top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-22

When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

https://medium.com/@michaeldouble/when-your-former-boss-sues-you-for-starting-a-startup-7a1a40e565a0

11 years ago

767 upvotes – 233 comments

Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/researchers-could-have-uncovered-volkswagens-emissions-cheat-if-not-hindered-dmca

11 years ago

641 upvotes – 158 comments

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-storage-provider/

11 years ago

411 upvotes – 225 comments

Fukushima

http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima/

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 211 comments

Why we're leaving Heroku

https://www.youbetrayedus.org/heroku/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 74 comments

Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/09/introducing-brotli-new-compression.html?m=0

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 145 comments

Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/groupon-is-laying-off-1100-at-a-cost-of-35m-shutters-operations-in-7-countries/

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 242 comments

Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

http://info.meteor.com/blog/announcing-meteor-1.2

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 132 comments

A critical Windows component expires in 25 hours

http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/09/22/expires-25h/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 42 comments

Counting Objects

http://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 37 comments

GitLab 8.0 released with new looks and integrated CI

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/22/gitlab-8-0-released/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 131 comments

GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society

http://taler.net/

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 183 comments

My favorite interview question

https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/09/my-favorite-interview-question/

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 207 comments

Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/09/kaspersky-mo-unpackers-mo-problems.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 109 comments

Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare

http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/09/22/google-microsoft-qualcomm-and-baidu-announce-joint-investment-cloudflare/

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 116 comments

WebXray

http://webxray.org/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 100 comments

Classroom for GitHub

https://classroom.github.com/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 60 comments

One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/one-in-three-farms-are-using-farmlogs-to-power-their-yields-with-big-data/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Kiddo Paint

https://github.com/vikrum/kiddopaint

11 years ago

★ 218 JavaScript MIT
162 upvotes – 49 comments

Across the USA by Train for Just $213

http://dereklow.co/across-the-usa-by-train-for-just-213/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 96 comments

The Internet of Incompatible Things

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/37522.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 94 comments

Making Cython as easy as Python

https://github.com/Russell91/runcython

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Why the US stores 700M barrels of oil underground

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150921-why-the-us-hides-700-million-barrels-of-oil-underground

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 94 comments

Bcc: Taming Linux 4.3+ Tracing Superpowers

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-09-22/bcc-linux-4.3-tracing.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Object-oriented techniques in C

http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/oop_in_c

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

TCP in 30 instructions (1993)

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg00133.html?

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 7 comments

Fedora 23 Beta released

http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-23-beta-released/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 57 comments

On Go, Portability, and System Interfaces

http://garrett.damore.org/2015/09/on-go-portability-and-system-interfaces.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 42 comments

Oyster is shutting down

http://blog.oysterbooks.com/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 81 comments

New Khan Academy mobile apps, including first official Android app

https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/129669853050/khan-academy-in-your-pocket-new-apps-available

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

JSONlite – A self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, JSON document store

https://github.com/nodesocket/jsonlite

11 years ago

★ 845 Shell Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 33 comments

Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B

http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/content/dialog-semiconductor-acquire-atmel-46-billion

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

Rules for Open Source Success

http://hintjens.com/blog:95

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 85 comments

Validating Your Version of Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09222015a

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 97 comments

VW emissions scandal hits 11m vehicles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34325005

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 119 comments

A Dive Into The Lending Club Data

http://100mdeep.com/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Træfik, a modern reverse-proxy

http://traefik.github.io/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

An open source Slack clone written in Golang and React

https://github.com/mattermost/platform

11 years ago

★ 36.3k TypeScript
81 upvotes – 10 comments

Quirky has filed for bankruptcy

https://www.quirky.com/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

N|Solid – Enterprise Node

https://nodesource.com/blog/nsolid-enterprise-node-finally

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: A stack-based pure functional language for touch devices

https://github.com/pschanely/wildflower-touch

11 years ago

★ 95 JavaScript MIT
77 upvotes – 19 comments

Unsolved problems with the common core

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/unsolved-problems-with-the-common-core/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Views of the Solar System

http://www.damianpeach.com/best.htm

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

TinyCert – Become Your Own PKI/CA Authority in a Matter of Minutes

https://www.tinycert.org/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 38 comments

Daniel Thompson, Whose Bagel Machine Altered the American Diet, Dies at 94

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/daniel-thompson-whose-bagel-machine-altered-the-american-diet-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What is your best side project / passive income in 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258225

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/09/18/silicon-valleys-economic-indicator-caltrain-ridership/?hn=dedup

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 103 comments

Cisco declines disclosure grace period, bug gets released

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=460

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Most Americans will get a wrong or late diagnosis at least once in their lives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/22/most-americans-who-go-to-the-doctor-will-get-a-wrong-or-late-diagnosis-at-least-once-in-their-lives-study-says/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/21/down-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-overthrow-syrias-government

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

The 1,000-Year GIF

http://hyperallergic.com/237627/the-1000-year-gif/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments
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