top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-03

“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

https://twitter.com/webmink/status/904081073256243201?s=15

8 years ago

753 upvotes – 387 comments

Delete Facebook Account

http://www.deletefacebook.com/

8 years ago

440 upvotes – 193 comments

To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 672 comments

SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems

https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/

8 years ago

344 upvotes – 167 comments

The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 287 comments

HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/

8 years ago

318 upvotes – 165 comments

Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations (1997) [pdf]

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 108 comments

TLS in Linux 4.13 kernel

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/networking/tls.txt

8 years ago

★ 231kC
231 upvotes – 57 comments

Binary data visualization

https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 26 comments

Fish are eating lots of plastic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-bad-news-is-that-fish-are-eating-lots-of-plastic-even-worse-they-may-like-it/2017/09/01/54159ee8-8cc6-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 114 comments

Pliny the Elder May Have Been Found 2,000 Years Later

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809751

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 38 comments

100 days of postmarketOS

https://www.postmarketos.org/blog/2017/09/03/100-days-of-postmarketos/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 45 comments

EleVR leaving Y Combinator Research

http://elevr.com/elevr-leaving-ycr/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 111 comments

Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach [pdf]

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/jep.31.2.87.pdf

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 9 comments

BeOS almost made Apple a different company (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/os-almost-made-apple-entirely-different-company/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 143 comments

North Korea nuclear test: Hydrogen bomb 'missile-ready'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41139445

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 188 comments

Emotionless chatbots are taking over customer service

https://theconversation.com/emotionless-chatbots-are-taking-over-customer-service-and-its-bad-news-for-consumers-82962

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

Why I Quit Oracle (2010)

http://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james-gosling-why-i-quit-oracle

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

Comparing C and C++ usage and performance with a real world project

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/09/comparing-c-and-c-usage-and-performance.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 136 comments

As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong with Us?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 100 comments
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