top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-20

Show HN: Primitive Pictures

https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

10 years ago

★ 13.1k Go MIT

What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2016/09/20/what-it-costs-to-run-lets-encrypt.html

10 years ago

If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?

https://discuss.reactjs.org/t/if-typescript-is-so-great-how-come-all-notable-reactjs-projects-use-babel/4887/2?u=spicyj

10 years ago

Getting things done

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/19/getting-things-done/

10 years ago

CouchDB 2.0

https://blog.couchdb.org/2016/09/20/2-0/

10 years ago

Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/self-driving-cars-must-meet-15-benchmarks-in-new-u-s-guidance

10 years ago

Why we use progressive enhancement to build Gov.uk

https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progressive-enhancement-to-build-gov-uk/

10 years ago

Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing

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

10 years ago

Oct. 4

http://www.google.com/fourten

10 years ago

Search Results are officially AMP’d

https://search.googleblog.com/2016/09/search-results-are-officially-ampd.html

10 years ago

L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/nictaabstracts/Heiser_Elphinstone_16.abstract.pml

10 years ago

Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer/NorthKoreaDNSLeak

10 years ago

★ 1.7k

Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at risk

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37405177

10 years ago

The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-280-year-old-algorithm-inside.html

10 years ago

An A/B Testing Story

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/ab-testing-story

10 years ago

Commodore Back in Germany

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/33/items/commodore-back-in-germany.html

10 years ago

Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/firefox-49-fixes-sites-designed-with-webkit-in-mind-and-more/

10 years ago

Linux on an 8-bit micro? (2012)

https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

10 years ago

MacOS Sierra

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt=12

10 years ago

YC and Founders Pledge

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-and-founders-pledge

10 years ago

Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype

https://www.sandisk.com/about/media-center/press-releases/2016/western-digital-demonstrates-prototype-of-the-worlds-first-1terabyte-SDXC-card

10 years ago

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160920-formal-verification-creates-hacker-proof-code/

10 years ago

Pre-auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Metasploit

https://github.com/justinsteven/advisories/blob/master/2016_metasploit_rce_static_key_deserialization.md

10 years ago

★ 271 HTML CC0-1.0

Laws of Performant Software

http://tagide.com/blog/advice/laws-of-peformant-software/

10 years ago

Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie

https://github.com/ankane/pgslice

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Ruby MIT

Ways to implement computer languages on 6502s (1994)

http://www.dwheeler.com/6502/a-lang.txt

10 years ago

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without the Bullshit (2015)

https://jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-without-all-the-bullshit/

10 years ago

When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/19/494593600/when-blind-people-do-algebra-the-brain-s-visual-areas-light-up

10 years ago

Twitter lays off around 20, shuts down engineering office in Bangalore, India

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/twitter-lays-off-around-20-shuts-down-engineering-office-in-bangalore-india/

10 years ago

Roughtime: a protocol for secure, auditable time synchronisation

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/09/19/roughtime.html

10 years ago

Julia v0.5.0 Released

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.5/NEWS.md

10 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT

How to run C programs on the BeagleBone's PRU microcontroller

http://www.righto.com/2016/09/how-to-run-c-programs-on-beaglebones.html

10 years ago

Browser History (2013)

https://madhatted.com/2013/6/16/you-do-not-understand-browser-history

10 years ago

Crowdfunding campaign against US patent on personalized content

https://unpatent.co/campaign/US8738435

10 years ago

Is your JavaScript function actually pure?

http://staltz.com/is-your-javascript-function-actually-pure.html

10 years ago

Closing in on high-temperature superconductivity

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160919132603.htm

10 years ago

GoDoc: package letsencrypt

https://godoc.org/rsc.io/letsencrypt

10 years ago

Magical Thinking

http://www.salientpartners.com/epsilon-theory/magical-thinking/

10 years ago

Introducing DarkSky.net

http://blog.darksky.net/introducing-darksky-net/

10 years ago

Android Studio 2.2

https://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/09/android-studio-2-2.html

10 years ago

Would I do this for 10 years?

http://danshipper.com/would-i-do-this-for-10-years

10 years ago

How Bad Off Is Oil-Rich Venezuela? It’s Buying U.S. Oil

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/americas/venezuela-oil-economy.html

10 years ago

IKEv1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Multiple Cisco Products

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160916-ikev1

10 years ago

Sophie Germain Prime Search found World Record twin primes [pdf]

https://www.primegrid.com/download/twin-1290000.pdf

10 years ago

Building a Modern Bank Backend

https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-backend/

10 years ago

U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=4078EEECC2FAD049805A8A8ADD231C84&gwt=pay

10 years ago

Apple applies to patent a paper bag with at least 60% post-consumer content

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220160264304%22.PGNR.&OS=DN%2F20160264304&RS=DN%2F20160264304

10 years ago

Cheapest Solar on Record Offered as Abu Dhabi Expands Renewables

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/cheapest-solar-on-record-said-to-be-offered-for-abu-dhabi

10 years ago

Fully Autonomous Robots: The Warehouse Workers of the Near Future

http://www.wsj.com/articles/fully-autonomous-robots-the-warehouse-workers-of-the-near-future-1474383024

10 years ago

Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Data Shows

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/09/20/smartphone-users-apps

10 years ago

Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore

https://gbuy.gds-gov.tech/

10 years ago

Programs that rewrite Ruby programs

http://thomasleecopeland.com/2016/09/20/programs-that-rewrite-ruby-programs.html

10 years ago

Why I’m Investing $500M in Migrants

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-im-investing-500-million-in-migrants-1474344001

10 years ago

Why giants thrive - Special report on companies

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21707049-power-technology-globalisation-and-regulation-why-giants-thrive

10 years ago

Transit’s public transportation app gets a big overhaul and $2.4M in funding

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/transits-public-transportation-tracking-app-gets-a-big-overhaul-and-2-4m-in-funding/

10 years ago

Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/why-why-why-headdesk/

10 years ago

Japan’s Newest Technology Innovation: Priest Delivery

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/business/international/amazon-japan-delivers-priest.html

10 years ago

Warren Says Wells Fargo's Stumpf Should Resign, Face Criminal Investigation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/wells-fargo-expands-account-review-to-2009-and-2010-stumpf-says

10 years ago

A Theory of Creepiness

https://aeon.co/essays/what-makes-clowns-vampires-and-severed-hands-creepy

10 years ago

The secret lives of long-lived particles

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-secret-lives-of-long-lived-particles

10 years ago

DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant and Ansible

https://www.kevinlondon.com/2016/09/19/devops-from-scratch-pt-1.html

10 years ago

MacOS Sierra

http://www.apple.com/macos/sierra/

10 years ago