top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-26

Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-results-idUSKCN12Q2QW

10 years ago

822 upvotes – 278 comments

Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/instapainting

10 years ago

627 upvotes – 269 comments

Microsoft Surface Studio

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/26/13380462/microsoft-surface-studio-pc-computer-announced-features-price-release-date

10 years ago

599 upvotes – 552 comments

Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

https://medium.com/@bartobri/applying-the-linus-tarvolds-good-taste-coding-requirement-99749f37684a#.7axbqnfqm

10 years ago

572 upvotes – 289 comments

Parsing JSON is a Minefield

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

10 years ago

559 upvotes – 292 comments

Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/26/internet-archive-broken-links/

10 years ago

494 upvotes – 101 comments

Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-curbs-expansion-of-fiber-optic-network-cutting-jobs.html?_r=0

10 years ago

440 upvotes – 362 comments

Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794292

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 261 comments

Supercharging Style Transfer

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/supercharging-style-transfer.html

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 94 comments

Why does software development take so long?

http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2016-10-26-09-29_why_does_software_development_take_so_long.html

10 years ago

296 upvotes – 268 comments

Task_t considered harmful

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/10/taskt-considered-harmful.html

10 years ago

280 upvotes – 81 comments

Isaac Asimov on How to Be Prolific

http://briangroat.com/2016/10/26/asimov-on-how-to-be-prolific/

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 90 comments

Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are A Distraction In Workplace

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/26/498850659/what-s-more-distracting-than-a-noisy-coworker-not-much

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 247 comments

Hotel CEO celebrates higher prices in NYC after anti-Airbnb law passes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/26/hotel-executive-openly-celebrates-higher-prices-after-anti-airbnb-law-passes/

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 227 comments

Running containers without Docker

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/26/running-container-without-docker/

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 136 comments

Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798447

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 144 comments

Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/snapchat-seeks-to-raise-as-much-as-4-billion-in-ipo

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 249 comments

Groupon Buys LivingSocial, a Rival Once Valued at $6B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/groupon-buys-livingsocial-deal-site-once-valued-at-6-billion

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 71 comments

Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack

http://hub.dyn.com/dyn-blog/dyn-analysis-summary-of-friday-october-21-attack

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 113 comments

The DrK Attack: De-randomizing Kernel ASLR

https://github.com/sslab-gatech/DrK

10 years ago

★ 348 Python MIT
159 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/26/13418156/microsoft-windows-10-holographic-virtual-reality-headset-announced-price

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize with ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/west-antarctica-begins-to-destabilize-with-intense-unbalanced-melting

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 130 comments

Mobile App Launch Checklist

https://branch.io/resources/app-launch-checklist/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 18 comments

MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs

http://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-announces-the-engine-for-entrepreneurs-1026

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 31 comments

Material Design

https://material.io/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 63 comments

Building an Open Source Service

https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/24/building-an-open-source-service.html

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (2013)

http://www.ua-magazine.com/computer-simulations-reveal-war-drove-the-rise-of-civilisations/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 100 comments

A curated list of remote working resources

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

10 years ago

★ 45.4k
132 upvotes – 7 comments

How Goldman Sachs Lays People Off

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/the-goldman-way-to-fire-bit-by-bit-hundreds-are-given-heave-ho?cmpid=BBD102616_BIZ

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 107 comments

Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus

http://www.bus1.org/bus1.html

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go Public

http://www.wsj.com/articles/palantir-ceo-says-company-is-being-positioned-to-go-public-1477498155

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Twitter Shareholder Sues CEO and Board Members Over Inflated Share Price

http://fortune.com/2016/10/26/twitter-shares-lawsuit/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world?

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/could-an-astronauts-corpse-bring-new-life-to-another-world

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 73 comments

WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-cancer-agency-asked-experts-to-withhold-weed-killer-documents/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 63 comments

A curated list of various freelancing websites

https://github.com/prahladyeri/CuratedLists/blob/master/FreelancingSites.md

10 years ago

★ 300 MIT
104 upvotes – 14 comments

Ignite UI is now open source

http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/igniteui_team/archive/2016/10/25/ignite-ui-open-source-initiative.aspx

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail

https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 17 comments

Racket v6.7

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2016/10/racket-v67.html

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Augeas – A Configuration API

http://augeas.net/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41

https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/10/86-percent-faster-opera-41-for-computers/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 104 comments

My 5-minute quantum computing talk at the White House

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2943

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/10/25/announcing-net-core-1-1-preview-1/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Technical Issues of Separation in Lisp Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/understanding-aesthetics-deep-learning/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/302765-obama-takes-aim-at-workers-non-compete-agreements

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Why does Google get away with such bad recruiting practices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12797969

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

A casino magnate is spending millions to fight legal marijuana in three states

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/26/a-casino-magnate-is-spending-millions-to-fight-legal-marijuana-in-three-states/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 100 comments

Viewing Sizing Recommendations for Instances

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-sizing-recommendations-for-instances

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft Windows 10 Event

http://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-event-2016/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: I'm writing the Modular JavaScript book series

https://mjavascript.com/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

Zen and the Art of Surviving India's Startup Crash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/zen-and-the-art-of-surviving-india-s-startup-crash

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Surface Studio

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-studio/surface-studio

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 1 comments
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