top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-07

Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/delta-goes-big-then-goes-home/

9 years ago

1107 upvotes – 188 comments

Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information

https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-07-2017-213000628

9 years ago

1044 upvotes – 532 comments

Nginx Unit

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-unit/

9 years ago

680 upvotes – 232 comments

Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack

9 years ago

650 upvotes – 169 comments

Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/atlassian-launches-stride-its-slack-competitor/

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 404 comments

Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China

https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 359 comments

Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks

https://research.fb.com/facebook-and-microsoft-introduce-new-open-ecosystem-for-interchangeable-ai-frameworks/

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 82 comments

How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-taser-experts/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 176 comments

Redefine statistical significance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0189-z.epdf

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 114 comments

Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

https://www.amazon.com/amazonhq2

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 468 comments

Software to capture votes in upcoming German national election is insecure

https://ccc.de/en/updates/2017/pc-wahl

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 116 comments

Articles on fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, demoscene and more

http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 17 comments

AWS Network Load Balancer

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 118 comments

Vagrant 2.0

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-vagrant-2-0/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 114 comments

Yarn 1.0: Workspaces, auto-merging lockfiles, selective versions resolutions

https://code.facebook.com/posts/274518539716230

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 44 comments

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)

http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa6506e2f35eaac

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

C++17 is formally approved

https://herbsutter.com/2017/09/06/c17-is-formally-approved/

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 132 comments

IPv10

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-ipv10-06.html

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 125 comments

Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men from Labor Force

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/opioid-use-explains-20-of-drop-in-american-men-from-labor-force

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 268 comments

LLVM 5.0.0 Release

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2017-September/000075.html

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 76 comments

Dead Coins – A list of dead cryptocurrencies

http://deadcoins.com/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 47 comments

Technical Book on Deep Learning

https://github.com/tomepel/Technical_Book_DL

9 years ago

★ 1.3k TeX
190 upvotes – 22 comments

Tesla and SpaceX Share More Than Musk

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/from-software-to-staffers-tesla-and-spacex-share-more-than-musk

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 109 comments

U.S. House approves proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving/u-s-house-unanimously-approves-sweeping-self-driving-car-measure-idUSKCN1BH2B2

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 103 comments

Sorting number strings numerically

https://www.arangodb.com/2017/09/sorting-number-strings-numerically/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 57 comments

ClojureCUDA – CUDA programming in Clojure

http://clojurecuda.uncomplicate.org/articles/getting_started.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 13 comments

Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer’s Protein from the Brain

https://futurism.com/marijuana-compound-removes-toxic-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: eth-private-net – Tooling to run a private Ethereum network locally

https://github.com/vincentchu/eth-private-net

9 years ago

★ 351 Shell MIT
140 upvotes – 15 comments

Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA

https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-iota-9a6a9ddc4367

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands [pdf]

https://endchan.xyz/.media/50cf379143925a3926298f881d3c19ab-applicationpdf.pdf

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Swedish King's 'forgotten' 17th-century warship found in central Stockholm

https://www.thelocal.se/20170906/swedish-kings-scepter-shipwreck-17th-century-warship-found-in-central-stockholm

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

OxiPNG: PNG optimizer written in Rust

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng

9 years ago

★ 3.9k Rust MIT
130 upvotes – 45 comments

Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 69 comments

Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin System [pdf]

http://www.columbia.edu/~jl4130/BTC.pdf

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

People Who Have Taken Psychedelics More Likely To Be Environmentally Friendly

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/people-who-have-taken-psychedelics-are-more-likely-to-be-environmentally-friendly/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Page.REST – An API to fetch details from a web page as JSON

http://www.page.rest

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects

https://www.theuncomfortable.com

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15191920

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 63 comments

The Memories of Plants

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plant-memory-hidden-vernalization

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

How the British aristocracy preserved their power

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/07/how-the-aristocracy-preserved-their-power

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

Return of the city-state

https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/the-climate-engineers-sucking-co2-from-the-atmosphere-and-making-money-doing-it

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 128 comments

Why I joined Heptio

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/09/06/why-i-joined-heptio

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Neural Language Modeling from Scratch

http://ofir.io/Neural-Language-Modeling-From-Scratch/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

Korg Step Master: Rhythm Training Machine

http://www.korg.com/us/products/dance/stepmaster/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Evan Doorbell's Classic Phreaking Tapes

http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

Citus 7: Transactions, Framework Integration, and Postgres 10

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/09/07/citus-7-distributed-transactions-frameworks-and-pg10/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Restoring for..in peak performance

http://benediktmeurer.de/2017/09/07/restoring-for-in-peak-performance/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 5 comments

Judge Dismisses Shiva Ayyadurai’s Lawsuit Against Techdirt

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/judge-dismisses-libel-lawsuit-filed-by-self-proclaimed-e-mail-inventor/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

MIT and IBM establish joint AI research lab

http://news.mit.edu/2017/ibm-mit-joint-research-watson-artificial-intelligence-lab-0907

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes the Big Flaw in Online Movie Ratings

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/al-gores-new-movie-exposes-the-big-flaw-in-online-movie-ratings/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments
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