top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-29

DuckDuckGo Traffic

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

8 years ago

1145 upvotes – 375 comments

Solid – Reshape the web as we know it

https://solid.inrupt.com/

8 years ago

750 upvotes – 250 comments

Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226

8 years ago

684 upvotes – 465 comments

Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098992

8 years ago

613 upvotes – 563 comments

World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-180929/

8 years ago

533 upvotes – 203 comments

Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking

https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/about-the-new-software-terms-scent-of-intel-re-performance/24041

8 years ago

332 upvotes – 195 comments

The relative performance of C and Rust

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performance-of-c-and-rust/

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 148 comments

How counterfeits benefit Amazon

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-counterfeits-20180928-story.html

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 171 comments

Haiku R1/beta1 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2018_09_28_haiku_r1_beta1/

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18103640

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 120 comments

No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 132 comments

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/drug-war-mexico-gas-oil-cartel-717563/

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 142 comments

Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

https://cbsi.secure.force.com/CBSi/ViewArticle_allaccess?popup=true&aId=kA00L000000Hfaq&categories=CBS_Entertainment%3AAll_Access&template=template_cbsvod&referer=cbs.com/vod&data=&cfs=SFS_FT

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 126 comments

Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/facebook-blocks-guardian-story/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 17 comments

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://medium.com/@JorgenVeisdal/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 26 comments

In test case, U.S. fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-in-test-case-u-s-fails-to-force-facebook-to-wiretap-messenger-calls-sources-idUSKCN1M82K1

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Solving My Email Problem

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-problem/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 125 comments

UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International

https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2283/press-release-uk-intelligence-agency-admits-unlawfully-spying-privacy

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 32 comments

Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips

https://loyaltylobby.com/2018/09/28/uber-scam-in-brazil-drivers-have-challenges-ending-trips/?omhide=true

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 133 comments

Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJ_LT8bUj0

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 31 comments

U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year

https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Hardening macOS

https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 74 comments

How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF

https://bolinfest.github.io/opensnoop-native/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 10 comments

Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cincinnati-joins-the-list-of-cities-saying-no-to-parking-minimums

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 176 comments

The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/6.055/book/book-draft.pdf

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 15 comments

Rust Ownership Explained with Python

https://paulkernfeld.com/2018/09/16/ownership-explained-with-python.html#

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 45 comments

Project West Ford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 7 comments

Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem

https://www.businessinsider.com/teenage-tech-prodigy-wants-to-fix-bitcoins-growing-energy-problem-2018-5?IR=T

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 158 comments

Instagram founders left because of changes imposed from above

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/facebook-instagram-systrom.html

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 22 comments

REMI: Python REMote Interface Library

https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi

8 years ago

★ 3.6k Python Apache-2.0
120 upvotes – 47 comments

FCC bans radios that haven't been certified for non-amateur bands

https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceivers-capable-of-transmitting-on-frequencies-that-require-40377a3722c5

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]

https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Steenbergen.Everything_You_Need.pdf

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

How the West Was Lost: In America’s First Climate War

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-west-was-lost/569365/?single_page=true

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

John Urschel Goes Pro

https://hmmdaily.com/2018/09/28/john-urschel-goes-pro/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

ClickHouse, a column-oriented DBMS to generate analytical reports in real time

https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse

8 years ago

★ 47.1k C++ Apache-2.0
104 upvotes – 32 comments

Confessions of a Fake News Writer

https://www.facebook.com/notes/book-recommendations-best-book-to-read/confessions-of-a-fake-news-writer/2111686775714843/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 4 comments

Proof Without Words: Gregory’s Theorem

https://divisbyzero.com/2018/09/28/proof-without-word-gregorys-theorem/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/what-61000-hidden-structures-reveal-about-maya-civilization/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

So is it nature not nurture after all?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/29/so-is-it-nature-not-nurture-after-all-genetics-robert-plomin-polygenic-testing

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 88 comments

E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?

https://cloudconfusing.com/2018/09/18/e-ink-monitors-ready-for-prime-time/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go

https://github.com/felixangell/strife

8 years ago

★ 252 Go MIT
85 upvotes – 46 comments

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

https://unqlite.org/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

The origin of circuits (2007)

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Page Weight Matters (2012)

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier

https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures

8 years ago

★ 235 GPL-3.0
82 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site

https://docute.org

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

Dafny: verification-aware programming language

https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny

8 years ago

★ 3.3k C#
78 upvotes – 14 comments

Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint

http://www.openculture.com/2018/09/europes-oldest-intact-book-preserved-found-coffin-saint.html

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Leptus – Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy web server

https://github.com/sinasamavati/leptus

8 years ago

★ 346 Erlang MIT
73 upvotes – 7 comments
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