top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-02

Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833

9 years ago

692 upvotes – 247 comments

Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/09/rental-camera-gear-destroyed-by-the-solar-eclipse-of-2017/

9 years ago

599 upvotes – 153 comments

You are not 'behind'

http://zackkanter.com/2016/01/13/you-are-not-behind/

9 years ago

471 upvotes – 209 comments

Where will artificial general intelligence come from?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/119VW6ueBGLQXsw-jGMboGP2-WuOnyMAOYLgd44SL6xM/edit#slide=id.p

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 240 comments

My first fifteen compilers

http://composition.al/blog/2017/07/31/my-first-fifteen-compilers/

9 years ago

387 upvotes – 76 comments

How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success

https://diary.braniecki.net/2017/09/01/all-hands-on-deck-how-you-can-use-your-skills-to-contribute-to-firefox-57-success/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 291 comments

Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154903

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 66 comments

WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus

https://www.fastcompany.com/40459142/whatsapps-cofounder-on-how-it-reached-1-3-billion-users-without-losing-its-focus

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 173 comments

Fucking Sue Me (2011)

http://pud.com/post/10103947044/fucking-sue-me

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 114 comments

Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-still-in-prison-after-two-years/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 266 comments

FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 51 comments

Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (2006)

http://codemines.blogspot.com/2006/09/hell-is-multi-threaded-c-program.html

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 122 comments

San Francisco hits 106 degrees, breaking record

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hey-San-Francisco-get-ready-for-the-heat-12166706.php

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 204 comments

GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale

http://mailchi.mp/iotpodcast/stacey-on-iot-if-ge-cant-master-industrial-iot-who-can

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 73 comments

YouTube Programming Channels

https://www.lvguowei.me/post/ultimate-list-of-youtube-programming-channels/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 34 comments

Tell Google: Stop Killing Monopoly Research

https://citizensagainstmonopoly.org/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 56 comments

A black market where people pay for Instagram verification

http://mashable.com/2017/09/01/instagram-verification-paid-black-market-facebook/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 67 comments

Wells Fargo uncovers up to 1.4M more fake accounts

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/31/investing/wells-fargo-fake-accounts/index.html

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 91 comments

The real prerequisite for machine learning isn’t math, it’s data analysis (2016)

https://www.r-bloggers.com/the-real-prerequisite-for-machine-learning-isnt-math-its-data-analysis/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 52 comments

Free Data Recovery of Wet Phones and Hard Drives for Hurricane Harvey Victims

https://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/2017/08/30/drivesavers-offers-hurricane-harvey-victims-free-data-recovery-of-wet-phones-and-hard-drives/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 30 comments

How I failed to replicate an $86M project in 1 line of code

https://medium.com/@ryanfb/how-i-failed-to-replicate-an-86-million-project-in-1-line-of-code-615048a1f9d0

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-dive-bitcoin-core-v0.15/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 16 comments

A curated list of things related to Vue.js

https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue

9 years ago

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141 upvotes – 40 comments

Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (2008)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805706/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

There is no such thing as a free watch [pdf]

http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Things Reacters do that Re-framers avoid

https://purelyfunctional.tv/article/react-vs-re-frame/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Canada's 'Great Trail' Is Finally Connected

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/canada-great-trail-longest

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

We can’t let the dark web give online anonymity a bad name

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-web-drugs-porn-internet-freedom

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 100 comments

Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Homeowners faced an Airbnb nightmare as renters left them facing huge fines

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/01/airbnb-nightmare-homeowners-fined-after-renters-illegal-listings.html

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 107 comments

Is there a winning strategy in Tetris?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/279656/is-there-winning-strategy-in-tetris-what-if-young-diagrams-are-falling

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Graphs not Grids: How caches are corrupting algorithm designers (2010)

http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/07/graphs-not-grids/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments
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