top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-09-27

Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug

http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2015/09/thanks-google-tcp-team-for-open-source.html

11 years ago

355 upvotes – 46 comments

Procedural City Generation in Python

https://josauder.github.io/procedural_city_generation/

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 19 comments

Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster

http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/25/wait-what-mobile-browser-traffic-is-2x-bigger-than-app-traffic-and-growing-faster/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 136 comments

The drug industry wants us to think Martin Shkreli is a rogue CEO, but he isn't

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/25/the-drug-industry-wants-us-to-think-martin-shkreli-is-a-rogue-ceo-he-isnt/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 170 comments

How I hacked my IP camera, and found this backdoor account

http://jumpespjump.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-i-hacked-my-ip-camera-and-found.html?m=1

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 21 comments

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh

http://etc.ancient.eu/2015/09/24/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 28 comments

Haskell and floppy disks in Norwegian government

https://gundersen.net/functional-floppy-disks-in-2015/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 59 comments

The International Flag of Planet Earth

http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness

http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Windows Drops Bing in China for Baidu

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/09/23/windows-10-in-china/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 65 comments

Nix the Tricks: Math tricks defeat understanding

http://www.nixthetricks.com/#hn-repost

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 84 comments

Against Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Caramel – a modern syntax for the lambda calculus

https://github.com/MaiaVictor/caramel

11 years ago

★ 417 Haskell MIT
130 upvotes – 22 comments

VOC: A transpiler that converts Python bytecode into Java bytecode

https://github.com/pybee/voc

11 years ago

★ 862 Python BSD-3-Clause
121 upvotes – 49 comments

Stop Googling. Let’s Talk

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?mwrsm=LinkedIn&_r=0

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 109 comments

TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9yctup6bIw

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 77 comments

Getting started with Meteor and React

http://sergiotapia.me/2015/09/18/react-and-meteor-match-made-in-heaven/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Lyft Moves Customer Support Team to Nashville to Combat High-Priced SF Market

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/26/lyft-moves-customer-support-team-to-nashville-to-combat-high-priced-sf-market

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Announces Plan to Put Wi-Fi in 400 Train Stations Across India

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/google-announces-plan-to-put-wi-fi-in-400-train-stations-across-india/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/09/23/why-are-working-class-kids-less-likely-to-get-elite-jobs-they-study-too-hard-at-college/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments
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