top 50% 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

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

Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin

9 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript MIT

NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS

https://nixos.org/nixops/

9 years ago

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

Our Approach to Privacy

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

What’s New in Python 3.7

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

9 years ago

Xanadu

http://xanadu.com/

9 years ago

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

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

A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge

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

9 years ago

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

Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/for-worriers-expressive-writing-cools-brain-on-stressful-tasks/

9 years ago

The 'internet of things' is sending us back to the Middle Ages

https://theconversation.com/the-internet-of-things-is-sending-us-back-to-the-middle-ages-81435

9 years ago

PostgreSQL 10 Beta 4 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1776/

9 years ago

California Legislature Sells Out Our Data to ISPs

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/california-legislature-sells-out-our-data-isps

9 years ago

Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/retro-thinkpad-image-2017

9 years ago

Understanding V8’s Bytecode

https://medium.com/dailyjs/understanding-v8s-bytecode-317d46c94775

9 years ago

What, exactly, do philosophers do?

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/where-modern-philosophy-began/

9 years ago

What Is Life? (1944) [pdf]

http://dlab.clemson.edu/11._Erwin_Schrodinger_-_What_is_Life__1944_.pdf

9 years ago

Input: Fonts for Code

http://input.fontbureau.com/info/

9 years ago

Finding UX in the Trash

https://f2.svbtle.com/ux-in-the-trash

9 years ago

Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html

9 years ago

When devops makes a clock

http://smaslennikov.com/whattimeisitrightmeow/

9 years ago

The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

https://www.fastcompany.com/40468468/the-debate-over-neighborhood-zoning-could-hold-up-fast-5g-wireless-for-years-to-come

9 years ago

Emailing 25k Marilyn Manson fans a video of their house

https://medium.com/@leemartin/wkwyfl-43879e3348ac

9 years ago

Here I Stand, at Age 80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfjM-SGlGs

9 years ago

The Joy of Sexagesimal Floating-Point Arithmetic

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-joy-of-sexagesimal-floating-point-arithmetic/

9 years ago

Show HN: Colors – A data-driven collection of beautiful color palettes

https://klart.co/colors

9 years ago

Random Write Considered Harmful in SSDs (2012) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Min.pdf

9 years ago

How We're Building a Business to Last

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-were-building-a-business-to-last/?m=1

9 years ago

Schrödinger’s Tcl – Values that differ if you look at them

https://github.com/aidanhs/schrotcl

9 years ago

★ 29 C