top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-10

How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-million-concurrent-voice-users-using-webrtc-ce01c3187429

8 years ago

Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy

https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy

8 years ago

Pigeon Maps – Maps in React with no external dependencies

https://mariusandra.github.io/pigeon-maps/

8 years ago

Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor

https://www.hacklily.org

8 years ago

Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943)

http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/socialists/english/e_fun

8 years ago

Serverless: Cold Start War

https://mikhail.io/2018/08/serverless-cold-start-war/

8 years ago

Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-anti-encryption-law-will-merely-relocate-the-backdoors-expert/

8 years ago

Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-from-prototype-to-production-lessons-from-building-and/

8 years ago

Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-lehman-anniversary/

8 years ago

Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/the-new-american-dream-job-is-pretty-dull

8 years ago

A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012)

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/

8 years ago

Atrium Raises $65M

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/09/10/twitch-counder-raises-65-million-atrium/#1652fc7c40cf

8 years ago

Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript

http://raganwald.com/2018/09/10/why-y.html

8 years ago

Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has-an-uncomfortable-truth-been-suppressed/

8 years ago

Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-lawmakers-and-aids-who-crafted-financial-regulations-after-the-2008-crisis-now-work-for-wall-street/2018/09/07/50f63a1e-b075-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html

8 years ago

What Companies Mean by Culture Fit

https://triplebyte.com/blog/what-companies-mean-by-culture-fit

8 years ago

In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/well/family/in-math-cram-sessions-solving-for-why.html

8 years ago

How WhatsApp Destroyed a Village

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-destroyed-village-lynchings-rainpada-india

8 years ago

Hyperkernel – A push-button approach to building provably correct OS kernels

https://unsat.cs.washington.edu/projects/hyperkernel/

8 years ago

Forecasting: Principles and Practice

https://otexts.org/fpp2/

8 years ago

The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-last-of-the-universes-ordinary-matter-has-been-found-20180910/

8 years ago

Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles

https://github.com/AurelienLourot/ghuser.io

8 years ago

★ 804 JavaScript MIT

Jupytext: Jupyter notebooks as Python scripts

https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext

8 years ago

★ 7.1k Python MIT

Introducing Azure DevOps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-devops/

8 years ago

Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-04/secrets-of-las-vegas-s-exclusive-high-roller-cosmopolitan-sweet

8 years ago

Future Directions for Optimizing Compilers

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02161

8 years ago

Pinterest Is a Unicorn, It Just Doesn’t Act Like One

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/pinterest-growth.html

8 years ago

Why Rust closures are somewhat hard

https://stevedonovan.github.io/rustifications/2018/08/18/rust-closures-are-hard.html

8 years ago

Libcurl gets a URL API

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/09/09/libcurl-gets-a-url-api/

8 years ago

Macron Push to Drop CIA Code Quickens as Trump Calls EU Foe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/macron-push-to-drop-cia-code-turns-serious-as-trump-calls-eu-foe

8 years ago

Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply

http://www.righto.com/2018/09/glowing-mercury-thyratrons-inside-1940s.html

8 years ago

A new study says services like Uber and Lyft are causing urban traffic woes

https://www.axios.com/ride-hailing-sharing-services-uber-lyft-global-cities-traffic-26816575-fff8-44b0-a608-9dd86e8b5a10.html

8 years ago

Exploiting URL Parser in Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf

8 years ago

Show HN: Namegine – find a name for your startup or product

https://namegine.com/namesearch

8 years ago

CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was a ‘Mistake’

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/spacebees-swarm-unauthorized-satellite-launch/569395/?single_page=true

8 years ago

WatermelonDB, a database for React and React Native apps

https://github.com/Nozbe/WatermelonDB

8 years ago

★ 11.6k JavaScript MIT

Let's Encrypt at Scale

https://engineering.autotrader.co.uk/2018/09/04/letsencrypt-at-scale.html

8 years ago

Apple 1 ROM disassembly

https://gist.github.com/robey/1bb6a99cd19e95c81979b1828ad70612

8 years ago

Optical fibre made in orbit should be better than the terrestrial sort

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/08/optical-fibre-made-in-orbit-should-be-better-than-the-terrestrial-sort

8 years ago

Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/

8 years ago

Fixing an old hack – why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU

https://blog.cloudflare.com/increasing-ipv6-mtu/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Solutions for collaborative code review, pair programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950771

8 years ago

Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook/

8 years ago

Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery

https://fivetran.com/blog/warehouse-benchmark

8 years ago

An Empirical Study of Programmers’ Acquisition of New Programming Languages [pdf]

http://cs242.stanford.edu/assets/projects/2017/parastoo-gdietz44.pdf

8 years ago

A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/arts/music/anton-reicha-ivan-ilic-beethoven.html

8 years ago

'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/09/right-to-be-forgotten-could-threaten-global-free-speech-say-ngos

8 years ago

Are BGPs security features working yet?

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/are-bgps-security-features-working-yet-rpki

8 years ago

Managing your Amazon Redshift performance: How Plaid uses Periscope Data

https://blog.plaid.com/managing-your-amazon-redshift-performance-how-plaid-uses-periscope-data

8 years ago

Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/230860-computer-science-encyclopedia-can-fill-a-gap/fulltext

8 years ago

Why Can’t Apes Talk?

https://www.sapiens.org/language/primate-speech/

8 years ago

Larry Summers Calls Fed Bank Stress Test Results ‘Absurd’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-08/larry-summers-calls-latest-fed-bank-stress-test-results-absurd?srnd=premium

8 years ago

Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem (2017)

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/brazil-a-look-into-latin-americas-largest-startup-ecosystem/

8 years ago

Tesla workers speak out: 'Anything pro-union is shut down really fast'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/10/tesla-workers-union-elon-musk

8 years ago

NAVEX: Precise and scalable exploit generation for dynamic web applications

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/10/navex-precise-and-scalable-exploit-generation-for-dynamic-web-applications/

8 years ago