top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-05

PostgreSQL 10 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/

9 years ago

1024 upvotes – 296 comments

A Pre-History of Slashdot

https://medium.com/@cmdrtaco/a-pre-history-of-slashdot-6403341dabae

9 years ago

751 upvotes – 350 comments

Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/281447/mathematical-games-interesting-to-both-you-and-a-5-year-old-child

9 years ago

749 upvotes – 131 comments

If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168

9 years ago

627 upvotes – 354 comments

Colony: A platform for open organizations

https://colony.io/

9 years ago

492 upvotes – 171 comments

Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/10/04/japanese-vending-machines-at-night-juxtaposed-with-a-wintry-hokkaido-landscape/

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 164 comments

URL to PDF Microservice

https://github.com/alvarcarto/url-to-pdf-api

9 years ago

★ 7.1k HTML MIT
319 upvotes – 92 comments

Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.219.7269&rep=rep1&type=pdf

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 11 comments

I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 154 comments

Best CPUs for Workstations: 2017

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations-2017

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 167 comments

I/O Access Methods for Linux

http://www.scylladb.com/2017/10/05/io-access-methods-scylla/

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15406826

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 103 comments

Strategies for offline PGP key storage

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/734767/b8509e00378301f9/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 123 comments

China Forces Norway to Adhere to ‘One China’ Policy

https://sentinel.tw/norway-one-china-policy/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 147 comments

The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders 

https://world.wng.org/2017/09/beijing_s_heavy_hand

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 139 comments

HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)

http://prisonism.co.uk/hmp-guide.html

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 110 comments

Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 193 comments

How many people are in space right now

http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 66 comments

PyPy v5.9 Released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/10/pypy-v59-released-now-supports-pandas.html

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 48 comments

ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad Goes Retro

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11902/thinkpad-anniversary-edition-25-limited-edition-thinkpad-goes-retro

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 136 comments

Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-uber-s-ios-app-had-secret-permissions-that-1819177235

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf]

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/employee.pdf

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 93 comments

Awk for multimedia

https://arcan-fe.com/2017/10/05/awk-for-realtime-multimedia/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 24 comments

Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/05/announcing-microsoft-edge-for-ios-and-android-microsoft-launcher/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 170 comments

Lessons from France's first cyber-attack, nearly two centuries ago

https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/rewind/the-crooked-timber-of-humanity

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 21 comments

John Kelly's phone was breached as early as December

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/354156-john-kellys-phone-was-breaches-as-early-as-december-report?amp

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 62 comments

Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555796327/following-disaster-teams-in-puerto-rico

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor (2016)

https://alphaarchitect.com/2016/02/02/even-god-would-get-fired-as-an-active-investor/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system

https://miyuki.github.io/2017/10/04/gcc-archaeology-1.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 25 comments

What Is a Neural Network?

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

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 9 comments

Wayback Machine Playback, now with Timestamps

http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/05/wayback-machine-playback-now-with-timestamps/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 7 comments

Core ML Community Tools

https://github.com/apple/coremltools

9 years ago

★ 5.2k Python BSD-3-Clause
127 upvotes – 16 comments

EFF Asks Court to Undo Damage Done to First Amendment in Flawed NSL Ruling

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/eff-asks-court-fix-damage-done-first-amendment-law-flawed-national-security-letter

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4660/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Implementing faceted search with Django and PostgreSQL

https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-faceted-search/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go

https://github.com/twitchyliquid64/subnet

9 years ago

★ 1k Go MIT
123 upvotes – 64 comments

Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang

https://github.com/asciimoo/colly?source=hackernews

9 years ago

★ 25.2k Go Apache-2.0
120 upvotes – 58 comments

SoftBank’s Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

http://webcast.softbank.jp/en/press/20100625/pdf/next_30-year_vision.pdf

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments

Teens 'rebelling against social media', say headteachers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41509402

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Kazuo Ishiguro [pdf]

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.pdf

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money

https://www.wired.com/story/the-social-network-doling-out-millions-in-ephemeral-money/?mbid=nl_100417_backchannel_p1

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 83 comments

FBI Hunt for 2 Missing Pigs Reveals Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Sieve of Eratosthenes in Python (2015)

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SieveOfEratosthenesInPython.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/u-s-lawmakers-want-to-restrict-internet-surveillance-on-americans-idUSKBN1C92T5

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 12 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.17 released

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_17

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

The Autocrat's Language

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/13/the-autocrats-language/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 75 comments

Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet

https://jonathanturley.org/2017/10/05/britain-moves-to-criminalize-reading-extremist-material-on-the-internet/amp/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 177 comments

Why Isn’t Agile Working?

https://hackernoon.com/why-isnt-agile-working-d7127af1c552

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 114 comments

Cloud DB War: Autonomous Databases

http://blog.panoply.io/the-power-struggle-in-the-cloud-db-war-just-shifted-paradigm

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

Coffee Lake Review: Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11859/the-anandtech-coffee-lake-review-8700k-and-8400-initial-numbers

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/google-admits-citing-4chan-to-spread-fake-vegas-shooter-news/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments
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