top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-17

Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

http://www.aei.org/publication/warren-buffett-wins-1m-bet-made-a-decade-ago-that-the-sp-500-stock-index-would-outperform-hedge-funds/

9 years ago

786 upvotes – 312 comments

How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-of-wizsec-how-the-bitcoins-were-stolen-from-mt-gox/

9 years ago

563 upvotes – 186 comments

Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust

https://japaric.github.io/discovery/

9 years ago

527 upvotes – 128 comments

The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/iphone-x-notch-kinect-apple-primesense-microsoft

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 224 comments

Payment Request API

https://www.w3.org/blog/wpwg/2017/09/14/payment-request-api-now-being-implemented-in-all-major-browsers-advances-on-the-recommendation-track/

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners

https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin

9 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript MIT
254 upvotes – 261 comments

NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS

https://nixos.org/nixops/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 66 comments

Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/devs-unknowingly-use-malicious-modules-put-into-official-python-repository/

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 110 comments

Our Approach to Privacy

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 179 comments

China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages

https://globalvoices.org/2017/09/13/china-makes-chat-group-administrators-i-e-regular-users-criminally-liable-for-unlawful-messages/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 161 comments

Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS

https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 210 comments

A simple heap memory allocator in about 230 lines of C

https://github.com/CCareaga/heap_allocator#shmall---simple-heap-memory-allocator

9 years ago

★ 915 C MIT
186 upvotes – 103 comments

What’s New in Python 3.7

https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/3.7.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 67 comments

Xanadu

http://xanadu.com/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 86 comments

Safari no longer supported by Spotify

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-Player/Safari-No-Longer-Supported/td-p/1975103

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 148 comments

Why is memory reclamation so important for lock-free algorithms?

https://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2017/08/why-is-memory-reclamation-so-important.html

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/09/14/prehistory.html

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 15 comments

Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/cryptocurrency-bubble-doge.html

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 152 comments

Every Nintendo Switch appears to contain a hidden copy of NES Golf

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/every-nintendo-switch-appears-to-contain-a-hidden-copy-of-nes-golf/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 13 comments
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