top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-21

New in PostgreSQL 10

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10

8 years ago

962 upvotes – 249 comments

“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”

https://jasmcole.com/2017/09/20/the-moon-blew-up-without-warning-and-for-no-apparent-reason/

8 years ago

710 upvotes – 270 comments

PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer

http://beagleboard.org/pocket

8 years ago

508 upvotes – 197 comments

Anatomy of a Moral Panic

http://idlewords.com/2017/09/anatomy_of_a_moral_panic.htm

8 years ago

491 upvotes – 172 comments

Google signs agreement with HTC

https://www.blog.google/topics/hardware/google-signs-agreement-htc-continuing-our-big-bet-hardware/

8 years ago

437 upvotes – 182 comments

Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/apple-does-right-users-wrong-advertisers

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 339 comments

Basic Income Research Proposal

https://basicincome.ycr.org/blog

8 years ago

401 upvotes – 407 comments

Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook

https://franchise.cloud/

8 years ago

398 upvotes – 63 comments

Get Rid of Equifax

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/opinion/get-rid-of-equifax.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 255 comments

Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf]

http://oism.org/nwss/nwss.pdf

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 213 comments

Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-starting-ray-dillinger

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 86 comments

Go: Ten years and climbing

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/09/go-ten-years-and-climbing.html

8 years ago

320 upvotes – 182 comments

How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC

https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/how-we-grow-junior-developers-at-the-bbc-dc3054f7e390

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 159 comments

Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-standards-insight/distrustful-u-s-allies-force-spy-agency-to-back-down-in-encryption-fight-idUSKCN1BW0GV

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 84 comments

The tech sec­tor might be evil

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/09/20/Tech-is-Evil

8 years ago

282 upvotes – 219 comments

EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, tried to hide findings

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/09/21/eu-paid-report-concluded-piracy-isnt-harmful-tried-hide-findings/

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 59 comments

Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/numba-python-cuda-acceleration/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 62 comments

JDK 9 General-Availability Release

http://jdk.java.net/9/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 47 comments

SEC Discloses Edgar Corporate Filing System Was Hacked in 2016

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-discloses-edgar-corporate-filing-system-was-hacked-in-2016-1505956552

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Wages Aren’t Growing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/why-wages-aren-t-growing

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 331 comments
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