top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-01

Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules

http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html

10 years ago

636 upvotes – 334 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016568

10 years ago

566 upvotes – 894 comments

Servo Nightly Builds Available

https://blog.servo.org/2016/06/30/servo-nightlies/

10 years ago

522 upvotes – 234 comments

Google collects metadata from Android phones

http://borncity.com/win/2016/07/01/surveillance-google-collects-meta-data-phone-calls-sms-from-android-phones/

10 years ago

490 upvotes – 250 comments

DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

https://duck.co/help/company/yahoo-partnership

10 years ago

412 upvotes – 115 comments

Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/spain-is-running-out-of-workers-with-almost-5-million-unemployed

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 438 comments

How 'Advantage Players' Game the Casinos

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/how-advantage-players-game-the-casinos.html

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 127 comments

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to

http://blog.plover.com/tech/tmpdir.html

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 96 comments

How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-facebook-tries-to-prevent-office-politics

10 years ago

284 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React

http://djen.co/

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 42 comments

Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

https://github.com/cht8687/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore

10 years ago

★ 19.1k JavaScript MIT
249 upvotes – 155 comments

Improving Color on the Web

https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/

10 years ago

231 upvotes – 74 comments

Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem

http://www.lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-on-fermats-last-theorem

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 109 comments

OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 64 comments

Security researcher gets threats over Amazon review

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/01/security-researcher-gets-threats-over-amazon-review/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 84 comments

The Lily Programming Language

https://github.com/jesserayadkins/lily

10 years ago

★ 1k C MIT
210 upvotes – 104 comments

Zenefits Loses Over Half of Its Value

http://fortune.com/2016/06/30/zenefits-loses-over-half-of-its-value/

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 81 comments

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/stop-bashing-gmo-foods-more-than-100-nobel-laureates-say.html

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 125 comments

Final features of C++17

https://meetingcpp.com/index.php/br/items/final-features-of-c17.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 101 comments

How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-portuguese-to-english-phrasebook-became-a-cult-comedy-sensation

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 87 comments

The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/the-wrt54gl-a-54mbps-router-from-2005-still-makes-millions-for-linksys/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016570

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 194 comments

How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/how-oracles-business-as-usual-is-threatening-to-kill-java/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

Devastating Amazon hardware review of a wireless power switch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2JVRCO8T1ON0R

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

End is nigh for Rosetta: Spacecraft will meet its end by crashing into a comet

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/after-brexit-comes-rosexitt-european-scientists-to-end-spacecrafts-life/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Why you should aim for 100 rejections a year

http://lithub.com/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Tiny Radar Chip Revolutionizing Gesture Recognition: Google ATAP’s Project Soli

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/radar-chip-revolutionizing-gesture-recognition-google-atap-project-soli/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 2: Repairing the display

http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Software faults raise questions about the validity of brain studies

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/algorithms-used-to-study-brain-activity-may-be-exaggerating-results/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Oracle ordered to pay HP $3B in Itanium case

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hewlett-packard-oracle-verdict-idUSKCN0ZG3C1

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/07/foia-improvement/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

NASA Software Safety Guidebook (2004) [pdf]

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/871913.pdf

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Readsure – Pass a quiz that shows you read an article before commenting

https://github.com/nealrs/readsure

10 years ago

★ 119 HTML
104 upvotes – 62 comments

Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men's

http://fusion.net/story/320747/gender-masked-for-tech-job-interviews/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Automated to Death (2009)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux Assembly How-to

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/index.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

A formal solution to the grain of truth problem

https://intelligence.org/2016/06/30/grain-of-truth/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Shuts Down the Google Feed API

https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/announcing-turndown-of-google-feed-api.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 84 comments

Slackware 14.2 released

http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.2.php

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Fujitsu Switches Horses for Post-K Supercomputer, Will Ride ARM into Exascale

https://www.top500.org/news/fujitsu-switches-horses-for-post-k-supercomputer-will-ride-arm-into-exascale/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul

http://www.nature.com/news/arxiv-preprint-server-plans-multimillion-dollar-overhaul-1.20181?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Brazil court blocks Facebook funds over WhatsApp dispute

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-facebook-whatsapp-idUSKCN0ZH3EX

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash?

http://nautil.us/issue/37/currents/can-topology-prevent-another-financial-crash

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets to Be Journalism?

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/01/484166871/mislabeled-as-a-memoirist-author-asks-whose-work-gets-to-be-journalism

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon Prime Strikes Deal for Most PBS Children’s Shows

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/business/media/amazon-prime-strikes-deal-for-most-pbs-childrens-shows.html

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 93 comments

Dyalog APL v15.0 Free for Non-Commercial Use

http://www.dyalog.com/news/108/420/Dyalog-Ltd-Announces-Dyalog-Version-15-0.htm

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple Fires Back at Spotify for Asking for 'Preferential Treatment'

https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-fires-back-at-spotify-for-asking-for-preferential-trea?utm_term=.urkGrnXgV5#.xq0vGP7O9z

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 213 comments

Does More Security at Airports Make Us Safer or Just Move the Targets?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/01/world/airport-security-around-the-world.html

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 93 comments

Chronix: A fast and efficient time series storage

http://chronix.io/#features

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Realtime emotion tracking in JavaScript

https://affectiva.github.io/youtube-demo/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments
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