top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-15

US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data

https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024

9 years ago

1273 upvotes – 301 comments

New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior

http://www.planetizen.com/features/95227-new-research-how-ride-hailing-impacts-travel-behavior

9 years ago

604 upvotes – 441 comments

What is Nix and why you should try it

https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/what-and-why-nix/

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 193 comments

My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/

9 years ago

413 upvotes – 147 comments

Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)

http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 293 comments

Essential C

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 55 comments

Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_vanhoef.pdf

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 49 comments

The trouble with text-only email

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 152 comments

Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead, but His Offspring Are All Right

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/jeremy-lefty-snail.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/travel/747-airplane-jet-pilot.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 117 comments

CryptoKitties: breedable cats on the blockchain – ETHWaterloo winner

https://alpha.cryptokitties.co/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Has Made a Mess of Robotics

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-12/google-has-made-a-mess-of-robotics

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 49 comments

Death of the Nile

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/death_of_the_nile

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

Why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL

https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-better-mysql-1/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 95 comments

Switching from Common Lisp to Julia

https://tpapp.github.io/post/common-lisp-to-julia/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 72 comments

Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography

http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite

https://medium.com/@bluepnume/introducing-paypals-open-source-cross-domain-javascript-suite-95f991b2731d

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 18 comments

A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland

https://qz.com/1100221/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 58 comments

Grafana: Postgres Data Source

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/d1c9760fa8520701ff56a07bbe89ae666783c40f

9 years ago

★ 73.4k TypeScript AGPL-3.0
128 upvotes – 21 comments

Calamine: Excel file reader, written in Rust

https://github.com/tafia/calamine

9 years ago

★ 2.2k Rust MIT
120 upvotes – 35 comments

Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/early-facebook-employees-regret-the-monster-they-created

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 114 comments

Evolution of GitHub's data centers

https://githubengineering.com/evolution-of-our-data-centers/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UnbalancedSSDMirrorReads

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/deputy-attorney-general-rosensteins-responsible-encryption-demand-bad-and-he

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human

https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 37 comments

Cognitive Biases in Programming

https://medium.com/@evidanary/cognitive-biases-in-programming-5e937707c27b

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969)

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Switzerland: How buying real-estate can kill you financially/reasons for stocks

https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/switzerland-how-buying-real-estate-can-kill-you-financially-and-two-reasons-to-go-for-stocks-79704213b229

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 83 comments

A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-photon-reveals-quantum-entanglement-million.html

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Nsjail – A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux

http://nsjail.com/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

GNU UPC

http://www.gccupc.org/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Arithmetic Gas

https://mathematicalgarden.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/arithmetic-gas/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 3 comments
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