top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-05

Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app

https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS?hn

10 years ago

★ 5.2k JavaScript MIT
648 upvotes – 176 comments

I don’t like computers

https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/11/04/i-dont-like-computers/

10 years ago

450 upvotes – 263 comments

How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub

http://blog.davidecoppola.com/2016/11/howto-contribute-to-open-source-project-on-github/

10 years ago

433 upvotes – 92 comments

Be careful about what you dislike

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/11/5/be-careful-about-what-you-dislike/

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 169 comments

Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

https://sandervenema.ch/2016/11/why-i-wont-recommend-signal-anymore/

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 334 comments

FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers

https://flyweb.github.io/posts/2016/11/01/introducing-flyweb.html

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 69 comments

H265: Technical Overview

https://sonnati.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/h265-part-i-technical-overview/

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 60 comments

The End of the General Purpose Operating System

http://www.morethanseven.net/2016/11/05/the-end-of-the-general-purpose-operating-system-as-it-happens/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 97 comments

Ring, officially a GNU package

https://blog.savoirfairelinux.com/en-ca/2016/ring-official-gnu-package/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 65 comments

Is democracy a failure? (1861)

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/03/14/news/is-democracy-a-failure.html

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 266 comments

Ask HN: Do you still use UML?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879056

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 185 comments

New Scandals Show How Pervasive Mass Surveillance Is in the West

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/04/three-new-scandals-show-how-pervasive-and-dangerous-mass-surveillance-is-in-the-west-vindicating-snowden/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 35 comments

Cartoon Laws of Physics

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~karan/courses/csc2529/cartoonlaw.htm

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 52 comments

Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison

https://steveblank.com/2014/09/25/watching-larry-ellison-become-larry-ellison-the-dna-of-a-winner/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 77 comments

Physicists demonstrate existence of new subatomic structure

https://las.iastate.edu/isu-physicists-help-demonstrate-existence-of-new-subatomic-structure/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 36 comments

Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center

http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/inside-norad

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 30 comments

Docker in Production: A retort

http://patrobinson.github.io/2016/11/05/docker-in-production/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 120 comments

Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function (2015)

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Crocker's rules

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker%27s_rules

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

Emotional, behavioral and social difficulties among high-IQ children [pdf]

http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/docs/PAID16.pdf

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 63 comments

A world without the Mac Pro

https://marco.org/2016/11/05/world-without-mac-pro

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 184 comments

22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015)

http://www.avclub.com/article/22-years-magic-gathering-brainiest-its-ever-been-224197

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 131 comments

Tech Jobs, Cheaper Housing: The New Silicon Cities

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-jobs-cheaper-housing-the-new-silicon-cities-1478181842

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 109 comments

Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac

http://www.macworld.com/article/3138087/macs/why-2016-is-such-a-terrible-year-for-the-mac.html

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 154 comments

Newborn sleep patterns: A survival guide for the science-minded parent

http://www.parentingscience.com/newborn-sleep.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Internet Pioneers Slam $750,000 Settlement for the 'Man Who Invented Email'

http://gizmodo.com/internet-pioneers-slam-750-000-settlement-for-the-man-1788503950

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor

https://cloudcmd.io

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

The Pac-Man Dossier

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossier.php?print=1

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Paris agreement on climate change has come into force

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37872111

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

How Bureaucrats and Spies Turned Canada into a Surveillance State

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-bureaucrats-and-spies-turned-canada-into-a-surveillance-state-csis

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

The Most Expensive Anti-Pattern

http://m1el.github.io/printf-antipattern

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Procedural Dungeon Generation: A Drunkard's Walk in ClojureScript

http://blog.jrheard.com/procedural-dungeon-generation-drunkards-walk-in-clojurescript

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Lyft to offer 45 percent discount during presidential election

https://thetechgraph.com/2016/11/05/lyft-offer-45-percent-discount-presidential-election/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37880723

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 83 comments

A Country Is Not a Company (1996)

https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company&cm_sp=Article-_-Links-_-Top%20of%20Page%20Recirculation

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments
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