top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-23

A practical guide to securing macOS

https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

10 years ago

★ 22.3k MIT
633 upvotes – 84 comments

Humble Book Bundle: Unix

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle

10 years ago

435 upvotes – 130 comments

The XSS Game by Google

https://xss-game.appspot.com/

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 90 comments

The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform

http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6067

10 years ago

361 upvotes – 138 comments

Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bruce-schneier-internet-of-things/?tw=share

10 years ago

325 upvotes – 198 comments

Statistical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/statsmistakes.html

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 76 comments

Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC

https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2016/10/27/freelanceisntfreepassed/

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 176 comments

Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar

https://zenkit.com/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 104 comments

Vue.js 2.1 Released

https://github.com/vuejs/vue/releases/tag/v2.1.0

10 years ago

★ 209.8k TypeScript MIT
243 upvotes – 122 comments

To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots

https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.tuyhjzxvm

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 199 comments

Israeli firm can steal phone data in seconds

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-israeli-firm-seconds.html

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021722

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 220 comments

Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38068078

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 164 comments

List of scientific papers found in OpenJDK source code

http://lowlevelbits.org/java-papers/

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

https://www.pmease.com/gitplex

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 94 comments

Many LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/11/23/many-lasik-patients-may-wind-up-with-glare-halos-or-other-visual-symptoms-study-suggests/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_lasik-1115am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 224 comments

Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform

https://subgraph.com/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 87 comments

The Case Against Python 3

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 271 comments

Microsoft and Linux and Patents and Tweets

https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patents-tweets/

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 65 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/11/23/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 62 comments

Tesla runs an entire island on solar power

https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/22/tesla-runs-island-on-solar-power/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: A DigitalOcean-like support community for your website in 3 minutes

https://haash.io/support-communities.html

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 97 comments

Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking fears

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/22/election-hacking-audit/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 157 comments

The Manhattan Project Fallacy

http://aelkus.github.io/essays/ai_manhattan_project.html

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 119 comments

Procedural Dungeon Generation: Cellular Automata

http://blog.jrheard.com/procedural-dungeon-generation-cellular-automata

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 15 comments

Python at StackOverflow [audio]

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/86/python-at-stackoverflow

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 11 comments

Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way

https://getfrenzy.co/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/23/technology/twitter-jack-dorsey-ceo-founder-account-suspension/index.html

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

The Lua VM, on the Web

http://daurnimator.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Build a robot with the $9 C.H.I.P. Computer

https://www.dexterindustries.com/projects/make-a-chip-robot/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

Talking to users

http://www.defstartup.org/2016/11/23/talking-to-users.html

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

https://www.yahoo.com/news/female-monkeys-wile-rally-troops-002147976.html

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 138 comments

Mobile Holoportation

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/holoportation-3/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 43 comments

GuriVR – Describe your VR experience and the editor will do the rest

https://gurivr.com/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Microsoft Solitaire Collection

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-solitaire-collection/id1103438575?mt=8

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 92 comments

The hole at the heart of economics: the consent of the governed

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/11/consent-governed

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 135 comments

Jolt – JSON to JSON transformation

http://bazaarvoice.github.io/jolt/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 241 comments

The Challenge of Consciousness

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 118 comments

Supercapacitors Batteries charges in seconds without degrading

http://today.ucf.edu/phone-charges-seconds-ucf-scientists-bring-closer-reality/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/hillary-clinton-challenge-results/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 91 comments

Elm for the Front End, Right Now

http://bendyworks.com/blog/elm-frontend-right-now-updated-for-0-18

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Functional programming for modern Fortran

https://github.com/wavebitscientific/functional-fortran

10 years ago

★ 435 Fortran BSD-3-Clause
98 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't websites adopting client certs in lieu of passwords?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022001

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 97 comments

Signal for Beginners

https://medium.com/@mshelton/signal-for-beginners-c6b44f76a1f0#.ti7v8i4l1

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

FluidNet – Accelerating Eulerian Fluid Simulation with Convolutional Networks

https://github.com/google/FluidNet

10 years ago

★ 754 Lua
94 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Why should I use Django?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13024003

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: I’m writing an ebook version of the Tao of tmux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022062

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp?

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/46wxye/why_is_firefox_still_not_supporting_webp/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

An ancient Chinese bird kept its feathers, and colors, for 130M years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/22/this-ancient-chinese-bird-kept-its-feathers-and-colors-for-130-million-years/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Hacking 27% of the Web via WordPress Auto-Update – Wordfence

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/11/hacking-27-web-via-wordpress-auto-update/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

UK government could force ISPs to block adult sites without age verification

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38062660

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 81 comments

Let's Encrypt Everything

https://blog.codinghorror.com/lets-encrypt-everything/

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments
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