top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-20

DuckDuckGo vs Google

https://fourweekmba.com/duckduckgo-vs-google/

9 years ago

A new kind of map: it’s about time

https://blog.mapbox.com/a-new-kind-of-map-its-about-time-7bd9f7916f7f

9 years ago

How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME

https://www.blackhat.com/eu-17/briefings/schedule/#how-to-hack-a-turned-off-computer-or-running-unsigned-code-in-intel-management-engine-8668

9 years ago

How Booking.com manipulates users

https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipulation

9 years ago

Snowflake macro photography (2013)

https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

9 years ago

Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident

https://twitter.com/thesquashSH/status/910512164938665984

9 years ago

Swift 4.0 Released

https://swift.org/blog/swift-4-0-released/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293573

9 years ago

MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum

https://mindweb.network/board/computer-science-a-full-bachelor-curriculum

9 years ago

China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country, Miners “Preparing for Worst”

http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/09/19/china-bans-bitcoin-executives-leaving-country-miners-preparing-worst?

9 years ago

Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/google-is-said-close-to-buying-htc-assets-to-bolster-hardware

9 years ago

Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release

https://github.com/redox-os/redox/releases/tag/0.3.3

9 years ago

★ 16.2k Rust MIT

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web

https://github.com/jeromeetienne/AR.js/

9 years ago

★ 15.8k HTML MIT

Real-Time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction

https://users.aalto.fi/~silvena4/Projects/RTGI/index.html

9 years ago

The East India Company, the original corporate raiders

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders

9 years ago

Magnesium and the Brain (2011)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201106/magnesium-and-the-brain-the-original-chill-pill

9 years ago

Some .io nameservers are returning wrong results again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578

9 years ago

Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/

9 years ago

Angela Merkel’s record on environmental policy has been a disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/19/world-leading-eco-vandal-angela-merkel-german-environmental

9 years ago

Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles

https://sohlich.github.io/post/go_makefile/

9 years ago

Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today

https://philipwalton.com/articles/deploying-es2015-code-in-production-today/

9 years ago

YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the blockchain

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/yc-wants-to-let-people-invest-in-its-startups-through-the-blockchain/

9 years ago

The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go

http://bittersoutherner.com/cant-get-there-from-here-sidewalk-disrepair-disability

9 years ago

Where Are the Brave Military Voices Against the Forever War?

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/where-are-the-brave-military-voices-against-forever-war/

9 years ago

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086

9 years ago

Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

https://urbit.org/blog/2017.9-eth/

9 years ago

Facebook is 'silencing' Rohingya Muslim reports of 'ethnic cleansing'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/facebook-rohingya-muslim-women-ethnic-cleansing-burma-myanmar-socila-network-rakhine-state-a7954791.html

9 years ago

Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean

https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-spaces-object-storage/

9 years ago

Tesla is working with AMD to develop its own A.I. chip for self-driving cars

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/20/tesla-building-an-ai-chip-for-its-cars-with-amd-globalfoundries.html

9 years ago

EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/eff-court-first-amendment-protects-right-record-first-responders

9 years ago

A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (2015)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/the-astonishing-village-where-little-girls-turn-into-boys-aged-1/

9 years ago

Google Pixelbook Is Google’s New Chromebook

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-pixelbook-chromebook-price-release-date/

9 years ago

Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1302

9 years ago

French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/sebastien-bras-french-chef-three-michelin-stars-le-suquet-laguiole

9 years ago

Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/inception-drive-a-compact-infinitely-variable-transmission-for-robotics

9 years ago

Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices

https://domainnamewire.com/2017/09/20/spanish-police-raid-cat-domain-name-registry-offices/

9 years ago

The Lil License

http://lillicense.org/v1.html

9 years ago

A Brain Built from Atomic Switches Can Learn

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-brain-built-from-atomic-switches-can-learn-20170920/

9 years ago

Nest launches an outdoor security camera

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/nest-launches-a-new-349-smart-outdoor-security-camera/

9 years ago

Show HN: Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR

https://github.com/matryx/calcflow

9 years ago

★ 504 C#

Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres

https://brandur.org/job-drain

9 years ago

Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $19k a Year

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/cost-of-employer-provided-health-insurance-rises-toward-19-000-a-year-1505838600

9 years ago

Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-after-hours-company-visit-spurs-espionage-charges-1505813401

9 years ago

JavaScript development is not fun for me anymore

https://medium.com/@paulvm/javascript-development-is-not-fun-for-me-anymore-ac4e9d7b89a3

9 years ago

The Impossible Burger

https://www.wired.com/story/the-impossible-burger

9 years ago

Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/intel-delays-cannonlake-10nm-processor-third-time-2017-09/

9 years ago

The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids (2016)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-new-preschool-is-crushing-kids/419139/?single_page=true

9 years ago

IO name servers down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293811

9 years ago

FedEx vs. UPS: opposing models in the delivery business raise questions (2004)

http://www.braunconsulting.com/bcg/newsletters/winter2004/winter20041.html

9 years ago

Non-determinism: a sublanguage rather than a monad

http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/nondet-effect.html

9 years ago

American Democracy Is Drowning in Money

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/opinion/democracy-drowning-cash.html

9 years ago

How to Quickly and Correctly Generate a Git Log in HTML

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/09/19.html

9 years ago

Why competition in the politics industry is failing America [pdf]

http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

9 years ago

Kotlin vs. Scala

https://www.codementor.io/jessicathornsby/kotlin-vs-scala-what-should-i-choose-instead-of-java-bwn9axvr8

9 years ago

Keyboard Maestro 8.0

http://www.stairways.com/press/2017-09-19

9 years ago

Benefits of Napping in Healthy Adults (2009) [pdf]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00718.x/pdf

9 years ago