top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-12

GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/pull/115

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Choose GitLab for your next open source project

https://www.b.agilob.net/choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project/

10 years ago

Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware

http://www.howtogeek.com/210265/download.com-and-others-bundle-superfish-style-https-breaking-adware/

10 years ago

Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?

https://blog.cardiogr.am/2016/02/12/do-you-really-need-10000-steps-a-day-2/

10 years ago

Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town

http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/fp-startups/without-affordable-housing-vancouver-risks-becoming-an-economic-ghost-town

10 years ago

Adblock via /etc/hosts

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

10 years ago

★ 30.2k Python MIT

Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot

http://insideairbnb.com/how-airbnb-hid-the-facts-in-nyc

10 years ago

MJML – Responsive Email Framework

https://mjml.io/?ref=hackernews

10 years ago

Moving on from Picasa

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html

10 years ago

So you want to write a package manager

https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-manager-4ae9c17d9527#.740o43vxi

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Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/technology/twitter-to-save-itself-must-scale-back-world-swallowing-ambitions.html?ref=technology

10 years ago

Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/02/11/netflix-shuts-down-final-bits-of-own-data-center-infrastructure/

10 years ago

Stack traces in GHCi, coming in GHC 8.0.1

http://simonmar.github.io/posts/2016-02-12-Stack-traces-in-GHCi.html

10 years ago

She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/shell-text-me-shell-text-me-not

10 years ago

Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-employers-rarely-offer-explanations-rejected-ambra-benjamin?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment

10 years ago

A crisis in Vancouver: The lifeblood of the city is leaving

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-crisis-in-vancouver-the-lifeblood-of-the-city-is-leaving/article28730533/

10 years ago

A safe, comprehensible and efficient PID 1/init replacement written in OCaml

https://github.com/rein/lyrica

10 years ago

Barcode attack technique

http://en.wooyun.io/2016/01/28/Barcode-attack-technique.html

10 years ago

Pee-wee’s Big Comeback

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/magazine/pee-wees-big-comeback.html

10 years ago

Amazon Building Global Delivery Business to Take on Alibaba

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/amazon-is-building-global-delivery-business-to-take-on-alibaba-ikfhpyes

10 years ago

We Have Always Been at War with UI

http://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/10/we-have-always-been-at-war-with-ui/

10 years ago

Google Bets on Health

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/google-ventures-seeks-to-make-name-as-farsighted-health-investor

10 years ago

Valentine's Day Special: Bye Bye Tinder, Flirting in the Support Channel

https://www.stackfield.com/blog/bye-bye-tinder,-flirting-in-the-support-channel-----34

10 years ago

Super Fast Local Workloads with LXD, ZFS, and Juju

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2016/02/12/super-fast-local-workloads-with-juju/

10 years ago

Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled

http://www.erahm.org/?p=22

10 years ago

Open-sourcing Teletraan, a code deployment system

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/open-sourcing-teletraan-code-deployment-system

10 years ago

How Artsy Did a Company Re-Org

https://artsy.net/article/robert-lenne-the-secret-s-to-company-re-orgs

10 years ago

Chrome Will Drop SPDY Support on May 15

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/chrome-will-drop-spdy-support-on-may-15/

10 years ago

Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library

https://github.com/CaptainCrowbar/unicorn-lib

10 years ago

★ 226 C++ MIT

Did the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America?

https://theconversation.com/did-the-vikings-use-crystal-sunstones-to-discover-america-53836

10 years ago

Why I use ggplot2

http://varianceexplained.org/r/why-I-use-ggplot2/

10 years ago

Magic and the rise of science

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1666588.ece

10 years ago

Protection from Adobe Creative Cloud Bug

http://alanwsmith.com/protection-from-adobe-creative-cloud-folder-erasing-bug

10 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to Secure Computation

http://www.alexirpan.com/2016/02/11/secure-computation.html

10 years ago

Wrong optimization with aliasing

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69776

10 years ago

Independent UK newspaper to cease as print edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561145

10 years ago

Google Shuts Down Picasa Web Albums

http://recode.net/2016/02/12/sayonara-picasa-google-shuts-down-album-service-in-favor-of-photos-app/

10 years ago

Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

http://gitmagic.io/

10 years ago

The Women Who Programmed ENIAC

http://www.phillyvoice.com/70-years-ago-six-philly-women-eniac-digital-computer-programmers/

10 years ago

Torrents Time bundles certificates and private keys

https://gist.github.com/Wack0/8eecd90f688e85fef86b

10 years ago

BBC Domesday Project

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

10 years ago

Spirit.js – easily animate objects on the web

https://spiritjs.io/

10 years ago

Link Between Neanderthal DNA and Depression Risk

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/neanderthal-dna-affects-depression-risk-today/462345?single_page=true

10 years ago

Diffbot Aims to Build the Intel of Data for Artificial Intelligence

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/diffbot-aims-to-build-the-intel-of-data-for-artificial-intelligence/

10 years ago

Jai Language Primer

https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md

10 years ago

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