top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-01-30

Get HTTPS for free

https://gethttpsforfree.com/

10 years ago

731 upvotes – 159 comments

Why use www?

http://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/

10 years ago

601 upvotes – 267 comments

CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/30/snow-j30.html

10 years ago

492 upvotes – 202 comments

China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/30/china-just-released-true-color-hd-photos-of-the-moon/

10 years ago

464 upvotes – 108 comments

List of high-quality open datasets in public domains

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

10 years ago

★ 74.4k MIT
388 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go

https://github.com/google/seesaw

10 years ago

★ 5.6k Go Apache-2.0
323 upvotes – 69 comments

Open-Sourced Logos

http://www.logodust.com/?ope

10 years ago

268 upvotes – 64 comments

Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/business/international/japan-interest-rate.html?ref=asia&_r=0

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 233 comments

Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll

http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/29/meet-lilli-the-high-end-german-call-girl-who-became-americas-iconic-barbie-doll/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 65 comments

Making 20% Time Work

http://begriffs.com/posts/2016-01-29-making-twenty-percent-time-work.html

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001693

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 327 comments

China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688871-china-wants-become-superpower-semiconductors-and-plans-spend-colossal-sums

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 149 comments

Why Programming is Difficult (2014)

http://joearms.github.io/2014/02/07/why-programming-is-difficult.html

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 111 comments

It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation

https://swift.org/blog/swift-api-transformation/

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 25 comments

Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/obama-pledges-4-billion-to-computer-science-in-us-schools/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 146 comments

NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying

http://techlog360.com/2016/01/nsa-chief-hacker-explains-how-to-avoid-nsa-spying/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

The Shipping News Suggests Economic Weakness

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-28/shipping-news-says-world-economy-is-toast

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 120 comments

Rithmomachy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 16 comments

Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess

https://medium.com/life-learning/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/requiem-for-a-dream

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 67 comments

Apple Watch – 6 Months Later, Not That Great

http://prodissues.com/2016/01/apple-watch-6-months-later-not-that-great.html

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 146 comments

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-send-people-mars-2025-n506891

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 95 comments

Soon You'll Hate Group Chat as Much as You Hate E-mail

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/soon-you-ll-hate-group-chat-as-much-as-you-hate-e-mail

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor-work-force.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

Tcl.js: robust, high-performance Tcl in JavaScript

https://github.com/cyanogilvie/Tcl.js

10 years ago

★ 158 JavaScript
107 upvotes – 50 comments

Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/673724/d9809e674cde21df/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

‘Technological fraud’ discovered at Zolder cyclocross worlds

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/01/news/uci_detains_bike_cyclocross_worlds_394233_394233

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

Picrin – a lightweight R7RS scheme implementation in pure C89

https://github.com/picrin-scheme/picrin

10 years ago

★ 425 Scheme MIT
93 upvotes – 2 comments

Interlocking Bricks Before Lego [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFELcl75CiY

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Jade, Node.js template engine, is being forced to rename due to trademark

https://github.com/pugjs/jade/issues/2184

10 years ago

★ 21.8k JavaScript
87 upvotes – 62 comments

Microsoft FFmpegInterop library for Windows

https://github.com/Microsoft/FFmpegInterop

10 years ago

★ 1.3k C++ Apache-2.0
79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Space Shooter in QBasic

https://github.com/strathausen/qtrek.bas

10 years ago

★ 40 VBA MIT
79 upvotes – 26 comments

Sources: Security Firm Norse Corp. Imploding

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/sources-security-firm-norse-corp-imploding/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

A Programming Language with Deterministic Multithreading

http://tormeh.github.io/fumurt.html

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Parse Alternatives

https://github.com/relatedcode/ParseAlternatives

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Openblog – Blogging with GitHub Issues

https://github.com/mateogianolio/openblog

10 years ago

★ 238 HTML MIT
78 upvotes – 18 comments

Swift API Design Guidelines

https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me

http://www.bipolarco.de/coding-isnt-right-for-me/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 120 comments

France to build 1000 km of roads with solar panels

http://www.solarcrunch.org/2016/01/france-to-build-1000-km-of-road-with.html

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 65 comments

German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html?_r=0

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Material, a Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift

https://github.com/CosmicMind/Material

10 years ago

★ 11.9k Swift MIT
71 upvotes – 23 comments

Deploy

http://pubpub.media.mit.edu/pub/deploy

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

QIRA is a timeless debugger

http://qira.me/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments
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