top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-21

Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

830 upvotes – 450 comments

To hack an Android phone, just type in a really long password

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/16/technology/android-hack/index.html

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 143 comments

Unit Economics

http://blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics

11 years ago

372 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API

http://sheetsu.com

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 98 comments

“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/bjarke-ingels-2-world-trade-center-wtc

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 234 comments

The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems

http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 131 comments

Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

https://www.4chan.org/news

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 233 comments

The Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 161 comments

Introducing Lemur

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/introducing-lemur.html

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 22 comments

The Jason Bourne Aesthetic

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2015/09/20/bourne-aesthetic

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 132 comments

The Linguistics of Writing an Email Like a Boss

http://priceonomics.com/the-linguistics-of-writing-an-email-like-a-boss/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 20 comments

Let’s Write a Firefox Web Extension

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/lets_write_a_webextension/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 54 comments

Rough idling

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/rough-idling

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 50 comments

Goto in Python

https://github.com/snoack/python-goto

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Python Unlicense
170 upvotes – 43 comments

Volkswagen Stock Plummets as CEO Apologizes for Emissions Cheat

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/21/442174444/volkswagen-stock-plummets-as-ceo-apologizes-for-emissions-cheat?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 210 comments

How I ended up writing new real-time kernel

http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/how_i_ended_up_writing_my_own_kernel

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 17 comments

Jackfruit could save millions from starvation

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-miracle-fruit-tastes-like-pulled-pork-2015-8

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 118 comments

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 88 comments

An annotated version of the Bitcoin paper

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/bitcoin

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 11 comments

The 21 Bitcoin Computer

https://medium.com/@21dotco/the-21-bitcoin-computer-1d28d652b57b

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 84 comments

Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blog/2015/march/enough-with-the-salts-updates-on-secure-password-schemes/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault

http://www.smh.com.au/world/syrian-war-spurs-first-withdrawal-from-doomsday-arctic-seed-vault-20150921-gjrte0.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple Speeds Up Electric-Car Work

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-speeds-up-electric-car-work-1442857105

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 151 comments

How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/how-to-rebuild-an-attention-span/279326/?single_page=true

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

The Importance of Donald Trump

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frank-rich-in-praise-of-donald-trump.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 132 comments

A Story about Symbolics Lisp Machines

http://kremlin.enterprises/post/129364443055/your-code-is-so-bad-we-had-to-make-etclocal

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 102 comments

George W. Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. ‘Fix’ After Hospital Room Showdown

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/us/politics/george-w-bush-made-retroactive-nsa-fix-after-hospital-room-showdown.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

The New Bond Market: Bigger, Riskier and More Fragile Than Ever

http://on.wsj.com/1irbv0z

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

A Critique of the CAP Theorem

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05393

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

The Author of Our Best SF Military Novel Explains the Future of War

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/forever-war-forever-joe-haldeman

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 85 comments

Latex to HTML5 Conversion for Scientific Papers

https://github.com/smarr/latex-to-html5

11 years ago

★ 715 TeX
96 upvotes – 40 comments

Million Dollar iOS9 Bug Bounty

https://zerodium.com/ios9.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 75 comments

Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/technology/kickstarters-altruistic-vision-profits-as-the-means-not-the-mission.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple refunding all purchases of Peace

http://www.marco.org/2015/09/21/peace-refund

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

Error by Systema Software exposes millions of insurance data records

http://www.databreaches.net/oops-error-by-systema-software-exposes-millions-of-records-with-insurance-claims-data-and-internal-notes/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structured-data-from-recipes-using-conditional-random-fields/?_r=0

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/big-price-increase-for-tb-drug-is-rescinded.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

Tell HN: My own version of the American dream

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250708

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

Fuzzy string matching using cosine similarity

http://blog.nishtahir.com/2015/09/19/fuzzy-string-matching-using-cosine-similarity/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Swift 2 Apps in the App Store

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=32

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Japan orders universities to end education in social sciences, humanities, law

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-20/japan-dumbs-down-its-universities-at-the-wrong-time

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

The Internet of Pointless Things

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/09/21/consumers-prepare-for-an-internet-of-very-pointless-things/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Encryption might be the reason why we haven't heard from aliens

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/21/9363863/edward-snowden-alien-encryption

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 85 comments

How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/parasitic-wasps-genetically-engineer-caterpillars-domesticated-viruses/405874/?single_page=true

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Telegram Now Seeing 12B Daily Messages, Up from 1B in February

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/21/telegram-now-seeing-12bn-daily-messages-up-from-1m-in-february/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

An introduction to timely dataflow, part 2

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-18.md

11 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
70 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Sshync – Auto-sync files over SSH

https://github.com/mateogianolio/sshync

11 years ago

★ 815 JavaScript MIT
65 upvotes – 53 comments

How to Make Ink in the Middle Ages

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/20/how-to-make-ink-in-the-middle-ages/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

BlaBlaCar raises $200M at $1.4B valuation

http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2015/09/16/meet-europes-newest-unicorn-blablacar-raises-200-million-at-1-4-billion-valuation/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

These Weeks in Servo 34

http://blog.servo.org/2015/09/21/twis-34/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

How Hack the North wasn’t the bomb

https://medium.com/@tsani/how-hack-the-north-wasn-t-the-bomb-5beefe8baf1b

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201510/kimberly-weisul/the-longest-game.html?cid=cp01002quartz

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 80 comments

Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture

https://medium.com/@folz/selling-out-and-the-death-of-hacker-culture-fec1f101b138

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Deep Belief Networks at Heart of NASA Image Classification

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/09/21/deep-belief-networks-at-heart-of-nasa-image-classification/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

The Rhino's Last Stand

https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-rhinos-last-stand

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Skype Down

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/606780/Skype-DOWN-Microsoft-Messenger-Not-Working-Europe-Australia-USA

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments
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