top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-12

Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477190

10 years ago

822 upvotes – 661 comments

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html

10 years ago

816 upvotes – 599 comments

Vim 8.0 released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_announce/EKTuhjF3ET0

10 years ago

661 upvotes – 299 comments

For 25 years, Carl Malamud has been fighting to make public information public

https://backchannel.com/the-internets-own-instigator-cb6347e693b#.k9em4u1a9

10 years ago

552 upvotes – 108 comments

Microsoft Pix

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpix/

10 years ago

514 upvotes – 195 comments

To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right

http://qz.com/778767/to-tell-someone-theyre-wrong-first-tell-them-how-theyre-right/

10 years ago

489 upvotes – 299 comments

A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/

10 years ago

445 upvotes – 110 comments

If your code accepts URIs as input, filter out “file://”

https://blog.steve.fi/If_your_code_accepts_URIs_as_input__.html

10 years ago

370 upvotes – 157 comments

Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of the world

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/12/facebook-is-imposing-prissy-american-censorship-on-the-whole-res/

10 years ago

343 upvotes – 334 comments

How I learned to program

http://danluu.com/learning-to-program/

10 years ago

308 upvotes – 174 comments

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/google-car-project-loses-leaders-and-advantage-as-rivals-gain

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 298 comments

The Fourier Transform and its Applications

https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE261

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 55 comments

How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

http://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 125 comments

Dynamic Programming: The Name (1984)

http://learning.cis.upenn.edu/cis520_fall2009/index.php?n=Notes.DP

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 61 comments

Golang concepts from an OOP point of view

https://github.com/luciotato/golang-notes/blob/master/OOP.md

10 years ago

★ 1.5k
200 upvotes – 46 comments

An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-do-some-mac-users-still-rely-on-16-year-old-software/

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 169 comments

Learning systems programming with Rust

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/11/rustconf-keynote/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 44 comments

HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05B

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/hp-is-buying-samsungs-printer-business-for-1-05-billion/?ncid=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 233 comments

Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon-js

10 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript GPL-3.0
178 upvotes – 52 comments

Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning

https://github.com/datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor/blob/master/README-en.md

10 years ago

★ 4.5k Python MIT
162 upvotes – 38 comments

Scalable and secure access with SSH

https://code.facebook.com/posts/365787980419535/scalable-and-secure-access-with-ssh/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 61 comments

Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/5124.html

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 28 comments

Kubernetes – The Hard Way

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

10 years ago

★ 48k Apache-2.0
157 upvotes – 56 comments

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, Day 6: Fixed a chip, data read from disk

http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycombinators-xerox-alto-day-6.html

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Why does Google Play need constant GPS?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 129 comments

MySQL Remote Root Code Execution/Privilege Escalation Exploit

http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.html

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Strange bug workarounds?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476855

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

Earth Temperature Timeline

http://xkcd.com/1732/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 7 comments

Rosetta catches dusty organics

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/07/rosetta-catches-dusty-organics/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 35 comments

REST Anti-patterns

http://marcelo-cure.blogspot.com/2016/09/rest-anti-patterns.html

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 126 comments

Against Minimalism

https://bullshit.ist/against-minimalism-1be2c4abadbf

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 151 comments

Using Open Street Maps and Kalman Filters to Clean Up GPS Data

https://blog.hypertrack.io/2016/09/11/our-framework-for-real-time-filtering-of-location-streams/

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS

http://sig.gy/beatboxer/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

Twitter: A Clusterfuck of UI Mistakes

http://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/150243684283/twitter-is-a-clusterfuck-of-ui-mistakes

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

Bezos names big next rocket New Glenn

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37342181

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 119 comments

Ask HN: How can I become a proper Project Manager from a Programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477850

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the P2P dream (2014)

http://www.disconnectionist.com/blog/why-no-fb-killer.html

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 136 comments

BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/blazingdb-uses-gpus-to-manipulate-huge-databases-in-no-time/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

Solving All the Wrong Problems

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/solving-all-the-wrong-problems.html

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 114 comments

How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/12/pete-wells-the-new-york-times-restaurant-critic

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 66 comments

How the Doves Type Was Nearly Lost

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/when-doves-type

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 44 comments

Libtiff goes offline

https://madfileformatscience.garymcgath.com/2016/09/08/libtiff-offline/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 114 comments

A little SF personal injury case threatens 'most important law' on the Internet

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-online-publishers-20160909-snap-story.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 107 comments

Inside the World of International Medieval Combat

https://www.buzzfeed.com/timchester/inside-the-violent-geeky-world-of-hardcore-international-med?utm_term=.ui2qyQyRP#.yde3o8oMW

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Definitions on the Economics of VC

http://a16z.com/2016/09/11/vc-economics/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.txt?hn

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

PageAccelerator – A very light solution to load web pages faster

https://github.com/Easyfood/pageAccelerator

10 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT
82 upvotes – 43 comments

Lifelogging is dead for now

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048497/personal-technology/lifelogging-is-dead-for-now.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

Warren Buffett's Net Worth by Age

http://microcapclub.com/2015/08/warren-buffetts-net-worth-by-age/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3y6Efb4V73TdG9pV1F0VGpsM1E/view

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments
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