top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-20

Show HN: %%30%30: A Game

https://github.com/szhu/3030/tree/master

11 years ago

★ 1.5k
608 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Hacker News Simulator

http://news.ycombniator.com/

11 years ago

572 upvotes – 163 comments

AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247307

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 170 comments

AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/17/avg-privacy-policy-browser-search-data

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 132 comments

Elephants Shot with Poison Arrows Travel to Humans for Help

https://www.thedodo.com/elephants-travel-humans-help-1353631970.html#elephants-travel-humans-help-1353631970.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 72 comments

Improved Digital Certificate Security

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/09/improved-digital-certificate-security.html?m=1

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 48 comments

Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ernst-and-young-drops-degree-classification-threshold-graduate-recruitment

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 128 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage and structure a team?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248273

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 119 comments

Introduction to getting started with Linux kernel development

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Misc/contribute.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
115 upvotes – 3 comments

The Death of the Party

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/fashion/death-of-the-party.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10592.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

MLDB – Machine Learning Database

http://mldb.ai/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Implementing Levenshtein Automata

http://fulmicoton.com/posts/levenshtein/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 8 comments

Building a better WordPress

https://medium.com/@chrishutchinson/building-a-better-wordpress-4b2a771b4d0b

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 82 comments

Moving to FreeBSD

https://www.textplain.net/blog/2015/moving-to-freebsd/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

Drones are taking off in the oil industry, especially in dangerous offshore work

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-21/flying-robots-replace-oil-roughnecks

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

Travels From The Monk That Lives in My Phone

http://boboandchichi.com/2015/08/travels-from-the-monk-that-lives-in-my-phone/?repost=1

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

ARM immediate value encoding

http://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/arm-immediate-value-encoding/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Live Simple – Tiny homes

https://www.livesimple.io

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/18/cruise-2/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

DAWG data structure

http://porcupineprogrammer.blogspot.com/2012/03/dawg-data-structure-in-word-judge.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-human-trial-and-error-lightbulb-moments.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

How Healthcare.gov Botched $600M Worth of Contracts

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-15/how-healthcare-gov-botched-600-million-worth-of-contracts

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: First time working remote, what do I need to know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249364

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images – of himself – on phone

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments

Promisees – JavaScript Promises Visualization

https://github.com/bevacqua/promisees

11 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT
64 upvotes – 15 comments

Aerial Construction – Building structures with flying machines

http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dandrea/research-projects/aerial-construction.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Any good Angular open source projects for looking at their code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248132

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

Gary Becker's biggest mistake

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/what-was-gary-beckers-biggest-mistake.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

The End of Retirement

http://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: How do you remember syntax?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247471

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 77 comments

Fury after Saudi Arabia 'chosen to head key UN human rights panel'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anger-after-saudi-arabia-chosen-to-head-key-un-human-rights-panel-10509716.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

The Hottest Restaurant of 2081

http://www.eater.com/2015/9/16/9334459/dystopian-restaurant-chef-interview-new-york-future-week

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

The Return of the Command Line Interface

http://avc.com/2015/09/the-return-of-the-command-line-interface/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Paper Investigating Time Travel (2014)

https://thewinnower.com/discussions/26-what-happened-when-we-tried-to-publish-a-real-paper-investigating-time-travel

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

Is There a Shortage of STEM Workers?

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blog/is-there-a-shortage-of-workers-in-stem-fields

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 56 comments

'Quirkyalone' is Still Alone

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/fashion/modern-love-quirkyalone-is-still-alone.html?_r=0

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

The Fake Meat Revolution

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-the-fake-meat-revolution.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 69 comments

The double whammy of being poor – making less and getting charged more

https://blog.paribus.co/2015/09/20/the-double-whammy-of-being-poor-making-less-and-getting-charged-more/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 63 comments

Humans with Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI

http://io9.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 32 comments
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