top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-18

Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss

https://medium.com/@rboyd/35f1d1f1f267

11 years ago

561 upvotes – 414 comments

Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama

11 years ago

543 upvotes – 95 comments

Just doesn’t feel good

http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good

11 years ago

449 upvotes – 297 comments

Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over Emissions Software

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ordered-to-recall-nearly-500000-vehicles-over-emissions-software.html

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 323 comments

Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud

http://www.candyjapan.com/candy-japan-hit-with-credit-card-fraud

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 204 comments

C++ Core Guidelines

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppCoreGuidelines.md

11 years ago

★ 44.9k CSS
268 upvotes – 126 comments

The sad state of web app deployment

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/17/the-sad-state-of-web-app-deployment/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 160 comments

How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-david-hume-helped-me-solve-my-midlife-crisis/403195/?single_page=true

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 84 comments

The Hardest chess problem in the world?

http://hebdenbridgechessclub.blogspot.com/2011/02/hardest-chess-problem-in-world.html

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 129 comments

PyNES: Write NES Games in Python

http://gutomaia.net/pyNES/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 39 comments

The world's fastest human-powered vehicle tops 85 mph

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/18/aerovelo-fastest-human-powered-vehicle/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 107 comments

Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 186 comments

A Simple AI Capable of Basic Reading Comprehension

http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2015/09/a-simple-artificial-intelligence.html

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 61 comments

Subresource Integrity

http://githubengineering.com/subresource-integrity/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 76 comments

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Esusan/475/unmain.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 70 comments

Disabling SSLv3 and RC4

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/09/disabling-sslv3-and-rc4.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Ben Horowitz’s Best Startup Advice

https://medium.com/@producthunt/ben-horowitz-s-best-startup-advice-7e8c09c8de1b

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 14 comments

Official Kubernetes on CoreOS Guides and Tools

https://coreos.com/blog/official-kubernetes-on-coreos/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Bugzilla CVE-2015-4499: All Your Bugs Are Belong to Us

https://blog.perimeterx.com/bugzilla-cve-2015-4499/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

Runtime.js – JavaScript library OS

https://medium.com/@iefserge/runtime-js-javascript-library-os-823ada1cc3c

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

The Revival of Concorde

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/83904/concorde-flights-planned-to-resume-and-aircraft-proposed-for-display-in-london.html?curator=MediaREDEF

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 135 comments

What we break when we fix ad blocking

http://www.tonyhaile.com/2015/09/18/what-we-break-when-we-fix-for-ad-blocking/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 217 comments

“We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests

https://medium.com/rants-on-machine-learning/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-random-forests-f33c3ce28883

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/analysis-of-gsk-s-paroxetine-antidepressant-finds-key-data-was-held-back

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

Sergey Ananov: Two days on ice with three polar bears

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34281218

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Reddit shell

https://github.com/jasonbio/reddit-shell

11 years ago

★ 443 JavaScript GPL-3.0
103 upvotes – 42 comments

The seL4 microkernel

https://github.com/seL4/seL4

11 years ago

★ 5.4k C
102 upvotes – 12 comments

Caffeine at night does more than keep you up late

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2015/09/17/caffeine-night-does-more-than-keep-you-up-late/32548551/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

The Erdos discrepancy problem

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05363

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Fat: The New Health Paradigm [pdf]

https://plus.credit-suisse.com/researchplus/ravDocView?docid=4CbnSI

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Realtime KVM

http://lwn.net/Articles/656807/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 1 comments

Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-the-jetbrains-toolbox-announcement/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed (2014)

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/03/coconut-headphones-why-agile-has-failed.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Why is light so fast?

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/the-universal-constants-that-drive-physicists-mad/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

How Facebook Copes with Scale: Three Approaches

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/09/18/three-secrets-of-how-facebook-copes-with-scale/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts

http://priceonomics.com/the-case-for-more-traffic-roundabouts/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 80 comments

Clarification on “Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster”

https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/09/17/clarification-call-maybe-mariadb-galera-cluster/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 70 comments

Interface abusers

http://scraps.benkuhn.net/2015/09/17/ui.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 51 comments

Unhackable Kernel?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730392-600-unhackable-kernel-could-keep-all-computers-safe-from-cyberattack-2

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

Winds of Change at Dyson

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3050256/innovation-by-design/winds-of-change-at-dyson

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

WAMP – The Web Application Messaging Protocol

http://wamp.ws/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments
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