top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-16

14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/16/14-year-old-boy-arrested-for-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school/

11 years ago

1952 upvotes – 946 comments

Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/

11 years ago

473 upvotes – 325 comments

HP to cut 25-30k jobs

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34265094

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 312 comments

Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 248 comments

Texas Student Is Under Police Investigation for Building a Clock

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-is-under-police-investigation-for-building-a-clock.html

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 1 comments

I’m Ahmed. Except I’m Not Brown

http://ihnatko.com/2015/09/16/im-achmed-except-im-not-brown/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 113 comments

Marijuana tax take nearly double expected in Colorado

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34272291

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 122 comments

NH Library Votes to Reinstate Tor Relay

http://www.vnews.com/news/newsletter/18620952-95/library-joins-privacy-network

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 29 comments

Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/yale-to-be-paid-interest-on-dutch-water-authority-bond-from-1648

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node

https://github.com/jingweno/hacker-menu

11 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript MIT
167 upvotes – 73 comments

Hosting a simple static site on IPFS

https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipns/QmWGb7PZmLb1TwsMkE1b8jVK4LGceMYMsWaSmviSucWPGG/2015/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-ipfs/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 27 comments

Asynchronous IO in Rust

https://medium.com/@paulcolomiets/asynchronous-io-in-rust-36b623e7b965

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 110 comments

Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Change Schools

https://grasswire.com/story/133/texas-teen-arrested

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 139 comments

What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives

http://www.carryology.com/bags/whats-in-my-bag-what-refugees-bring-when-they-run-for-their-lives/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 139 comments

Lyft Announces Strategic Partnership with Didi

http://blog.lyft.com/posts/lyft-didi

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 76 comments

Tsunami alert as Chile hit by powerful earthquake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-34275783

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 31 comments

Terror on Wall Street

http://www.damninteresting.com/terror-on-wall-street/

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 56 comments

YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 259 comments

Programs to Read

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 39 comments

Announcing TypeScript 1.6

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/09/16/announcing-typescript-1-6.aspx

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Keep Out – WebGL Game Experiment

http://www.littleworkshop.fr/keepout.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

OpenSeadragon: A pure JavaScript high-resolution zoomable image viewer

https://openseadragon.github.io/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/germany-s-wi-fi-shortage-set-to-ease-as-merkel-backs-new-bill

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 108 comments

China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance from U.S. Tech Firms

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/china-tries-to-extract-pledge-of-compliance-from-us-tech-firms.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

'Dissent,' a New Type of Security Tool, Could Improve Online Anonymity

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dissent-a-new-type-of-security-tool-could-markedly-improve-online-anonymity

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

A password hash storage scheme that prevents efficient password cracking

https://github.com/PolyPasswordHasher/PolyPasswordHasher

11 years ago

★ 322 TeX
91 upvotes – 37 comments

CryptDB – A database system that can process SQL queries over encrypted data

https://github.com/CryptDB/cryptdb

11 years ago

★ 519 PHP
88 upvotes – 15 comments

France bids to reverse tech brain drain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34243967

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 128 comments

Ahmed Mohamed will not face charges related to device [pdf]

http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Domain/4/Media%20Release%20091615%20MacArthur%20Student%20Will%20Not%20Face%20Charges.pdf

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 112 comments

Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Eliminating branches in Rust for fun but not much profit

http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2015/09/15/eliminating-branches-in-rust-for-fun-but-not-much-profit/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Git Punish – The Missing Git Command

http://git-punish.io/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

How to make your software build reproducibly [pdf]

https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/presentations/2015-08-13-CCCamp15-outline.pdf

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

The 'Flash Boys' Exchange Is Growing Up

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-16/the-flash-boys-exchange-is-growing-up

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

Ageing is not an inevitable fact of life

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150915-the-secrets-of-living-to-200-years-old

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

How software engineers managed to create a hardware product

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/world-s-first-personal-air-conditioner/?utm_source=yc

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Former paralegal charged with forging the signatures of NY state justices

http://manhattanda.org/press-release/da-vance-former-paralegal-charged-forging-signatures-76-state-supreme-court-justices

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 66 comments

Jaro Mail

https://www.dyne.org/software/jaro-mail/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web

http://qz.com/481037/dark-web

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

The Apple iOS 9 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9605/the-ios-9-review

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 56 comments

I tried three apps that claim to make you more likable

http://fusion.net/story/192659/crystal-moodies-us-apps-that-make-you-more-likable/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

Designing the Uber Cash Experience

https://medium.com/@matthewcmoore/designing-the-uber-cash-experience-649a2749b324

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Brazil’s cancer curse

http://mosaicscience.com/story/brazils-cancer-curse

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Can the Fed raise interest rates?

http://qz.com/492940/what-if-the-fed-cant-raise-interest-rates/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 76 comments

Turbo Pascal 3 port of the smallpt C++ 99-line global illumination renderer

http://iwasdeportedandalligotwasthislousydomain.co.uk/static.php?page=smallpt_tp

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Growing a Programmer

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Growing_a_Programmer.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Steve Wozniak spent night in jail for building a fake bomb in high school (2011)

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-in-jail-fake-bomb-2011-10

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Hands-on with the tvOS SDK

http://telliott.io/2015/09/15/hands-on-with-the-tvos-sdk.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Visualizing map distortion

http://bl.ocks.org/enjalot/bd552e711b8325c64729

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

9th grader arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/16/they-thought-it-was-a-bomb-ahmed-mohamed-texas-9th-grader-arrested-after-bringing-a-home-built-clock-to-school/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Learning more about the GFW's active probing system

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/learning-more-about-gfws-active-probing-system

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Sign up to offer support to Ahmed Mohamed

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ws7e8WyQvrsLfhSFvdGot3n9NWKfY3XLPBgbHaZDy3k/viewform?c=0&w=1

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments

Building DistributedLog: Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/building-distributedlog-twitter-s-high-performance-replicated-log-service

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments
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