top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-17

SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/

10 years ago

Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”

http://www.zdnet.com/article/snoopers-charter-expansive-new-spying-powers-becomes-law/

10 years ago

What.CD is shutting down

https://what.cd/

10 years ago

Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-not-change-linux-files-using-windows-apps-and-tools/

10 years ago

Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/11/17/introducing-firefox-focus-a-free-fast-and-easy-to-use-private-browser-for-ios/

10 years ago

Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/laautoshow/la-fi-hy-disappearing-stick-shift-20161115-story.html

10 years ago

Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND

http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie

10 years ago

You Are Not Paid to Write Code

http://bravenewgeek.com/you-are-not-paid-to-write-code/

10 years ago

The .blog Bait and Switch

http://chrisschidle.com/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch/

10 years ago

Go fonts

https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

10 years ago

Keybase chooses Zcash

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-and-zcash

10 years ago

Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/shareholders-approve-tesla-acquisition-of-solarcity/

10 years ago

iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/17/iphones-secretly-send-call-history-to-apple-security-firm-says/

10 years ago

U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/

10 years ago

Court to Cops: No Immunity If You 'Don't Have Time for Constitutional Bullshit'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161113/06093636030/appeals-court-to-cops-if-you-dont-have-time-constitutional-bullshit-you-dont-get-immunity.shtml

10 years ago

Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/16/502349250/twitter-suspends-prominent-alt-right-accounts

10 years ago

LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/linkedin-is-now-officially-blocked-in-russia/

10 years ago

Global warming: The state of the climate in 2016

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/global-warming?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/globalwarmingthestateoftheclimatein2016

10 years ago

Pixel Security

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/11/pixel-security-better-faster-stronger.html

10 years ago

The mathematics of science’s broken reward system

http://www.nature.com/news/the-mathematics-of-science-s-broken-reward-system-1.20987

10 years ago

8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB

https://www.troyhunt.com/8-million-github-profiles-were-leaked-from-geekedins-mongodb-heres-how-to-see-yours/

10 years ago

Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new pathway to use CO2

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/enzymes-from-nine-organisms-combined-to-create-new-pathway-to-use-co2/

10 years ago

The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments

https://medium.com/@steven_ovadia/the-joy-of-linux-desktop-environments-365d6cc8de72

10 years ago

Airbnb expands to experiences

http://airbnb.com/new

10 years ago

The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (2007)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-census-b/

10 years ago

Flock, fast and free team messenger

https://www.flock.co

10 years ago

Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls

10 years ago

How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interfaces

https://theawl.com/how-minority-report-trapped-us-in-a-world-of-bad-interfaces-d8d2d2af41da#.rwihipewn

10 years ago

Boards in Asana

https://blog.asana.com/2016/11/introducing-boards/

10 years ago

Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/baidus-self-driving-cars-begin-public-test-in-wuzhen-china/

10 years ago

If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (2012)

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

10 years ago

Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/11/16/inside-the-world-of-australian-opal-miners-who-live-underground/

10 years ago

Big Hex Machine

https://bighexmachine.github.io

10 years ago

An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling

https://blog.remix.com/an-intro-to-integer-programming-for-engineers-simplified-bus-scheduling-bd3d64895e92#.llj20js9f

10 years ago

Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/algorithmic-fitting-of-japanese-candy

10 years ago

Over 50 Educational Resources to Learn SQL and Relational Database Management

https://hackerlists.com/learn-sql-online/

10 years ago

Show HN: LogRocket – Record and Replay for Redux Apps

https://logrocket.com

10 years ago

A History of Hard Drives

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/history-hard-drives/

10 years ago

Signal: Safety number updates

https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/

10 years ago

No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones

https://hackernoon.com/no-one-cares-about-the-security-of-your-unlocked-android-phone-cd8ad4aae4c5#.xvdmxs2g7

10 years ago

Unfathomable: The Invention of Modern Deep-Sea Diving

http://unfathomable.epicmagazine.com

10 years ago

Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the Fast-Accelerating Model S Even Faster

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/tesla-easter-egg-makes-the-world-s-fastest-car-even-faster

10 years ago

Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool

https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec

10 years ago

★ 423 Python

HTML 5.1 is the gold standard

https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/11/html-5-1-is-the-gold-standard/

10 years ago

Patent application by USC: Fasting condition as dietary treatment of diabetes

https://www.google.com/patents/US20150004280

10 years ago

M(DM)acOS

http://michaellynn.github.io/2016/10/04/mDMacOS/

10 years ago

ORCA – An implementation of RISC-V intended to target FPGAs

https://github.com/VectorBlox/orca

10 years ago

Portable systemd services

https://lwn.net/Articles/706025/

10 years ago

Helm 2.0 stable release

https://deis.com/blog/2016/helm-is-now-stable/

10 years ago