top 50% 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

Nix the Tricks: Math tricks defeat understanding

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

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 84 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

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

Gates funded Terrapower inks deal with China’s CNNC to build fast reactor

http://neutronbytes.com/2015/09/23/terrapower-inks-deal-with-chinas-cnnc-to-build-fast-reactor/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Leading mathematician launches arXiv 'overlay' journal

http://www.nature.com/news/leading-mathematician-launches-arxiv-overlay-journal-1.18351

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-human-brain-project-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 61 comments

Edward Snowden promotes global treaty to curtail surveillance

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/edward-snowden-promotes-global-treaty-to-curtail-surveillance-1.3243469

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 12 comments

Constructing a spectrometer using a CD

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zhuxj/astro/html/spectrometer.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

Google Cloud Platform

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-delivers-the-industrys-best-technical-and-differentiated-features.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClPlBl+%28Cloud+Platform+Blog%29

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 60 comments

A Non-Conformist's Guide to Success in a Conformist World (2014)

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/07/a_non-conformis.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21666113-hardcore-abundant-and-free-what-online-pornography-doing-sexual-tastesand?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2FAusersmanual

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 95 comments

Where are the missing gravitational waves?

https://theconversation.com/where-are-the-missing-gravitational-waves-47940

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: A Lisp compiler and environment in Go

https://github.com/gsp-lang/gsp

11 years ago

★ 177 Go
76 upvotes – 20 comments

Modernizing the BSD Networking Stack [pdf]

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/dennis/2015_AsiaBSDCon/BSDNet.pdf

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Study links U.S. polarization to TV news deregulation

https://news.wsu.edu/2015/09/24/study-links-u-s-polarization-to-tv-news-deregulation

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

How Else Heart.Break() turns players into coders

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/254555/How_else_HeartBreak_turns_players_into_coders.php

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

Dex UI: futuristic interface built with openFrameworks

http://nnkd.org/dexui/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Natural Language Basics with TextBlob

http://rwet.decontextualize.com/book/textblob/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/26/443170619/meet-the-man-who-invents-languages-for-a-living

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Autocomplete as an interface

http://www.benkuhn.net/autocomplete

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

XLParser: A C# parser for Microsoft Excel formulas

https://github.com/spreadsheetlab/XLParser

11 years ago

★ 446 C#
64 upvotes – 14 comments

A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPhone 6s

http://flexmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-first-look-at-metal-performance-on.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Julia's Arraypocalypse Release

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13157

11 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
62 upvotes – 61 comments

Porsche 919 – Racecar Engineering

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/porsche-919/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Microservice Discovery with SkyDNS

http://blog.getadmiral.com/communication-between-microservices/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Doit: bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task

http://pydoit.org/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments
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