top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-25

China Blocks WhatsApp

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/china-whatsapp-blocked.html?mcubz=3

8 years ago

1174 upvotes – 618 comments

YC’s Essential Startup Advice

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-essential-startup-advice/

8 years ago

825 upvotes – 231 comments

MacOS High Sierra

https://www.apple.com/macos/high-sierra/

8 years ago

551 upvotes – 610 comments

PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/pixelNN/

8 years ago

497 upvotes – 150 comments

30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ

8 years ago

477 upvotes – 42 comments

CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/25/showtime_hit_with_coinmining_script/

8 years ago

375 upvotes – 213 comments

What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps

https://marco.org/2017/09/24/what-watch-podcast-apps-need

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 101 comments

Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sears-predicts-amazon/540888/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker

http://brandmark.io/logo-crunch/

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 65 comments

Pollen: the book is a program

http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 95 comments

Street View of 80s NYC

http://80s.nyc/

8 years ago

282 upvotes – 57 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2017 Faraday Medal

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 36 comments

We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/the-addicted-brain/

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 47 comments

Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-24/in-battle-for-talent-one-startup-founder-tries-unlimited-pay

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 211 comments

68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system

https://blog.cyber.fund/huge-ethereum-mixer-6cf98680ee6c

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 82 comments

Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 242 comments

Linux System Call Table

http://thevivekpandey.github.io/posts/2017-09-25-linux-system-calls.html

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 61 comments

Man convicted after preventing counter-terrorism police search

http://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-after-preventing-counter-terrorism-police-search-262829

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 137 comments

The tale of aux.c

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 122 comments

PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository

https://plainjs.com/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 156 comments

COST in the land of databases

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017-09-23.md

8 years ago

★ 2.1kJavaScript
203 upvotes – 55 comments

TensorFlow Examples for Beginners with Latest APIs

https://github.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples/tree/master/

8 years ago

★ 43.7kJupyter Notebook
196 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15328992

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 53 comments

Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking

https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comments-on-my-blog-heres-why

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 80 comments

Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Reloaded

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-reloaded-books

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 28 comments

Request for Education Startups

https://blog.ycombinator.com/request-for-education-startups/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 164 comments

NASA Designed a Low-Tech Rover to Survive Venus

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-low-tech-rover/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 60 comments

The rise of robots in the German labour market

http://voxeu.org/article/rise-robots-german-labour-market

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 68 comments

The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics

http://jdlm.info/articles/2017/09/17/counting-states-combinatorics-2048.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 46 comments

An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016)

https://ujjwalkarn.me/2016/08/11/intuitive-explanation-convnets/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 23 comments

Google’s PixelBook: the target is bigger than it seems

https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-pixelbook-the-target-is-bigger-than-you-think/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 115 comments

Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ emails

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/25/deloitte-hit-by-cyber-attack-revealing-clients-secret-emails

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ethics-of-running-a-data-breach-search-service/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 8 comments

Equifax or Equiphish?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-or-equiphish/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

SEC announces 'Cyber Unit'

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-176

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

https://atap.google.com/jacquard/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 162 comments

iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review

http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-8-camera-review-india

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 64 comments

Intel Introduces Neuromorphic Test Chip

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intels-new-self-learning-chip-promises-accelerate-artificial-intelligence/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

Unsigned apps on High Sierra can programmatically dump and exfil keychain

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

University of Tokyo pair invent loop-based quantum computing technique

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/24/national/science-health/university-tokyo-pair-invent-loop-based-quantum-computing-technique/#.WckRKhNSxFR

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 7 comments

High Sierra’s ‘Secure Kernel Extension Loading’ Is Broken

https://www.synack.com/2017/09/08/high-sierras-secure-kernel-extension-loading-is-broken/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 15 comments

Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect

https://hackaday.com/2017/09/25/cuban-embassy-attacks-and-the-microwave-auditory-effect/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: EnvKey – securely manage API keys, credentials, and config

https://www.envkey.com

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

APFS and HFS+ Benchmarks on 2017 Macbook Pro with MacOS High Sierra

https://malcont.net/2017/07/apfs-and-hfsplus-benchmarks-on-2017-macbook-pro-with-macos-high-sierra/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Node.js leadership is a toxic mess

https://medium.com/@bgourlie/nodejs-leadership-is-a-toxic-mess-34e2b8faa003

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tools-for-the-ai-driven-digital-transformation/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-political-activism-and-muslims/2017/09/25/4a011242-a21b-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.946de0b7f4d4

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

MacOS 10.13, thoroughly reviewed

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Fast ECMAScript Parser – Alternative to Acorn / Esprima

https://github.com/cherow/cherow

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Intel Core i9-7980XE and Core i9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11839/intel-core-i9-7980xe-and-core-i9-7960x-review

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 96 comments
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