top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-07

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

10 years ago

957 upvotes – 420 comments

iPhone 7

http://www.apple.com/iPhone7

10 years ago

756 upvotes – 1733 comments

I am a fast webpage

https://varvy.com/pagespeed/wicked-fast.html

10 years ago

621 upvotes – 281 comments

The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses

https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-validate-email-addresses-7c4818f24643#.cswwiflh9

10 years ago

556 upvotes – 388 comments

Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children/

10 years ago

490 upvotes – 457 comments

Linux debugging tools you'll love

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/07/new-zine-linux-debugging-tools-youll-love/

10 years ago

400 upvotes – 63 comments

How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users

https://by.graffino.com/how-google-obliterated-my-24k-users-chrome-extension-eeb14c040a39#.13m3awp18

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 244 comments

A Survival Guide to a PhD

http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/

10 years ago

319 upvotes – 124 comments

Gordon Murray-designed ‘OX’ flat-pack truck

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/can-flat-pack-truck-save-world

10 years ago

308 upvotes – 109 comments

‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-uncounted-surveillance/

10 years ago

300 upvotes – 124 comments

PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi

http://www.pibakery.org/

10 years ago

291 upvotes – 62 comments

Y Combinator Companies

http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 97 comments

The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/09/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 164 comments

16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37255033/a-16-year-old-british-girl-earns-48000-helping-chinese-people-name-their-babies

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 197 comments

Show HN: Build your first real world React.js application

http://academy.plot.ly/#react

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 44 comments

Dell Closes $60B Merger with EMC

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-closes-60-billion-merger-with-emc-1473252540

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 105 comments

How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-random-numbers-in-various-programming-languages

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 113 comments

Support for Hello discontinued in Firefox 49

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hello-status?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 175 comments

Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?

https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-plunder-4k-hateful-eight-but-did-they-crack-dcp-160906/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 234 comments

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/amazon-cloudfront-now-supports-http2/

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 33 comments

Donald Knuth speaks about his life [video]

http://www.webofstories.com/playAll/donald.knuth

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 16 comments

The Metaprogrammer

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-metaprogrammer/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 157 comments

How Quaternions encode rotations: derivation and sample code

http://loopspace.mathforge.org/HowDidIDoThat/Codea/Quaternions/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 94 comments

A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160905-the-pilot-who-stole-a-secret-soviet-fighter-jet

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 72 comments

Next steps for Gmane

http://home.gmane.org/2016/08/29/next-steps-gmane/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 49 comments

Who's on call?

http://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/9/6/whos-on-call

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 112 comments

The refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden in 2013 in Hong Kong

https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/509/ressort/politics/article/edward-snowdens-guardian-angels

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple Unveils the Apple Watch Series 2

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/apple-unveils-the-apple-watch-series-2/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 164 comments

What is the Nash Equilibrium and why does it matter?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-economics

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 34 comments

India's richest man offers free 4G to one billion people

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Go 1.7.1 Released

https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.7.minor

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 27 comments

Infinite Noise – Simple, Open-Source TRNG

https://github.com/waywardgeek/infnoise

10 years ago

★ 827 C CC0-1.0
140 upvotes – 25 comments

Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers On-board a Surface Ocean Robot

https://blog.flightradar24.com/blog/setting-sail-for-global-coverage-flightradar24-ads-b-receivers-on-board-a-surface-ocean-robot/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12440509

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

‘Freddie Mercury was a prodigy’: Rockstar's Panchgani bandmates remember ‘Bucky’

http://scroll.in/article/815380/freddie-bucky-mercury-the-12-year-old-rockstar-from-panchgani

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

CA:WoSign Issues

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:WoSign_Issues

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 61 comments

The new and improved Programming Languages Zoo

http://math.andrej.com/2016/09/07/the-new-and-improved-programming-languages-zoo/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 2 comments

How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?

http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-much-more-can-we-learn-about-the-universe

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 69 comments

Permafrost ‘bubbles’ are leaking methane 200 times above the norm

http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0681-now-the-proof-permafrost-bubbles-are-leaking-methane-200-times-above-the-norm/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 86 comments

Improving collaboration with forks

https://github.com/blog/2247-improving-collaboration-with-forks

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 7 comments

Are Cities Too Complicated?

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/09/are-cities-getting-too-complicated/496556/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fierce-forgotten-library-wars-of-the-ancient-world

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time collaboration

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/apple-takes-on-google-microsoft-with-iworks-real-time-collaboration/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: sdees – serverless decentralized editing of encrypted stuff

https://github.com/schollz/sdees

10 years ago

★ 343 Go
100 upvotes – 35 comments

AMD’s Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvQ1xN55Ew

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

LLV8 – An experimental top-tier compiler for V8

https://github.com/ispras/llv8

10 years ago

★ 234 C++
96 upvotes – 19 comments

The Apple Plug – our lightest product ever

http://appleplugs.com

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Flat V8 is now live

https://blog.flat.io/flat-v8-is-now-live/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Goldman Sachs Has Started Giving Away Its Most Valuable Software

http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-has-started-giving-away-its-most-valuable-software-1473242401?mod=e2fb

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments

Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/09/06/water-water-everywhere-except-the-bottom-line/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 135 comments

MoonMail: Serverless Framework for Sending Emails Using AWS SES and Lambda

https://github.com/microapps/MoonMail

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Struggles with the Continuum

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments
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