top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-16

Security alerts on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/2470-introducing-security-alerts-on-github

9 years ago

Startup Ideas

http://blog.ycombinator.com/13-startup-ideas/

9 years ago

JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/javascript-the-core-2nd-edition/

9 years ago

The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/16/the-fcc-just-repealed-decades-old-rules-blocking-broadcast-media-mergers/

9 years ago

Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language on the Raspberry Pi

http://bob.cs.sonoma.edu/IntroCompOrg-RPi/intro-co-rpi.html

9 years ago

Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011)

https://avichal.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/

9 years ago

Learn just enough Linux to get things done

http://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done

9 years ago

Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-42009839

9 years ago

FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/fcc-plans-to-vote-to-overturn-u-s-net-neutrality-rules-in-december-sources-idUSKBN1DG00H

9 years ago

Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts

https://medium.com/@dankaplan/the-complete-moral-bankruptcy-of-manipulating-human-psychology-to-turn-users-into-addicts-d09b98281ef

9 years ago

Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off

http://www.techradar.com/news/why-dells-gamble-on-linux-laptops-has-paid-off

9 years ago

SQL Operations Studio

https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio

9 years ago

★ 7.7k TypeScript MIT

Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month

https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25

9 years ago

RISC-V port merged into Linux 4.15

https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!topic/sw-dev/2-u-c3kyZlc

9 years ago

New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/courts/article_d76e9496-c995-11e7-bd8b-4bb8d14cacbf.html?utm_content=buffera1a9c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025014/

9 years ago

Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2012)

http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html

9 years ago

Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash reporter, cryptohomed

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=766253

9 years ago

Why Ageism Never Gets Old

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old

9 years ago

Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66089700&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0

9 years ago

Puffs: Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely

https://github.com/google/puffs

9 years ago

★ 4.7k C

An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection.html

9 years ago

Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-deal-with-yahoo-and-makes-google-the-default-in-firefox-again/

9 years ago

Why do we care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/benefit-scroungers-billions-rich-paradise-papers-tax-avoidance

9 years ago

Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions

https://github.com/martanne/vis

9 years ago

★ 4.5k C

Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/technology/amazon-sales-tax.html

9 years ago

Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/?no-ist

9 years ago

Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (2015)

http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-ratings.html

9 years ago

No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16667376/boston-dynamics-atlas-backflip-video-watch

9 years ago

Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06175v1

9 years ago

Leela Zero – Go engine with no human-provided knowledge

https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero

9 years ago

★ 5.5k C++ GPL-3.0

IBM Quad9 – A free security solution using DNS to protect against cyber threats

https://www.quad9.net

9 years ago

On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality

http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Fall_Christman.php

9 years ago

Pspg – Postgres Pager

https://github.com/okbob/pspg

9 years ago

★ 2.7k C BSD-2-Clause

Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/15/is-billionaire-vc-peter-thiel-trying-to-break-up-google/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Why are supercomputers all running Linux and not BSD?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15711418

9 years ago

A source of knowledge for Language Server Protocol implementations

https://langserver.org/

9 years ago

LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20171115

9 years ago

The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (2009)

https://econ.ucsb.edu/~doug/240a/Coin%20Flip.htm

9 years ago

A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques

https://blog.ret2.io/2017/11/16/dangers-of-the-decompiler/

9 years ago

Google Maps Gets a New Look

https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-gets-new-look/

9 years ago

Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)

https://www.lawyered.in/legal-disrupt/articles/bill-legalize-marijuana-parliament/

9 years ago

The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-16/the-u-s-flooded-one-of-houston-s-richest-neighborhoods-to-save-everyone-else

9 years ago

Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/11/16/citus-cloud-2-postgres-and-scale-without-compromise/

9 years ago

Using Vue.js and Rails

https://www.classandobjects.com/tutorial/using_vue_js_with_rails/?utm_source=hackernews.com

9 years ago

Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics

https://blog.kolide.com/using-go-for-scalable-operating-system-analytics-cb170d85b1c5

9 years ago

A World in a Box: Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history

https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/1401

9 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing Pandas Code for Speed

https://engineering.upside.com/a-beginners-guide-to-optimizing-pandas-code-for-speed-c09ef2c6a4d6

9 years ago

Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift

https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-11-apps-with-swift/id1309275316

9 years ago

On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2009/david-arenberg-reflects-being-jewish-state-prison

9 years ago

Kotlin/Native v0.4 released: Objective-C interop, WebAssembly and more

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlinnative-v0-4-released-objective-c-interop-webassembly-and-more/

9 years ago

Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore

https://www.stavros.io/posts/startup-mistakes-datastore/

9 years ago

Show HN: Forsh – A Unix shell embedded in Forth

https://bitbucket.org/cowile/forsh

9 years ago