top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-13

Encrypted email is still a pain

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/gpg.html

9 years ago

544 upvotes – 431 comments

The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build

https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/

9 years ago

493 upvotes – 99 comments

A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners

https://internetingishard.com/

9 years ago

412 upvotes – 54 comments

Big Picture of Calculus (2010) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWsDwg1XwM&index=2&list=PLBE9407EA64E2C318

9 years ago

393 upvotes – 58 comments

Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax

http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/5063332-151/government-grade-spyware-hits-mexican-advocates-of-soda-tax

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 138 comments

Bill Binney: “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/02/11/news/usa_nsa_bill_binney_integrale_eng-158062766

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 57 comments

List of falsehoods programmers believe in

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

9 years ago

★ 27.3k CC0-1.0
255 upvotes – 118 comments

On Loneliness

https://krishnamurti-teachings.info/book/commentaries-on-living-first-series.html#loneliness

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 175 comments

Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091123-00/?p=15943

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 126 comments

The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-fastest-blog-in-the-world

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 124 comments

The world's deepest ocean trenches are packed with pollution

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21716891-nasty-chemicals-abound-what-was-thought-untouched-environment-worlds

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 83 comments

YubiKey 4C

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4c/

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 255 comments

Building Code Posters with Elixir

http://www.east5th.co/blog/2017/02/13/build-your-own-code-poster-with-elixir/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 21 comments

Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u-8FGxV2eU5j_SkV61pb9y_lLI-Kh63hwRBxKrHQGCc

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 47 comments

Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21716661-platforms-have-benefited-greatly-special-legal-and-regulatory-treatment-internet-firms

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 131 comments

Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/04/is-vegetable-oil-really-better-healthier-for-your-heart-lower-cholesterol/478113/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 176 comments

Raising the American Weakling

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/raising-the-american-weakling

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 165 comments

What happens when you dump the App Store?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/what-happens-when-you-dump-the-app-store/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 123 comments

The Data Science Process

https://www.springboard.com/blog/data-science-process/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 64 comments

Hosting Multiple HTTPS Domains from the Same Server with Let's Encrypt and Nginx

https://blog.benroux.me/running-multiple-https-domains-from-the-same-server/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 72 comments

A bill to allow consumers to control their own devices is pending in Congress

http://www.cio.com/article/3167861/consumer-electronics/surprise-you-don-t-own-the-digital-devices-you-paid-for.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 30 comments

Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 96 comments

Meshbird – Distributed private networking

https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird

9 years ago

★ 3.5k Go Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 55 comments

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age

http://www.cnbc.com/id/104278281

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 219 comments

Why Europe Is Warning of Pax Americana's End

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-13/why-europe-is-warning-of-pax-americana-s-end

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 372 comments

Foster father takes in only terminally ill children

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-foster-father-sick-children-2017-story.html

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 72 comments

What can Rust do for astrophysics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02951

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 110 comments

Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners

https://medium.com/@imaginetta/150-educational-websites-for-lifelong-learners-71c1d8e94843

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 11 comments

Payouts may have contribued to a talent exodus at Google's car project

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/one-reason-staffers-quit-google-s-car-project-the-company-paid-them-so-much

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 112 comments

Understanding Agent Cooperation

https://deepmind.com/blog/understanding-agent-cooperation/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: WebSocket-first development

https://github.com/jasonl99/card_game

9 years ago

★ 137 Crystal MIT
120 upvotes – 58 comments

Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/the-widespread-and-persistent-myth-that-it-is-easier-to-multiply-and-divide-with-hindu-arabic-numerals-than-with-roman-ones/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 74 comments

50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/50-bytes-of-code-that-took-4-gb-to-compile/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Questions the FBI Uses to Determine If Someone Is a Likely Terrorist

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/13/48-questions-the-fbi-uses-to-determine-if-someone-is-a-likely-terrorist/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 122 comments

LX40 – A New Engine in Iqaluit

https://blog.flightradar24.com/blog/lx40-a-new-engine-in-iqaluit/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Monocypher: a small, easy to use crypto library

http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/monocypher/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

New theory explains how Earth’s inner core remains solid despite extreme heat

https://www.kth.se/en/forskning/artiklar/new-theory-explains-how-earth-s-inner-core-remains-solid-despite-extreme-heat-1.705398

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Testing GCC

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/02/13/testing-testing-gcc/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Machine learning and gentrification

http://urbanspatialanalysis.com/portfolio/predicting-gentrification-using-longitudinal-census-data/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Researchers have found more evidence that butter is heart-healthy

https://qz.com/909320/researchers-have-found-more-evidence-that-butter-is-heart-healthy/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 71 comments

Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (1997)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-art-elephants

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Dormant for five centuries, Jewish life in Italy’s far south is stirring

http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2017/02/jewish-revival-sicily

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Nikon “extraordinary loss” kills DL cameras and slashes jobs

https://www.slashgear.com/nikon-extraordinary-loss-kills-dl-cameras-and-slashes-jobs-13474817/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: How can I get investor intros in Berlin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13633986

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

What TfL Learned from Tracking Your Phone on the London Underground

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/02/heres-what-tfl-learned-from-tracking-your-phone-on-the-tube/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Save the dog from a 70m deep, 35cm wide hole

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638509

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments
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