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

DuckDuckGo vs Google

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

8 years ago

1140 upvotes – 536 comments

A new kind of map: it’s about time

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

8 years ago

968 upvotes – 201 comments

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

8 years ago

769 upvotes – 240 comments

How Booking.com manipulates users

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

8 years ago

583 upvotes – 304 comments

Snowflake macro photography (2013)

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

8 years ago

517 upvotes – 67 comments

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

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

8 years ago

499 upvotes – 189 comments

Swift 4.0 Released

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

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 140 comments

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

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

8 years ago

363 upvotes – 145 comments

MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum

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

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 62 comments

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?

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 260 comments

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

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 202 comments

Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release

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

8 years ago

★ 16.2kRustMIT
232 upvotes – 76 comments

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web

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

8 years ago

★ 15.8kHTMLMIT
226 upvotes – 34 comments

Real-Time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction

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

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 87 comments

The East India Company, the original corporate raiders

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

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 123 comments

Magnesium and the Brain (2011)

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

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 100 comments

Some .io nameservers are returning wrong results again

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

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 73 comments

Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 171 comments

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

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 145 comments

Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles

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

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 154 comments

Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today

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

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 25 comments

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/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 94 comments

The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go

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

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 299 comments

Where Are the Brave Military Voices Against the Forever War?

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

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 117 comments

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

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

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 143 comments

Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 164 comments

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

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 135 comments

Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean

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

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

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

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

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

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

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/

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 193 comments

Google Pixelbook Is Google’s New Chromebook

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

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 175 comments

Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver

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

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 67 comments

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

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 128 comments

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

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 52 comments

Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices

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

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 237 comments

The Lil License

http://lillicense.org/v1.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 131 comments

A Brain Built from Atomic Switches Can Learn

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

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

Nest launches an outdoor security camera

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

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 164 comments

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

https://github.com/matryx/calcflow

8 years ago

★ 504C#
117 upvotes – 36 comments

Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres

https://brandur.org/job-drain

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 31 comments

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

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 163 comments

Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges

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

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 132 comments

JavaScript development is not fun for me anymore

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

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 114 comments

The Impossible Burger

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

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 136 comments

Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time

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

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 110 comments

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

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

IO name servers down

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

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

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

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

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

Non-determinism: a sublanguage rather than a monad

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

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

American Democracy Is Drowning in Money

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

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 180 comments

How to Quickly and Correctly Generate a Git Log in HTML

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

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

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

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

Kotlin vs. Scala

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

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

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

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

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 38 comments
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