740
209
Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
10 years ago
658
440
Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
http://www.businessinsider.com/akamai-brian-krebs-ddos-attack-2016-9
477
342
Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/
444
149
Upgrade your SSH keys
https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html
395
138
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
350
146
Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm
347
224
House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups
https://morningconsult.com/alert/house-passes-employee-stock-options-bill-aimed-startups/
313
65
Confessions of a Necromancer
http://hintjens.com/blog:125
267
344
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
262
148
How does Google know where I am?
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/137418/how-does-google-know-where-i-am
255
143
Haiku Project
https://www.haiku-os.org/
245
199
I’m joining the Go team at Google
http://spf13.com/post/joining-go-team-at-google
220
91
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/
195
116
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/
186
526
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567645
181
139
GIMP development - What’s the point?
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html
170
33
New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6fyn4a5ag3atzk/bookdraft2016aug.pdf?dl=0
163
106
How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City
http://gizmodo.com/how-palantir-is-taking-over-new-york-city-1786738085
156
74
Show HN: How many days until?
https://days.to/
145
53
Using Gmail with Mutt
https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/09/10/gmail-with-mutt
137
52
Cryptpad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing
https://beta.cryptpad.fr/
134
42
Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical and historical reasons
https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux/posts/QWnM6s2zKWm
119
81
Anomaly Updates
http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates#
118
Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers
http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650
The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery
https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/3d/moonillu.htm
117
17
Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig (2012)
http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/thelonious_monk_scribbles_a_list_of_tips_for_playing_a_gig.html
115
89
Tesla Software Update 8.0
https://www.tesla.com/software
111
105
Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf
109
50
Sergey Brin Resume (1996)
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html
August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/lisp-jam-postmortem/
100
54
Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission, shuttle replacement
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/21/senate-panel-authorizes-money-mars-mission-shuttle-replacement/90793160/
99
An Era in Hong Kong Is Ending, Thanks to China’s Tight Embrace
http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-era-in-hong-kong-is-ending-thanks-to-chinas-tight-embrace-1474647072
98
Latacora: Security Programs For Startups
https://latacora.com
55
Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Fat Cat Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html
93
61
Police Use of Social Media Surveillance Software is Escalating
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/police-use-social-media-surveillance-software-escalating-and-activists-are-digital
82
110
Kreisel Electric takes on Tesla
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/three-brothers-seek-to-overtake-tesla-with-souped-up-plug-in-car
34
How YouTube recommendations work [pdf]
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45530.pdf
41
UCI chemists create rechargeable battery with greatly lengthened lifespan
https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-up/
77
18
Open Sourcing Mental Illness
https://osmihelp.org/
75
12
Ways to make working remote work for you
http://engineering.datadoghq.com/9-ways-to-make-working-remote-work-for-you/
68
Erlang Installer Beta: A Better Way To Use Erlang On OS X
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-installer-a-better-way-to-use-erlang-on-osx.html
25
Y Combinator W17 Blank Application
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMR_TqkweTbQXVb_CmogSY0XMWcq3lrmHBX7a1P9gZI/edit
62
20
Kansas couple who live in a ‘digital hell’ sue mapping company MaxMind
http://fusion.net/story/335290/kansas-digital-hell-maxmind-ip-mapping-lawsuit/