top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-27

Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/dumb-things-the-camera.html

9 years ago

583 upvotes – 385 comments

Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927

9 years ago

528 upvotes – 154 comments

Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine

https://www.oath.com/press/open-sourcing-vespa-yahoo-s-big-data-processing-and-serving-eng/

9 years ago

512 upvotes – 121 comments

Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’

https://securitybytes.io/quick-one-stop-calling-it-identity-theft-10a5ab9e1b60

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 181 comments

American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort

http://www.arrl.org/news/american-red-cross-asks-arrl-s-assistance-with-puerto-rico-relief-effort

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 151 comments

Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21528171

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 194 comments

Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 256 comments

GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for city commuters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4776002/GM-unveils-5K-EV-Tesla-affordable-Model-3.html

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 217 comments

Bloom Filters for the Perplexed

https://sagi.io/2017/07/bloom-filters-for-the-perplexed/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 45 comments

FaceID Security [pdf]

https://images.apple.com/business/docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pdf

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 304 comments

Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 107 comments

How Shazam Works (2015)

http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Moocha.io – A search engine for MOOCs

http://www.moocha.io

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 54 comments

Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative

https://opensource.org/node/901

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 158 comments

Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace

https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 122 comments

Interview with Mr. Money Mustache

https://blog.ycombinator.com/dont-start-a-blog-start-a-cult-mr-money-mustache/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 284 comments

HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)

https://thehftguy.com/2016/10/03/haproxy-vs-nginx-why-you-should-never-use-nginx-for-load-balancing/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 116 comments

Battery-Free Cell Phone

http://www.techradar.com/news/this-phone-needs-no-battery

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

PostgreSQL's Hash Indexes Are Now Cool

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/09/postgresqls-hash-indexes-are-now-cool.html?m=1

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 38 comments

Detect.location: Access iOS location data without actually having access

https://github.com/KrauseFx/detect.location

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Objective-C MIT
213 upvotes – 63 comments

Happy birthday to GNU: celebrating 34 years of the free software movement

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/happy-birthday-to-gnu-celebrating-34-years-of-the-free-software-movement

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 34 comments

Ataribox will be an open, Linux-based console priced starting at $249

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/ataribox-will-be-an-open-linux-based-console-priced-starting-at-249/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 144 comments

Keybase's mission is to make encryption mainstream

http://observer.com/2017/09/keybase-max-krohn-chris-coyne-okcupid/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 80 comments

CryptoMaps: Cryptocurrency Market State

http://cryptomaps.org

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 31 comments

Someone stole my identity on Upwork (2016)

https://hackernoon.com/someone-stole-my-identity-on-upwork-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-blog-post-d63aab2b4c90

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 37 comments

Stressful lives of older tech workers

http://www.businessinsider.com/stressful-lives-of-older-tech-workers-2015-11?_lrsc=e525de47-81f1-48b4-bc62-2a1e336af828

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 152 comments

How Big Banks Became Our Masters

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/opinion/how-big-banks-became-our-masters.html

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 135 comments

What should follow the web?

https://blog.plan99.net/what-should-follow-the-web-8dcbbeaccd93

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 168 comments

Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV?

https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/09/26/whyrust/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 200 comments

On Disk IO, Part 3: LSM Trees

https://medium.com/@ifesdjeen/on-disk-io-part-3-lsm-trees-8b2da218496f

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 11 comments

Wallaroo: a fast, scalable data processing engine

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/09/open-sourcing-wallaroo/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

Drowning in grain: historically high supplies and low prices

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-grains-supply-special-report/special-report-drowning-in-grain-how-big-ag-sowed-seeds-of-a-profit-slashing-glut-idUSKCN1C21AR?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 138 comments

Book of the Runtime – Internals of the .Net Runtime not in the documentation

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheBookOfTheRuntimeTheInternalsOfTheNETRuntimeThatYouWontFindInTheDocumentation.aspx

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology

https://tomassetti.me/guide-parsing-algorithms-terminology/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 9 comments

A bizarre “403 Forbidden” bug-hunting adventure

http://blog.hellocode.co/post/bug-hunting/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 42 comments

Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16371292/google-youtube-amazon-echo-show

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 159 comments

Coding in the open: how to do it securely

https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2017/09/27/dont-be-afraid-to-code-in-the-open-heres-how-to-do-it-securely/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 69 comments

LU Factorization and Linear Systems for Programers

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Numerics-2-General-Linear-Systems-and-LU-Factorization

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 43 comments

Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/27/stream-vbyte-breaking-new-speed-records-for-integer-compression/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin ‘More Than Just a Fad,’ Morgan Stanley CEO Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/bitcoin-more-than-just-a-fad-morgan-stanley-ceo-gorman-says

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 123 comments

With lax oversight, the FAA has enabled secrecy in the skies

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/secrets-in-the-sky/series/part-one/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 70 comments

Real-Time Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/09/12/handwriting.html

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

The Video Game Software Wizardry of Id (2002)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gaming/the-video-game-software-wizardry-of-id

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Envoy: Modern Proxy server with HTTP 1.1 and 2, GRPC supported reverse proxy

https://envoyproxy.github.io/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

Yes, We Get Wiser with Age

http://nautil.us/blog/yes-you-get-wiser-with-age

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 99 comments

Blockchain Basics

https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2017/09/21/blockchain-basics/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

Breach at Sonic Drive-In May Have Impacted Millions of Credit, Debit Cards

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/breach-at-sonic-drive-in-may-have-impacted-millions-of-credit-debit-cards/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

“Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

https://finance.google.com/finance?q=EURUSD

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 99 comments

The Punctuation Guide

http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/index.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 60 comments

Coming Home to a Shipping Container

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/realestate/home-in-shipping-container.html?_r=0

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 89 comments

Bill Gates switches to Android phone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41399823

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed (Client) Mode WiFi

https://blog.thewalr.us/2017/09/26/raspberry-pi-zero-w-simultaneous-ap-and-managed-mode-wifi/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Questions to Ask Founders Before Joining a Startup

https://blog.cardash.com/7-questions-to-ask-founders-before-joining-their-startup-5c197f6d6233

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Reducing isolation at work is good for business

https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/09/work-and-the-loneliness-epidemic

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

Ending factory farming as soon as possible

https://80000hours.org/2017/09/lewis-bollard-end-factory-farming/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Xray cost – USA $200 (13000 INR), India 1000 INR – what causes 10x diff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15349676

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 143 comments

ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City’s Disputed DNA Software

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-seeks-source-code-for-new-york-city-disputed-dna-software

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

2016 Underhanded Rust contest: the results

http://blog.community.rs/underhanded/2017/09/27/underhanded-results.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Broadening HSTS to secure more of the Web

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/broadening-hsts-to-secure-more-of-web.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Frictionless Data: Lightweight standards and tooling for data sharing

http://frictionlessdata.io/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

XSS Attack Embedded in an ERC20 Token Contract Steals Thousands

https://hackernoon.com/how-one-hacker-stole-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-cryptocurrency-with-a-classic-code-injection-a3aba5d2bff0

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise Alarm

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-bias-claims.html

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (2000)

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/109/TreeListRecursion.html

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

For Shame: Why Americans Should Be Wary of Self-Esteem (1992)

https://newrepublic.com/article/90898/shame-why-americans-should-be-wary-self-esteem

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/magazine/when-not-guilty-is-a-life-sentence.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 136 comments

Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/essential-has-sold-just-5-000-phones-since-launch-baystreet

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 96 comments
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