top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-12

Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/

10 years ago

911 upvotes – 247 comments

Windows 93 (2014)

http://www.windows93.net

10 years ago

790 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js

10 years ago

★ 38k JavaScript Apache-2.0
727 upvotes – 97 comments

You might not need JavaScript

http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

10 years ago

649 upvotes – 246 comments

CHIP Pro

https://nextthing.co/pages/chippro

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 198 comments

So You Want to Learn Physics

http://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics

10 years ago

482 upvotes – 129 comments

Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

http://www.streamingobserver.com/netflix-now-31-movies-imdbs-top-250-list/

10 years ago

481 upvotes – 533 comments

Facebook React.js License

http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License

10 years ago

461 upvotes – 194 comments

Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-interview

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 229 comments

Facebook seems not to be paying app developer $160K in ad revenue

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/570gco/facebook_stole_my_160000_for_those_who_use/

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 105 comments

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wells-fargo-ceo-stumpf-to-retire-1476306019

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 204 comments

Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/10/autos/car-navigation-frustration/index.html?iid=SF_River

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 382 comments

Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/496567104/decades-old-mystery-put-to-rest-why-are-there-xs-in-the-desert?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2037

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 78 comments

It's time to reconsider going on-prem

http://gravitational.com/blog/time-to-reconsider-going-onprem/

10 years ago

248 upvotes – 109 comments

Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair

https://act.eff.org/action/copyright-law-shouldn-t-punish-research-and-repair

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 22 comments

How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-old-illinois-man-is-distorting-national-polling-averages.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur&_r=0

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 107 comments

Alpine Edge has switched to libressl

http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/5463.html

10 years ago

236 upvotes – 81 comments

PyPy3 5.5.0 released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/10/pypy3-550-released.html

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 29 comments

Introducing NodeJS-Dashboard

https://formidable.com/blog/2016/10/12/introducing-nodejs-dashboard/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 17 comments

OpenBSD vmm enabled

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&mode=expanded&sid=20161012092516

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

http://www.dumpyahoo.com

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 95 comments

Releasing Serverless Framework V.1, and Fundraising

https://serverless.com/blog/releasing-serverless-framework-v1-and-fundraising/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 55 comments

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express

https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-2016-express-windows/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 138 comments

Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature20101.html

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments

Tyson Foods Invests in Startup Beyond Meat

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tyson-foods-invests-in-startup-beyond-meat-1476140287

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 75 comments

Virtualize OS X on Linux

http://grodola.blogspot.com/2016/10/virtualize-osx-on-linux.html

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 139 comments

US startup Geofeedia 'allowed police to track protesters'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37627086

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 72 comments

How to Make a Handheld EMP Jammer

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/12/become-very-unpopular-very-fast-with-this-diy-emp-generator/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 93 comments

Wealthy San Francisco tech investors bankroll bid to ban homeless camps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/san-francisco-homeless-proposition-q-tech-investors

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 147 comments

English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/12/english-man-spends-11-hours-trying-to-make-cup-of-tea-with-wi-fi-kettle

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic one?

https://www.elie.net/blog/security/what-are-malicious-usb-keys-and-how-to-create-a-realistic-one

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 77 comments

World Population Growth

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 111 comments

Nginx v1.11.5 Released

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

https://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/State_of_Port_20160906.pdf

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Why does Siri seem so dumb?

http://www.recode.net/2016/10/12/13251618/mossberg-apple-siri-digital-assistant-dumb

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

Russian ship loitering near undersea cables

http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 62 comments

Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)

http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 110 comments

Update on Tesla’s Combination with SolarCity

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-teslas-combination-solarcity

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

https://www.outpan.com/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 42 comments

Desktop Notifications for console logs in browser

https://github.com/hkirat/notification-logger

10 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
97 upvotes – 10 comments

A practical relational query compiler in 500 lines of code

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/10/11/a-practical-relational-query-compiler-in-500-lines/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments

A Friend for Pluto: Astronomers Find New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/11/497071139/a-friend-for-pluto-astronomers-find-new-dwarf-planet-in-our-solar-system

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

New data challenges the cultural consensus on public housing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/12/the-remarkable-thing-that-happens-to-poor-kids-when-you-help-their-parents-with-rent/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 220 comments

Lovelace – The Origin (2009)

http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

Scaling in Bitbucket Cloud: new features and reliability numbers

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/10/12/scaling-in-bitbucket-cloud-new-features-and-reliability-numbers/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

JavaScript singing synthesis library

https://github.com/usdivad/mesing

10 years ago

★ 402 JavaScript
91 upvotes – 26 comments

Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/technology/zenefits-a-rocket-that-fell-to-earth-tries-to-launch-again.html?partner=linkedin

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI

http://humancompatible.ai/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

The Rise of Hypersonic Weapons

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/rise-hypersonic-weapons-1095

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 113 comments

Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution

https://backchannel.com/computational-law-symbolic-discourse-and-the-ai-constitution-d8528ee27bf0

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 65 comments
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