top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-30

Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results

http://www.transportenvironment.org/press/some-mercedes-bmw-and-peugeot-models-consuming-around-50-more-fuel-official-results-new-study

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 324 comments

Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/trainspotting-firefox-41/

11 years ago

429 upvotes – 79 comments

Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/guy-bought-google-com-google-230510405.html

11 years ago

390 upvotes – 94 comments

Boredom is not a problem to be solved, it's the privilege of a free mind

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/boredom-cures-privilege-free-mind?CMP=fb_gu

11 years ago

377 upvotes – 88 comments

Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-7-update-appears-to-be-compromised/e96a0834-a9e9-4f03-a187-bef8ee62725e

11 years ago

375 upvotes – 161 comments

Meet Model X

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 349 comments

A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back

http://qz.com/511920/a-tumor-stole-every-memory-i-had-this-is-what-happened-when-it-all-came-back/

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 42 comments

My 90's TV

http://www.my90stv.com/

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 67 comments

Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard

https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js

11 years ago

★ 34.1k JavaScript MIT
304 upvotes – 106 comments

Paris city centre goes car-free for a day

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/27/all-blue-skies-in-paris-as-city-centre-goes-car-free-for-first-time

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 214 comments

iFixit App Pulled from Apple’s Store

http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 134 comments

Employees at Airbnb, Square and Stripe Are Spending 50%+ of Income on SF Rent

http://blog.onradpad.com/employees-are-paying-this-much-to-live-next-to-unicorns-in-sf/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 279 comments

Edwardsnowden.com

https://edwardsnowden.com/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 82 comments

“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/649274159076274176

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 192 comments

Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3051448/why-sweden-is-shifting-to-a-6-hour-work-day

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 98 comments

New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/campaign-help-surveillance-agents-quit-nsa-gchq/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 90 comments

Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx#1

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 144 comments

Newly found TrueCrypt flaws

http://www.itworld.com/article/2987438/newly-found-truecrypt-flaw-allows-full-system-compromise.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10302879

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 207 comments

Tame() – bad kitty, no socket for you

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/tame-fsec2015/mgp00001.html

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 95 comments

Volkswagen and Cheating Software

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/volkswagen_and_.html

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Why the yakuza are not illegal

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/09/economist-explains-20

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 140 comments

Learning programming at scale

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/learning-programming-at-scale.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store

https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1018109117?mt=12

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 148 comments

Twitter to Name Jack Dorsey Permanent CEO

http://recode.net/2015/09/30/sources-jack-dorsey-to-be-named-permanent-twitter-ceo/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Links between coffee and health

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/how-coffee-loves-us-back/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 92 comments

Meet the new Asana

https://blog.asana.com/2015/09/the-new-asana/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

How to Make an SVG Lava Lamp

http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/blog/how-to-make-an-svg-lava-lamp

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

I deduce you are studying logic

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/i-deduce-you-are-studying-logic/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

Building Analytics at 500px

https://medium.com/@samson_hu/building-analytics-at-500px-92e9a7005c83

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in excess of 150Gbps

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2987580/security/a-linux-botnet-is-launching-crippling-ddos-attacks-at-more-than-150gbps.html#tk.rss_all

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Google and Microsoft make patent peace

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-microsoft-make-patent-peace/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/30/how-the-banks-ignored-lessons-of-crash

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Is college worth the cost? Many recent graduates don’t think so

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/09/30/is-college-worth-the-cost-many-recent-graduates-dont-think-so/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 115 comments

APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (1970) [pdf]

https://www.cs.washington.edu/tr/1970/09/UW-CSE-70-09-04.PDF

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Introducing U-SQL, a language for big data processing

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/09/28/introducing-u-sql.aspx

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/mapbox-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-over-time/407884/?single_page=true

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

Tesla’s $140,000 Model X SUV Does 0-60 in 3.2 Seconds

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/teslas-140000-model-x-suv-does-0-60-in-3-2-seconds-hits-the-road-starting-tonight/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 67 comments

Firm 'hides' university when recruits apply

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34384668

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

Learning Game of Life with a Convolutional Neural Network

http://danielrapp.github.io/cnn-gol/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Small Data: Tinder-like apps are the way of the future

https://medium.com/appszoom-insights/small-data-why-tinder-like-apps-are-the-way-of-the-future-1a4d5703b4b

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

A/B test Facebook posts with Spark

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/30/naytev-wants-to-bring-a-buzzfeed-style-social-tool-to-every-publisher-with-spark/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

CIA pulled officers from Beijing after breach of federal personnel records

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-pulled-officers-from-beijing-after-breach-of-federal-personnel-records/2015/09/29/1f78943c-66d1-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Inside Japan’s Disposable Housing Market

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/inside-japans-disposable-home-market-88133

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

I and We

http://www.aaronkharris.com/i-and-we-1

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150929-edit-distance-computational-complexity/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

What Every Block of Manhattan Looked Like 400 Years Ago

http://gizmodo.com/what-every-block-of-nyc-looked-like-400-years-ago-1733614748

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Muki, music streaming from MIDI and chiptunes

http://muki.io

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

The State of LTE in September 2015

http://opensignal.com/reports/2015/09/state-of-lte-q3-2015/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]

http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

Service-Oriented Architecture: Scaling Our Codebase As We Grow

https://eng.uber.com/soa/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of restaurants reviewed by the New Yorker

http://newforkermap.com

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

Insider: Oracle has lost interest in Java

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987529/java/insider-oracle-lost-interest-in-java.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

ContentTools: A WYSIWYG editor for HTML content

http://getcontenttools.com/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Uber's technology is reportedly 'hanging by a thread'

http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-technology-is-reportedly-hanging-by-a-thread-but-the-company-has-a-new-cto-to-get-it-together-2015-9

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 59 comments
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