top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-09-01

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-just-exploded-at-cape-canaveral/

10 years ago

986 upvotes – 535 comments

Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/barbecue-brushes-dangers-swallow-throat-wire-bristle-dempsey-1.3741578

10 years ago

853 upvotes – 339 comments

How to steal a developer's local database

http://bouk.co/blog/hacking-developers/

10 years ago

770 upvotes – 230 comments

Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects

http://jeremyaboyd.com/tricks-to-monetize-your-side-projects/

10 years ago

651 upvotes – 174 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405698

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 906 comments

Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both

https://gist.github.com/forairan/b1143f42883b3b0ee1237bc9bd0b7b2c

10 years ago

405 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

https://duetapp.com

10 years ago

396 upvotes – 154 comments

New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-private-crypto-keys-by-corrupting-data-in-computer-memory/

10 years ago

302 upvotes – 100 comments

OpenBSD 6.0 released

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160901090415

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 132 comments

Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incident Q+A

https://transmissionbt.com/keydnap_qa/

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 138 comments

Apache Spark Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1671373793181703/apache-spark-scale-a-60-tb-production-use-case/

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 38 comments

DDoS protection

https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DDoS-Schutz/en

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 162 comments

43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/43-million-passwords-hacked-in-last-fm-breach/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 163 comments

A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/technology/a-silicon-valley-dream-collapses-in-allegations-of-fraud.html

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 134 comments

What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2010/01/04/whats-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7/

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 103 comments

When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/?p=1115

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 113 comments

Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps

http://cesiumjs.org/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 34 comments

A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point

https://www.fastcompany.com/3063340/a-tax-expert-rips-tim-cooks-eu-letter-apart-point-by-point

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 175 comments

PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS

https://www.trueos.org/2016/09/01/pc-bsd-evolves-into-trueos/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 87 comments

UPSat – the first open source hardware and software satellite is delivered

https://upsat.gr/?p=344

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 24 comments
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