top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-17

The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)

https://remysharp.com/2015/09/17/jsbin-toxic-part-4

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 176 comments

I created a fake business and bought it an online reputation

http://fusion.net/story/191773/i-created-a-fake-business-and-fooled-thousands-of-people-into-thinking-it-was-real/

11 years ago

389 upvotes – 168 comments

Wikimedia Maps Beta

https://maps.wikimedia.org

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 82 comments

The HTTP/2 implementation

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2015-September/007328.html

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 107 comments

Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/bitcoin-is-officially-a-commodity-according-to-u-s-regulator

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 233 comments

How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/16/how-gog-com-save-and-restore-classic-videogames/

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 84 comments

Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners

http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2015/08/04/artificial-neural-networks-for-beginners/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 48 comments

Keep Out – A WebGL Game

http://www.playkeepout.com/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 101 comments

D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 121 comments

Announcing Rust 1.3

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/09/17/Rust-1.3.html

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 38 comments

Totally Honest Software Engineering Negotiations

http://pastebin.com/eBetxc1Q

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 131 comments

Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six-hour working day

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-turnover-down-sweden-experiments-with-six-hour-working-day

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 80 comments

Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 71 comments

The Witness: the creator of Braid talks about his fiendishly difficult new game

http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/9/17/9343943/the-witness-hands-on-preview-feature-braid-jonathan-blow-interview-ps4-playstation-4-pc

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Best books or videos to get better at sales?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10233339

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 69 comments

Pineapple – A standalone front end to IPython for Mac

http://nwhitehead.github.io/pineapple/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I wouldn’t use Rails for a new company

http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-rails-for-a-new-company

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 161 comments

Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

http://crystalapp.co

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 161 comments

GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/17/gitlab-announces-$4M-series-a-funding-from-khosla-ventures/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 80 comments

Why War Reporter C.J. Chivers Had to Suddenly Stop

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37838/end-of-war-1015/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Build, run and share React Native apps in your browser

https://rnplay.org/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

A curl cheat sheet

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/16/a-curl-cheat-sheet

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Recurrent Neural Networks Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction

http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/recurrent-neural-networks-tutorial-part-1-introduction-to-rnns/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 6 comments

Aboriginal storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/16/indigenous-australian-storytelling-records-sea-level-rises-over-millenia

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

PeachPy: Assembly Code Generation in High-Level Python

https://github.com/Maratyszcza/PeachPy

11 years ago

★ 2k Python
116 upvotes – 29 comments

Welcome Anne, Ben, and Joe

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-anne-ben-and-joe

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Node v4.1.0

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.1.0/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Happiness May Lie in Our Relationships

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-technology-cant-change-about-happiness

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Pay for Uber with Bitcoin

https://bitcoinbuilder.com/uber/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

YC Fall 2015 College Tour

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fall-2015-college-tour

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 48 comments

Ni – A language influenced by Smalltalk written in Nim

http://goran.krampe.se/2015/09/16/ni-a-strange-little-language

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

China's booming middle class is creating world's most dynamic consumer market

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21663328-booming-middle-class-creating-worlds-most-dynamic-consumer-market-wild-wild?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/thewildwildeast

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 74 comments

We’re Bad at Interviewing Developers – Interview with Kerri Miller

http://blog.fogcreek.com/were-bad-at-interviewing-developers-and-how-to-fix-it-interview-with-kerri-miller/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 96 comments

Google Glass renamed to “Project Aura”, hires from Amazon

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/09/16/google-glass-gets-a-new-name-and-hires-from-amazon/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Do We Admire Mobsters?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/why-do-we-admire-mobsters

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 179 comments

S/party/hack like it's 1999

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/17/5

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

More Evidence for Coming Black Hole Collision

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/space/more-evidence-for-coming-black-hole-collision.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

ZenPayroll is now Gusto

https://zenpayroll.com/blog/introducing-gusto/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 69 comments

Yeppp: A High-Performance SIMD-Optimized Math Library for X86, ARM, and MIPS

http://www.yeppp.info

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Polygon goes to Poland (2014)

http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/7/16/5885167/poland-game-industry

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

It’s Easy to Get Scammed on Venmo

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/09/venmo_scam_and_fraud_why_it_s_easy_to_get_ripped_off_through_the_mobile.single.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in a Public Cloud

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/898

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

AMS-IX Breaks 4 Terabits per Second Barrier

https://ams-ix.net/newsitems/218

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

The Private Islands Inside National Parks

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/swiss-cheese-national-park/405865/?single_page=true

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

On the Expressive Power of Deep Learning: A Tensor Analysis

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05009

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

How to Turn Down Freelance Work Gracefully

http://www.christopherhawkins.com/2015/09/how-to-turn-down-freelance-work-gracefully/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 40 comments

Fine-grained timing and energy profiling in Servo

http://blog.servo.org/2015/09/11/timing-energy/?repost

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple's 'Move to iOS' app bombed with one-star reviews

http://geekscribe.com.au/blog/2015/9/17/apples-move-to-ios-app-bombed-with-one-star-reviews

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

The Dukes: 7 years of Russian cyber-espionage

https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2015/09/17/the-dukes-7-years-of-russian-cyber-espionage/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-apple-vs-google-vs-facebook-and-the-slow-death-of-the-web

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 45 comments

Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/bloomberg-twitter-data

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/business/economy/fed-leaves-interest-rates-unchanged.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 83 comments

The ‘effective altruists’

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 86 comments

How Debian managed the systemd transition

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/657345/a0ca846bdcbf6bf2/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments

Python implementation of wavelet rasterization

https://github.com/ufoym/wavelet-rasterization

11 years ago

★ 86 Python MIT
50 upvotes – 23 comments

The Effects of Uber's Surge Pricing: A Case Study [pdf]

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chris.nosko/research/effects_of_uber%27s_surge_pricing.pdf

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 47 comments

‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut (2012)

http://www.thenation.com/article/i-was-there-kurt-vonnegut/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments
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