top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-21

Container Tabs

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers

9 years ago

How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/how-to-avoid-a-post-antibiotic-world.html

9 years ago

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

9 years ago

United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-10-23&end=2017-01-21&country=ae&events=off

9 years ago

The lost art of 3D rendering without shaders

http://machinethink.net/blog/3d-rendering-without-shaders/

9 years ago

DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-hits-milestone-14-million-searches-single-day/184179/

9 years ago

Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/investing-is-more-luck-than-talent

9 years ago

Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History

http://www.wsj.com/articles/philadelphia-poised-to-ban-employers-from-asking-hires-about-salary-history-1484838062?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/20/oracle-lays-off-450-employees/

9 years ago

ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScript

https://sekao.net/blog/industry.html

9 years ago

You Can Change Your Personality

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/how-to-change-your-personality.html

9 years ago

BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller

https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/

9 years ago

How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015)

http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/

9 years ago

Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/09/magic_leap_neither_magic_nor_leaping/

9 years ago

Don't Be a Free User (2011)

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

9 years ago

Gitea – A painless self-hosted Git service

https://gitea.io

9 years ago

2D game art for programmers

http://www.2dgameartguru.com/

9 years ago

Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jan/19/three-year-saga-behind-CIA-release/

9 years ago

The practice of programming, 18 years later

https://blog.kjamistan.com/the-practice-of-programming-18-years-later/

9 years ago

Peloton – a relational database designed for autonomous operation

http://pelotondb.io/

9 years ago

Stanford Natural Language Parser

http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp

9 years ago

Show HN: GitHub trending alternative that ranks repos by contribution rate

http://www.krihelinator.xyz/

9 years ago

Reading Uber’s Internal Emails: Bug Bounty report worth $10K

http://blog.pentestnepal.tech/post/149985438982/reading-ubers-internal-emails-uber-bug-bounty

9 years ago

A very casual introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2012)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/01/02/very-casual-introduction-to-fully/

9 years ago

The internet does to the world what radio did to the world

http://meshedsociety.com/internet-does-to-the-world-what-radio-did-to-the-world/

9 years ago

Hellogopher – Just “git clone” and “make” any Go project

https://github.com/cloudflare/hellogopher/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Makefile MIT

Douane personal firewall for GNU/Linux

http://douaneapp.com

9 years ago

Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go

https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html

9 years ago

Nearley – Parser toolkit for JavaScript

http://nearley.js.org/

9 years ago

Fake Physics

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=9053

9 years ago

Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, the First version released

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/819246328211443713

9 years ago

Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust

https://github.com/derniercri/snatch

9 years ago

★ 682 Rust MIT

Jocko – Kafka implemented in Golang

https://github.com/travisjeffery/jocko

9 years ago

★ 5k Go MIT

Symantec issues more illegit HTTPS certificates

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/01/already-on-probation-symantec-issues-more-illegit-https-certificates/

9 years ago

RISC-V 64-bit Linux in JavaScript

http://bellard.org/riscvemu/js/

9 years ago

Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology

https://www.ethnews.com/kim-dotcoms-megaupload-20-will-utilize-blockchain-technology

9 years ago

Announcing etcd 3.1

https://coreos.com/blog/etcd-3-1-announcement.html

9 years ago

Improving TrueOS: OpenRC

https://www.trueos.org/blog/improving-trueos-openrc/

9 years ago

Attention Federal Employees: If You See Something, Leak Something

https://theintercept.com/leak/

9 years ago

Cryptography Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN" (2013)

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12325.html

9 years ago

About 700 Microsoft employees will be laid off next week, sources say

http://www.businessinsider.com/about-700-microsoft-employees-to-be-laid-off-sources-say-2017-1

9 years ago

The perils of reporting on China's GDP

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38686570

9 years ago

Brute forcing JSON Web Tokens in C

https://github.com/brendan-rius/c-jwt-cracker

9 years ago

★ 2.5k C MIT

Postgres Parallel Indexing in Citus

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/01/17/parallel-indexing-with-citus/

9 years ago

It's not too late for slow parenting

https://leonsbox.com/its-not-too-late-for-slow-parenting-5e4734b64fb3

9 years ago

GRVI Phalanx joins The Kilocore Club

http://fpga.org/2017/01/12/grvi-phalanx-joins-the-kilocore-club/

9 years ago

Anatomy of a Crushing (2011)

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/

9 years ago

Trying to Cure Depression, but Inspiring Torture​

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/theory-psychology-justified-torture

9 years ago

“Talking rubber”, a forgotten audio format

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/a-really-obscure-forgotten-audio-format-talking-rubber/

9 years ago