top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-29

It’s time to give Firefox another chance

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/its-time-to-give-firefox-another-chance/

9 years ago

1674 upvotes – 712 comments

How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/

9 years ago

906 upvotes – 548 comments

Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library

https://shopify.github.io/draggable/

9 years ago

633 upvotes – 114 comments

SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5V7R_se1Xc

9 years ago

438 upvotes – 280 comments

Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony

9 years ago

401 upvotes – 208 comments

Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/alibaba-mariadb/

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 99 comments

SpaceX BFR [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 270 comments

Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge

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

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 132 comments

Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order

https://www.thespainreport.com/articles/1166-170929190146-google-removes-catalan-referendum-app-from-google-play-after-catalan-high-court-issues-take-down-order

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 309 comments

Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow Crash and Ringworld

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-lazarus-snow-crash-ringworld-1202576048/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 241 comments

Photos of Soviet control rooms

http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 67 comments

RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 54 comments

Musk revises Mars ambitions

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/musk-revises-his-mars-ambitions-and-they-seem-a-little-bit-more-real/

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 173 comments

U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 240 comments

IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 250 comments

The rise and fall of Ext JS

https://medium.com/@ModusJesus/the-rise-and-fall-of-ext-js-c9d727131991

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 128 comments

A 1 KB Docker Container

https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.html

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 69 comments

South Korea bans raising money through initial coin offerings

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-bitcoin/south-korea-bans-raising-money-through-initial-coin-offerings-idUSKCN1C408N

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 92 comments

A therapist’s guide to staying productive when depressed or heartbroken

https://qz.com/1089589/how-to-stay-productive-when-youre-depressed-or-heartbroken/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 104 comments

Why Does Sweden Have So Many Startups?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sweden-startups/541413/?single_page=true

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 192 comments

Privacy implications of email tracking [pdf]

https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: ARKit Playground – Make ARKit Experiences in JS from Your Browser

https://snack.expo.io/SJMTQ5jiZ

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

New React website

https://reactjs.org/?new

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 121 comments

Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’

https://nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/americas/brazil-cuban-doctors-revolt.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 201 comments

Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 75 comments

Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor

https://foicica.com/textadept/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 52 comments

Protocol Independent Switch Architecture

https://barefootnetworks.com/white-paper/the-worlds-fastest-most-programmable-networks/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

The C64 Mini Computer

https://thec64.com/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 115 comments

Visualizing Your Ruby Heap

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2017/09/27/visualizing-your-ruby-heap.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 23 comments

Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Alternative'

https://www.coindesk.com/edward-snowden-zcash-is-most-interesting-bitcoin-alternative

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 141 comments

Nonlinear Computation in Deep Linear Networks

https://blog.openai.com/nonlinear-computation-in-linear-networks/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

The Everything Bubble [infographic]

http://ggc-mauldin-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/editorial/170919_Bubble_infographic_newfinal.png

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 116 comments

Safety-critical realtime with Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/734694/2e85660e26897085/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 39 comments

Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.10-Final-Beta

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/29/youtube-links-end-cards-new-requirements/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 67 comments

Pipe Logic – Simulating circuits in the Unix shell (2011)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 10 comments

The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 97 comments

Distributed algorithms in NoSQL databases

https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/distributed-algorithms-in-nosql-databases

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Should You Build a Webhooks API?

https://brandur.org/webhooks

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and population ageing may be why

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146752-we-seem-to-be-getting-stupider-and-population-ageing-may-be-why/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 152 comments
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