top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-13

Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12942465

10 years ago

1358 upvotes – 318 comments

Diamonds Suck (2006)

http://diamondssuck.com/

10 years ago

1336 upvotes – 576 comments

Why 30 is the decade friends disappear

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/12/12148938/friendship-adult-challenges-solutions

10 years ago

512 upvotes – 346 comments

Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

https://trigger-happy.eu/

10 years ago

334 upvotes – 79 comments

New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37967178

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 146 comments

AdultFriendFinder was hacked

https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/friendfinder

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 242 comments

If Prisoners Ran Prisons

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/10/23/if-prisoners-ran-prisons#.xm20Sygvd

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 204 comments

My Subconscious Is a Better Developer Than I Am

http://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2016/11/my-subconscious-is-better-developer.html

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 116 comments

Learn to Code by Building Projects

https://enlight.ml

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 26 comments

OVH automatically migrates expiring paid SSL to Let's Encrypt certificates

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/797856360926953472

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 16 comments

KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features

http://www.9bis.net/kitty/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Best Git workflow for small teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12941997

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 87 comments

GNU Parallel Tutorial

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html#GNU-Parallel-Tutorial

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 65 comments

A guide to using the Facebook Pixel

https://github.com/adam-s/facebook-pixel-guide/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 46 comments

Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34540193

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 114 comments

How an accused drug dealer revealed Jacksonville's facial recognition network

http://jacksonville.com/public-safety/2016-11-11/how-accused-drug-dealer-revealed-jso-s-facial-recognition-network

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 108 comments

Service Workers: an Introduction

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/service-workers

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/native-apps-are-doomed-ac397148a2c0#.p4aazx6vn

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 85 comments

Building Win16 GUI Applications in C (2014)

http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/win16-apps-in-c/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments

Leibniz – A Digital Scientific Notation

https://github.com/khinsen/leibniz

10 years ago

★ 281 Racket
122 upvotes – 30 comments

Investigation Reveals Silicon Valley’s Abuse of Immigrant Tech Workers

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/investigation-reveals-silicon-valleys-abuse-immigrant-tech-workers/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

Win3mu – Windows 3 Emulator

http://www.win3mu.com/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go from Here

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/opinion/bernie-sanders-where-the-democrats-go-from-here.html

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 121 comments

Zero-allocation Trie Traversal

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/11/13/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

The Mirror Effect: The rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century

http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mirror-effect

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Iocage – A FreeBSD jail manager

https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

http://www.techconferences.io/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Dostoevsky’s Empathy

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/11/dostoevskys-empathy/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log (2013)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/tango-distributed-data-structures-over-a-shared-log/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Interactive Machine Learning

http://iml.media.mit.edu/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 3 comments

Overlay.NET: An easy-to-use overlay library written in C#

https://github.com/lolp1/Overlay.NET

10 years ago

★ 763 C#
90 upvotes – 24 comments

A 10-Digit Key Code to Your Private Life: Your Cellphone Number

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/business/cellphone-number-social-security-number-10-digit-key-code-to-private-life.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

The Happiest People Don't Let Their Minds Wander, According to a Harvard Study

http://www.inc.com/quora/the-happiest-people-dont-let-their-minds-wander-according-to-a-harvard-study.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What should I plan to do on a 6 month sabbatical?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12941366

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/world/guantanamo-bay-doctors-abuse.html?src=me

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

The Supermanagerial Reich

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

The Apache Cassandra battle highlights major problem with open source projects

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-battle-for-apache-cassandra-highlights-major-problem-with-open-source-projects/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments
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