top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-26

WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBGv6szuSB4sMYUcVrR8vQ/preview

10 years ago

608 upvotes – 246 comments

Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063935/sweden-wants-to-fight-our-disposable-culture-with-tax-breaks-for-repairing-old-stuff

10 years ago

547 upvotes – 329 comments

Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?repost&m=1

10 years ago

484 upvotes – 295 comments

SVG has more potential

https://madebymike.com.au//writing/svg-has-more-potential/

10 years ago

428 upvotes – 101 comments

How Convolutional Neural Networks Work

http://brohrer.github.io/how_convolutional_neural_networks_work.html

10 years ago

403 upvotes – 49 comments

Introducing .NET Standard

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/

10 years ago

361 upvotes – 142 comments

Exponent – Build native apps in JS that work across both iOS and Android

https://getexponent.com/

10 years ago

360 upvotes – 113 comments

Computer Vision Syndrome

https://laravel-news.com/2016/09/computer-vision-syndrome/

10 years ago

318 upvotes – 156 comments

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots

http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-8-it-boots.html

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 95 comments

U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-palantir-tech-discrimination-lawsuit-idUSKCN11W2DA

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 394 comments

Burning Ship Fractal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Ship_fractal

10 years ago

252 upvotes – 65 comments

Project Shield

https://jigsaw.google.com/projects/#project-shield

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 104 comments

Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/kubernetes-1.4-making-it-easy-to-run-on-kuberentes-anywhere.html

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 79 comments

India’s Space Agency Hits New Milestone With Satellite Launch

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/09/26/indias-space-agency-hits-new-milestone-with-satellite-launch/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 48 comments

V86 – An x86-compatible CPU and hardware emulator

https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/Readme.md

10 years ago

★ 22.5k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
221 upvotes – 54 comments

Racket – Lisp beyond Clojure

http://slides.com/ronie/racket-beyond-clojure#/

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 173 comments

Introducing Docker for Windows Server 2016

https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/dockerforws2016/

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 60 comments

BeagleBone Black Wireless

https://beagleboard.org/blog/2016-09-26-meet-beaglebone-black-wireless/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 113 comments

I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not declining

http://techblog.bozho.net/i-stopped-contributing-to-stackoverflow-but-its-not-declining/

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 193 comments

OpenMW 0.40.0 Released

https://openmw.org/en/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 43 comments

Japanese Can Soon Pay Their Utility Bills with Bitcoin

https://news.bitcoin.com/japanese-pay-utility-bills-bitcoin/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 114 comments

Rebase and merge pull requests

https://github.com/blog/2243-rebase-and-merge-pull-requests

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 95 comments

IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3122994/apple-mac/ibm-says-swift-is-now-ready-for-the-enterprise.html

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 223 comments

Generating Faces with Deconvolution Networks

https://zo7.github.io/blog/2016/09/25/generating-faces.html

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 20 comments

European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Secured

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-allows-copyright-owners-demand-open-wifi-networks-be-password-protected

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 73 comments

A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/26/rare-tour-microsofts-hyperscale-datacenters/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 48 comments

Canvas Gauges

https://canvas-gauges.com/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 59 comments

The Verge editor secretly joins Apple, doesn't inform the Verge

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/23/ziegler-verge-apple

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams

https://www.alooma.com/live

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL

http://jamesmunns.com/update/2016/09/26/teensy3-rs.html

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki

10 years ago

★ 23.4k C++
133 upvotes – 11 comments

Go tooling essentials

http://golang.rakyll.org/go-tool-flags/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 8 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory - 26 Sep 2016

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160926.txt

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

Major features of PostgreSQL 9.6 [pdf]

http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/features.pdf

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

Why companies make their products worse

https://www.1843magazine.com/ideas/the-daily/why-companies-make-their-products-worse

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

SpaceX is testing new powerful engines for its mission to Mars

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/spacex-is-testing-new-powerful-engines-for-its-mission-to-mars-1329373

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX

http://beckman.io/whatsapp-books-a-hackers-guide

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12593214/internet-cafe-history

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 70 comments

$1M VotePlz Sweepstakes

http://blog.samaltman.com/1-dollars-million-voteplz-sweepstakes

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 103 comments

Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js (2015)

https://www.alexkras.com/simple-guide-to-finding-a-javascript-memory-leak-in-node-js/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 1 comments

Poaching behind worst African elephant losses in 25 years

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/5677.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 139 comments

The $50,000 San Francisco Home

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/9/22/the-50000-san-francisco-studio-apartment

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 163 comments

Flexport (YC W14) raises $65M Series B

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/26/freight-forwarding/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Tomato – Pomodoro Timer

http://stripenight.com/tomato/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 72 comments

In Brooklyn, Uber is now bigger than taxis

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance/#update-2016

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 134 comments

Reshaping web defenses with strict Content Security Policy

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/reshaping-web-defenses-with-strict.html

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

32 Years of Metafont [pdf]

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/MFtalk.pdf

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Body fat link to bacteria in feces

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37452630

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 79 comments

6,000-year-old fabric reveals Peruvians were dyeing with indigo before Egyptians

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-oldest-indigo-dye-20160915-snap-story.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Google Allo – First Impression

http://prodissues.com/2016/09/google-allo-first-impression.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook 'blocks accounts' of Palestinian journalists

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/facebook-blocks-accounts-palestinian-journalists-160925095126952.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft previews Project Springfield, a cloud-based bug detector

http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/09/26/microsoft-previews-project-springfield-cloud-based-bug-detector/#sm.00001jhlwu88myf9hvdfgf8s2b4ui

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930) [pdf]

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Announcing the launch of Windows Server 2016

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/09/26/announcing-the-launch-of-windows-server-2016/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Sega’s Plans for World Domination (1993)

https://www.wired.com/1993/06/sega/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

Autism and Evolution

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/autism-and-evolution

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments
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