top 50% 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

The Essence of Linear Algebra [video]

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

9 years ago

Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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

9 years ago

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

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

Double life as a KGB agent

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

9 years ago

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

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

Four Kinds of Dystopia

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

9 years ago

The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely

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

9 years ago

Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf]

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

9 years ago

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

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

Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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

9 years ago

Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

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

9 years ago

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

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

Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/11/intel-gets-serious-neuromorphic-cognitive-computing-future/

9 years ago

Four of Iceland’s main volcanoes are preparing for eruption

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/02/07/four_of_iceland_s_main_volcanoes_all_preparing_for_/

9 years ago

ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15

http://www.kaumudi.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=87911

9 years ago

Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-pioneer-munich-poised-to-ditch-open-source-and-return-to-windows/

9 years ago

Thrill – Big Data Processing with C++

http://blog.brakmic.com/thrill-big-data-processing-with-c/

9 years ago

Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

9 years ago

★ 4.5k Java GPL-3.0

It’s about 50°F warmer than normal near the North Pole again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/10/its-about-50-degrees-warmer-than-normal-near-the-north-pole/?utm_term=.65377b890ed3

9 years ago

Step-by-step development of a Scheme-to-x86 compiler

https://github.com/namin/inc

9 years ago

★ 971 Scheme MIT

PayPal adds “non-discouragement” clause to their User Agreement

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full?locale.x=en

9 years ago

Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624926

9 years ago

Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware

http://macintoshgarden.org/

9 years ago

The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014)

http://colintoh.com/blog/display-table-anti-hero

9 years ago

A small Lisp-Machine in an FPGA

http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/

9 years ago

The Neoclassical Habitat Server Project

https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/

9 years ago

Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to play in the browser

http://virtualapple.org

9 years ago

Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

http://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html

9 years ago

A Nuclear Jockstrap

https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/a-nuclear-jockstrap/

9 years ago

Our 9000-Year Love Affair With Booze

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/02/alcohol-discovery-addiction-booze-human-culture/

9 years ago

Show HN: Easy to understand intro to Python

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/build-app-with-python-antitextbook

9 years ago

★ 576 Python GPL-3.0

High radiation readings at Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor complicate robot probe

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/10/national/high-radiation-readings-at-fukushima-no-2-reactor

9 years ago