top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-23

It’s time to kill the web app

https://blog.plan99.net/its-time-to-kill-the-web-974a9fe80c89

9 years ago

1003 upvotes – 702 comments

Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen

https://www.michalspacek.com/post-a-boarding-pass-on-facebook-get-your-account-stolen

9 years ago

726 upvotes – 303 comments

Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

9 years ago

556 upvotes – 241 comments

Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you

http://www.ofnumbers.com/2017/09/21/eight-things-cryptocurrency-enthusiasts-probably-wont-tell-you/

9 years ago

460 upvotes – 178 comments

Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

https://github.com/sgoedecke/socket-io-game/blob/master/BLOG.md

9 years ago

★ 493 JavaScript
308 upvotes – 99 comments

Parallel processing with Unix tools

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix-parallel-tools.html

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 87 comments

Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)

http://etherrag.blogspot.com/2013/07/duck-duck-go-illusion-of-privacy.html

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 123 comments

EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 38 comments

LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more

https://hackaday.com/2017/09/22/cheap-full-duplex-software-defined-radio-with-the-limesdr/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 46 comments

APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective

https://macdaddy.io/apfs-backup-software-developers-perspective/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 53 comments

Like modern democracies, ancient Greek democracy had an anger problem

https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martha-nussbaum-jefferson-lecture

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 73 comments

Django 2.0 alpha

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0?hnews

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

https://thingsonreddit.com/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

Google Will Survive SESTA – Startups Might Not

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/google-will-survive-sesta-your-startup-might-not

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 22 comments

As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 93 comments

Casper went to war with popular mattress review site, then financed its takeover

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/23/13153814/casper-sleepopolis-lawsuits-mattress-reviews

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 89 comments

Changes to Google Scholar

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2017/09/better-ways-of-getting-around.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 53 comments

A slump in new businesses is a drag on the economy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/economy/startup-business.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 143 comments

Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/sep/21/in-eastern-europe-we-dont-prefer-to-eat-garbage-readers-on-food-inequality?CMP=fb_gu

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 127 comments

What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/sep/22/what-happens-if-you-turn-off-the-traffic-lights

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 91 comments
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