top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-09

Sunsetting Python 2

https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

6 years ago

1616 upvotes – 704 comments

94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1169815776733220866

6 years ago

1430 upvotes – 680 comments

Questions to ask a company during a job interview

https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview

6 years ago

1388 upvotes – 455 comments

9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17-16783.pdf

6 years ago

1136 upvotes – 275 comments

Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy

http://augmented-ui.com/

6 years ago

775 upvotes – 108 comments

Daytripper

https://github.com/dekuNukem/daytripper

6 years ago

727 upvotes – 198 comments

Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/

6 years ago

703 upvotes – 369 comments

Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20914236

6 years ago

662 upvotes – 143 comments

50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/09/states-us-territories-announce-broad-antitrust-investigation-google/

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 322 comments

The Cult of Kubernetes

https://christine.website/blog/the-cult-of-kubernetes-2019-09-07

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 327 comments

Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager

https://firefly-iii.org/

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 152 comments

Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33272

6 years ago

396 upvotes – 145 comments

Popcount CPU instruction

https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 162 comments

CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/06/cdc-says-stop-vaping-as-mystery-lung-condition-spreads/

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 297 comments

Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20920635

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 242 comments

Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable

https://projectnaptha.com/

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 52 comments

Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-02/hong-kong-police-violence-protesters-eyewitnesses

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 162 comments

‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/05/911-oral-history-flight-93-book-excerpt-228001

6 years ago

310 upvotes – 195 comments

Maturity

https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 125 comments

Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data

https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-business-mine-how-menstruation-apps-are-sharing-your-data

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 173 comments

Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and puts liens on homes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/uva-has-ruined-us-health-system-sues-thousands-of-patients-seizing-paychecks-and-putting-liens-on-homes/ar-AAH27ni

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 315 comments

String Lengths in Unicode

https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 140 comments

How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/apple-app-store-competition.html

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 205 comments

Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 141 comments

Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei

https://protonmail.com/blog/clarifying-protonmail-and-huawei/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Positive Cashflow Matters

https://avc.com/2019/09/why-positive-cashflow-matters/

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 89 comments

Systems Thinking in Practice (2016)

https://www.ryanfrantz.com/posts/systems-thinking-in-practice.html

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 22 comments

ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation

https://github.com/BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log

https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/waltz-a-distributed-write-ahead-log

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 44 comments

GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-08/msg01987.html

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 61 comments

Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1joUIg5O5pRS_R2OqXoJzbuCXcQ0trL9ki8XO2aO0prg/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 134 comments

Universal Resume Template

https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 51 comments

New games for the Atari Lynx

https://atarigamer.com/articles/in-2019-we-have-eleven-new-games-for-the-atari-lynx

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stack over last 6 months

https://secalerts.co/security-audit

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 48 comments

Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-lets-you-plug-your-address-see-how-neighborhood-has-changed-over-past-750-million-years-180971507/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

Gombe Chimpanzee War

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

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: wehatecaptchas – we’ll keep the bots out without annoying your users

https://wehatecaptchas.com

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 80 comments

Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D on Volumetric Bone Density and Bone Strength

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2748796

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 71 comments

DMVs in the U.S. are selling drivers’ information to private investigators

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investigators-making-millions-of-dollars

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

Google bans family cafe for offensive content for posting photo of British dish

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-bans-fannys-cafe-faggots-peas/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 57 comments

Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' origins

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/06/dead-sea-scrolls-study-questions-origins

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight

https://newatlas.com/science/artificial-leaf-first-drugs-sunlight/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Using Spotify data to predict what songs will be hits

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-09-spotify-songs.html

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments
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