top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-29

Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/28/14428262/google-sergey-brin

9 years ago

685 upvotes – 348 comments

Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316714-federal-judge-blocks-trump-immigration-ban-nationwide

9 years ago

664 upvotes – 358 comments

Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/lyft-donates-1m-to-the-aclu-condemns-trumps-immigration-actions/

9 years ago

514 upvotes – 261 comments

Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430

9 years ago

446 upvotes – 285 comments

Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/825517729251684352

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 135 comments

Typing Practice for Programmers

http://speedcoder.net/lesson

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 166 comments

Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms

http://www.thelocal.at/20170128/hotel-ransomed-by-hackers-as-guests-locked-in-rooms

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 108 comments

Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9813.html

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 134 comments

New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code

9 years ago

275 upvotes – 145 comments

The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-human-toll-of-protecting-the-internet-from-the-worst-of-humanity

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 114 comments

Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/harry-houdini-ingenious-innovator-didnt-want-anybody-know-180961078/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 29 comments

Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer

http://www.cpushack.com/2017/01/28/stratus-servers-that-wont-quit-the-24-year-running-computer/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 123 comments

Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-still-uses-mitm-javascript-injection-serve-unwanted-ads-messages/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 56 comments

How to Unlock Netflix Hidden Categories

http://thebrotalk.com/entertainment/how-to-unlock-netflix-hidden-categories/

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 39 comments

SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/29/2336244/spacex-is-livestreaming-a-hyperloop-pod-competition

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 72 comments

Trunk-Based Development

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 205 comments

Ask HN: Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516116

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 131 comments

Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change

https://oracle-base.com/blog/2017/01/28/oracles-cloud-licensing-change-be-warned/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 234 comments

Godot Game Engine – Tutorial Series

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Godot-Game-Engine-tutorial-series.aspx

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 27 comments

Building a One-Person SaaS App Offers a Profound Sense of Personal Achievement

https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/building-a-one-man-saas-app-offers-a-profound-sense-of-personal-achievement/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 78 comments

Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2

http://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-mac-os-x-part-2/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 223 comments

ClojureScript 1.9.456, Externs Inference and Comprehensive JavaScript Modules

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clojurescript/wGJeG36GPTk/e9XCo3a2BgAJ

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517597

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514093

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 130 comments

Living on the Edge – Story of an Iranian Student in US

https://medium.com/@fardinghooli/living-on-the-edge-6a692c4a7f38#.fhnz76kg4

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments

A Guide to Porting C/C++ to Rust

https://locka99.gitbooks.io/a-guide-to-porting-c-to-rust/content/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 89 comments

DHS will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/01/29/department-homeland-security-response-recent-litigation

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 145 comments

What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538966/what-is-the-oldest-computer-program-still-in-use/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 84 comments

The Post-Snowden Cyber Arms Hustle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-18/the-post-snowden-cyber-arms-hustle

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 6 comments

Bitcoin firm gets approval to operate in Switzerland

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-bitcoin-xapo-idUSKBN15B1QB

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 20 comments

PDP-10/its: Incompatible Timesharing System

https://github.com/PDP-10/its

9 years ago

★ 941Assembly
121 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Anything we can do for those impacted by the US immigration ban?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511062

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 78 comments

Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1655842

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 169 comments

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing

http://numerical.recipes/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

Joel Spolsky: Time to take a stand

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Git-recall - Simple and handy tool to easily recall what you've done

https://github.com/Fakerr/git-recall

9 years ago

★ 2.1kShellMIT
105 upvotes – 17 comments

Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/silent-circle-bricks-grey-market-blackphones-with-os-update/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 123 comments

Speak IPA – Text to Speech for International Phonetic Alphabet

http://speak-ipa.bearbin.net/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Free Range VHDL – VHDL programming book available for free

http://freerangefactory.org/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

Hackers Tear Apart Trend Micro, Find 200 Vulnerabilities In 6 Months

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/25/trend-micro-security-exposed-200-flaws-hacked/#72e40ac255d6

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 39 comments

How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21711011-research-shows-firms-ignore-passionate-consumers-their-peril-how-companies-should

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

C# functional language extensions and Erlang-like concurrency system

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

9 years ago

★ 7kC#MIT
99 upvotes – 48 comments

ECMAScript 2017: the final feature set

http://www.2ality.com/2016/02/ecmascript-2017.html

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Designing for failure

https://lwn.net/Articles/711912/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Startpage – private search engine

https://www.startpage.com/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

The merging of machine capability and human consciousness is already happening

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/darpa-arati-prabhakar-humans-machines

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Is a master degree in CS worth it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514344

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 99 comments

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugnXTN6-D4

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Mcasm – A Microcode Assembler

https://www.bedroomlan.org/projects/mcasm

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments
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