top 50% 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

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

Ikea has bought TaskRabbit

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

9 years ago

Modern terminal-based text editor

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

9 years ago

Floating Point Visually Explained

http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/

9 years ago

Privacy

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

9 years ago

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

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

Refresh Is Sacred

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

9 years ago

A 220b spreadsheet app in HTML/JS

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

9 years ago

Hugh Hefner has died

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

9 years ago

Ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit

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

9 years ago

How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality

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

9 years ago

Nuitka: a Python compiler

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

9 years ago

★ 431 Python

MILA and the future of Theano

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

9 years ago

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

TLS 1.2 Session Tickets

https://blog.filippo.io/we-need-to-talk-about-session-tickets/

9 years ago

King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people

http://kuow.org/post/king-county-rolls-out-miranda-rights-tailored-young-people

9 years ago

Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running as JavaScript in browser

http://reportmill.com/cj/RMStudio/

9 years ago

China orders N.K. firms to close down within 120 days

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/09/28/0401000000AEN20170928012000315.html

9 years ago

How to Study Physics (1949)

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/chapman.htm

9 years ago

Gophersat: A SAT solver written in Go

https://github.com/crillab/gophersat

9 years ago

★ 388 Go MIT

More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/more-americans-are-falling-behind-on-student-loans-and-nobody-quite-knows-why

9 years ago

Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

https://sitebulb.com/launch/

9 years ago

Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source software

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

9 years ago

Experiments with Matrix for the Purism Librem5, Starring Ubports and Nheko

https://matrix.org/blog/2017/09/28/experiments-with-matrix-on-the-purism-librem5-starring-ubports-and-nheko/

9 years ago

Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kedia2017mem.pdf

9 years ago

Mitogen, an infrastructure code baseline that sucks less

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/165366346547/mitogen-an-infrastructure-code-baseline-that

9 years ago

A Brief History of Lisp Machines (2008)

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/

9 years ago

Reviewing Ethereum Smart Contracts

https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2017/9/27/reviewing-ethereum-smart-contracts.html

9 years ago

Using VS Code to Debug Java Applications

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/09/28/java-debug

9 years ago

When Togo turned off the internet

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/21/no-business-no-boozing-no-casual-sex-when-togo-turned-off-the-internet?

9 years ago

DNS for Service Discovery in HAProxy

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/dns-service-discovery-haproxy/

9 years ago

Is Deloitte a new poster child for bad security practices?

https://techbeacon.com/deloitte-4-months-late-breach-new-poster-child-bad-security-practices

9 years ago

Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages

https://pulkitsharma07.github.io/2017/09/23/using-jekyll-and-github-pages/

9 years ago

A time when the French aristocracy was obsessed with face stickers

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/sexy-face-stickers/

9 years ago

Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up in Tunnels and Bridges

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers/

9 years ago

Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project

http://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-abseil-new-common-libraries.html

9 years ago