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Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-08/equifax-sued-over-massive-hack-in-multibillion-dollar-lawsuit
8 years ago
616
332
How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?
https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=de7f932e3a1d494f9c9d9a67fb0de646
559
325
The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/why-the-equifax-breach-is-very-possibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/
523
105
Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201152
427
79
Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)
http://beej.us/guide/bgc/
322
148
Jerry Pournelle has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
258
163
Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services
https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/08/22/government-launches-login-gov/
58
Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-faces-fbi-probe-overprogram-targeting-rival-lyft-1504872001
257
108
Equifax terms of service may include binding arbitration clause
https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906178254331142144
238
67
The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb
236
96
RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/why-rss-feeds-still-beat-facebook-and-twitter-for-track-1800722740
231
175
Filecoin Breaks Record for ICO Funding
https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-record-ico-funding/
219
78
Hackers who broke into Equifax exploited a flaw in open-source server software
https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw/
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193
What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty
81
Continued G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/update-continued-g4-severe-geomagnetic-storming-observed
214
88
BerkShares
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares
209
83
DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode
https://duckduckhack.com/
69
Game Engine Black Book Postmortem
http://fabiensanglard.net/Game_Engine_Black_Book_Release/index.php
202
82
Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/hackers-send-silent-commands-to-speech-recognition-systems-with-ultrasound/
197
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millenial
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
195
18
Idyll: Interactive Document Language
https://idyll-lang.github.io/
187
36
Show HN: Trade your abandoned side projects on Borderline.biz
http://borderline.biz
186
The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-08/the-equifax-hack-didn-t-have-to-be-this-bad
180
50
LoRaWAN packet received at record distance of 702 km
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/ground-breaking-world-record-lorawan-packet-received-at-702-km-436-miles-distance
48
We Can Achieve Anything If We Stop Trying To Do Everything
http://dariusforoux.com/the-power-of-compounding/
178
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FDA slams EpiPen maker
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/fda-slams-epipen-maker-for-doing-nothing-while-hundreds-failed-people-died/
157
Magnitude-8+ Earthquake, 87km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000ahv0
156
3
New York’s Attorney General Opens Inquiry into Equifax Breach
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/business/equifax.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&action=click&contentCollection=business®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
154
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China builds world’s largest EV charging network with 167,000 stations
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0906/c90000-9265487.html
150
57
He created a Wikipedia article per day for a year, including on his wedding day
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/07/pranayraj-wikiyear-challenge/
143
70
Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (2002)
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209332
142
55
Psychology of food menu design
http://www.getmaelstrom.com/dining-theyre-playing-mind/
138
32
'Serious' security flaws found on official UK tax site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41188008
136
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Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care
https://hackernoon.com/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1
135
Blockchain startup R3 sues competitor Ripple
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-r3-ripple-lawsuit/blockchain-startup-r3-sues-competitor-ripple-idUSKCN1BJ27I
129
Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link
https://twitter.com/WillieJay22/status/904071101269016577
71
Angular vs. React vs. Vue
https://medium.com/unicorn-supplies/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-a-2017-comparison-c5c52d620176
JSX in detail
http://blog.klipse.tech/javascript/2016/12/14/jsx.html
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Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana stores
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-unveils-plan-for-government-chain-of-cannabis-stores/article36210217/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
145
Coding Boot Camps Get the Boot: Why the Industry Is Shutting Down
https://thetechladder.com/story/coding-boot-camps-get-boot-industry-shutting/
24
Course Notes – J.S. Milne
http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/index.html
109
30
Show HN: Little Warden, monitoring the tedious things about websites
https://littlewarden.com
20
I built something with A-Frame in two days
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/i-built-something-with-a-frame-in-2-days-and-you-can-too/
101
27
Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-09-human-skin-cells-motor-neurons.html
90
Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/09/07/
21
Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (2008)
https://www.strchr.com/strcmp_and_strlen_using_sse_4.2
98
63
The Japanese Origins of Modern Fine Dining
https://www.eater.com/2017/9/7/16244278/japanese-fine-dining-bocuse-tsuji-kaiseki
97
122
Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation
https://psyarxiv.com/hv28a/
19
Java: Free at Last
https://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/java-free-at-last/
25
A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-big-ugly-problem-heart-of-taxonomy-180964629/?no-ist
93
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The early history of HP calculators
https://insights.hpe.com/articles/the-early-history-of-hp-calculators-1709.html
46
Judge won’t release man jailed 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/judge-wont-release-man-jailed-2-years-for-refusing-to-decrypt-drives/
If you enroll in Equifax's TrustedID you waive your rights to sue Equifax
https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/906120794593427456
8
A First Excercise in Natural Language Processing with Python: Counting Hapaxes
http://catswhisker.xyz/log/2017/9/7/a_first_excercise_in_natural_language_processing_with_python_counting_hapaxes/
89
Why Command and Vector Processors Rock
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/command-and-vector-processors/
China is considering shutting down local cryptocurrency exchanges
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/bitcoin-price-drops-following-report-that-china-is-going-to-shut-down-local-exchanges/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
34
3D Coke Sign in Times Square [video]
https://vimeo.com/229199452
28
Facebook undermines its own effort to fight fake news
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/facebook-fake-news-social-media-242407
Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (2008)