top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-18

Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer/

10 years ago

588 upvotes – 171 comments

Mozilla Thimble

https://thimble.mozilla.org/en-US/

10 years ago

565 upvotes – 82 comments

HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers

http://hothardware.com/news/hp-allegedly-time-bombs-unofficial-ink-cartridges-from-working-in-its-printers

10 years ago

438 upvotes – 290 comments

Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?

https://www.scrollytelling.io/al-jazeera.html

10 years ago

387 upvotes – 152 comments

Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent

https://instant.io/

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 67 comments

The Making of Lemmings

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 103 comments

iTunes will never work well

https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 363 comments

The Most Popular Online Course Teaches You to Learn (2015)

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/the-most-popular-online-course-teaches-you-to-learn/

10 years ago

284 upvotes – 64 comments

On DRY and the cost of wrongful abstractions

http://thereignn.ghost.io/on-dry-and-the-cost-of-wrongful-abstractions/

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 165 comments

Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (2009) [pdf]

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/dabrowskis_theory_existential_depression_feb09.pdf

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 128 comments

Gmail will now support CSS media queries

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-emails-optimized-for-every-screen-with-responsive-design.html

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 67 comments

GpuScan and SSD-To-GPU Direct DMA

http://kaigai.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/09/08/003556

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 26 comments

Reasons not to use Firebase

https://crisp.im/blog/why-you-should-never-use-firebase-realtime-database/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 103 comments

Why do Anything?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/why-do-anything.html

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 60 comments

When Nintendo got rid of the headphone jack

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/no-headphone-jack-nintendo-did-it-first/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 136 comments

The Real Lolita

http://hazlitt.net/longreads/real-lolita

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 39 comments

The Zen of Passive Solar Heating Panel Design (2010)

http://www.iedu.com/Solar/Panels/index.html

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 35 comments

Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas

https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ps9c2vfu7fcm4t6?ref_=aa_lc_0&pf_rd_r=6F894AHA5W2FQZBQTYZB&pf_rd_p=3fffa90a-17f6-470a-82ad-414308e970a2

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 110 comments

How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness (2015)

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink

http://medium.com/baqend-blog/real-time-stream-processors-a-survey-and-decision-guidance-6d248f692056#.b1n6hnbrd

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 41 comments

Analysis of ice screws in climbing

http://www.jjgeng.com/html/body_ice_screw.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 32 comments

Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?

https://github.com/massivedynamic/openftp4

10 years ago

★ 653 MIT
131 upvotes – 92 comments

What Can Hitters Actually See Out of a Pitcher’s Hand?

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/what-can-hitters-actually-see-out-of-a-pitchers-hand/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 74 comments

In the current immigration debate, neither side is revealing the whole picture

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim

https://github.com/Tehnix/spaceneovim

10 years ago

★ 114 Vim script MIT
105 upvotes – 27 comments

Vulnerabilities Induced by Migrating to 64-Bit Platforms [pdf]

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/Medien-DB/sec/pubs/2016-ccs.pdf

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives

http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-parity-act-passes-in-the-us-house-of-representatives

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

NYPD can’t count cash they’ve seized because it would crash computers

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/nypd-cant-count-cash-theyve-seized-because-it-would-crash-computers/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: I built a website that simplifies Congress and its activities

https://4us.com

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Amphetamine boosts rats’ recovery from brain injuries

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/09/Amphetamine-boosts-ratsrecovery-brain-injuries.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523828

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery, It’s Matter

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html?_r=0

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 206 comments

Eve-Style Clock Demo in Red, Live-Coded

http://www.red-lang.org/2016/07/eve-style-clock-demo-in-red-livecoded.html

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Science in the age of selfies

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/9384.long

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments
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