top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-13

SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/seti-neural-networks-spot-dozens-of-new-mysterious-signals-emanating-from-distant-galaxy/

8 years ago

Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/

8 years ago

Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-13/amazon-s-bezos-launches-2-billion-fund-to-help-the-homeless

8 years ago

Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/sony-finally-admits-it-doesnt-own-bach-and-it-only-took-public-pressure

8 years ago

Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack

https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-of-hack.html

8 years ago

Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules

https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs/pull/101

8 years ago

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UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/uks-mass-surveillance-regime-violated-human-rights-law-finds-echr/

8 years ago

Where in the World Is Larry Page?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-13/larry-page-is-a-no-show-with-google-under-a-harsh-spotlight

8 years ago

Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux

https://justi.cz/security/2018/09/13/alpine-apk-rce.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980964

8 years ago

Using Rust for Game Development [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M

8 years ago

$250 Trillion in Debt: The World’s Post-Lehman Legacy

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-lehman-debt/?srnd=premium

8 years ago

Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality

https://www.wsj.com/articles/driverless-hype-collides-with-merciless-reality-1536831005

8 years ago

Bowler: Safe code refactoring for modern Python

https://pybowler.io/

8 years ago

Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/night-lunch-wagon

8 years ago

FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a23107258/fbi-new-mexico-observatory/

8 years ago

The iPhone Franchise

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-iphone-franchise/

8 years ago

Brain's Dumped DNA May Lead to Stress, Depression

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-rsquo-s-dumped-dna-may-lead-to-stress-depression/

8 years ago

Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/belugas-narwhal-stlawrence-1.4820602

8 years ago

Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt

https://www.archij.com/host-your-own-blog-on-digitalocean-with-docker-nginx-and-letsencrypt/

8 years ago

Parallelizing PNG: choosing Rust for mtpng

https://brionv.com/log/2018/09/09/parallelizing-png-part-5-choosing-rust-for-mtpng/

8 years ago

Guidelines for writing readable code

https://alemil.com/guidelines-for-writing-readable-code

8 years ago

Forest, a multi-syntax functional language that compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/forest-lang/forest-compiler

8 years ago

★ 624 Haskell MIT

AirConsole – Play multiplayer games together

https://www.airconsole.com/welcome

8 years ago

Preserving Outputs Precisely while Adaptively Rescaling Targets

https://deepmind.com/blog/preserving-outputs-precisely-while-adaptively-rescaling-targets/

8 years ago

The Most Notorious Towing Company in Chicago Gets the Boot

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-notorious-towing-company-in-chicagomaybe-in-americagets-the-boot-1536865780

8 years ago

Bullshit Job Notes

https://acesounderglass.com/2018/09/04/bullshit-job-notes/

8 years ago

Forecasting at Uber: An Introduction

https://eng.uber.com/forecasting-introduction/

8 years ago

How to Be Wrong (2016)

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2016/1/16/how-to-be-wrong/

8 years ago

Insect-inspired robot can fly a kilometer on a charge with flappy wings

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/this-insect-inspired-robot-can-fly-a-kilometer-on-a-charge-with-its-flappy-wings/

8 years ago

Introduction to HAProxy ACLs

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-acls/

8 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.29

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/13/Rust-1.29.html

8 years ago

The Five Levels of Logging

https://www.aib42.net/article/five-levels-of-logging

8 years ago

Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap

https://info.model9.io/lack-of-mid-level-mfers

8 years ago

Show HN: Start a small crowdfunding campaign to prove product demand

https://funduf.com

8 years ago

Bellwoods – a Generative Art web game in 13 kilobytes

https://bellwoods.xyz/

8 years ago

The search volume for "web app" spikes every September

http://www.gibney.de/popularity_of_web_apps

8 years ago

“Free College” programs vary in how they define both “free” and “college”

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/09/12/643673271/if-free-college-sounds-too-good-to-be-true-that-s-because-it-often-is

8 years ago

Intent to Implement: Display Locking

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mSQhTtaYFNy0qv5KifopEYm-ZKAZULnHyNcmKL8J4e0/mobilebasic

8 years ago

Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor

https://electrek.co/2018/09/11/tesla-100-kwh-battery-cost-investor-gigafactory-1-tour/

8 years ago

A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/a-cardiologists-911-story

8 years ago

Cold Boot Attacks

https://blog.f-secure.com/cold-boot-attacks/

8 years ago