top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-03

An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight

https://feminem.org/2016/09/01/doctor-on-plane/

10 years ago

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html

10 years ago

The Math Myth

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/09/the_math_myth.html

10 years ago

500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format

http://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons.html

10 years ago

Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37265541

10 years ago

People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars

https://www.buzzfeed.com/priya/people-in-los-angeles-are-getting-rid-of-their-cars

10 years ago

Git 2.10 has been released

https://github.com/blog/2242-git-2-10-has-been-released

10 years ago

Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen

http://lwn.net/Articles/697980/

10 years ago

A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer

http://www.gadget.co.za/the-hacker-the-scrapheap-and-the-first-apollo-computer/

10 years ago

The neurology of self-awareness

https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-neurology-of-self-awareness

10 years ago

Latest Intel, AMD chips won't support Windows versions earlier than Windows 10

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/02/windows_intel_kaby_lake_amd_zen/

10 years ago

'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/2/hillary-clinton-hide-it-mobile-app-game-banned-by-/

10 years ago

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/technology/nso-group-how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone.html

10 years ago

How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

10 years ago

EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-government-must-inform-people-its-accessing-their-emails-personal-data

10 years ago

How do you use HN?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjXJ8stnCoCd1TRZIWIIadZA62sw9E5628PEtrQCPxdBMhCA/viewform

10 years ago

Nano to remain in GNU

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-08/msg00045.html

10 years ago

Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, says Austria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37259278

10 years ago

Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized access to kernel.org

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/florida-computer-programmer-arrested-hacking

10 years ago

Golang – encoding/csv: Reading is slow

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791

10 years ago

β˜… 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause

LoweBot

http://www.lowesinnovationlabs.com/lowebot

10 years ago

Thousands of adoptees thought they were US citizens but learned they are not

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/thousands-of-adoptees-thought-they-were-us-citizens-but-learned-they-are-not/2016/09/02/7924014c-6bc1-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_adoptees-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

10 years ago

Show HN: Mobi.css – A lightweight, flexible CSS framework that focuses on mobile

https://github.com/xcatliu/mobi.css

10 years ago

β˜… 2.3k CSS MIT

Show HN: Grumbles.js – Detects when your users swear out loud

http://knpw.rs/grumbles.js/

10 years ago

Musk urges Tesla workers to cut costs ahead of fundraising round

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-02/musk-e-mail-urges-workers-to-cut-costs-in-bid-to-woo-investors

10 years ago

Solutions to Integer Overflow

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1401

10 years ago

Memento at the W3C

https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/memento-at-the-w3c/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=memento-at-the-w3c

10 years ago

Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, Node.js, and Ruby

https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/websocket-shootout

10 years ago

Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity/

10 years ago

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

10 years ago

How Do Criminals Launder Money Through a Restaurant?

http://www.eater.com/2016/9/1/12533030/money-laundering-restaurant

10 years ago

SPIR-V Compression

http://aras-p.info/blog/2016/09/01/SPIR-V-Compression/

10 years ago

Waud.js: Web audio library

http://www.waudjs.com/

10 years ago

Finnish Carrier Sets New World Record for 4G Download Speeds

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/finnish-carrier-sets-new-world-record-for-4g-download-speeds

10 years ago

Twitter Is Finally Starting to Wake Up to Reality and Consider Selling Itself

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13692580/1/twitter-is-finally-starting-to-wake-up-to-reality-and-consider-selling-itself.html

10 years ago

Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages

http://dippl.org/

10 years ago

Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs (2013)

http://m.nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/learning-to-speak-shrub

10 years ago

To finish projects on time, start every single step as late as possible

https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/770671266625785856

10 years ago

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us about how we think (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers--acquisitions/trying-not-to-try

10 years ago

I want to motivate you to keep trying to switch to Linux

http://techne.alaya.net/?p=14907

10 years ago

LBRY – A decentralized YouTube alternative

https://lbry.io/what

10 years ago