my-phone-apps-lead-to-wrong-home/

10 years ago

AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-certificate-manager-deploy-ssltls-based-apps-on-aws/

10 years ago

Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/docker-acquires-unikernel-systems-as-it-looks-beyond-containers/

10 years ago

CA assembly member introduces encryption ban disguised as human trafficking bill

http://asmdc.org/members/a09/news-room/video-gallery/cooper-introduces-human-trafficking-investigation-legislation

10 years ago

Why didn't France adopt the longbow like England did?

http://www.peterleeson.com/Longbow.pdf

10 years ago

Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-howard-university-coders/

10 years ago

The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next

https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/the-state-of-meteor-part-2-what-happens-next/

10 years ago

90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble

http://uk.businessinsider.com/blood-in-the-water-90-of-the-billion-dollar-unicorn-startups-are-in-trouble-2016-1?r=US&IR=T

10 years ago

NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro-encryption-position-in-contrast-to-fbi/

10 years ago

Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next

http://blog.circleci.com/why-we-use-om-and-why-were-excited-for-om-next/

10 years ago

Y-Cloninator: GitHub Projects Trending on HN Without Distractions

http://ycloninator.herokuapp.com/

10 years ago

Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

http://robertnealan.com/is-self-hosted-blogging-dead/

10 years ago

Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack

http://product.hubspot.com/blog/modern-java-at-hubspot

10 years ago

The Story Behind F.lux

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-story-behind-flux-the-night-owls-color-shifting-sleep-app-of-choice

10 years ago

Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-android-generates-31-billion-revenue-oracle-says-ijor8hvt

10 years ago

The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C

http://recode.net/2016/01/20/the-promise-and-confusion-of-usb-type-c/

10 years ago

Amazon Hires Homeless Workers, and Everyone Ends Up Disappointed

http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-everyone-ends-disappointed

10 years ago

I missed Nim (2014)

http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/20/i-missed-nim/

10 years ago

JavaScript web apps considered valuable

http://molily.de/javascript-web-apps/

10 years ago

The strange life of Q-tips, the most bizarre thing people buy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/20/we-have-a-q-tips-problem/

10 years ago

The alarming threat of Zika virus

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35370848

10 years ago

Switzerland begins tests on the longest train tunnel in the world

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/gotthard-base-tunnel-freight-tests-begin.html

10 years ago

As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit

http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-angel-investors-pull-back-valuations-take-a-hit-1453337982

10 years ago

Show HN: An open-source ultrasound imaging dev kit side project

http://murgen.echopen.org

10 years ago

Microchip Technology to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6B

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/business/dealbook/microchip-technology-to-buy-atmel-for-nearly-3-6-billion.html?_r=0

10 years ago

Backdoor account in several AMX (Harman Professional) devices

http://blog.sec-consult.com/2016/01/deliberately-hidden-backdoor-account-in.html

10 years ago

Intro to Debugging X86-64 Assembly

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/01/20/debugging-x86-64-assembly-with-lldb-and-dtrace/

10 years ago

Unikernel Systems Joins Docker

http://blog.docker.com/2016/01/unikernel/

10 years ago

How we fought bad ads in 2015

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/better-ads-report.html

10 years ago

Anywhere but Medium

http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/0900.html

10 years ago

Too Good to Be True: How More Evidence Can Decrease Confidence

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/01/too-good-to-be-true.html#comments

10 years ago

More Air Force drones are crashing than ever as mysterious new problems emerge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/19/more-u-s-military-drones-are-crashing-than-ever-as-new-problems-emerge/

10 years ago

Webmention

https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160112

10 years ago

The Digital Materiality of GIFs

http://digitalmateriality.com/

10 years ago

Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor

http://blog.robertelder.org/7-weird-old-things-about-the-c-preprocessor/

10 years ago

If being too clean makes us sick, why isn’t getting dirty the solution?

https://theconversation.com/if-being-too-clean-makes-us-sick-why-isnt-getting-dirty-the-solution-50572?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20for%20Sunday%20January%2017%202016&utm_content=Newsletter%20for%20Sunday%20January%2017%202016+CID_458a2368e784f399b1f1105283ab13b1&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=If%20being%20too%20clean%20makes%20us%20sick%20why%20isnt%20getting%20dirty%20the%20solution

10 years ago

Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial

http://www.fstar-lang.org/tutorial/

10 years ago

Guide to Linear Regression (2015)

http://alexhwoods.com/guide-to-linear-regression/

10 years ago

Why do we need a new OS?

http://3lproject.org/blog/why-do-we-need-a-new-os

10 years ago

IBM Acquires UStream, Forms New Cloud Video Unit

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/ibm-confirms-acquisition-of-ustream-forms-new-cloud-video-unit/

10 years ago

Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers with Equity

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/20/elder-care-startup-honor-makes-contractors-full-time-workers-with-equity/

10 years ago

Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy (2015)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/politics/bill-gates-expected-to-create-billion-dollar-fund-for-clean-energy.html

10 years ago

Litvinenko Inquiry Publishes Report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-implicated-in-fatal-poisoning-of-former-kgb-spy-at-posh-london-hotel/2016/01/21/2c0c5052-bf92-11e5-98c8-7fab78677d51_story.html

10 years ago

Introducing the Facebook Sports Stadium

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/01/facebook-sports-stadium

10 years ago

Interacting with Haskell Graphically

http://begriffs.com/posts/2016-01-20-ihaskell-notebook.html

10 years ago

Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks

http://erikbern.com/2016/01/21/analyzing-50k-fonts-using-deep-neural-networks/

10 years ago

An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-brutal-massacre-may-be-earliest-evidence-war-180957884/?no-ist

10 years ago

Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

http://wdobbie.com/post/war-and-peace-and-webgl/

10 years ago

Arcade City: Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Answer to Uber

http://cointelegraph.com/news/116100/arcade-city-decentralized-blockchain-based-answer-to-uber

10 years ago

Timestamps done right

https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/timestamps-done-right/

10 years ago

Moving Forth, Part 1: Design Decisions in the Forth Kernel (1993)

http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm

10 years ago

Google saw more downloads than iOS App Store, but Apple generated more revenue

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/app-annie-2015-google-play-saw-100-more-downloads-than-the-ios-app-store-but-apple-generated-75-more-revenue/

10 years ago

Bulk UTM Builder Built Using AngularJS

https://leadferry.com/tools/utm-builder/?utm_source=hacker-news&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=utm-tool-launch

10 years ago

Finding the Tennis Suspects

https://medium.com/@rkaplan/finding-the-tennis-suspects-c2d9f198c33d#.g93vsuejk

10 years ago

Foxconn Offers $5.3B to Take Over Sharp

http://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-foxconn-offers-5-3-billion-to-take-over-sharp-1453348809

10 years ago

Sandboxing with Firejail

https://lwn.net/Articles/671534/

10 years ago

Confessions of a Paleo Diet Pioneer

http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-evolutionary-guide-revised-on-what-to-eat-1453306447?tesla=y

10 years ago