top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-02

A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

https://earth.nullschool.net/

10 years ago

438 upvotes – 48 comments

FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-orders-antibacterials-removed-consumer-soaps-n642036

10 years ago

410 upvotes – 243 comments

Neural Network Architectures

http://culurciello.github.io/tech/2016/06/04/nets.html

10 years ago

360 upvotes – 39 comments

Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

https://lwn.net/Articles/699047/

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 318 comments

Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-google-smartphone-idUKKCN11806C

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 298 comments

Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 110 comments

Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 87 comments

DEA will ban chemicals contained in kratom, a popular herbal supplement

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/30/kratom-ban-dea-schedule-1/

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 155 comments

WoSign's secret purchase of StartCom: WoSign threatened legal actions

http://www.percya.com/2016/09/wosigns-secret-purchase-of-startcom.html

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments

Think Before You Parallelize: A tour of parallel abstractions

https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/08/30/think-before-you-parallelize.html

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 48 comments

Bugs found in GCC with the help of PVS-Studio

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0425/

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 22 comments

Chrome is warning users about insecure pages

https://certsimple.com/blog/your-connection-to-this-site-is-not-private

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 203 comments

Ask HN: Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12412661

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 221 comments

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8661045/prosecutors-mass-incarceration

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 80 comments

Maybe Blockchain Really Does Have Magical Powers

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-01/maybe-blockchain-really-does-have-magical-powers

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 98 comments

How Tor Works

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/09/how-tor-works.html

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 31 comments

Even the Rich Are Being Priced Out of Central London

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/the-latest-victims-of-london-gentrification-are-the-rich/498536/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 203 comments

Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415621

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 105 comments

Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s

http://qz.com/769508/cash-strapped-startups-are-turning-to-a-funding-tactic-used-by-oil-and-gas-companies-in-the-1900s/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 38 comments

App Store Subscriptions

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

Joe Sutter, who guided creation of the Boeing 747, has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/business/joe-sutter-dead.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 75 comments

Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups

https://republic.co/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

Linux.Rex.1 – A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go

http://vms.drweb.com/virus/?_is=1&i=8436299&lng=en

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

Introduction to Mean Shift Algorithm

https://saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/introduction-to-mean-shift-algorithm/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark

http://a16z.com/2016/09/01/marks-offmark/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

Samsung Stops Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Shipments as Safety Suspicions Spread

http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-stops-smartphone-shipments-as-safety-suspicions-spread-1472726756

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 108 comments

AI Grading Application Gradescope Shortens Grading Times

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/09/02/gradescope-brings-ai-to-grading/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

“We’re winding down Starfighter”

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/771533037666390017

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

https://news.bitcoin.com/brave-browser-bitcoin-micropayments/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 78 comments

Destroy Windows Spying tool

https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

The Killer Shark Caught in the Thames in 1787

https://mimimatthews.com/2016/09/01/the-extraordinary-tale-of-the-18th-century-shark-in-the-thames/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 4 comments

Nero’s Rotating Dining Room [video]

https://news.cnrs.fr/videos/neros-rotating-dining-room

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

LLVM 3.9 Release Notes

http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Bild – Simple image processing in Go with parallel processing support

https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild

10 years ago

★ 4.1k Go MIT
87 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: What is the best open source OCR software supporting multiple languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12416607

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

A Rocket to Nowhere (2005)

http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

PEGASUS iOS Kernel Vulnerability Explained

http://sektioneins.de/en/blog/16-09-02-pegasus-ios-kernel-vulnerability-explained.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Airbnb Law Enforcement Transparency Report

http://transparency.airbnb.com/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

FBI Releases Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-documents-in-hillary-clinton-e-mail-investigation

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/fda-bans-antibacterial-soaps-no-scientific-evidence-theyre-safe-effective/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Future Airplanes Will Fly on Twistable Wings

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/future-airplanes-will-fly-on-twistable-wings

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

Build System Rules and Algorithms (2009) [pdf]

http://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999)

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

In the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122?no-ist

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Bcachefs: Encryption

https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/Encryption/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

DEFCON 23 Uber Badge Replica

http://co9.io/post/149618051204/defcon-23-uber-badge-replica

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Amazon Aurora: Parallel Read Ahead, Faster Indexing, NUMA Awareness

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-parallel-read-ahead-faster-indexing-numa-awareness/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 75 comments

Auto Type Deduction in C++ Range-Based For Loops

https://blog.petrzemek.net/2016/08/17/auto-type-deduction-in-range-based-for-loops/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments
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