top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-21

New in PostgreSQL 10

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

9 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/

9 years ago

710 upvotes – 270 comments

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

http://beagleboard.org/pocket

9 years ago

508 upvotes – 197 comments

Anatomy of a Moral Panic

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

9 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/

9 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

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 339 comments

Basic Income Research Proposal

https://basicincome.ycr.org/blog

9 years ago

401 upvotes – 407 comments

Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook

https://franchise.cloud/

9 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

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 255 comments

Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf]

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

9 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

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 86 comments

Go: Ten years and climbing

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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 59 comments

Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration

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

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 62 comments

JDK 9 General-Availability Release

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

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 331 comments

Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio (2016)

http://www.robertputt.co.uk/welcome-to-the-world-of-software-defined-radio.html

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 90 comments

Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing

http://glench.com/LaserSocks/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 53 comments

A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete

https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 80 comments

Scientists discover the first brainless animal that sleeps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/21/scientists-just-discovered-the-first-animal-without-a-brain-that-sleeps/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 60 comments

Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

9 years ago

★ 2.4k C++ MIT
182 upvotes – 121 comments

Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow

http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/tfgraph

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 5 comments

Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/experian-site-can-give-anyone-your-credit-freeze-pin/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 69 comments

S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk from Debt Growth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/s-p-lowers-china-s-rating-to-a-from-aa-says-outlook-stable

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 125 comments

MongoDB has filed to go public

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/database-provider-mongodb-has-filed-to-go-public/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 201 comments

Ethereum Adoption of Zk-SNARK Technology

https://z.cash/blog/ethereum-snarks.html

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 36 comments

Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum

https://medium.com/@mhluongo/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and-ethereum-f6d89fa7cba8

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Gonum – Numerical Computing for Go

http://www.gonum.org/post/introtogonum/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Server: Racket – An ebook about web development with the Racket HTTP server

http://serverracket.com/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

Magic Sudoku – Solve Sudoku with the power of AR

http://magicsudoku.com/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 57 comments

An Analysis of CVE-2017-5638 – how Equifax was hacked

https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2017/3/27/an-analysis-of-cve-2017-5638.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 18 comments

Is Trump mulling Peter Thiel for a top intelligence advisory post?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/donald-trump-peter-thiel-top-intelligence-advisory-post

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 169 comments

Building the Linux kernel with clang

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/734071/f0bcc0afc5b50c85/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 61 comments

Announcing Ethereum and Litecoin vaults

https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-ethereum-litecoin-vaults-b10c3250cbe6

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 63 comments

Wire Server open sourced

https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-source-the-journey-continues-88e24164309c

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

Bitcoin Paper Wallets (2015)

http://jrruethe.github.io/blog/2015/04/23/bitcoin-paper-wallets/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 64 comments

IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phoenix-ibm-contract-union-pay-government-1.4295827

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 108 comments

The Great DOM Fuzz-Off of 2017

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-great-dom-fuzz-off-of-2017.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 29 comments

Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City

https://www.historicmysteries.com/derinkuyu-underground-city-cappadocia/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

How flying messes with the mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170919-how-flying-seriously-messes-with-your-mind

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 95 comments

Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-broad-expansion-open-source-patent-promise#

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 7 comments

Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6B in damages, just for starters

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/waymo-wants-uber-to-pay-2-6-billion-in-damages-just-for-starters/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

Anko SQLite, a library to simplify working with SQLite on Android

https://www.kotlindevelopment.com/anko-sqlite-database/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 69 comments

Recutils – Tools and libraries to access plain text databases called Recfiles

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: TR-101 – A drum synth/sequencer made with Vue and the web audio API

https://inverted3.gitlab.io/drum-machine/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 38 comments

Oakland and SF sue five oil companies for damages from rising seas

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-sue-big-oil-for-damages-from-rising-seas/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 98 comments

The financial struggles of a breast pump startup

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/a-smart-breast-pump-mothers-love-it-vcs-don-t

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 92 comments

When Dissent Became Treason

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/09/28/world-war-i-when-dissent-became-treason/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

Germany’s hidden hunger

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/09/world/germany-food-bank-cnnphotos/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 102 comments

Clkscrew: Exposing the perils of security-oblivious energy management

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/21/clkscrew-exposing-the-perils-of-security-oblivious-energy-management/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 15 comments

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)

https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

WSU researchers see popular herbicide affecting health across generations

https://news.wsu.edu/2017/09/20/herbicide-affecting-health-across-generations/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Introducing Faster GPUs for Google Compute Engine

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-faster-GPUs-for-Google-Compute-Engine.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 3 comments

You Don’t Need Superstar Developers

http://blog.lunarlogic.io/2017/effective-collaboration-superstar-developers/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 83 comments

Polygonal Map Generation, HTML5 Version

https://simblob.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/mapgen2-html5.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Vulnerabilities in mobile networks opens Bitcoin wallets to hackers

https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/news/285038/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Java 9 Released

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9-downloads-3848520.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-companies-through-their-helpdesk-b7680ddc2d4c

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments
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