top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-17

A Message to Our Customers

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

10 years ago

5771 upvotes – 967 comments

Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/17393733617/no-judge-did-not-just-order-apple-to-break-encryption-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-to-create-new-backdoor.shtml

10 years ago

685 upvotes – 348 comments

We Need a Better PC

https://blog.dcpos.ch/someone-please-make-a-decent-pc

10 years ago

659 upvotes – 686 comments

Go 1.6 is Released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.6

10 years ago

562 upvotes – 354 comments

Issue and Pull Request templates

https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates

10 years ago

520 upvotes – 135 comments

How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password-in-2016

10 years ago

479 upvotes – 301 comments

How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

http://shane.engineer/blog/how-to-get-hired-at-a-startup-when-you-don-t-know-anyone

10 years ago

419 upvotes – 159 comments

Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World

https://etscrivner.github.io/posts/2014/10/building-large-flask-apps-in-the-real-world/

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 167 comments

Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition

http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple can comply with the FBI court order

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with-the-fbi-court-order/

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 207 comments

Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 149 comments

Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary

http://blog.interviewing.io/technical-interview-performance-is-kind-of-arbitrary-heres-the-data/

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 236 comments

China's Subprime Crisis Is Here

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-02-17/china-s-600-billion-subprime-crisis-is-already-here

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 215 comments

Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12158055/Polish-codebreakers-cracked-Enigma-before-Alan-Turing.html

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 84 comments

Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”

https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10153907267490011/?

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 73 comments

The Rise of Renting in the U.S

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/02/the-rise-of-renting-in-the-us/462948/?platform=hootsuite

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 367 comments

Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/gmailify-best-of-gmail-without-gmail.html

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 131 comments

Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exercise-is-best-for-the-brain/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 118 comments

Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/02/8591214/ax-falls-yahoo

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 190 comments

ReactOS 0.4.0 Released

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-040-released

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 91 comments

The 4$ smartphone

http://freedom251.com

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 98 comments

Modern Microprocessors – A 90 Minute Guide

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 12 comments

Apache Arrow: A new open source in-memory columnar data format

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces87

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 44 comments

Multiple Black Vehicles with MD License Plates at Apple Executive Briefing Center

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120365

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 49 comments

Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154000160962146&set=a.10150122896072146.326593.564277145&type=3&theater

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/news/companies/sugar-coffee-drinks/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 123 comments

Living Without Atomic Clocks

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clocks/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Leap Motion: Orion [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlCGw-0R8g

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 32 comments

Introducing GIF search on Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/introducing-gif-search-on-twitter

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Intel Xeon D 12 and 16 core parts launched: first benchmarks

http://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-d-12-and-16-core-parts-launched-first-benchmarks/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 107 comments

Glibc vulnerability was identified in uClibc and fixed 6 years ago

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6886

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 11 comments

The War on Cash

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-war-on-cash-a-country-by-country-guide/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 155 comments

The Elastic Stack: Future of ELK Platform

https://www.elastic.co/v5

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

After Zenefits, Will VCs Rein in Their Unicorns?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/after-zenefits-will-vcs-rein-in-their-unicorns

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

https://www.truebill.com/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 46 comments
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