top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-01

Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/alphabet-becomes-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-world

10 years ago

720 upvotes – 419 comments

Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode

http://betanews.com/2016/01/30/stop-using-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode-if-you-value-your-privacy/

10 years ago

686 upvotes – 213 comments

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

10 years ago

612 upvotes – 380 comments

15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

https://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2016/15-years-of-VLC

10 years ago

585 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044

10 years ago

455 upvotes – 787 comments

Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

http://happenapps.com/#quiver

10 years ago

421 upvotes – 254 comments

How we use Slack in our family

http://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/02/my-family-uses-slack/

10 years ago

383 upvotes – 115 comments

Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units

http://www.reuters.com/article/yahoo-redundancies-idUSKCN0VA33R

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 301 comments

Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009956

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 535 comments

Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/01/4

10 years ago

321 upvotes – 191 comments

Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 111 comments

Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf

https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

10 years ago

★ 49.1k Ruby MIT
264 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library

http://kushagragour.in/lab/hint/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 62 comments

GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

https://github.com/blog/2100-github-pages-now-faster-and-simpler-with-jekyll-3-0

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 115 comments

Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client

http://shout-irc.com/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces

http://aaronrandall.com/blog/megabite/

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 28 comments

Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

http://www.projectnatick.com/

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 156 comments

In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

http://custodians.online/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 25 comments

Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003)

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/?page=4

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 27 comments

Decommissioning a free public API

http://www.cambus.net/decommissioning-a-free-public-api/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 59 comments

Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars?

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/ftdi-gate-2-0/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

The collaboration curse

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far-collaboration-curse

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 131 comments

Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe

https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 48 comments

Super Mario Wallpaper Maker

http://mariomaker-wp.nintendo.co.jp/create/index.html?w=1280&h=1024

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 20 comments

Google plans to beam 5G internet from solar drones

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/30/google-project-skybender/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 62 comments

Deploying a Haskell Web Service with Nix

http://jezenthomas.com/deploying-a-haskell-web-service-with-nix/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction (2013)

http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/what-ancient-greek-music-sounded-like.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 9 comments

Currency War: U.S. Hedge Funds Mount New Attacks on China's Yuan

http://www.wsj.com/articles/currency-war-u-s-hedge-funds-mount-new-attacks-on-chinas-yuan-1454236202

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 144 comments

Small, Freestanding Windows Executables

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/01/31/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions

http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-elite-colleges-lead-to-higher-salaries-only-for-some-professions-1454295674

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 146 comments

Why I'm Choosing C++

http://www.cjdrake.com/why-im-choosing-c.html

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 134 comments

Meet LKL: Turn Linux Kernel into a Library

https://lwn.net/Articles/662953/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Kubrick's ‘Barry Lyndon,’ a masterclass in bringing a filmmaker's vision to life

http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/stanley-kubricks-barry-lyndon/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

Pagination 101

https://gist.github.com/mislav/622561

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

Inside the Volkswagen emissions cheating

http://lwn.net/Articles/670488/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Learn to Program in C?

http://philipbuuck.com/why-learn-to-program-in-c

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 121 comments

Introducing Multi-Step Zaps: An Easier Way to Build Powerful Workflows

https://zapier.com/blog/workflow-automation/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: I recently launched a new cloud hosting company

https://ramgrid.com

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 92 comments

Chinese police swoop on $7.6 Billion ‘record-breaking online Ponzi scheme’

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/1908003/chinese-police-swoop-hk59-billion-record-breaking-online-ponzi

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Random Walks: the mathematics in 1 dimension

http://www.mit.edu/~kardar/teaching/projects/chemotaxis(AndreaSchmidt)/random.htm

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20316/curiosity-self-portrait-at-martian-sand-dune

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in X86 Processors

http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2015/08/pagewalk-coherence/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 2 comments

The smallest JavaScript libraries on the internet

http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

What Happened to Jane Mayer When She Wrote About the Koch Brothers

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html?mabReward=A6&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

New Concurrent Hash Maps for C++

http://preshing.com/20160201/new-concurrent-hash-maps-for-cpp/?

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz

https://github.com/mapio/GraphvizAnim

10 years ago

★ 508 Python GPL-3.0
70 upvotes – 18 comments

Ring: FOSS encrypted P2P voice, video and chat platform

https://ring.cx

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Multidimensional algorithms and iteration in Julia

http://julialang.org/blog/2016/02/iteration/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

How Much Does a Cremation Cost? Depends Who You Call

http://priceonomics.com/how-much-does-a-cremation-cost-depends-who-you/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 78 comments

Clifford Attractors

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/clifford/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

http://codeblocks.org/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

The Prickly Genius of Jonathan Blow

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-prickly-genius-of-jonathan-blow

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/technology/microsoft-plumbs-oceans-depths-to-test-underwater-data-center.html

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments
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