top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-29

How I fixed a bug in Atom

http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-atom/

10 years ago

Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative

https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/

10 years ago

★ 4.4k Python

The Best Teacher I Never Had

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/The-Best-Teacher-I-Never-Had

10 years ago

The Command Line Murders

https://github.com/veltman/clmystery

10 years ago

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Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/login-forms-over-https-please/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998486

10 years ago

San Francisco Bubble

http://blog.larrold.com/2016/01/29/san-francisco-bubble/

10 years ago

Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html?_r=1

10 years ago

18F: CSS coding style guide

https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/11/introducing-the-css-coding-style-guide/

10 years ago

Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive

http://deap.co/2016/01/29/how-bad-products-survive/

10 years ago

The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/

10 years ago

Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced

https://github.com/softdorothy

10 years ago

Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects

https://www.realartists.com/blog/ship-it.html

10 years ago

Israeli Drone Feeds Hacked by British and American Intelligence

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/israeli-drone-feeds-hacked-by-british-and-american-intelligence/

10 years ago

Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402

10 years ago

★ 16.2k C GPL-2.0

Update on 1/28 service outage

https://github.com/blog/2101-update-on-1-28-service-outage

10 years ago

Pikazo

http://www.pikazoapp.com/

10 years ago

Eve: My Concerns

http://robmoff.at/2016/01/13/all-about-eve/

10 years ago

SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold

http://fossforce.com/2016/01/sourceforge-and-slashdot-have-been-sold/

10 years ago

Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler

http://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-progress-winter-2015.html

10 years ago

Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver

http://phasenoise.livejournal.com/1142.html

10 years ago

Tale of Tasteless Tomatoes: Why Vegetables Do Not Taste Good Anymore

http://calmscience.net/2015/12/11/tale-of-tasteless-tomatoes-why-vegetables-do-not-taste-good-anymore/

10 years ago

How to Start a Startup: Lectures (2014)

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

10 years ago

Laid-off IT workers muzzled as H-1B debate heats up

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3027640/it-outsourcing/laid-off-it-workers-muzzled-as-h-1b-debate-heats-up.html

10 years ago

Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors

http://news.mit.edu/2016/faster-automatic-bug-repair-code-errors-0129

10 years ago

A family converts a decommissioned school into a home and bed-and-breakfast

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/real-estate/toronto-family-ditches-the-city-for-home-schooling-in-prince-edwardcounty/article28428562/

10 years ago

US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/22/us_military_finds_f35_software_is_a_buggy_mess/

10 years ago

Windows Phone is dead

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10864034/windows-phone-is-dead

10 years ago

Computer Museum bids farewell to Babbage engine

http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids-farewell-to-babbage-engine

10 years ago

NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google

http://www.nexedi.com/blog/NXD-Document.Blog.Nayu.Os.Introduction

10 years ago

Unix History Repository

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo

10 years ago

★ 7.2k Assembly

Babylonians Were Using Geometry Centuries Earlier Than Thought

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-babylonians-were-using-geometry-centuries-earlier-thought-180957965/?no-ist

10 years ago

Some OS X Applications Vulnerable to MITM Attacks

https://vulnsec.com/2016/osx-apps-vulnerabilities/

10 years ago

Using Graph Databases to Stop E-commerce Fraud in Real Time

http://neo4j.com/blog/graph-database-ecommerce-fraud/

10 years ago

Startup Interviewing is Fucked

http://zachholman.com/posts/startup-interviewing-is-fucked/

10 years ago

CoreOS Overview, Part One

https://deis.com/blog/2016/coreos-overview-p1

10 years ago

Kickstarter for funding Micropython port to ESP8266

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micropython-on-the-esp8266-beautifully-easy-iot?ref=discovery

10 years ago

T-Mobile’s Binge on Violates Key Net Neutrality Principles [pdf]

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/downloads/vanSchewick-2016-Binge-On-Report.pdf

10 years ago

The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/isis-alrawi-encryption-messaging-app/

10 years ago

Rich dad, poor dad – the story that formed my views on making money

https://micaelwidell.com/rich-dad-poor-dad/

10 years ago

CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation

http://cbor.io/

10 years ago

In Retrospect: The Selfish Gene

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/529462a.html

10 years ago

Reddit in 2016

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/434h6c/reddit_in_2016/

10 years ago

How does a segmentation fault work under the hood?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/257598/how-does-a-segmentation-fault-work-under-the-hood

10 years ago

Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design

http://desktopfruit.com

10 years ago

OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code

https://lwn.net/Articles/672465/

10 years ago

Meta-meta-programming: Generating C++ templates with Racket Macros (2014) [pdf]

http://matt.might.net/papers/ballantyne2014metameta.pdf

10 years ago

Writing an Async Logger in Nim

http://hookrace.net/blog/writing-an-async-logger-in-nim/

10 years ago

Payment Processor to Stop Working with Daily Fantasy Sports Clients

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/sports/draftkings-fanduel-vantiv-daily-fantasy.html

10 years ago

Migrating from Parse.com to deepstream.io

http://deepstream.io/blog/migrating-parse-com-to-deepstream-io/

10 years ago

The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities

http://priceonomics.com/the-tragic-data-behind-selfie-fatalities/

10 years ago

Microsoft pulls in $1.35B in revenue for Surface line

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-pulls-impressive-135-billion-revenue-surface-line

10 years ago

Shypmate (YC W16) Pays Travelers To Bring Products To Ghana And Nigeria

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/shypmate-pays-travelers-to-bring-products-to-ghana-and-nigeria/

10 years ago