top 50% 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

Cryptpad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing

https://beta.cryptpad.fr/

10 years ago

Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical and historical reasons

https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux/posts/QWnM6s2zKWm

10 years ago

Anomaly Updates

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates#

10 years ago

Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers

http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650

10 years ago

The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/3d/moonillu.htm

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Tesla Software Update 8.0

https://www.tesla.com/software

10 years ago

Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf

10 years ago

Sergey Brin Resume (1996)

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

10 years ago

August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/08/lisp-jam-postmortem/

10 years ago

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/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Latacora: Security Programs For Startups

https://latacora.com

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

How YouTube recommendations work [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45530.pdf

10 years ago

UCI chemists create rechargeable battery with greatly lengthened lifespan

https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-up/

10 years ago

Open Sourcing Mental Illness

https://osmihelp.org/

10 years ago

Ways to make working remote work for you

http://engineering.datadoghq.com/9-ways-to-make-working-remote-work-for-you/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Y Combinator W17 Blank Application

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMR_TqkweTbQXVb_CmogSY0XMWcq3lrmHBX7a1P9gZI/edit

10 years ago

Kansas couple who live in a ‘digital hell’ sue mapping company MaxMind

http://fusion.net/story/335290/kansas-digital-hell-maxmind-ip-mapping-lawsuit/

10 years ago