top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-08

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

9 years ago

How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?

https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=de7f932e3a1d494f9c9d9a67fb0de646

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201152

9 years ago

Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)

http://beej.us/guide/bgc/

9 years ago

Jerry Pournelle has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

9 years ago

Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services

https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/08/22/government-launches-login-gov/

9 years ago

Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-faces-fbi-probe-overprogram-targeting-rival-lyft-1504872001

9 years ago

Equifax terms of service may include binding arbitration clause

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906178254331142144

9 years ago

The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb

9 years ago

RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News

http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/why-rss-feeds-still-beat-facebook-and-twitter-for-track-1800722740

9 years ago

Filecoin Breaks Record for ICO Funding

https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-record-ico-funding/

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

Continued G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/update-continued-g4-severe-geomagnetic-storming-observed

9 years ago

BerkShares

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares

9 years ago

DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode

https://duckduckhack.com/

9 years ago

Game Engine Black Book Postmortem

http://fabiensanglard.net/Game_Engine_Black_Book_Release/index.php

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millenial

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/

9 years ago

Idyll: Interactive Document Language

https://idyll-lang.github.io/

9 years ago

Show HN: Trade your abandoned side projects on Borderline.biz

http://borderline.biz

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

We Can Achieve Anything If We Stop Trying To Do Everything

http://dariusforoux.com/the-power-of-compounding/

9 years ago

FDA slams EpiPen maker

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/fda-slams-epipen-maker-for-doing-nothing-while-hundreds-failed-people-died/

9 years ago

Magnitude-8+ Earthquake, 87km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000ahv0

9 years ago

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&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

9 years ago

China builds world’s largest EV charging network with 167,000 stations

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0906/c90000-9265487.html

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (2002)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209332

9 years ago

Psychology of food menu design

http://www.getmaelstrom.com/dining-theyre-playing-mind/

9 years ago

'Serious' security flaws found on official UK tax site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41188008

9 years ago

Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care

https://hackernoon.com/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1

9 years ago

Blockchain startup R3 sues competitor Ripple

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-r3-ripple-lawsuit/blockchain-startup-r3-sues-competitor-ripple-idUSKCN1BJ27I

9 years ago

Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link

https://twitter.com/WillieJay22/status/904071101269016577

9 years ago

Angular vs. React vs. Vue

https://medium.com/unicorn-supplies/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-a-2017-comparison-c5c52d620176

9 years ago

JSX in detail

http://blog.klipse.tech/javascript/2016/12/14/jsx.html

9 years ago

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&

9 years ago

Coding Boot Camps Get the Boot: Why the Industry Is Shutting Down

https://thetechladder.com/story/coding-boot-camps-get-boot-industry-shutting/

9 years ago

Course Notes – J.S. Milne

http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/index.html

9 years ago

Show HN: Little Warden, monitoring the tedious things about websites

https://littlewarden.com

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-09-human-skin-cells-motor-neurons.html

9 years ago

Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/09/07/

9 years ago

Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (2008)

https://www.strchr.com/strcmp_and_strlen_using_sse_4.2

9 years ago

The Japanese Origins of Modern Fine Dining

https://www.eater.com/2017/9/7/16244278/japanese-fine-dining-bocuse-tsuji-kaiseki

9 years ago

Deep neural networks more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation

https://psyarxiv.com/hv28a/

9 years ago

Java: Free at Last

https://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/java-free-at-last/

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

The early history of HP calculators

https://insights.hpe.com/articles/the-early-history-of-hp-calculators-1709.html

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

If you enroll in Equifax's TrustedID you waive your rights to sue Equifax

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/906120794593427456

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

Why Command and Vector Processors Rock

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/command-and-vector-processors/

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

3D Coke Sign in Times Square [video]

https://vimeo.com/229199452

9 years ago

Facebook undermines its own effort to fight fake news

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/facebook-fake-news-social-media-242407

9 years ago