top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-21

4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles

https://lapinozz.github.io/learning/2016/11/19/calculator-with-caordboard-and-marbles.html

10 years ago

703 upvotes – 182 comments

Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/apple-said-to-abandon-development-of-wireless-routers-ivs0ssec

10 years ago

404 upvotes – 584 comments

What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/5-key-learnings-from-the-post-bootcamp-job-search-9a07468d2331#.uwwwin7a8

10 years ago

346 upvotes – 389 comments

Tell HN: Riseup.net fails to update canary; fingerprints deleted without notice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13007234

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 127 comments

Japan issues tsunami warning after magnitude 7.3 earthquake

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38059371

10 years ago

306 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

http://www.markdownsites.com/

10 years ago

291 upvotes – 156 comments

Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/homeopathy-treatments-must-be-labelled-to-say-they-do-not-work-us-government-orders-a7429776.html

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 242 comments

U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loan Debt

http://financeography.com/us-citizens-hold-about-13-trillion-student-loan-debt/

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 438 comments

Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

https://github.com/googlesamples/md2googleslides

10 years ago

★ 4.7k TypeScript Apache-2.0
246 upvotes – 53 comments

What is “:-!!” in C code?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9229601/what-is-in-c-code

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 83 comments

Android user locked out of Google after moving cities

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/5dif8j/psa_google_can_lock_your_account_forcing_you_to/?st=ivrx9yoo&sh=5afe2044

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: TB-303 Synth, Drum Machine and Sequencer in Web Audio

http://www.errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 93 comments

Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group

http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-drops-out-of-r3-blockchain-group-1479730906

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 89 comments

Oracle buys Dyn

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/index.html

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 126 comments

Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence

http://cims.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/oscar.html

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 41 comments

$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean

https://5pi.de/2016/11/20/15-producation-grade-kubernetes-cluster/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 71 comments

Bringing Down Millions of WordPress Sites

http://jeremyaboyd.com/that-time-i-brought-down-millions-of-wordpress-sites/

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 63 comments

Openfood – Open access info about barcoded food products sold in Switzerland

https://www.openfood.ch/

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 40 comments

Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/11/21/google-isnt-google/

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 133 comments

Ruby 2.3.3 released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/21/ruby-2-3-3-released/

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 22 comments

How to run for Florida Office

http://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/11/how-to-run-for-florida-office/

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 63 comments

Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-x86-on-arm64-emulation-a-windows-10-redstone-3-fall-2017-deliverable/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 102 comments

DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for Prevention and Response

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2016/11/distributed-denial-of-service-attacks-four-best-practices-for-prevention-and-response.html

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 70 comments

How Eve unifies your entire programming stack

https://hackernoon.com/how-eve-unifies-your-entire-programming-stack-900ca80c58a7

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 106 comments

Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0L46y3IqI

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 64 comments

Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to-paint-10000-paintings/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 77 comments

An Unknown Man

https://newrepublic.com/article/138068/last-unknown-man

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 23 comments

CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/3977

10 years ago

★ 12.7k
169 upvotes – 41 comments

Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn too fast

https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-vcs-sometimes-push-companies-to-burn-too-fast/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 49 comments

Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning

http://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discrimination-in-ml/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 168 comments

Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat securely

https://medium.com/@RiotChat/exciting-new-riot-release-get-ready-for-chatting-securely-acc93ecfe0a#.nrt6p0t6z

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 46 comments

Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/20/intel-declares-war-gpus-disputed-hpc-ai-border/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

SVG Line Animation for the Uninitiated

http://www.bitmatica.com/blog/svg-line-animation-for-the-uninitiated/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 20 comments

IRS Requests Bitcoin Buyer Records in Broad Tax Evasion Case

http://fortune.com/2016/11/20/irs-bitcoin-tax-evasion-case/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 108 comments

API Discovery: Can we do better?

https://blog.apis.guru/api-discovery-can-we-do-better-2336706d5407

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surpass Hubble

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/nasa-webb-space-telescope-hubble.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 80 comments

Lua: A Guide for Redis Users

https://www.redisgreen.net/blog/intro-to-lua-for-redis-programmers/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

A Better Alternative to Small Houses

http://benicetobears.com/2016/11/17/the-better-alternative-to-small-houses-that-nobody-is-talking-about/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 84 comments

Inspecting C's qsort Through Animation

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/09/05/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6

https://blog.cloudflare.com/98-percent-ipv6/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 62 comments

Nude pics as IOU: a new, risky online loan among Chinese university students

http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0614/c90000-9071896.html

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 103 comments

List of spacecraft in the Culture series

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

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 83 comments

Beyond Nokia: A love story

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/20/a-love-story

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

AppleScript, the perfect adjunct to iTunes: An open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook

http://www.macworld.com/article/3142462/macs/applescript-the-perfect-adjunct-to-itunes.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

Swift and the Legacy of Functional Programming

https://realm.io/news/tryswift-rob-napier-swift-legacy-functional-programming/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 185 comments

Remote work: 6 months later

https://tailordev.fr/blog/2016/11/18/remote-work-6-months-later/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

Markdown-in-js: inline Markdown for React and JSX

https://github.com/threepointone/markdown-in-js

10 years ago

★ 791 JavaScript
84 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/why-native-apps-really-are-doomed-native-apps-are-doomed-pt-2-e035b43170e9

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 78 comments

Medallion fund: a remarkably successful quant trading firm built by scientists

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

A firm that starts work at 9.06am

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37998577

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Windows 10 Cannot Protect Insecure Applications Like EMET Can

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2016/11/windows-10-cannot-protect-insecure-applications-like-emet-can.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Kafka: An End or a Beginning?

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kafka-end-beginning/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Passports Were a “Temporary” War Measure

https://fee.org/articles/passports-were-a-temporary-war-measure

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Scrum Board – Simple JavaScript Task Managament App

https://i-break-codes.github.io/scrum-board/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Ad blockers are part of the problem

https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 116 comments
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