top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-06

Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

http://imgur.com/hw2pnDt

9 years ago

1091 upvotes – 477 comments

Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/09/optimizing-web-servers-for-high-throughput-and-low-latency/

9 years ago

987 upvotes – 84 comments

Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering

https://edri.org/leaked-document-eu-presidency-calls-for-massive-internet-filtering/

9 years ago

490 upvotes – 138 comments

How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/smarter-living/workplace-burnout-symptoms.html?sl_l=1&sl_rec=editorial&contentCollection=smarter-living&mData=articles%255B%255D%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2017%252F09%252F05%252Fsmarter-living%252Fworkplace-burnout-symptoms.html%253Fsl_l%253D1%2526sl_rec%253Deditorial%26articles%255B%255D%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2017%252F08%252F21%252Fwell%252Flive%252Ffat-bias-starts-early-and-takes-a-serious-toll.html%253Fsl_rec%253Deditorial&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=smarterLiving-promo-region&region=smarterLiving-promo-region&WT.nav=smarterLiving-promo-region

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 233 comments

Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182501

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 88 comments

Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times

https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-york-times/

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 146 comments

The Incredible Growth of Python

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/?cb=1

9 years ago

333 upvotes – 220 comments

Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016)

https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 25 comments

The fertility of the older mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170828-the-amazing-fertility-of-the-older-mind

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 115 comments

Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo/

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 93 comments

Voynich manuscript: the solution?

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/voynich-manuscript-solution/

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 91 comments

Bank of Canada increases overnight rate target to 1 per cent

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2017/09/fad-press-release-2017-09-06/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 207 comments

Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of Stanford

https://blog.ledwards.com/the-college-that-produces-founders-at-3-times-the-rate-of-stanford-2c53ea44f91e

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 116 comments

Radar reveals two moons orbiting asteroid Florence

https://astronomynow.com/2017/09/05/radar-reveals-two-moons-orbiting-asteroid-florence/

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 51 comments

Riak and the demise of Basho

http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2017-August/019500.html

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 96 comments

AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

9 years ago

★ 17.8k WebAssembly Apache-2.0
205 upvotes – 73 comments

Missed optimizations in C compilers

https://github.com/gergo-/missed-optimizations

9 years ago

★ 339
199 upvotes – 52 comments

FTC slaps Lenovo on the wrist for selling computers with secret adware

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ftc-slaps-lenovo-on-the-wrist-for-selling-computers-with-secret-adware/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 95 comments

Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters

https://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 53 comments

The Zen of Just Writing CSS

https://svelte.technology/blog/the-zen-of-just-writing-css

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 103 comments
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