top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-27

How to leak to the press

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/how-easy-is-it-to-securely-leak-information-to-some-of-americas-top-news-organizations-this-easy/

9 years ago

680 upvotes – 207 comments

Twitter discloses national security letters

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/transparency-update-twitter-discloses-national-security-letters

9 years ago

549 upvotes – 149 comments

Site Reliability Engineering

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

9 years ago

540 upvotes – 111 comments

Things Every Hacker Once Knew

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/

9 years ago

539 upvotes – 321 comments

Linux Performance

http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

9 years ago

536 upvotes – 64 comments

The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator

http://thefounder.biz/

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 89 comments

Comparing Elixir and Go

https://blog.codeship.com/comparing-elixir-go/

9 years ago

489 upvotes – 194 comments

Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

https://sketchcase.com

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out

https://whoishiring.io/

9 years ago

419 upvotes – 76 comments

Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38724082

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 255 comments

Java Without If

http://ashtonkemerling.com/blog/2017/01/26/java-without-if/

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 208 comments

Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/mac-sales-declined-nearly-10-last-year-as-lenovo-dell-and-others-gained-ground/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 261 comments

Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/microsoft-earnings-q2-2017.html

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 158 comments

Ask HN: How to best teach a group of children how to code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13499626

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 114 comments

I cannot continue working on my add-ons

http://fasezero.com/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 212 comments

A Four Planet System in Orbit, Directly Imaged and Remarkable

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/a-four-planet-system-in-orbit-directly-imaged-and-remarkable/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 12 comments

Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/26/trump-order-strips-privacy-rights-from-non-u-s-citizens-could-nix-eu-us-data-flows/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 204 comments

Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/18/libor-scandal-the-bankers-who-fixed-the-worlds-most-important-number

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 84 comments

Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/24/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-u-s/?utm_term=.5230c9fd2675

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 71 comments

CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on thanks to Al Gore

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 70 comments

Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer?

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/why-your-mind-is-always-wandering.html?mid=facebook_scienceofus

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 63 comments

Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZeCvEa7OqI

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 16 comments

Political World Embraces Encrypted-Messaging App Signal Amid Fears of Hacking

http://www.wsj.com/articles/political-world-embraces-encrypted-messaging-app-amid-fears-of-hacking-1485492485

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (2014)

http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/why-you-do-your-best-thinking-in-the-shower.html?src=2

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 66 comments

Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/business/media/journalists-arrested-trump-inauguration.html?

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 101 comments

Researchers are beginning to disentangle pain relief from addiction and overdose

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-morphine-180961774/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 88 comments

Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 12 comments

Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

https://hbr.org/2017/01/great-teams-are-about-personalities-not-just-skills

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/sunday/why-succeeding-against-the-odds-can-make-you-sick.html?_r=0

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 67 comments

Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/technology/google-in-post-obama-era-aggressively-woos-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 145 comments

Finding a bug in Win10 BOOTMGR when chaining to NTLDR

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225094#c52

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

http://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 101 comments

ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7155/isis-drone-dropping-bomblet-on-abrams-tank-is-a-sign-of-whats-to-come

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 118 comments

For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9788.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

Five-month-old babies know what’s funny

https://aeon.co/ideas/five-month-old-babies-know-whats-funny

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Geneticist Michael Eisen Launches Bid for US Senate

http://www.nature.com/news/geneticist-launches-bid-for-us-senate-1.21381

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Launch HN: Peer5 (YC W17) – Serverless CDN

https://www.peer5.com

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 117 comments

TensorFlow 1.0.0-rc0

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc0

9 years ago

★ 194.9kC++Apache-2.0
103 upvotes – 16 comments

Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/33/9232.abstract

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Homebrew, but with Docker images

https://github.com/bfirsh/whalebrew

9 years ago

★ 4.2kGoApache-2.0
95 upvotes – 40 comments

Seagate will bring a 16TB hard drive to market within 18 months

http://www.techspot.com/news/67928-seagate-bring-16tb-hard-drive-market-within-18.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 111 comments
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