top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-30

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distributed-web.html

8 years ago

467 upvotes – 216 comments

VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/73dafr/vlc_creator_refused_several_tens_of_millions_of/

8 years ago

446 upvotes – 184 comments

The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/the-sec-has-charged-two-initial-coin-offerings-with-defrauding-investors/?ref=t

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 179 comments

Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu?

8 years ago

★ 11.2kC
375 upvotes – 83 comments

3D crosswalk in Iceland helps slow down speeding motorists

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/photos-video-3d-crosswalk-isafjordur-helps-slow-down-speeding-motorists

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 160 comments

Interesting Codebases

https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/interesting-codebases-159fec5a8cc

8 years ago

344 upvotes – 45 comments

Learn Blockchains by Building One

https://hackernoon.com/learn-blockchains-by-building-one-117428612f46

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 40 comments

Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/29/ending-net-neutrality-will-end-internet-we-know-steve-wozniak-michael-copps-column/704861001/

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 143 comments

Without Power, Puerto Rico Is Cash Only

https://nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/puerto-rico-shortages-cash.html

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 290 comments

Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 109 comments

Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated

https://avherald.com/h?article=4af15205

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 143 comments

Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41443027

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 170 comments

Why kernel development still uses email (2016)

https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 91 comments

How a ’50s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail

https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/10/07/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knife-law-has-landed-thousands-in-jail/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 160 comments

Easing Eye Strain with the Right Lenses (2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/technology/personaltech/easing-eye-strain-with-the-right-lenses.html

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 94 comments

Js13kGames Winners – JavaScript games with a file size limit of 13KB

http://2017.js13kgames.com/#winners

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 37 comments

Von Neumann-Landauer limit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 36 comments

Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints

8 years ago

★ 18.1kJavaScriptApache-2.0
165 upvotes – 48 comments

Haxe – Opensource Cross-Platform Toolkit

http://haxe.org/

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 38 comments

Travis Kalanick Exercises Right to Appoint Two Uber Directors

https://www.wsj.com/articles/travis-kalanick-exercises-right-to-appoint-two-uber-directors-1506729037

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 84 comments

HAKMEM (1972)

http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 28 comments

Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to citizen-driven governance

https://www.sitra.fi/en/blogs/basic-income-just-beginning-finland-one-innovative-governments-world-looks-citizen-driven-governance/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 136 comments

Git, Graphs and Software Engineering

http://third-bit.com/2017/09/30/git-graphs-and-engineering.html

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

NW.js based operating system

https://externos.io/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

Apple Open Sources iOS Kernel

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu

8 years ago

★ 11.2kC
104 upvotes – 23 comments

Programming Models for Distributed Computation Book

https://github.com/heathermiller/dist-prog-book

8 years ago

★ 3.4kCSS
103 upvotes – 3 comments

Paint.net is now available on the Windows Store

https://blog.getpaint.net/2017/09/29/paint-net-is-now-available-on-the-windows-store/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/science/tsunami-japan-debris-ocean.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

AI vs. Data Science vs. Data Engineering

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/how-emerging-ai-roles-fit-in-the-data-landscape-d4cd922c389b

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' Unofficial PDF/LaTeX Source

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

8 years ago

★ 11.5kTeX
91 upvotes – 5 comments

When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

http://nautil.us/blog/when-its-good-to-be-antisocial

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Haskell People

http://argumatronic.com/posts/2017-09-27-haskell-is-useless.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 97 comments

Law of Jante

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

The $8M Replacement for a $20 Dollar Fan (2013)

http://workforcesolutions.stlcc.edu/2013/making-lean-stick-8-million-dollar-fan/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Persistent Memory Programming [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_summer17_07_rudoff.pdf

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 0 comments
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