top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-18

W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/antifeatures-for-all.html

9 years ago

Cutting your salary by 40%

https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/18/when-startups-pay-less/

9 years ago

Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html

9 years ago

Announcing CoffeeScript 2

http://coffeescript.org/announcing-coffeescript-2/

9 years ago

Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/equifax-is-said-to-suffer-a-hack-earlier-than-the-date-disclosed

9 years ago

Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died

https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

9 years ago

GNU Taler

https://taler.net/en/index.html

9 years ago

Thinkpad X62

https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/

9 years ago

Introducing Keybase Teams

https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams

9 years ago

Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/equifax-stock-sales-said-to-be-focus-of-u-s-criminal-probe

9 years ago

Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-significantly-underestimated-power-jeff-bezos-franklin-foer

9 years ago

JSLinux – Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

9 years ago

Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code

https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/18/sign-petition-public-money-produce-public-code/

9 years ago

AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/aws-announces-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances/?ncid=rss

9 years ago

The Future of HHVM

http://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html

9 years ago

Pitching your early-stage startup

https://stripe.com/atlas/guide/pitching

9 years ago

Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

https://cretz.github.io/doogie/

9 years ago

Governments turn tables by suing public records requesters

https://apnews.com/7f6ed0b1bda047339f22789a10f64ac4

9 years ago

Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-germs-appear-to-play-role-in-multiple-sclerosis/?print=true

9 years ago

Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/08/geospatial-analysis-python-geojson-geopandas.html

9 years ago

Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/toys-r-us-is-said-to-plan-bankruptcy-filing-as-soon-as-today

9 years ago

What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/what-the-worlds-emptiest-international-airport-says-about-chinas-influence.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

9 years ago

Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/kids-praised-for-being-smart-are-more-likely-to-cheat

9 years ago

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule successfully returns from ISS resupply mission

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/spacexs-dragon-capsule-successfully-returns-from-12th-iss-resupply-mission

9 years ago

Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-17/slack-gets-slice-of-softbank-s-100-billion-tech-bounty

9 years ago

Why we started CoreOS

https://coreos.com/blog/why-we-started-coreos

9 years ago

TCC – Tiny C Compiler

http://tinycc.org/

9 years ago

Idaho Wants to Establish America's First 'Dark Sky Preserve'

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article173461901.html

9 years ago

How to Build an MVP App Without Writing Code

https://www.process.st/mvp-app/

9 years ago

Optionsbleed – HTTP OPTIONS method can leak Apache's server memory

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/60-Optionsbleed-HTTP-OPTIONS-method-can-leak-Apaches-server-memory.html

9 years ago

In an 8-Hour Day, the Average Worker Is Productive for 2 Hours and 53 Minutes

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html

9 years ago

GeoNotebook: A Jupyter Notebook extension for exploratory geospatial analysis

https://github.com/OpenGeoscience/geonotebook

9 years ago

★ 1k Python Apache-2.0

iOS Version Stats

https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

9 years ago

Going Faster with Lisp

http://blog.kingcons.io/posts/Going-Faster-with-Lisp.html

9 years ago

Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2017-powered-by-aws/

9 years ago

Silicon Valley CEO Called Employees the N-Word and Hit Three Women, Suit Claims

http://www.thedailybeast.com/silicon-valley-ceo-called-employees-the-n-word-and-hit-three-women-new-lawsuit-claims

9 years ago

How to Read a Schematic

https://rawhex.com/blogs/news/how-to-read-a-schematic

9 years ago

Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/google-debuts-tez-a-mobile-wallet-and-payments-app-for-india/

9 years ago

An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

9 years ago

How Useful Is Tufte for Making Maps? (2007)

http://makingmaps.net/2007/08/16/how-useful-is-tufte-for-making-maps/

9 years ago

Central bank cryptocurrencies

https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1709f.htm

9 years ago

The Breathless Hours

http://indianquarterly.com/the-breathless-hours/

9 years ago