top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-24

Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-contributor

11 years ago

549 upvotes – 453 comments

Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter

http://glowforge.com

11 years ago

493 upvotes – 205 comments

Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/nyregion/volkswagens-diesel-fraud-makes-critic-of-secret-code-a-prophet.html?_r=0

11 years ago

474 upvotes – 227 comments

John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/john-carmack-on-developing-netflix-app.html

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 157 comments

Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through

http://www.wsj.com/articles/propelled-by-apple-ad-blocking-cottage-industry-emerges-1443115929

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 193 comments

Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory

http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/23/mozilla-fixed-a-14-year-old-bug-in-firefox-and-now-adblock-plus-uses-a-lot-less-memory/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 117 comments

Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps

http://atavistinsider.atavist.com/goodbye-native-mobile-apps/

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 127 comments

Years You Have Left to Live, Probably

http://flowingdata.com/2015/09/23/years-you-have-left-to-live-probably/

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 84 comments

Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-ponders-how-to-seek-access-to-encrypted-data/2015/09/23/107a811c-5b22-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 123 comments

Reasons to love SQLAlchemy

http://pajhome.org.uk/blog/10_reasons_to_love_sqlalchemy.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 99 comments

How much of your audience is fake?

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 92 comments

Oculus’ New $99 Samsung Gear VR Makes Serious Virtual Reality Affordable

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/24/gear-vr-for-all/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 101 comments

The $9 CHIP Computer Is Shipping

http://makezine.com/2015/09/24/the-9-computer-is-shipping-today/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Django 1.9 alpha 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/sep/23/django-19-alpha-1-released/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

Women view professional advancement equally attainable, but less desirable [pdf]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/09/15/1502567112.full.pdf

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 252 comments

The brains of lonely people respond more negatively to social stimuli

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-research-on-overcoming-loneliness-1442854148

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 98 comments

The Cost Of Interruptions: They Waste More Time Than You Think

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/22/442582422/the-cost-of-interruptions-they-waste-more-time-than-you-think

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 49 comments

Don't expose the docker socket, even to a container

https://www.lvh.io/posts/dont-expose-the-docker-socket-not-even-to-a-container.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

Vim setup for Markdown

http://www.swamphogg.com/2015/vim-setup/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 32 comments

Vim setup for Go

https://github.com/fatih/vim-go

11 years ago

★ 16.2k Vim Script
130 upvotes – 33 comments

Why I’m not enabling Bitcode

https://medium.com/@FredericJacobs/why-i-m-not-enabling-bitcode-f35cd8fbfcc5?

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

Why we’re no longer using Core.typed

http://blog.circleci.com/why-were-no-longer-using-core-typed/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 145 comments

A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows

http://qz.com/505383/a-first-look-at-the-chinese-operating-system-the-government-wants-to-replace-windows/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 78 comments

Bell inequality violation finally done right

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2464

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-sleuths-track-hacker-to-chinas-military-1443042030

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Facebook was down

https://www.facebook.com/?down=true

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

More Startup Metrics

http://a16z.com/2015/09/23/16-more-metrics/?

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/perplexing-pluto-new-snakeskin-image-and-more-from-new-horizons

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

The prisoners fighting wildfires in California

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34285658

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Python 3.5 and Multitasking

http://brianschrader.com/archive/python-35-and-multitasking/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 99 comments

Swift 2.1

http://www.russbishop.net/swift-2-1

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Every Noise at Once – an algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of musical genre

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

NZ Flag Referendum – Pseudorandom Numbers in Legislation

http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/129692767316/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

L.A. to declare 'state of emergency' on homelessness

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-funding-proposals-los-angeles-20150921-story.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 97 comments

Visualizing the Discrete Fourier Transform

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/09/because-its-friday-visualizing-ffts.html#

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

USS Robin – A Victorious U.S. Carrier That Didn’t Exist

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/uss-robin-the-victorious-u-s-carrier-that-didnt-exist.htm

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Netflix Data Reveals When TV Shows Hook Viewers

http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-tv-show-data-viewer-episode-study-1201600746/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

Is Eclipse JDT dying?

http://blog.dripstat.com/is-eclipe-jdt-dying/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 99 comments

ShinySDR – Software-defined radio receiver app with a web-based UI and plugins

https://github.com/kpreid/shinysdr

11 years ago

★ 1.1k Python GPL-3.0
64 upvotes – 14 comments

Is It Possible to Achieve Equitable Equity for Startup Employees? [audio]

http://a16z.com/2015/08/12/equity-models-and-experiments/?

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

BookShelf, Simple ORM for Node

https://github.com/tgriesser/bookshelf

11 years ago

★ 6.3k JavaScript MIT
57 upvotes – 26 comments

JavaScript as default language and software stack

http://blog.andreipolmolea.com/you-should-choose-javascript/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 65 comments

DMCA notice against oh-my-fish

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-09-22-wahoo.md

11 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
53 upvotes – 76 comments

XcodeGhost Q&A

https://www.apple.com/cn/xcodeghost/#english

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 28 comments

WebMSX – Online MSX Emulator

http://webmsx.org

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison Humans, Dogs, and Cat

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/aquarium-corals-of-anchorage-poison-10-1-2-humans-2-dogs-and-1-cat/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments
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