top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-15

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/introducing-firefox-multi-account-containers/

9 years ago

850 upvotes – 238 comments

Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/14/chrome-will-no-longer-autoplay-content-with-sound-in-january-2018/

9 years ago

670 upvotes – 183 comments

On React and WordPress

https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/

9 years ago

543 upvotes – 201 comments

Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-sonic-weapon-attacks-at-us-embassy-in-cuba-deepens

9 years ago

523 upvotes – 277 comments

Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well known libraries

http://www.nbu.gov.sk/skcsirt-sa-20170909-pypi/

9 years ago

475 upvotes – 245 comments

Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true

https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 288 comments

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array?m=1

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 97 comments

A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

https://www.yours.org/content/why-we-built-a-social-network-that-costs-10--to-post-content-b82af95f96bf/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 150 comments

World's largest electric vehicle

https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/e-dumper

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 152 comments

Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013)

http://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 44 comments

Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013)

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 124 comments

Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/14/its-okay-to-prosecute-minors-for-child-porn-for-distributing-sexual-pictures-of-themselves/

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 302 comments

Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out in a Blaze of Glory

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/15/550709214/cassinis-saturn-mission-goes-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Nulis – Open Source Tree Editor for Writers

https://github.com/raymestalez/nulis

9 years ago

★ 745 SCSS AGPL-3.0
231 upvotes – 83 comments

Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font

http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-war-story-the-network-ate-my-font/

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 66 comments

3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psxasj/3dme/index.php

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 43 comments

Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over

https://www.axios.com/ai-pioneer-advocates-starting-over-2485537027.html

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 150 comments

Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 80 comments

The design side of programming language design

http://tomasp.net/blog/2017/design-side-of-pl/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 74 comments

German foreign spy agency BND attacks the anonymity network Tor

https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 53 comments
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