top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-04-09

Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-api-to-root-privileges-in-apple-os-x/

11 years ago

920 upvotes – 356 comments

Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?

http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me

11 years ago

493 upvotes – 117 comments

Amazon Elastic File System

http://aws.amazon.com/efs/

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 213 comments

Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-04-08-osx-security-bug.html

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 74 comments

U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade

http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 229 comments

LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/linkedin-to-buy-online-education-site-lynda-com-for-1-5-billion/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 147 comments

Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand

http://blog.mobilejazz.com/working-remotely-from-a-tropical-island-in-thailand/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 187 comments

Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2015/Worlds-Smallest-Computer-Michigan-Micro-Mote.html

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 53 comments

Boltons: over 100 Python utilities

http://github.com/mahmoud/boltons

11 years ago

★ 6.8k Python
282 upvotes – 53 comments

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-machine-learning-make-data-driven-decisions-at-scale/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 51 comments

“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make

http://blog.jgc.org/2015/04/the-gnu-make-book-probably-more-than.html

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346313

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 388 comments

Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 153 comments

'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/09/jp-morgan-warns-silicon-valley-is-coming/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 158 comments

NYC Pension Earns $40M Over 10 Years, Pays Fund Managers $2B

http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/04/09/nyc-pension-earns-40-million-over-10-years-pays-fund-managers-2-billion/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 88 comments

A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)

http://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code

https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanything

11 years ago

★ 928 JavaScript
155 upvotes – 93 comments

On software popularity

http://soveran.com/popularity.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

Can life exist on a planet without a star?

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/can-life-exist-on-a-planet-without-a-star/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-postgresql-for-cloudflare-analytics-using-citusdb/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 11 comments
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