top 50% 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

644 upvotes – 419 comments

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

9 years ago

★ 15.5k C++ GPL-3.0
614 upvotes – 129 comments

TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone

9 years ago

★ 1.8k Java MIT
577 upvotes – 282 comments

Exploding Git Repositories

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

9 years ago

447 upvotes – 73 comments

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

390 upvotes – 96 comments

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

366 upvotes – 351 comments

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

364 upvotes – 503 comments

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

353 upvotes – 112 comments

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

347 upvotes – 83 comments

Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code

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

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 77 comments

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

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

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 41 comments

Rust 1.21

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

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 40 comments

Go Python, Go: Stream Processing for Python

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

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 66 comments

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

240 upvotes – 136 comments

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

225 upvotes – 135 comments

Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI

https://qutebrowser.org

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 91 comments

Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd edition

https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 31 comments

Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation

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

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 52 comments

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

191 upvotes – 82 comments

The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf]

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

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 58 comments

Lessons Operating a Serverless-Like Platform at Netflix, Part 2

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/developer-experience-lessons-operating-a-serverless-like-platform-at-netflix-part-ii-63a376c28228

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 33 comments

A bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits from IP addresses in the US Congress

https://twitter.com/congressedits

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 50 comments

Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41567391

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 166 comments

Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement

https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 85 comments

CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-1dot1/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 61 comments

New periodic orbits of the three-body problem

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientists-periodic-orbits-famous-three-body.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 66 comments

American Nazis at Madison Square Garden, 1939

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 83 comments

Securing Microservices

https://medium.facilelogin.com/securing-microservices-with-oauth-2-0-jwt-and-xacml-d03770a9a838

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 56 comments

The Toxic Saga of the Tsukiji Fish Market

https://www.eater.com/2017/7/25/16019906/tokyo-tsukiji-toyosu-olympics-delay

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 76 comments

Reverse Engineering an Eclipse Plugin

https://0x10f8.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/reverse-engineering-an-eclipse-plugin/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as millionth case looms

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/12/yemen-cholera-outbreak-worst-in-history-1-million-cases-by-end-of-year

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 56 comments

The Forces Behind Toutiao, China’s Content King

http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-chinas-content-king/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 71 comments

The /bin/true Command and Copyright (1990)

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

AlgoWiki: Repository of resources on different topics of computer science

https://github.com/vicky002/AlgoWiki

9 years ago

★ 4.2k CSS MIT
119 upvotes – 16 comments

UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables

https://upx.github.io/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

Plato Would Have Wanted Us to Unplug

https://eidolon.pub/plato-would-have-wanted-you-to-unplug-712a908a16e0

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Vue-Model – Models with HTTP Actions for Vue.js

https://github.com/aarondfrancis/vue-model

9 years ago

★ 851 JavaScript MIT
109 upvotes – 44 comments

African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (1999) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/%7Ezwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistakes.pdf

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 121 comments

MAMR Breakthrough for Next-Gen HDDs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-storage-industry-with-mamr-breakthrough-for-nextgen-hdds

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

The Uber Game: Can you make it in the gig economy?

https://ig.ft.com/uber-game/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Bitcoin just passed $5,000

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/bitcoin-just-passed-5000/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments

Identifying a Large Number of Fake Followers on Instagram

https://srfdata.github.io/2017-10-instagram-influencers/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Much of the research around meditation and mindfulness has serious flaws

http://www.newsweek.com/mindfulness-meaningless-word-shoddy-science-behind-it-682008

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 142 comments

Movies Anywhere App Launches with Joint Studio Backing

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/movies-anywhere-launches-with-joint-studio-backing-1202587915/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 48 comments

Wildfire smoke spreads across the bay

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/east-bay-schools-libraries-close-as-wildfire-smoke-spreads-across-the-bay-area/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Magic Leap raising up to $1B in new round

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/ar-mystery-startup-magic-leap-looking-to-raise-as-much-as-1b-in-new-round/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

KeePass 2.37 has been released

https://keepass.info/news/n171012_2.37.html

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub

https://githubengineering.com/transit-and-peering-how-your-requests-reach-github/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Jeff Bezos Wants to Give More Money to Charity. He Should Pay His Workers First

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59a7220fe4b07e81d354e6e3

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

Gov. Jerry Brown signs AB168: bans employers from asking about salary history

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/12/in-bid-to-fight-gender-pay-gap-gov-jerry-brown-signs-salary-privacy-law/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL

https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/10/12/episode-11-interview-with-don-chamberlin-designer-of-sql-database-language/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Gex (1997)

https://games.greggman.com/game/gex/

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments
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