top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-29

PostgreSQL 9.6 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1703/

10 years ago

553 upvotes – 128 comments

Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html

10 years ago

480 upvotes – 211 comments

Announcing Rust 1.12

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/09/29/Rust-1.12.html

10 years ago

396 upvotes – 76 comments

Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way

https://www.justwatch.com/blog/post/debugging-postgresql-performance-the-hard-way/

10 years ago

359 upvotes – 29 comments

ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer

https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl

10 years ago

342 upvotes – 184 comments

Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent

https://shift.newco.co/lost-diamonds-98f950786a49

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 349 comments

Hard Tech Startups

https://blog.ycombinator.com/hard-tech-startups

10 years ago

304 upvotes – 157 comments

Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture

http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp-part-2

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 95 comments

Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/world-passes-400-ppm-threshold-permanently-20738

10 years ago

273 upvotes – 242 comments

A Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland

https://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-old-ass-commodore-64-is-still-being-used-to-run-an-1787196319

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 198 comments

Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-police-department-civil-forfeiture-investigation/Content?oid=23728922

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 153 comments

Image Compression with Neural Networks

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/image-compression-with-neural-networks.html

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 63 comments

What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html?contentCollection=smarter-living

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 213 comments

How Anxiety Warps Your Perception

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160928-how-anxiety-warps-your-perception

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603303

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 152 comments

It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin

https://medium.com/@rogomonz/the-disaster-that-is-bitcoin-97f08f99a73e

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 213 comments

An AWS Region is coming to France

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 67 comments

G Suite: intelligent tools designed for teams

https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 93 comments

New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/09/27/unlimited-uber-rides-new-york-100-dollars-subscription-october/#4be2af4b570a

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 110 comments

The Alexa Prize

https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 53 comments

Gosl – Go scientific library

https://github.com/cpmech/gosl

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go BSD-3-Clause
125 upvotes – 43 comments

Qubes OS 3.2 has been released

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/29/qubes-32/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

You can now buy bare Snapdragon SoCs with 410E and 600E

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/09/28/can-now-buy-bare-snapdragon-socs-410e-600e/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

TensorFlow for R

https://github.com/rstudio/tensorflow

10 years ago

★ 1.3k R Apache-2.0
115 upvotes – 23 comments

Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD

https://github.com/future-architect/vuls

10 years ago

★ 12.1k Go GPL-3.0
113 upvotes – 39 comments

USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (2013)

https://www.atheistberlin.com/study

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 87 comments

Node.js debugging with Chrome DevTools in parallel with browser JS

https://blog.hospodarets.com/nodejs-debugging-in-chrome-devtools

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Yandex Mail Success Story [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SS4R1sFH3c

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 11 comments

Campaign in Oakland pushing for greater control of police surveillance

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37411250

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

A third of the homeless people in America are over 50 and I’m one of them

http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/9/29/12941348/homeless-over-50-statistic

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 162 comments

Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/inside-arizonas-pump-skimmer-scourge/#

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System

http://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/d-wave-systems-previews-2000-qubit-quantum-system

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

A 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/14000-year-old-campsite-in-argentina-adds-to-an-archaeological-mystery/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 8 comments

Why and how you ought to keep multibyte character support simple [pdf]

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2016-utf8.pdf

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Google, Red Hat Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker

http://thenewstack.io/oci-building-way-kubernetes-run-containers-without-docker/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Dispatches from the Rap Wars

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2016/Chicago-Gangs/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150702-paradoxical-crystal-baffles-physicists/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Retire at 40

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-early-retirement/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 105 comments

Smithsonian Releases Apollo 11 Command Module High Resolution Scans

http://3d.si.edu/tour-browser

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Cloud Platform sets a course for new horizons

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Armor – Simple HTTP server, supports HTTP/2 and auto TLS

https://github.com/labstack/armor

10 years ago

★ 1.6k Go MIT
91 upvotes – 57 comments

Tensorflow Ruby API

https://medium.com/@Arafat./introducing-tensorflow-ruby-api-e77a477ff16e#.9b170cfil

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Algebraic Patterns – Monoid Morphism

http://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/posts/2016-08-10-functional-patterns-monoid-morphism.html

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

https://blog.google/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (2013)

http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1698

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Barman 2.0 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1702/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-next-industrial-revolution/498779/?single_page=true

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 180 comments

Cloudflare Traffic Manager

https://www.cloudflare.com/traffic-manager/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

HP Apologizes for Bricking Third-Party Cartridges, Will Restore Functionality

http://hothardware.com/news/hp-apologizes-for-sabotaging-third-party-ink-cartridges

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

FDA approves Medtronic's 'artificial pancreas' for diabetes

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-medtronic-idUSKCN11Z04Y

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

First, Last, Invert, and Play: a technique for animations using CSS transforms

https://engineering.siftscience.com/browser-dgaf-react-accordion-flip

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Announcing a New Ebook, Docker for Java Developers

https://www.nginx.com/blog/ebook-docker-for-java-developers/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Chad Rigetti on Building Quantum Computers [video]

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/chad-rigetti-on-building-quantum-computers/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

One in 10 children has 'Aids defence'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37438837

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/americas-short-violent-love-affair-with-indoor-track-cycling

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows Server 2016: End of One Era, Start of Another

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/28/windows-server-2016-end-one-era-start-another/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments

Overhead of Go’s Generic Sort

https://github.com/nieksand/sortgenerics

10 years ago

★ 36 Go
57 upvotes – 19 comments
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