top 50% 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

Show HN: Make your web page dance with Rythm.js

https://okazari.github.io/Rythm.js/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 72 comments

23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/05/23andme-is-raising-about-200-million-led-by-sequoia/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tctwreshare&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=twitter

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 168 comments

How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence

http://5kids1condo.com/very-superstitious-how-fact-free-parenting-policies-rob-our-kids-of-independence/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 183 comments

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/?no-ist

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 87 comments

Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun

https://www.btr.pm/rambles/2017/5/12/787-inflight-entertainment-fun

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 142 comments

Hardware Architectures for Deep Neural Networks [pdf]

http://www.rle.mit.edu/eems/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ISCA-2017-Hardware-Architectures-for-DNN-Tutorial.pdf

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 17 comments

How Python does Unicode

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2017/sep/05/how-python-does-unicode/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 136 comments

Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 163 comments

Moving Java Forward Faster

https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 82 comments

Dhall: a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 4.4k Dhall BSD-3-Clause
157 upvotes – 61 comments

In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/02/in-defense-of-amy-waxs-defense-of-bourgeois-values/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 220 comments

Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185089

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 93 comments

A Bigger Mathematical Picture for Computer Graphics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZApQkDBr5o

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 22 comments

Lisp Machine Manual (1984)

https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Learn what DDD, CQRS, and event-sourcing are all about

https://docs.wolkenkit.io/1.1.0/downloads/brochure/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

How I Used Professional Poker to Become a Data Scientist

https://medium.springboard.com/how-i-used-professional-poker-to-become-a-data-scientist-e49b75dfe8e3

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

Java EE

https://github.com/javaee/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 85 comments

Playing with Kernel TLS in Linux 4.13 and Go

https://blog.filippo.io/playing-with-kernel-tls-in-linux-4-13-and-go/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development

https://www.nylas.com/blog/sunsetting-nylas-mail-development

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

A Newbie’s Guide to Cassandra

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/the-total-newbies-guide-to-cassandra-e63bce0316a4

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: BigQuery dataset: 22M FCC comments on net neutrality

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/jyang:fcc_ecfs?pli=1

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 18 comments

Rosetta Stone for Unix (2014)

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

Inside a fundraising in France: a CEO point of view

https://medium.com/@flavienguillocheau/blitzkrieg-fundraising-7836e7d6c40c

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 8 comments

Run Kubernetes on top of DC/OS

https://mesosphere.com/blog/kubernetes-dcos/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by 2032

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/05/scotland-petrol-diesel-phase-out-ev/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook inflates its ad reach by millions, analyst claims

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/facebook-inflates-ad-reach-claims-pivotal-research-analyst.html

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic

https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printing-at-scale-fuse-pavilion/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

The Quest to Restore American Elms: Nearing the Finish Line

https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/08/09/quest-restore-american-elms-nearing-finish-line/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid networks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/hackers-lie-in-wait-after-penetrating-us-and-europe-power-grid-networks/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else

https://80000hours.org/articles/why-the-long-run-future-matters-more-than-anything-else-and-what-we-should-do-about-it/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 139 comments

Inside Netflix’s Project Griffin: The History of Roku Under Reed Hastings (2013)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3004709/inside-netflixs-project-griffin-forgotten-history-roku-under-reed-hastings

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Bitcoin's Golden Future

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-09-06/seventy-eight-billion-reasons-why-bitcoin-s-the-new-gold

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 146 comments
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