top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-09-28

A “right to repair” movement tools up

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21729744-tractors-smartphones-mending-things-getting-ever-harder-right-repair-movement

9 years ago

928 upvotes – 305 comments

Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

https://blog.ycombinator.com/three-paths-in-the-tech-industry-founder-executive-or-employee/

9 years ago

927 upvotes – 602 comments

Ikea has bought TaskRabbit

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/28/16377528/ikea-acquisition-taskrabbit

9 years ago

502 upvotes – 200 comments

Modern terminal-based text editor

https://micro-editor.github.io/index.html

9 years ago

496 upvotes – 274 comments

Floating Point Visually Explained

http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/

9 years ago

451 upvotes – 106 comments

Privacy

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

9 years ago

446 upvotes – 425 comments

Things learned while running your own self-funded startup

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2017/09/things-learned-while-running-your-own.html

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 66 comments

Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 426 comments

Refresh Is Sacred

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/09/27/Refresh-Button

9 years ago

370 upvotes – 191 comments

A 220b spreadsheet app in HTML/JS

http://xem.github.io/sheet/

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 99 comments

Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining cryptocurrencies

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/fidelity-ceo-abigail-johnson-says-the-company-is-mining-cryptocurrencies/

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 214 comments

Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsMs3n8CB6g

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 37 comments

Hugh Hefner has died

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/obituaries/hugh-hefner-dead.html?_r=0&referer=

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 139 comments

Ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2017/09/27/2153/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 79 comments

How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a12063822/emotional-labor-gender-equality/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 413 comments

Nuitka: a Python compiler

http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 60 comments

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 265 comments

Ambient Shipping – a project to allow you to look inside passing cargo ships

https://github.com/marcdacosta/ambient-shipping

9 years ago

★ 431 Python
200 upvotes – 38 comments

MILA and the future of Theano

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 60 comments

Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/09/over-air-vol-2-pt-1-exploiting-wi-fi.html

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 112 comments
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