top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-11

Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/facebook-you-needy-sonofabitch/

8 years ago

1111 upvotes – 387 comments

Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/equifax-accountability-security.html

8 years ago

477 upvotes – 229 comments

Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html#

8 years ago

460 upvotes – 198 comments

Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers

https://tomdale.net/2017/09/compilers-are-the-new-frameworks/

8 years ago

436 upvotes – 227 comments

A New Way to Learn Economics

https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-new-way-to-learn-economics

8 years ago

398 upvotes – 218 comments

Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200

http://gridlesskits.com/2017/09/06/burning-man-update.html

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 103 comments

A font to make sparklines in seconds

http://aftertheflood.co/projects/atf-spark

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 62 comments

Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/its-about-to-get-tougher-for-cops-border-agents-to-get-at-your-iphones-data/

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 286 comments

I downloaded an app and was part of the Cajun Navy

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php?cmpid=twitter-premium

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 143 comments

Mercedes-Benz will electrify its entire car lineup by 2022

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/mercedes-benz-will-electrify-its-entire-car-lineup-by-2022/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 214 comments

Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014)

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/friends_are_genetically_similar

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 190 comments

Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users?

http://jordancolburn.com/2017/09/11/stubhub-shows-already-sold-tickets/

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 94 comments

With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/apple-iphone-price.html

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 698 comments

Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs

https://joreteg.com/blog/betting-on-the-web

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 146 comments

MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

https://www.wired.com/story/a-weird-mit-dorm-dies-and-a-crisis-blooms-at-colleges

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 205 comments

‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/world/americas/brazil-amazon-tribe-killings.html

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 189 comments

As Amazon Pushes Forward with Robots, Workers Find New Roles

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/amazon-robots-workers.html?mabReward=ART_CTM1&recid=34cea0ca-c023-4fb8-6ca8-9047ebcd5412&recp=0&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article&_r=0

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 156 comments

Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-we-built-the-first-real-self-driving-car-really-bd17b0dbda55

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 214 comments

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of modern humans

https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v317/n3/full/scientificamerican0917-12.html

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 55 comments

The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 305 comments

Comodo fails to check CAA records

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08027.html

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/11/copyright-vote-change-europes-internet/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer

https://zendev.com/2017/09/11/css-in-js.html

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 137 comments

Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-11/amazon-s-whole-foods-price-cuts-brought-25-jump-in-customers

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 119 comments

Lagos megachurches building their own cities

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/11/eat-pray-live-lagos-nigeria-megachurches-redemption-camp

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 113 comments

What's So Bad About Posix I/O?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/11/whats-bad-posix-io/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 96 comments

Bunnie Huang’s “Hardware Hacker” book is in print

https://boingboing.net/2017/03/09/making-and-breaking-hardware.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 28 comments

Avogadr.io – Molecular Wallpaper Generator

https://www.avogadr.io/?showmenu=true

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Sorting with GPUs: A Survey

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02520

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Anyone here make a 'comeback' from rock bottom? What is your story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219311

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 119 comments

China to Shut Bitcoin Exchanges?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-shut-bitcoin-exchanges-sources-1505100862

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 100 comments

Scientists discover hidden patterns of brain activity

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-discover-hidden-patterns-of-brain-activ/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 17 comments

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/a_hardware_priv.html

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-41235131

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 116 comments

Break Up the Tech Giants? No, Just Level the Field

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-11/break-up-the-tech-giants-no-just-level-the-field

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 104 comments

Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture

https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-3-for-ios-hybrid-architecture-afc071589c25

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Yue – A new library to create cross-platform GUI apps

https://github.com/yue/yue

8 years ago

★ 3.6kC++LGPL-2.1
104 upvotes – 100 comments

Deadly Mexico earthquake had unusual cause

http://www.nature.com/news/deadly-mexico-earthquake-had-unusual-cause-1.22586

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: At what company were you happiest and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15215096

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 107 comments

Venmo is offering users an physical debit card

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/venmo-is-offering-users-an-ugly-physical-debit-card

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 119 comments

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01620

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless

https://github.com/mplewis/src2png

8 years ago

★ 2.1kJavaScriptMIT
93 upvotes – 89 comments

Writer's Block, or the Wantrepreneur Blues

https://www.indiehackers.com/@thwiv/writers-block-or-the-wantrepreneur-blues-76ab4a93b6?utm_source=Indie+Hackers+Newsletter&utm_campaign=indie-hackers-newsletter-057&utm_medium=email

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments
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