top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-26

Fidel Castro has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

10 years ago

810 upvotes – 767 comments

Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth

https://holidayhole.com/

10 years ago

570 upvotes – 352 comments

Let Postgres Do the Work (2013)

http://sorentwo.com/2013/12/30/let-postgres-do-the-work.html

10 years ago

420 upvotes – 202 comments

The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-great-for-hackers-64c1c577a4d2

10 years ago

400 upvotes – 333 comments

Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-rental-market-analysis-2016-11

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 335 comments

I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again

https://bokstuff.com/i-made-an-iphone-game-with-phonegap-and-ill-never-do-it-again/

10 years ago

363 upvotes – 235 comments

Abusing Protocols to Load Local Files, Bypass the HTML5 Sandbox, Open Popups

https://www.brokenbrowser.com/abusing-of-protocols/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 43 comments

Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O

https://probablydance.com/2016/11/07/lessons-learned-from-shenzhen-io

10 years ago

319 upvotes – 57 comments

Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking Them in Comments

http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books-unique-users/

10 years ago

294 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Image Effects with CSS

http://bennettfeely.com/image-effects/

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 18 comments

Low social status 'can damage immune system'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38092146

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 66 comments

Researchers: Artificial Sweeteners Prevent Weight Loss

http://www.dw.com/en/sugar-free-products-stop-us-getting-slimmer/a-36504096

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 92 comments

I don’t belong in tech

https://medium.com/@saronyitbarek/i-dont-belong-in-tech-3d73d8fd6f34

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 190 comments

The New Haxe Target: HashLink in depth, part 1

http://haxe.org/blog/hashlink-indepth

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 8 comments

The Need to Read

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-need-to-read-1480083086

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 100 comments

Ron Glass has died

http://io9.gizmodo.com/fireflys-shepherd-ron-glass-dies-at-71-1789386169

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Wells Fargo says customers gave up right to sue by having signatures forged

http://boingboing.net/2016/11/25/wells-fargo-says-that-its-cust.html

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 72 comments

On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats (2015)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ISPsAreThreats

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 61 comments

Interactive Numerical Optimization Tutorial

http://www.benfrederickson.com/numerical-optimization/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 9 comments

Some thoughts about the reports of supposed evidence of election irregularities

http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/2016/11/24/some-thoughts-about-the-reports-of-supposed-evidence-of-election-irregularities-in-mi-pa-and-wi/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 104 comments

Don't Lower Corporate Taxes, Abolish Them

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-25/don-t-just-lower-corporate-taxes-abolish-them?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 311 comments

Typed, modular macros for OCaml

https://oliviernicole.github.io/about_macros.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/proceduralgfx/inspire2008.pdf

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 17 comments

How a Pillar of German Banking Lost Its Way

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-story-of-the-self-destruction-of-deutsche-bank-a-1118157.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 38 comments

An expert’s view on unusually warm Arctic temperatures

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2016/11/25/an-experts-view-on-unusually-warm-arctic-temperatures/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 98 comments

A Simple Explanation of How Shares Move Around the Securities Settlement System

https://gendal.me/2014/01/05/a-simple-explanation-of-how-shares-move-around-the-securities-settlement-system/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

The most flexible synthesizer is DIY, Raspberry PI

http://hackaday.com/2016/11/26/the-most-flexible-synthesizer-is-diy-raspberry-pi/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 11 comments

Mulle-objc: A New Objective-C Compiler and Runtime

https://mulle-objc.github.io

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Acquiring administrative access to Azure's RedHat Update infrastructure

http://ianduffy.ie/blog/2016/11/26/azure-bug-bounty-pwning-red-hat-enterprise-linux/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Intel preferentially offers two customers Skylake Xeon CPUs

https://semiaccurate.com/2016/11/17/intel-preferentially-offers-two-customers-skylake-xeon-cpus/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

Strymonas – A library for OCaml and Scala for fast, bulk, in-memory processing

https://strymonas.github.io/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Our Favorite Narrative Cliche: A World Filled with Idiots (2013)

http://www.davidbrin.com/idiotplot.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

The Overton Window and Political Control

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-overton-bubble/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

Zapcc – A faster C++ compiler

http://baptiste-wicht.com/posts/2016/11/zapcc-a-faster-c%2B%2B-compiler.html

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 88 comments

Test results for Knights Landing

http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=761

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013)

https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

How We’ve Built a Remote Company Culture to Be Grateful For

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/a-remote-culture-to-be-grateful-for

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Alter – convert text/code to an image

http://alter.cf

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

WaPo Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist from a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 56 comments

Debian putting everything on the /usr

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/24/debian_testing_merged_codeusrcode/?mt=1480127476882

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/science/boston-molasses-flood-science.html

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

SQL transaction isolation levels explained

https://elliot.land/sql-transaction-isolation-levels-explained

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 3 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Multi-Stage Programming [pdf]

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~taha/publications/journal/dspg04a.pdf

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments
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