top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-28

Eve: Programming designed for humans

http://programming.witheve.com/

10 years ago

1070 upvotes – 374 comments

Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-soylent-recall-20161027-story.html

10 years ago

745 upvotes – 1021 comments

Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12819482

10 years ago

530 upvotes – 133 comments

Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/10/google-ai-neural-network-cryptography/

10 years ago

519 upvotes – 162 comments

New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

https://blog.devteam.space/new-macbook-pro-is-not-a-laptop-for-developers-anymore-d0d4b1b8b7de#.tpt1vssco

10 years ago

519 upvotes – 775 comments

Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-dev/Ab1sFeoZg_8

10 years ago

365 upvotes – 235 comments

Pre-Safe Sound: Playing ‘pink noise’ in the split second before impact (2015)

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/next/connectivity/pre-safe-sound-playing-pink-noise-in-the-split-second-before-impact/

10 years ago

345 upvotes – 156 comments

George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 473 comments

Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for

https://medium.com/charged-tech/apple-just-told-the-world-it-has-no-idea-who-the-mac-is-for-722a2438389b#.3mb5olie9

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 311 comments

A very valuable vulnerability

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-10-28-A-very-valuable-vulnerability.html

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 48 comments

A Map of the World Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/10/28/hajime-narukawa-authagraph/

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 100 comments

Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/28/apple-sucks-now-heres-a-thinkpad-buyers-guide/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 223 comments

How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions

http://blog.robertelder.org/switch-statements-statement-expressions/

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/microsoft-apple/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 114 comments

The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft

https://backchannel.com/the-bizarre-role-reversal-of-apple-and-microsoft-25d8b391d5b0#.xw7qjxmyh

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 210 comments

Secret Management with Vault

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/secret-management-with-vault/

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 59 comments

Zcash begins

https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 175 comments

FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Before Vote

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/fbi-is-re-opening-clinton-e-mail-investigation-chaffetz-says

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 308 comments

Charts That Scare Wall Street

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/these-are-the-charts-that-scare-wall-street?cmpid=BBD102716_BIZ

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure

https://github.com/blog/2273-incident-report-inadvertent-private-repository-disclosure

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 41 comments

Uber drivers win employee rights case

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37802386

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 213 comments

Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/791872723681239040

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 191 comments

Apple Increases Prices of Macs in U.K. By 20 Percent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/apple-increases-prices-of-macs-in-u-k-by-20-percent

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 274 comments

Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/wall-street-coders-wanted-elite-college-degrees-not-necessary

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 186 comments

Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-it-took-so-long-to-inv/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: What is your goto resource for learning about big data, ML, AI etc?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817426

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 40 comments

Swiss rail operator to sell bitcoins at its ticket machines

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-rail-bitcoin-idUSKCN12S1KR

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

NSTouchBar API Reference

https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nstouchbar?language=objc

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Ask HN: Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12820778

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Do Americans Stink at Math?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 248 comments

How 2K Killed Irrational Games

https://medium.com/@iworkedforirrationalgames/how-2k-killed-irrational-games-a09d8865fd8b#.ufar1y6wl

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 0 comments

Defending against Rowhammer in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/704920/7be829926c94cd9f/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 45 comments

New technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/7082.html

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Continuous MySQL backup validation: Restoring backups

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1007323976059780/continuous-mysql-backup-validation-restoring-backups

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Newly Redesigned Boston.gov Just Went Open Source

http://www.routefifty.com/2016/10/boston-open-source-website/132720/?oref=RouteFiftyTCO

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl

https://www.edge.org/conversation/judea_pearl-engines-of-evidence

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of VR and AR talent

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent/?ncid=rss

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

Nftables – A new packet classification framework

http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/10/28/what-comes-after-iptables-its-successor-of-course-nftables/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/apples-new-macbook-pro-just-killed-off-most-of-the-ports-you-probably-need/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 218 comments

Of course smart homes are targets for hackers

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/45483.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815183

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 111 comments

IPv6 Performance – Revisited [video]

https://ripe73.ripe.net/archives/video/1539/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Sorting 50K Array, HTML5 Web Worker Demo

http://afshinm.github.io/50k/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 59 comments

They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Bashcached – memcached built on bash and ncat

https://github.com/MakeNowJust/bashcached

10 years ago

★ 279 Ruby MIT
84 upvotes – 15 comments

The Red Cross Blood Service: Australia's largest ever leak of personal data

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-red-cross-blood-service-australias-largest-ever-leak-of-personal-data/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Scaleway Global Expansion Starts in Amsterdam

https://blog.online.net/2016/10/27/scaleway-global-expansion-starts-in-amsterdam/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (1987) [pdf]

http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-88-9068

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

How to make e-mail encrypted for everyone

https://friendlybit.com/security/how-to-make-e-mail-encrypted-for-everyone/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

Let researchers try new paths

http://www.nature.com/news/let-researchers-try-new-paths-1.20857

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments
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