top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-01

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/death-to-app-install-interstitials/

11 years ago

683 upvotes – 302 comments

Google’s look, evolved

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-update.html

11 years ago

683 upvotes – 430 comments

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money

http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/

11 years ago

553 upvotes – 300 comments

The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-09-01-the-most-obsolete-infrastructure-money-could-buy/

11 years ago

464 upvotes – 238 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152809

11 years ago

436 upvotes – 864 comments

To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved

http://www.wsj.com/articles/to-stop-procrastinating-start-by-understanding-whats-really-going-on-1441043167?mod=trending_now_1

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 118 comments

Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 79 comments

Slack Poker Bot

https://github.com/CharlieHess/slack-poker-bot

11 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT
318 upvotes – 96 comments

Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record

http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 119 comments

PGStrom: GPU-accelerated PostgreSQL

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 53 comments

Google PDF Search: “not for public release”

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=not+for+public+release&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=pdf&as_rights=&gws_rd=ssl

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 56 comments

Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity

https://blog.golang.org/go15gc

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 137 comments

S3QL: an S3 FS with encryption, de-dup, immutable trees and snapshotting

https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 79 comments

Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/09/01/forging-an-alliance-for-royalty-free-video/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 59 comments

Thimble – An online code editor

https://thimble.mozilla.org/?

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 69 comments

Ants are as Effective as Pesticides

http://scitech.au.dk/en/roemer/5-2015/ants-are-as-effective-as-pesticides/

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 84 comments

Brazilian wasp venom kills cancer cells by opening them up

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-brazilian-wasp-venom-cancer-cells.html

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 48 comments

Migrating bajillions of database records at Stripe

http://robertheaton.com/2015/08/31/migrating-bajillions-of-database-records-at-stripe/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 24 comments

Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/flash-free-clipboard-for-the-web/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 58 comments

Angular 2 Survey Results

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/09/angular-2-survey-results.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 74 comments

Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebooks-new-anti-spam-system-hints-future-coding/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

On the Pleasures of Not Reading

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/08/31/on-the-pleasures-of-not-reading/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Algorithm Wiki

http://www.algorithmist.com/index.php/Main_Page

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

LLVM 3.7 Release

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-September/089935.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152811

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 182 comments

Categories for Programmers: The Yoneda Lemma

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/09/01/the-yoneda-lemma/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

Stupid Patent of the Month: A Drink Mixer Attacks the Internet of Things

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/stupid-patent-month-drink-mixer-attacks-internet-things

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

SpaceX to Debut Upgraded Falcon 9 on Return to Flight Mission

http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-debut-upgraded-falcon-9-on-return-to-flight-mission/#sthash.ZmZMNGJu.uxfs&st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/F3UyTaBjV5

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the meritocracy myth

https://medium.com/diversify-tech/i-m-a-white-guy-in-silicon-valley-and-i-m-done-buying-the-meritocracy-myth-2cc0ef9f9b60

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

Understanding the process of finding serious vulnerabilities

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/08/understanding-process-of-finding.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Creators selling files from their own host, Dropbox etc.

https://filesprout.com/l/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05700

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Google Says It’s Not the Driverless Car’s Fault. It’s Other Drivers’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/technology/personaltech/google-says-its-not-the-driverless-cars-fault-its-other-drivers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 102 comments

Should I Use Signed or Unsigned Ints? (Part 2)

http://blog.robertelder.org/signed-or-unsigned-part-2/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Private Forms: PGP-Encrypted Webforms for Privacy-Conscious Receipients

https://privateforms.com

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing the Real World

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9518/the-mobile-cpu-corecount-debate

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

On Propositions as Types [video]

http://paperswelove.org/2015/video/michael-bernstein-propositions-as-types/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/to-predict-turbulence-just-count-the-puffs-rp

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments
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