top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-30

Reddit

http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit

12 years ago

988 upvotes – 394 comments

U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-30/u-s-seeks-to-reverse-apple-android-data-locking-decision.html

12 years ago

601 upvotes – 333 comments

CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102037055

12 years ago

409 upvotes – 292 comments

A Fresh Look at Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/10/1/a-fresh-look-at-rust/

12 years ago

379 upvotes – 154 comments

Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded

https://archive.today/94EKG

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 199 comments

Mozilla Brick

http://brick.mozilla.io/

12 years ago

367 upvotes – 118 comments

Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars ensures humanity's future

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/

12 years ago

322 upvotes – 347 comments

Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec03/

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 73 comments

Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/atlantic-net-launches-0-99month-ssd-based-vps-hosting-service/

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 195 comments

Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/reddit-scoops-up-50m-series-b-from-sam-altman-a16z-sequoia-at-500m-valuation/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 88 comments

EBay to Spin Off PayPal

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/ebay-to-spin-off-paypal-adopting-strategy-backed-by-icahn/

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 94 comments

Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exploit systems

https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-shellshock/

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 93 comments

Command-line file sharing

https://transfer.sh/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft Announces Windows 10

http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 146 comments

C for Rubyists

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/files/ruby.c#annotation=4029392&line=1

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 27 comments

Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing

https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit

12 years ago

★ 10.4k Python BSD-3-Clause
173 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple takes down another indie dev

http://blog.rollins.io/2014/09/30/the-king-makers-apple-takes-down-an-indie-dev/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 80 comments

Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates

http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 125 comments

Work Habits at Apple

http://oleb.net/blog/2014/09/work-habits-at-apple/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 74 comments

OnionTip – Donate to volunteers who are running Tor relays

https://oniontip.com

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 29 comments

Sikuli Script

http://www.sikuli.org/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 31 comments

Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/matchstick-brings-firefox-os-to-your-hdtv-be-the-first-to-get-a-developer-stick/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

Advanced iOS virus targeting Hong Kong protestors

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/hongkong-china-cybersecurity-apple-idUSL2N0RV2D320140930

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

The iPhone 6 Review

http://anandtech.com/show/8554/the-iphone-6-review

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Realm for Android

http://realm.io/news/realm-for-android/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Drone Shows Thousands Filling Hong Kong Streets [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Q919bQOThvM#t=10

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]

http://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/dls14.pdf

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments

Emotional Intelligence is Overrated

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140930125543-69244073-emotional-intelligence-is-overrated

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 65 comments

The self-made man

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/09/the_self_made_man_history_of_a_myth_from_ben_franklin_to_andrew_carnegie.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 86 comments

How RAM Scrapers Work: The Tool Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/ram-scrapers-how-they-work/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Tony Hsieh Steps Down from Lead Role at Las Vegas Downtown Project

http://recode.net/2014/09/30/tony-hsieh-steps-down-from-lead-role-at-las-vegas-downtown-project/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Simple Language Implementation Techniques for the 21st Century

http://stefan-marr.de/papers/ieee-soft-marr-et-al-are-we-there-yet/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Windows 10 is the official name for Microsoft's next version of Windows

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6868695/microsoft-windows-9-announced-official

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

Benefits of Writing a DSL in Ruby

http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/benefits-of-writing-a-dsl/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Real Life MMO FPS

http://father.io/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

A strange green organism has spread, clogging up the world's rivers

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140922-green-snot-takes-over-worlds-rivers?OCID=fbindia

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Sync Done Beautifully

https://www.pixelapse.com/sync

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Idiomatic Generics in Go

http://bouk.co/blog/idiomatic-generics-in-go/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 102 comments

A brief history of CPAN

http://cpan.io/ref/history.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

How we might abolish Cabal Hell, part 1

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2014/09/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-part-1/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 81 comments

On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-sufficiency (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilization-kit

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Gifshot: JS library to create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, images

http://yahoo.github.io/gifshot/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Felicia, the Pipe-Cleaning Ferret of Fermilab (1971)

http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Halfbike

http://halfbikes.com/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

Fixing the Internet for confidentiality and security

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1407

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Y Combinator and the Negative Externalities of Hackernews

http://danilocampos.com/2014/09/y-combinator-and-the-negative-externalities-of-hacker-news/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 59 comments

Microsoft Unveils New Operating System, Dubbed Windows 10

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/microsoft-unveils-windows-10/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

The Secret to Getting Top-Secret Secrets

https://medium.com/matter/the-secret-to-getting-top-secret-secrets-1f693eaf609a

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments

Stripe Fund Invests $500,000 in Baremetrics

https://baremetrics.io/blog/stripe-500000-baremetrics

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/business/media/judge-rules-against-grooveshark-in-copyright-infringement-case.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Higher Education's Aristocrats

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/higher-educations-aristocrats/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter

http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: SHARQ – Open Source, Rate-Limited Queuing System

http://sharq.io/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Linearizability versus Serializability

http://www.bailis.org/blog/linearizability-versus-serializability/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (1970)

http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm?html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

New Federal Database Details Medical World’s Financial Links to Drug Makers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/Database-of-payments-to-doctors-by-drug-and-medical-device-makers.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29409541

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: New cross-platform interaction between mobile devices

http://cloudmatch.io

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments
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