top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-23

'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

11 years ago

872 upvotes – 196 comments

What Happens Next Will Amaze You

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm

11 years ago

753 upvotes – 281 comments

Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy

https://www.youbetrayedus.org/

11 years ago

470 upvotes – 91 comments

Chris Poole

http://avc.com/2015/09/chris-poole

11 years ago

441 upvotes – 152 comments

Launching NginScript

https://www.nginx.com/blog/launching-nginscript-and-looking-ahead/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 129 comments

Google Wants to Make Silicon Valley as Bike-Friendly as Copenhagen

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050776/google-wants-to-make-silicon-valley-as-bike-friendly-as-copenhagen

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 340 comments

A New Face for Pebble

https://blog.getpebble.com/2015/09/23/timeround/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 172 comments

Cable Robot Simulator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCsomGwdk0

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 70 comments

Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/yet-another-pre-installed-spyw.html

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 105 comments

Nasa Open Datasets

https://open.nasa.gov

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 12 comments

Block and Unsubscribe

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/stay-in-control-with-block-and.html

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 123 comments

A Decade at Google

http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=1851

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 74 comments

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption

https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 83 comments

The cure for procrastination? Forgive yourself

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2010/05/cure-for-procrastination-forgive.html

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 81 comments

Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/business/international/volkswagen-chief-martin-winterkorn-resigns-amid-emissions-scandal.html

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 262 comments

Yogi Berra, Master Yankee Catcher With Goofy Wit, Dies at 90

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/sports/baseball/yogi-berra-dies-at-90-yankees-baseball-catcher.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 47 comments

Linus on compiler warnings and code reviews

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/428

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 164 comments

How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-how-i-self-attacked.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 30 comments

ARIN Finally Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2985340/ipv6/arin-finally-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 180 comments

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible

http://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achieved-what-wikipedia-can-only-dream-of/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 100 comments

iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake

https://thestack.com/iot/2015/09/23/apples-ios9-already-driving-ipv6-uptake/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 69 comments

Criticisms of Angular

http://www.leanpanda.com/blog/2015/09/20/our-criticisms-of-angularjs/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 146 comments

Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/09/exclusive-uber-oakland-sears-building.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 121 comments

Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/windows-pcs/lenovo-collects-usage-data-on-thinkpad-thinkcentre-and-thinkstation-pcs.html

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)

http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

New Technique Can Efficiently Detect All Known Human Viruses in a Blood Sample

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/detecting-all-human-viruses/406642/?single_page=true

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html?

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 187 comments

Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/talks/Sutter%20-%20CppCon%202015%20day%202%20plenary%20.pdf

11 years ago

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121 upvotes – 81 comments

ScyllaDB: Drop-in replacement for Cassandra that claims to be 10x faster

http://www.scylladb.com/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 93 comments

West Virginia Engineer Proves to Be a David to VW's Goliath

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/23/us-usa-volkswagen-researchers-idUSKCN0RM2D720150923

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 124 comments

Announcing Electric Eye

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/announcing-electric-eye.html?mM=1

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 10 comments

The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/dealbook/the-risk-of-a-billion-dollar-valuation-in-silicon-valley.html?nlid=65508833&ref=dealbook

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

OPM now says more than five million fingerprints compromised in breaches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/09/23/opm-now-says-more-than-five-million-fingerprints-compromised-in-breaches/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 42 comments

The strange economics of open-source software

http://www.philipotoole.com/the-strange-economics-of-open-source-software/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 90 comments

Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-the-nutrition-out-of-our-food.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

EU-U.S. Data Sharing Deal Can't Be Trusted, Top Court Aide Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/eu-u-s-data-sharing-deal-can-t-be-trusted-top-court-aide-says

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

A simple x86 assembler C++ template metaprogram

http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-template-assembler/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires

https://medium.com/@ayasin/the-one-method-to-eliminate-bad-tech-hires-630d539b2e1d

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 93 comments

TodoMVC in Rust

http://tcr.github.io/rust-todomvc/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (2005)

http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/comparison.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Adding Comefrom to LuaJIT

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/adding-comefrom-to-luajit

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

The license is the license

http://www.boldport.com/blog/2015/9/22/the-license-is-the-license

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Analyzing Three Space Leaks in Haskell

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/09/three-space-leaks.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask the algorithm: Human wealth advisers are going out of fashion

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21650292-human-wealth-advisers-are-going-out-fashion-ask-algorithm?

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

Why the Rich Are So Much Richer

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/sep/24/stiglitz-why-rich-are-so-much-richer/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR+Ukraine+Stiglitz+Jewish+terrorists&utm_content=NYR+Ukraine+Stiglitz+Jewish+terrorists+CID_b2cf8552a449621ee6f6a15876c4afbd&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Why%20the%20Rich%20Are%20So%20Much%20Richer

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Password Recovery Using Discrete Hopfield Neural Network in Python

http://neupy.com/2015/09/21/password_recovery.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments
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