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

How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbox-hacks-your-mac/

10 years ago

1037 upvotes – 412 comments

I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/09/09/im-joining-stripe-to-work-on-atlas/

10 years ago

850 upvotes – 317 comments

Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them

http://ohshitgit.com/

10 years ago

713 upvotes – 335 comments

Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12847160/costa-rica-renewable-electricity

10 years ago

579 upvotes – 352 comments

Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-deletes-norway-pms-post-napalm-girl-post-row

10 years ago

488 upvotes – 431 comments

How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2016/09/09/doom-2016-graphics-study/

10 years ago

487 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily

https://github.com/christabor/flask_jsondash

10 years ago

★ 3.2k Python MIT
302 upvotes – 38 comments

Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and keywords become ordered

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/146327.html

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 157 comments

Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21706490-organisations-have-too-long-been-oriented-towards-extroverts-companies-should-help?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2016098n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/E/n

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 194 comments

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (2014) [pdf]

http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-complexity-fall-2014/online-textbook/MITRES_6-011F14_art_insfin.pdf

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Kubernetes is winning the container war

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3118345/cloud-computing/why-kubernetes-is-winning-the-container-war.html

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 159 comments

Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 96 comments

Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in Mexican Desert

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-billionaire-linked-to-giant-aluminum-stockpile-in-mexican-desert-1473356054

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 158 comments

Radiobox.css – Tiny set of CSS3 animations meant for your radio inputs

https://720kb.github.io/radiobox.css/

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 100 comments

Elementary OS Loki 0.4 Stable Release

http://blog.elementary.io/post/147637979911/loki-04-stable-release

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 63 comments

Getting started with Raspberry Pi – Building a Digital Photo Frame

http://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-raspberry-pi/

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 65 comments

“Sonicwall products are not returnable”

http://pastebin.com/G5g3yLqV

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 109 comments

Mastercard sued for $19B in Britain's biggest damages claim

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mastercard-lawsuit-britain-idUSKCN11E2S9

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 182 comments

VW engineer pleads guilty to diesel emissions scandal

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2016/09/09/vw-charges/90118226/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 151 comments

FAA Urges Passengers to Not Use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Planes

http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-urges-passengers-to-not-use-samsung-galaxy-note-7-on-planes-1473381966

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 131 comments

Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer

http://www.caltech.edu/news/recreating-our-galaxy-supercomputer-51995

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 66 comments

GPL Time Bomb – an interesting approach to FOSS licensing

http://www.boyter.org/2016/08/gpl-time-bomb-interesting-approach-foss-licensing/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 116 comments

Channels adopted as an official Django project

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/09/channels-adopted-official-django-project/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 22 comments

Tiny Lisp Computer

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?1GX1

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook Backs Down on Censoring ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo

http://www.wsj.com/articles/norway-accuses-facebook-of-censorship-over-deleted-photo-of-napalm-girl-1473428032

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 184 comments

This Bubble's Got Legs

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-09-09/this-bubble-s-got-legs

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 114 comments

Louisiana Judges Issue Harsher Sentences When the LSU Football Team Loses

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/judges-issue-longer-sentences-when-their-college-football-team-loses/498980/?single_page=true

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 89 comments

How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing

http://www.sightline.org/2016/09/06/how-seattle-killed-micro-housing/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 132 comments

Four billion messages an hour: benchmarking Deepstream throughput

https://deepstream.io/info/performance/four-billion-messages-per-hour/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-brilliant-m16-spy-who-perfected-the-art-of-the-honey-trap

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 40 comments

3D Printed Camera

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/SLO-Camera

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 27 comments

V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/09/v8-release-54.html

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/science/seafood-samples-mislabelling.html

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 126 comments

Turns websites into Markdown

http://fuckyeahmarkdown.com/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

Rkt reaches 1.14.0

https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-container-engine-v1-14-0.html

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Ford Acquires Chariot (YC W15)

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/09/ford-mobility-solutions-acquires-chariot/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/dna-analysis-reveals-there-are-four-distinct-giraffe-species-not-one-as-previously-thought

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 91 comments

People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/people-mexico-show-stunning-amount-genetic-diversity

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 157 comments

TensorFlow Example: Fit a straight line

https://github.com/jostmey/NakedTensor/blob/master/serial.py

10 years ago

★ 2.4k Python Apache-2.0
106 upvotes – 16 comments

Hakaru – Probabilistic Programming

https://hakaru-dev.github.io/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

Why I finally ditched Jira

http://log.liminastudio.com/writing/commentary/why-i-finally-ditched-jira

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 114 comments

NUMA-aware scheduler for Go

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1d3iI2QWURgDIsSR6G2275vMeQ_X7w-qxM2Vp7iGwwuM/pub

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Cisco’s Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/cisco-s-network-bugs-are-front-and-center-in-bankruptcy-fight

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

The hard part of helping survivors recover comes months later

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/11/9301089/911-survivor-recovery

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster Using Helm

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/creating-postgresql-cluster-using-helm.html

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/941

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 69 comments

The Threat to Americas Electrical Grid Is Bigger Than Imagined

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/31/the-threat-to-americas-electrical-grid-is-much-bigger-than-you-can-possibly-imagine-cyberwar-squirrels-rodents-hackers/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

Google’s DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/google-s-ai-brainiacs-achieve-speech-generation-breakthrough

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Why UBS Is Hiring So Many Quants

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/ubs-wealth-management-s-haefele-joins-battle-to-recruit-quants

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/01/rare-footage-of-pallass-cat-cubs-in-mongolias-zoolon-mountains/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Simple in-memory key/value store written in Elixir using Shards

https://github.com/cabol/kvx

10 years ago

★ 101 Elixir MIT
80 upvotes – 9 comments

Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jones-senate-torture-investigation

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Milky Way mapper: ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy

http://www.nature.com/news/milky-way-mapper-6-ways-the-gaia-spacecraft-will-change-astronomy-1.20569

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

Medical Ethics: Why obscure Indian journal has impressive international stature

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/09/ijme-journal/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Early evidence on “predictive policing” and civil rights

https://www.teamupturn.com/reports/2016/stuck-in-a-pattern

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 76 comments

Scout: Securely Locate Peers Without Central Servers

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2016/09/09/scout-securely-locate-peers-without-central-servers/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

North Korea claims success in fifth nuclear test

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37314927

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 158 comments
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