top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-04

Apple’s declining software quality

http://sudophilosophical.com/2016/02/04/apples-declining-software-quality/

10 years ago

1282 upvotes – 705 comments

Introducing the Keybase filesystem

https://keybase.io/introducing-the-keybase-filesystem

10 years ago

1252 upvotes – 462 comments

No More Deceptive Download Buttons

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-more-deceptive-download-buttons.html

10 years ago

706 upvotes – 253 comments

How I Sold My Bible App Company

http://trevormckendrick.com/how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company/

10 years ago

422 upvotes – 130 comments

Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous

http://learnenough.com/git

10 years ago

416 upvotes – 102 comments

Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi

https://aimxhaisse.com/aerodynamic-en.html

10 years ago

379 upvotes – 69 comments

Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention“

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ecuador-sweden-assange-idUKKCN0VD0BJ?utm_source=twitter

10 years ago

373 upvotes – 1 comments

“We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release”

https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/firefox-os-connected-devices-announcement/6864

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 152 comments

A house that costs $20k

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056129/this-house-costs-just-20000-but-its-nicer-than-yours

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 210 comments

How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-you-and-your-digital-rights

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 99 comments

DigitalOcean lost our server

https://murze.be/2016/02/today-digitalocean-lost-our-entire-server/

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 209 comments

Amit Singhal, an Influential Engineer at Google, Will Retire

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/technology/amit-singhal-an-influential-engineer-at-google-will-retire.html

10 years ago

284 upvotes – 107 comments

VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API

https://developer.visa.com/

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 137 comments

$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

http://blog.ycombinator.com/$250k-of-digitalocean-credits-for-yc-startups

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 215 comments

Was Uber’s Branding Done While Uber High?

http://madartlab.com/was-uber-branding-done-while-uber-high/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 204 comments

Python 3 comes to Scrapy

https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/02/04/python-3-support-with-scrapy-1-1rc1/

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 76 comments

The Wrong Abstraction

http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 119 comments

Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest

http://www.underhanded-c.org/#winner

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 47 comments

Nuclear fusion device's first test with hydrogen declared a success

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nuclear-fusion-greifswald-1.3431541

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 104 comments

Docker 1.10.0 is out

https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.10.0

10 years ago

★ 71.5k Go Apache-2.0
194 upvotes – 91 comments

The Security-Minded Container Engine by CoreOS: rkt Hits 1.0

https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-hits-1.0.html

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 36 comments

UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35490910

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 385 comments

Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/04/apple-ordered-to-pay-625m-to-patent-troll-in-facetime-lawsuit

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 160 comments

Maru turns Android smartphones into portable PCs

http://maruos.com/#/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 73 comments

Autodesk announces 925 layoffs

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/03/autodesk-announces-929-layoffs-10-of-its-workforce-as-part-of-restructuring-plan/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 147 comments

jQuery.sheet – Easy and fast spreadsheets for the web

http://spreadsheets.github.io/jQuery.sheet/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 53 comments

AI is transforming Google search – the rest of the web is next

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/ai-is-changing-the-technology-behind-google-searches/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 107 comments

GitHub is apparently in crisis again

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-identity-crisis-2016-2

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 148 comments

Ubuntu for tablets

http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

Performance Engineering with React, Part 1

http://benchling.engineering/performance-engineering-with-react/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 38 comments

InfluxDB v0.10 GA with hundreds of thousands writes/sec, 98% better compression

https://influxdata.com/blog/announcing-influxdb-v0-10-100000s-writes-per-second-better-compression/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 75 comments

Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35481976

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 119 comments

Habits of cell phone usage and sperm quality

http://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(15)00300-4/abstract

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

Three and a half degrees of separation

https://research.facebook.com/blog/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 62 comments

Europe’s top court mulls legality of hyperlinks

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/02/europes-top-court-mulls-legality-of-hyperlinks-shockwaves-could-be-huge-for-web-users/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 82 comments

What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (2011)

http://inventor-labs.com/blog/2011/10/12/what-its-really-like-working-with-steve-jobs.html

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/the_internet_of_1.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 67 comments

NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (2006) [pdf]

http://www.brothersinbattlellc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fdny_fe.pdf

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

The Sad State of Web Development

https://medium.com/@wob/the-sad-state-of-web-development-1603a861d29f#.tf033b5ia

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

Awesome machine learning

https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning

10 years ago

★ 72.3k Python
122 upvotes – 10 comments

Trillions in Bad Loans May Sap World Economy for a Long Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/business/dealbook/toxic-loans-in-china-weigh-on-global-growth.html

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 80 comments

Zen Photon Garden

http://zenphoton.com/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 18 comments

Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects

http://inspirationui.com

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Goldman Sachs May Be Forced to Fundamentally Question How Capitalism Is Working

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/goldman-sachs-says-it-may-be-forced-to-fundamentally-question-how-capitalism-is-working

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 90 comments

Unobtainium

https://literaryreview.co.uk/unobtainium

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

TensorTalk – Stay up to date on the latest AI code

http://tensortalk.com/?h

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: How do game companies keep their files organized for a large-scale game?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036789

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Get Started with Rkt Containers in Three Minutes

https://coreos.com/blog/getting-started-with-rkt-1.0.html

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies

http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-paul-buchheit-ali-roghawni-on-revamped-y-combinator-2016-2

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal

https://github.com/rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli

10 years ago

★ 468 JavaScript MIT
83 upvotes – 35 comments

Spotify's Spam War

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/spotifys-spam-war-could-change-how-we-listen-to-music

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

The bank of the future will be a marketplace

https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2016/02/04/marketplace-banking/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Year, Please Leave

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/02/03/465407797/britain-to-foreign-workers-if-you-dont-make-50-000-a-year-please-leave

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 103 comments

Vorpal, a framework for building CLIs

http://vorpal.js.org/#

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/jeremy-wilson-a-compulsive-con-man.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments
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