top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-11

Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot

https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh

9 years ago

★ 7.3k Shell
515 upvotes – 75 comments

The Essence of Linear Algebra [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 41 comments

Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

https://olivierpieters.be/blog/2017/02/11/designing-a-business-card-in-latex

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 219 comments

Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-09/microsoft-can-pursue-suit-over-u-s-sneak-and-peek-searches

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Has No First Amendment Right to Send Unauthorized Texts, Says Court

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/10/facebook-has-no-first-amendment-right-to

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 172 comments

Double life as a KGB agent

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/thought-smarter-everybody-kgb-spy-jack-barsky

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 75 comments

Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/oracle-refuses-to-accept-pro-google-fair-use-verdict-in-api-battle/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 320 comments

A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/dont-believe-lies-just-people-repeat/

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 143 comments

Four Kinds of Dystopia

http://expressiveegg.org/2017/01/03/four-kinds-dystopia/

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 116 comments

The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely

http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-close-google-loophole-entirely/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 324 comments

Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf]

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 237 comments

Show HN: Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go's templating engine

https://github.com/muesli/beehive

9 years ago

★ 6.4k Go AGPL-3.0
247 upvotes – 44 comments

Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper

http://www.nhregister.com/20170211/yale-will-rename-calhoun-college-to-honor-trailblazing-alum-grace-murray-hopper

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 136 comments

Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/dmtinsect.html

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 175 comments

Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 174 comments

Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here

http://dylanmckay.io/blog/rust/avr/llvm/2017/02/09/safer-microcontrollers-almost-here.html

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 122 comments

Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/one-third-of-personal-attacks-on-wikipedia-come-from-active-editors/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 126 comments

Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers

https://story.californiasunday.com/below-deck

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 201 comments

How to Setup a Secure VPN Server on Raspberry Pi or DigitalOcean

https://blog.hsp.dk/how-to-setup-vpn-server-on-raspberry-pi-or-digitalocean/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/upshot/popping-the-housing-bubbles-in-the-american-mind.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 192 comments
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