top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-09-23

Ripgrep – A new command line search tool

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

10 years ago

Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

http://www.businessinsider.com/akamai-brian-krebs-ddos-attack-2016-9

10 years ago

Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

10 years ago

Upgrade your SSH keys

https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html

10 years ago

Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-is-trying-to-get-oracle-in-trouble-for-a-1-billion-open-secret

10 years ago

Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

10 years ago

House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups

https://morningconsult.com/alert/house-passes-employee-stock-options-bill-aimed-startups/

10 years ago

Confessions of a Necromancer

http://hintjens.com/blog:125

10 years ago

Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/23/twitter-may-receive-formal-bid-shortly-suitors-said-to-include-salesforce-and-google.html

10 years ago

How does Google know where I am?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/137418/how-does-google-know-where-i-am

10 years ago

Haiku Project

https://www.haiku-os.org/

10 years ago

I’m joining the Go team at Google

http://spf13.com/post/joining-go-team-at-google

10 years ago

iOS 10: Security Weakness Discovered, Backup Passwords Much Easier to Break

http://blog.elcomsoft.com/2016/09/ios-10-security-weakness-discovered-backup-passwords-much-easier-to-break/

10 years ago

Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/if_your_company_has_terrible_it_security_that_could_be_a_rational_business_decision/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567645

10 years ago

GIMP development - What’s the point?

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html

10 years ago

New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6fyn4a5ag3atzk/bookdraft2016aug.pdf?dl=0

10 years ago

How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City

http://gizmodo.com/how-palantir-is-taking-over-new-york-city-1786738085

10 years ago

Show HN: How many days until?

https://days.to/

10 years ago

Using Gmail with Mutt

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/09/10/gmail-with-mutt

10 years ago