top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-15

Show HN: Primitive for macOS

https://primitive.lol/

10 years ago

The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete

http://mwi.usma.edu/effective-weapon-modern-battlefield-concrete/

10 years ago

How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/How-We-Make-Money-at-Stack-Overflow-2016-Edition/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957371

10 years ago

Firefox 50.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en%2DUS/firefox/50.0/releasenotes/

10 years ago

A.I. Experiments

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com

10 years ago

Why we need the best tools on Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi

https://headmelted.com/why-we-need-the-best-tools-on-chromebooks-and-raspberry-pi-3ab4c10a611c#.ac4iadzbl

10 years ago

ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit

https://medium.com/@Dimitryophoto/icq-20-years-is-no-limit-8734e1eea8ea#.e8abfoxci

10 years ago

GPUs for Google Cloud Platform

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing-GPUs-for-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

10 years ago

Regex 101

https://regex101.com/

10 years ago

Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate

https://blog.google/products/translate/found-translation-more-accurate-fluent-sentences-google-translate/

10 years ago

Post Virtual Reality Sadness

https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/the-post-virtual-reality-sadness-fb4a1ccacae4

10 years ago

Backblaze hard drive reliability stats for Q3 2016

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2016/

10 years ago

Show HN: Whosfiring

https://whosfiring.com

10 years ago

Killing Lara Croft

https://quarterly.camposanto.com/killing-lara-croft-869cd174ae34#.xd4cfcltn

10 years ago

HP Unveils Mini Workstation

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=2364757

10 years ago

100M Photos – Geotagged, Connected, and Available for All

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/11/15/100-million-photos-geotagged-connected-and-available-for-all.html

10 years ago

YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds

https://brianschrader.com/archive/youtube-has-apparently-reinstated-rss-feeds/

10 years ago

Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/snapchat-has-reportedly-filed-confidentially-for-its-massive-ipo/

10 years ago

Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/china-phones-software-security.html

10 years ago

To Learn Programming, Do Projects You Care About

https://datarebellion.com/blog/to-learn-programming-do-projects-you-actually-care-about/

10 years ago

CockroachDB Stability Post-Mortem: From 1 Node to 100 Nodes

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-stability-from-1-node-to-100-nodes/

10 years ago

Cells edited using CRISPR–Cas9 injected into a person for the first time

http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-gene-editing-tested-in-a-person-for-the-first-time-1.20988

10 years ago

Do you really want a single-page application framework?

https://mmikowski.github.io/no-frameworks/

10 years ago

Using Rust for 'Scripting'

http://www.chriskrycho.com/2016/using-rust-for-scripting.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Commits.io - Create a poster from your code and logo

https://commits.io

10 years ago

Show HN: Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi

https://code.headmelted.com

10 years ago

Whatsapp: Video Calling

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000629/WhatsApp-Video-Calling

10 years ago

Fix Windows 10 Privacy

https://modzero.github.io/fix-windows-privacy/

10 years ago

How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it must be done

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/thorough-not-thoroughly-fabricated-the-truth-about-global-temperature-data

10 years ago

Machine learning algorithms

https://github.com/rushter/MLAlgorithms

10 years ago

★ 10.9k Python MIT

“Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/

10 years ago

CertiKOS: A breakthrough toward hacker-resistant operating systems

http://news.yale.edu/2016/11/14/certikos-breakthrough-toward-hacker-resistant-operating-systems

10 years ago

Chevrolet Bolt EV Is the 2017 Motor Trend Car of the Year

http://www.motortrend.com/news/chevrolet-bolt-ev-2017-car-of-the-year/

10 years ago

Apple's desensitisation of people to fundamental security practices

https://www.troyhunt.com/apples-desensitisation-of-the-human-race-to-fundamental-security-practices/

10 years ago

JSNice: Statistical renaming, type inference, and deobfuscation

http://www.jsnice.org/

10 years ago

Mining of Massive Datasets

http://www.mmds.org/

10 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

10 years ago

How Fujifilm’s cameras and lenses are Made in Japan

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/18/10785038/fujifilm-x-pro-2-lens-factory-manufacturing-photos

10 years ago

Show HN: Chartify – simple and lightweight charts for React.js

https://github.com/kirillstepkin/chartify

10 years ago

Interview with Ted Chiang

https://medium.com/learning-for-life/stories-of-ted-chiangs-life-and-others-694cb3c80d13

10 years ago

A Bed for Fifty People?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/15/bed-fifty-people/

10 years ago

A Dinosaur with a Beak and Feathers Unearthed in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/science/dinosaur-mud-dragon.html?

10 years ago

Bouncing bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

10 years ago

Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-nuclear-power-vital-to-hitting-co2-emissions-targets-1479092761

10 years ago

Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark

https://databricks.com/blog/2016/11/14/setting-new-world-record-apache-spark.html

10 years ago

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fact-and-fiction-of-the-nasa-emdrive-paper-leak

10 years ago

Wikileaks latest insurance files don't match hashes

https://np.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5cz1fz/wikileaks_latest_insurance_files_dont_match_hashes/

10 years ago

US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says contractor consented

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/navy-denies-it-pirated-558k-copies-of-software-says-contractor-consented/

10 years ago

Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?

https://shift.newco.co/im-sorry-mr-zuckerberg-but-you-are-wrong-65dbf8513424#.sg9c81jue

10 years ago

An Ancient Tsunami That Ended a Civilization Gets Another Look

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/science/santorini-akrotiri-tsunami.html

10 years ago

Altruistic People Have More Sexual Partners

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/altruistic-people-have-more-sexual-partners/

10 years ago

“Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design

http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/11/designed-by-apple-in-california-chronicles-20-years-of-apple-design.html

10 years ago

This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong with Silicon Valley Design

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3065667/this-1500-toaster-oven-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-silicon-valley-design

10 years ago

Hustle, a text-distribution tool, raises $3M

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/blood-sweat-and-text/

10 years ago

IronFunctions: language agnostic open-source alternative to AWS Lambda

https://github.com/iron-io/functions

10 years ago

★ 3.2k Go Apache-2.0

Want to see gaming’s past and future? Dive into the “educational” world of PLATO

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/10/want-to-see-gamings-past-and-future-dive-into-the-educational-world-of-plato/

10 years ago

EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reduction-c4-m4-and-t2-instances/

10 years ago