top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-10-12

Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/over-qualification-wut/1671791376187053/

9 years ago

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

9 years ago

★ 15.5k C++ GPL-3.0

TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone

9 years ago

★ 1.8k Java MIT

Exploding Git Repositories

https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/

9 years ago

Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/equifax-website-hacked-again-this-time-to-redirect-to-fake-flash-update/

9 years ago

Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/google-commits-1-billion-in-grants-to-train-u-s-workers-for-high-tech-jobs/

9 years ago

Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/hyperloop-one-becomes-virgin-hyperloop-one-with-virgin-group-investment/

9 years ago

John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video]

https://www.facebook.com/oculusvr/videos/vb.270208243080697/1189602884474557/?type=3&theater

9 years ago

Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/over-air-vol-2-pt-3-exploiting-wi-fi.html

9 years ago

Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code

https://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/

9 years ago

Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going

https://mesosphere.com/blog/containers-distributed-systems/

9 years ago

Rust 1.21

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/10/12/Rust-1.21.html

9 years ago

Go Python, Go: Stream Processing for Python

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/go-python-go-stream-processing-for-python/

9 years ago

Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-breach/equifax-takes-down-web-page-after-reports-of-new-hack-idUSKBN1CH2F3

9 years ago

How to Set Up a Company in Germany for English-Speaking People

https://blog.datacircle.io/2017/10/11/setting-up-company-in-berlin/

9 years ago

Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI

https://qutebrowser.org

9 years ago

Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd edition

https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/

9 years ago

Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation

http://blog.atom.io/2017/10/12/atoms-new-buffer-implementation.html

9 years ago

Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-gluon-a-new-library-for-machine-learning-from-aws-and-microsoft/

9 years ago

The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf]

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~bjc8c/papers/levy17rustkernel.pdf

9 years ago