top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-05

Demon-Haunted World

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/09/cory-doctorow-demon-haunted-world/

9 years ago

768 upvotes – 282 comments

A collection of things software developers should know

https://github.com/mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know

9 years ago

★ 98.8k CC-BY-4.0
589 upvotes – 165 comments

Little UI Details

https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832

9 years ago

495 upvotes – 48 comments

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-09-05/solaris-to-linux-2017.html

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 129 comments

Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/efficient-airconditioning-by-beaming-heat-into-space

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 187 comments

Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

https://raddit.me/

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 254 comments

ReactOS 0.4.6 released

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-046-released

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 112 comments

Stop Faking Service Dogs

https://www.outsideonline.com/2236871/stop-faking-service-dogs

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 250 comments

Divorce and Occupation

http://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 285 comments

Tetris for TS100 soldering iron

https://github.com/joric/ts100tris

9 years ago

★ 183 C
246 upvotes – 42 comments

European court rules companies must tell employees of email checks

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-privacy-emails-echr/european-court-rules-companies-must-tell-employees-of-email-checks-idUSKCN1BG0YA

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 123 comments

Hey Synaptics, Can You Please Stop Polling

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/hey-synaptics-can-you-please-stop-polling/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 104 comments

How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget

https://www.indiehackers.com/@Louis_Grenier/2cc8c6c79c

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 64 comments

Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL?

http://www.cybertec.at/why-favor-postgresql-over-mariadb-mysql/

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 193 comments

Show HN: Key Values – Find engineering teams that share your values

https://www.keyvalues.io/

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 126 comments

Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/?single_page=true

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 122 comments

Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-8-0-oreo-thoroughly-reviewed/

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 128 comments

Data science tips and tricks from the developer community

https://blog.algorithmia.com/becoming-a-10x-data-scientist/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 67 comments

At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/the-lonely-lives-of-silicon-valley-conservatives

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 380 comments

Go Assembly by Example

http://davidwong.fr/goasm/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 36 comments

Category 5 Hurricane Irma Brings 180-MPH Winds to Bear on Caribbean Islands

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/05/548606014/category-5-hurricane-irma-brings-175-mph-winds-to-bear-on-caribbean-islands

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 151 comments

Crypto for kids

https://sustrik.github.io/crypto-for-kids/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 59 comments

What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future of Automation

https://cacm.acm.org/news/220768-what-the-industrial-revolution-really-tells-us-about-the-future-of-automation-and-work/fulltext

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 170 comments

Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees

https://nytimes.com/2017/09/05/sports/baseball/boston-red-sox-stealing-signs-yankees.html

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 73 comments

A Frameless Geodesic Dome (2013)

http://rigsomelight.com/2013/09/09/frameless-geodesic-dome.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 94 comments

Verizon Up offers rewards in exchange for customers’ personal information

https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-wants-to-build-an-advertising-juggernaut-it-needs-your-data-first-1504603801

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 103 comments

Tendermint 0.10.2

https://jepsen.io/analyses/tendermint-0-10-2

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years of exp in a stack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15171858

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 145 comments

Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 240 comments

WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs

https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

9 years ago

★ 7.3k C LGPL-3.0
158 upvotes – 100 comments

When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 218 comments

How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-does-blockchain-really-work-i-built-an-app-to-show-you-6b70cd4caf7d

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 31 comments

Searching for the killer app of unikernels

http://unikernel.org/blog/2017/the-search-for-the-killer-app-of-unikernels

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 102 comments

The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 112 comments

The China ICO Ban

http://avc.com/2017/09/the-china-ico-ban/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 114 comments

Time for Makefiles to Make a Comeback

https://medium.com/@jolson88/its-time-for-makefiles-to-make-a-comeback-36cbc358bb0a

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: LÖVR – VR framework for Lua

http://lovr.org

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 23 comments

No Man’s Sky One Year Later

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=40413

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 140 comments

Rust 2017 Survey Results

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/09/05/Rust-2017-Survey-Results.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 92 comments

YouTube-mp3 agrees to shut down

http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/youtube-mp3-agrees-to-shut-down/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor

https://github.com/hellerve/e

9 years ago

★ 457 C Unlicense
120 upvotes – 42 comments

We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet

https://medium.com/@getongab/we-are-at-war-for-a-free-and-open-internet-426629fba4bf

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 93 comments

Remake – GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Hatch – A modern project, package, and virtual env manager for Python

https://github.com/ofek/hatch

9 years ago

★ 7.1k Python MIT
108 upvotes – 68 comments

An intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0224-z

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Clean Code concepts adapted for PHP

https://github.com/jupeter/clean-code-php

9 years ago

★ 12.4k PHP MIT
92 upvotes – 58 comments

If You’ve Never Lived in Poverty, Don’t Tell Poor People What They Should Do

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/if-youve-never-lived-in-poverty-don-poor-people-what-they-should-do.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 109 comments

New lubricated mussel-proof coating

http://www.tribonet.org/new-lubricated-mussel-proof-coating/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

How Mushrooms Could Repair Our Crumbling Infrastructure

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608717/how-mushrooms-could-repair-our-crumbling-infrastructure/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Making a Raspberry Pi-Powered AI to Play Piano

https://rpiai.com/piano/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Cloud Platforms – Shameful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173014

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Get to Know the Actor Model with JavaScript

https://monades.roperzh.com/get-to-know-the-actor-model/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 51 comments

Greg's Cable Map

http://cablemap.info/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments
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