2016-02-17 front | Hacker News

Stories from February 17, 2016

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

31.		The 4$ smartphone (freedom251.com)
		194 points by donbox on Feb 17, 2016 \| 98 comments
32.		Modern Microprocessors – A 90 Minute Guide (lighterra.com)
		170 points by Tomte on Feb 17, 2016 \| 12 comments
33.		Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China (pentestpartners.com)
		188 points by campuscodi on Feb 16, 2016 \| 52 comments
34.		The Never-Ending Story: Europe’s Banks Face a Frightening Future (bloomberg.com)
		63 points by T-A on Feb 16, 2016 \| 34 comments
35.		In shards of glass, a new sign of how the Easter Islanders met their demise (washingtonpost.com)
		61 points by MarlonPro on Feb 17, 2016 \| 41 comments
36.		Leap Motion: Orion [video] (youtube.com)
		135 points by tiagobraw on Feb 17, 2016 \| 32 comments
37.		After Zenefits, Will VCs Rein in Their Unicorns? (bloomberg.com)
		108 points by jackgavigan on Feb 17, 2016 \| 120 comments
38.		Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click (truebill.com)
		103 points by idrism on Feb 17, 2016 \| 46 comments
39.		DRYing Elixir Tests with Macros (hugoribeira.com)
		92 points by hugoribeira on Feb 17, 2016 \| 19 comments
40.		China Deploys Missiles on Disputed Island in South China Sea (wsj.com)
		90 points by maibaum on Feb 17, 2016 \| 72 comments
41.		Bosses Harness Big Data to Predict Which Workers Might Get Sick (wsj.com)
		76 points by uptown on Feb 17, 2016 \| 54 comments
42.		The circumflex: a battle over an accent mark (bbc.com)
		48 points by Perados on Feb 17, 2016 \| 59 comments
43.		As Marijuana Sales Grow, Startups Step in for Wary Banks (nytimes.com)
		68 points by abruzzi on Feb 17, 2016 \| 28 comments
44.		Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks (cnn.com)
		143 points by obeone on Feb 17, 2016 \| 123 comments
45.		Show HN: Clubhouse – project management built for software teams (clubhouse.io)
		72 points by andrewchilds on Feb 17, 2016 \| 49 comments
46.		Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally (ubuntu.com)
		88 points by bpierre on Feb 17, 2016 \| 23 comments
47.		The War on Cash (corbettreport.com)
		113 points by known on Feb 17, 2016 \| 155 comments
48.		$99 “laptop Shell” for Raspberry Pi or Windows 10 Continuum (indiegogo.com)
		93 points by erggo on Feb 17, 2016 \| 33 comments
49.		Preview into Unit Testing via Swift Package Manager (ankit.im)
		18 points by aciid on Feb 17, 2016
50.		Race Is on to Deliver Internet from Space (wsj.com)
		26 points by gwallens on Feb 17, 2016 \| 31 comments
51.		Mental health in startups (medium.com/anonent)
		82 points by jd_routledge on Feb 17, 2016 \| 33 comments
52.		Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device (facebook.com)
		148 points by butler14 on Feb 17, 2016 \| 80 comments
53.		[dupe] SciHub – Pirated Research Papers (sci-hub.io)
		91 points by vinchuco on Feb 17, 2016 \| 5 comments
54.		[video] Why you shouldn’t trust successful people’s advice (youtube.com)
		68 points by FabianBeiner on Feb 17, 2016 \| 28 comments
55.		How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by closing one tab in Chrome (medium.com/primozcigler)
		80 points by primozcigler on Feb 17, 2016 \| 60 comments
56.		Wrangling Grafana and InfluxDB into a Docker Image (simonjbeaumont.com)
		32 points by sjbx on Feb 17, 2016 \| 11 comments
57.		Android Mazar malware that can 'wipe phones' spread via SMS (bbc.com)
		50 points by doener on Feb 17, 2016 \| 10 comments
58.		The Whale Dying on the Mountain (hakaimagazine.com)
		28 points by Thevet on Feb 16, 2016 \| 4 comments
59.		[dupe] Immunotherapy could bring cancer treatment breakthrough [video] (bbc.com)
		18 points by Perados on Feb 17, 2016 \| 2 comments
60.		The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Build Real-Time OS for IoT Devices (linuxfoundation.org)
		41 points by jrepin on Feb 17, 2016 \| 7 comments
		More

HN For You