top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-04

“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

https://vivaldi.com/blog/google-return-to-not-being-evil/

9 years ago

739 upvotes – 237 comments

HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 

https://medium.com/@photonstorm/hsbc-is-killing-my-business-piece-by-piece-d7f5547f3929

9 years ago

739 upvotes – 280 comments

Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C

https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

9 years ago

574 upvotes – 146 comments

Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research

http://blog.watsi.org/watsi-coverage/

9 years ago

564 upvotes – 281 comments

The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/

9 years ago

485 upvotes – 267 comments

Tell me what your company does

https://medium.com/@kasperkubica/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92

9 years ago

478 upvotes – 189 comments

Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/wind-energy-is-one-of-the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-and-its-getting-cheaper/

9 years ago

451 upvotes – 356 comments

Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-cause-uncertainty/

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 171 comments

Why I left

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo/blob/master/docs/why_I_left.md

9 years ago

★ 469 Erlang
349 upvotes – 92 comments

China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/04/chinas-central-bank-has-banned-icos/amp/

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 373 comments

Introduction to HTML Components

http://blog.mecheye.net/2017/08/introduction-to-html-components/

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Resources for building a programming language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15171238

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 83 comments

Run your own OAuth2 server

https://www.ory.am/run-oauth2-server-open-source-api-security.html?

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 80 comments

It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lawrence-summers-its-time-to-balance-the-power-between-workers-and-employers/2017/09/03/b1c9714e-901e-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 208 comments

Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170121

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 93 comments

16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook

https://medium.com/@BenRegenspan/why-16-of-the-code-on-the-average-site-belongs-to-facebook-and-what-that-means-68956cd731be

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 51 comments

The Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-pulsar-origin-story-of-joy-division-s-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-video/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 38 comments

Z3 – The Zork CPU

http://opencores.org/project,z3

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-04/china-central-bank-says-initial-coin-offerings-are-illegal

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 104 comments

Chinese Man Sentenced to Prison for Selling VPN Software

http://www.whatsonweibo.com/chinese-man-sentenced-prison-selling-vpn-software/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 62 comments

Miscellaneous Arduino bits and pieces

http://vwlowen.co.uk/arduino/index.htm

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15166410

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 82 comments

A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-30/how-nakaya-pens-anticipated-the-writing-tool-renaissance

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 121 comments

The End of ProTube 2

http://jonasgessner.com/protube2-statement.html

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 115 comments

Learning Python Without Library Overload

https://chrisconlan.com/learning-python-without-library-overload/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 76 comments

Roll Your Own Bitcoin Exchange in Haskell

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/31/roll-your-own-bitcoin-exchange.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 10 comments

Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/reporter-google-successfully-pressured-me-to-take-down-critical-story/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/queens-puzzle-chess-problem-solution-software

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

With Android Oreo, Google is introducing Linux kernel requirements

https://betanews.com/2017/09/03/android-oreo-linux-kernel/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 73 comments

One Hundred Books in April from Hacker News

http://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews/201708

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/59-Six-year-old-PDF-loop-bug-affects-most-major-implementations.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

US judge says that Yahoo must face lawsuits over data breaches

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/3/16249850/yahoo-must-face-lawsuits-data-breaches

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 8 comments
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