top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-15

Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership

https://recode.net/2015/09/15/nine-of-the-worlds-biggest-banks-form-blockchain-partnership/

11 years ago

460 upvotes – 274 comments

Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 155 comments

Adrian Frutiger has died

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/master-of-the-univers_swiss-font-legend-adrian-frutiger-dies/41659284

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 53 comments

'Hackers' at 20

http://passcode.csmonitor.com/hackers

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 161 comments

Tmux Resurrect – Persists tmux environment across system restarts

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

11 years ago

★ 12.6k Shell MIT
231 upvotes – 55 comments

Flowchart.js – Simple SVG flow chart diagrams from textual representation

http://adrai.github.io/flowchart.js/

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 24 comments

The Art of PNG Glitch

http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 45 comments

Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer

http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 185 comments

JS Sequence Diagrams – UML Sequence Diagram in SVG from Text

http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 17 comments

Launching a product in just 3652 days

https://medium.com/@benediktdeicke/launching-a-product-in-just-3652-days-4d4e74e2dcd5

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 59 comments

Cisco routers in at least 4 countries infected by highly stealthy backdoor

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/attackers-install-highly-stealthy-backdoors-in-cisco-routers/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 75 comments

US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34252058

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 69 comments

A “Hello World” Server in Prolog

http://www.swi-prolog.org/howto/http/HelloText.html

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 36 comments

Capabilities and Services

http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 92 comments

The Interim Operating System

http://interim.mntmn.com

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups?

http://000fff.org/why-europe-is-failing-to-create-more-unicorns/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 330 comments

Playing with Pigs

http://www.playingwithpigs.nl/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 74 comments

Camera Restricta: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs

http://philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

400 days of Go

http://www.philipotoole.com/400-days-of-go/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 110 comments

Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/?single_page=true

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/09/were-changing-our-name-back-to-stack-overflow/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 64 comments

How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150915-circadian-clocks/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

NASA Struggles Over Deep-Space Plutonium Power

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/within-nasa-a-plutonium-power-struggle/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why They Matter

https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%20memory%20layout%20soft%20realtime/2015/08/24/erlang-garbage-collection-details-and-why-it-matters.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/55e1beac15970d6c01395d9d

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 97 comments

What Did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?

https://medium.com/@todfrancis/what-did-billion-dollar-companies-look-like-at-the-series-a-e53ea8043a85

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

New York Mayor De Blasio to Require Computer Science in Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/nyregion/de-blasio-to-announce-10-year-deadline-to-offer-computer-science-to-all-students.html?emc=edit_na_20150915&nlid=21175094&ref=headline&_r=0

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 80 comments

Lisp implementation in GNU make

https://github.com/shinh/makelisp

11 years ago

★ 170 Common Lisp
98 upvotes – 16 comments

A Web Crawler with Asyncio Coroutines

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-web-crawler-with-asyncio-coroutines.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

DARPA helicopter can feel for the ground below to ensure a safe landing

http://www.alphr.com/technology/1001524/darpa-is-building-the-helicopter-of-the-future

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

Porting Linux to a new processor architecture, Part 2

https://lwn.net/Articles/656286/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 6 comments

Tracking Bluetooth Skimmers in Mexico, Part II

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/tracking-bluetooth-skimmers-in-mexico-part-ii/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

My experience with using TLA+ in distributed systems class

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-experience-with-using-tla-in.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

People Are More Likely to Cheat at the End

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-are-more-likely-to-cheat-at-the-end/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

SpaceX Has Nearly a Full Uber Funding in Contracts

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/14/spacex-has-nearly-a-full-uber-funding-in-contracts/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/09/jack-ma-harvard-rejected-me-10-times/?utm_content=buffer051b7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 129 comments

Stop Breaking the Web

http://ponyfoo.com/articles/stop-breaking-the-web

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Hello, declarative world

http://codon.com/hello-declarative-world

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Wine Staging

https://wine-staging.com/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

Welcome to the Block Party: The internet after ad blocking

http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/welcome-to-the-block-party

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 99 comments

Monitor your local network with Raspberry Pi

http://rigaspapas.com/blog/monitor-your-local-network-with-raspberry-pi/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/hacking_team_co.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 71 comments

It's been 500 years since California has been this dry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/biz/flame-engulfed-california-hasnt-seen-drought-like-this-for-500-years/2015/09/14/24b67fa7f6b9a2f517640cfaa3d3acc8_story.html?tid=kindle-app

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Making thumbnails fast

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/making-thumbnails-fast.htm

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Porsche is showing off an electric sports car

http://qz.com/501986/porsche-is-showing-off-an-electric-sports-car-that-could-take-on-tesla/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: A resource for drawing complex primitives in JavaScript

http://xqt2.com/p/MoreCanvasContext.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

On the Security of Password Manager Database Formats (2012) [pdf]

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6487/pwvault.pdf

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Should we all be looking for marginal gains?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34247629

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

A Little Guide on Using Concurrent Futures for Web Developers

http://codemonkeyism.com/a-little-guide-on-using-futures-for-web-developers/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Lisp implementation in sed

https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp

11 years ago

★ 554 Common Lisp
62 upvotes – 15 comments

The Best Algorithms of the 20th Century [pdf]

https://www.siam.org/pdf/news/637.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Building a Tetris Clone in x86 Assembly, pt. Ⅱ: I/O

https://cmcenroe.me/2015/09/14/tetrasm-2.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

The World Really Could Go Nuclear

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-really-could-go-nuclear/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 109 comments

Computers 'do not improve' pupil results, says OECD

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34174796

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Your Brain Seems Mostly Dormant

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/heres-why-your-brain-seems-mostly-dormant-rd

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Electability of 2016 Presidential Candidates as Implied by Betting Markets

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/electability-of-2016-presidential-candidates-as-implied-by-betting-markets/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 61 comments

Drone hobbyists find flaws in “close call” reports to FAA from other aircraft

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/13/drone-reports-faa-close-call-near-miss-academy-model-aeronautics-/72064388/?AID=10709313&PID=3836173&SID=iekr385peb0004o400dth

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 49 comments

Earley Parsing Explained

http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Π-Base – A community database of topological examples

http://topology.jdabbs.com/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Test Your Sense of Pitch

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 61 comments

The 'Sharpest Picture Yet' of the Higgs Boson

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-sharpest-picture-yet-of-the-higgs-boson

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments
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