top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-17

EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680

8 years ago

1367 upvotes – 708 comments

Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/

8 years ago

621 upvotes – 157 comments

Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale

https://stripe.com/terminal

8 years ago

539 upvotes – 217 comments

IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/ibm-is-being-sued-for-age-discrimination-after-firing-thousands

8 years ago

480 upvotes – 263 comments

iOS 12 released

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12/

8 years ago

457 upvotes – 364 comments

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages

8 years ago

444 upvotes – 193 comments

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 162 comments

Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002194

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 155 comments

US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/us-congress-passes-bill-to-help-advanced-nuclear-power/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 280 comments

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

8 years ago

★ 2k Objective-C GPL-3.0
280 upvotes – 172 comments

Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/whartons-adam-grant-on-linkedin-6-hour-work-day-can-be-as-productive.html

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 192 comments

Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

https://www.thecut.com/2015/09/every-weekend-should-be-a-3-day-weekend.html

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 172 comments

Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system

https://newatlas.com/molecule-fasting-vascular-system/56360/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 142 comments

The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss.html

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 186 comments

Perkeep: personal storage system for life

https://perkeep.org/doc/overview

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 62 comments

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google?share=1

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 189 comments

I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/17/amazon-warehouse-bernie-sanders

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 198 comments

Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes

http://somethingorotherwhatever.com/sum-of-3-palindromes/

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 113 comments

Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization

https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 163 comments

Show HN: My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004270

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 101 comments

Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

https://www.trackinghappiness.com/happy-at-work/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 119 comments

What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?

https://jeremydormitzer.com/blog/what-is-activitypub-and-how-will-it-change-the-internet/

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 130 comments

Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/self-driving-cars-still-can-t-handle-bad-weather?srnd=premium

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 332 comments

Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking

https://www.apnews.com/98a66a02aa984fc5aa0995005c72b86e

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 95 comments

Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead

https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 104 comments

Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 256 comments

ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

https://www.inverse.com/article/49041-protonmail-ceo-andy-yen-interview

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 112 comments

Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

https://lithub.com/haruki-murakami-a-brief-history-of-japanese-short-fiction-according-to-me/?single=true

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 75 comments

America is pushing the labour market to its limits

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/15/america-is-pushing-the-labour-market-to-its-limits

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 207 comments

Subject: Airbnb (2011)

http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 162 comments

In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-georgia-a-legal-battle-over-electronic-vs-paper-voting/2018/09/16/d655c070-b76f-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 129 comments

Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thpzXjmYyGk&feature=youtu.be

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 20 comments

Transmission of cancer by a single multiorgan donor to 4 transplant recipients

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajt.14766

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 76 comments

The Last Goodbye

https://path.com/goodbye

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 78 comments

The printer that wouldn't print: Fixing an IBM 1401 mainframe from the 1960s

http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print-fixing.html

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted

https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/the-number-of-youth-in-juvenile-detention-in-california-has-quietly-plummeted/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 140 comments

About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (2016)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/about-40-economics-experiments-fail-replication-survey

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 51 comments

Making Bellwoods, a Generative Art Game in 13 Kb

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/bellwoods

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 13 comments

Mojolicious 8.0 released: Perl real-time web framework

http://blog.kraih.com/post/178173935636/mojolicious-80-released-perl-real-time-web

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

Price Before Product

http://firstround.com/review/its-price-before-product-period/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 55 comments

The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45520594

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Ajit Pai calls California’s net neutrality rules “illegal”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/ajit-pai-calls-californias-net-neutrality-rules-illegal

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 67 comments

Ten years after the crisis, the contagion has spread to democracy itself

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/financial-crisis-10-years-later-ben-bernanke-hank-paulson-timothy-geithner_us_5b9d7dc8e4b04d32ebf92396

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 73 comments

What Really Happened to Apple’s Airpower

http://sonnydickson.com/2018/09/16/what-really-happened-to-apples-airpower/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 84 comments

Google admits changing phone settings remotely

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45546276

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-09-17-gatsby-v2/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Java on Playstation 2

http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/playstation2_java.php

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Inside the Dramatic, Painful, and Hugely Successful Return of Reddit's Founders

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201810/christine-lagorio-chafkin/reddit-we-are-the-nerds-steve-huffman-alexis-ohanian.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured

https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2018/09/keyboard-prototypes-have-been.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments
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