top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-27

Not a bash bug

http://paste.lisp.org/display/143864

12 years ago

348 upvotes – 185 comments

PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests

http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-in-new-developer-reality/

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 160 comments

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/09/consumer-reports-tests-iphone-6-bendgate/index.htm

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 175 comments

Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 79 comments

Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop

https://twitter.com/a_quilt_bot/status/514483044724776960

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 24 comments

Shell Shock Exploitation Vectors

https://www.dfranke.us/posts/2014-09-27-shell-shock-exploitation-vectors.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

Counting bytes fast

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2014/09/counting-bytes-fast-little-trick-from.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

An open source platform for emulating the fruit fly brain

http://neurokernel.github.io/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 17 comments

Bash bug: apply the unofficial patch now (CVE-2014-6277)

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/09/bash-bug-apply-unofficial-patch-now.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

M/S Estonia accident radio transcript

http://oona.windytan.com/estonia/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Clay Shirky just banned technology use in class

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/25/why-a-leading-professor-of-new-media-just-banned-technology-use-in-class/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 75 comments

Looking at Productivity as a State of Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/upshot/looking-at-productivity-as-a-state-of-mind.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (1956)

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html#

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

Academia or industry?

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/09/15/academia-or-industry/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daniel-lemire%2Fatom+%28Daniel+Lemire%27s+blog%29

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Don't Use an RDBMS for Messaging

https://functionwhatwhat.com/why-you-should-not-use-an-rdbms-for-messaging/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 86 comments

C++11 use in Chromium

http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/technology/iphone-locks-out-the-nsa-signaling-a-post-snowden-era-.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (2012)

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303404704577305581227233656

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Developing Software in a Hostile Environment

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/dev-sw-hostile-env.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Go generate: A proposal for a Go preprocessor

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V03LUfjSADDooDMhe-_K59EgpTEm3V8uvQRuNMAEnjg/edit

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

Beyond Objective-C, Beyond Swift

http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/98402624705/beyond-objective-c-beyond-swift/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Cloud Server Reboots

https://status.rackspace.com/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

How to see your iOS8 health data

http://aprilzero.com/journal/fixing-healthkit/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29239529

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/23/americans-throw-out-more-food-than-plastic-paper-metal-or-glass/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

Bruges Will Cut Traffic with an Underground Beer Pipeline

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/underground-beer-pipeline/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Hacking with DNS

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HfXVJyXElzBshZ9SYNjBwJf_4MBaho6UcATTFwApfXw

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

The Alzheimer's Enigma

http://mosaicscience.com/node/5

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Write your own Virtual CPU in C++

http://megalomaniacbore.blogspot.com/2014/04/virtual-cpu-in-c-4001-cpu.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

An Experiment That Changed How We Think About Reality

http://www.wired.com/2014/01/bells-theorem/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday

https://blog.cloudflare.com/celebrating-cloudflares-4th-birthday/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 39 comments

Qmail is a vector for bash shellshock

http://marc.info/?l=qmail&m=141183309314366&w=2

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama's hair

http://pnis.co/h3.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

On building portable Linux binaries

http://sagargv.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-building-portable-linux-binaries.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Who's afraid of bromine?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29376436

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

What the Tortoise Said to Achilles (1895)

http://www.ditext.com/carroll/tortoise.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

A Company That Got Rid of Email

http://www.fastcompany.com/3035927/agendas/inside-the-company-that-got-rid-of-email

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 51 comments

Curses, Fooled Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/opinion/curses-fooled-again.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

Complex Step Differentiation

http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/10/14/complex-step-differentiation/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments
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