top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-17

Richard M. Stallman resigns

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

7 years ago

1747 upvotes – 2180 comments

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/17/gitlab-doubles-valuation-to-nearly-3-billion/

7 years ago

848 upvotes – 349 comments

Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/opinion/equifax-settlement.html

7 years ago

649 upvotes – 272 comments

The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc

7 years ago

569 upvotes – 358 comments

WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo/wework-parent-expected-to-delay-ipo-wsj-idUSKBN1W12T6

7 years ago

450 upvotes – 338 comments

Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

https://cosmoteer.net/

7 years ago

414 upvotes – 125 comments

Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2019-report

7 years ago

375 upvotes – 334 comments

MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library

https://github.com/microsoft/STL

7 years ago

★ 11k C++
372 upvotes – 150 comments

Raising Prices Is Hard

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/

7 years ago

353 upvotes – 157 comments

Fossil fuel divestment has ‘zero’ climate impact, says Bill Gates

https://www.ft.com/content/21009e1c-d8c9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17

7 years ago

348 upvotes – 241 comments

NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/business/overnight-lending-rate-spike-ny-fed/index.html

7 years ago

338 upvotes – 177 comments

Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction

https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/

7 years ago

333 upvotes – 61 comments

Firefox moving to 4 week releases

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/

7 years ago

332 upvotes – 186 comments

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)

https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 26 comments

United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/united-states-files-civil-lawsuit-against-edward-snowden

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 459 comments

Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

https://bytevitae.com/

7 years ago

265 upvotes – 165 comments

US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-lawsuit-against-edward-snowden-publishing-book-violation-cia-and

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 2 comments

Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/dont-let-congress-hand-patent-abusers-their-ultimate-wishlist

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 51 comments

China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-activity/chinas-slowdown-deepens-industrial-output-growth-falls-to-17-1-2-year-low-idUSKBN1W102H

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 150 comments

Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet

https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-dns-to-improve-the-security-of-the-internet/

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 84 comments

A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts

https://transformer.huggingface.co/

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 85 comments

Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/iowa-courthouse-burglary.html

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 137 comments

A Love Letter to Personal Websites

https://www.vanschneider.com/a-love-letter-to-personal-websites

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 95 comments

Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49728071

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 147 comments

What it was like to fly the baddest airplane

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/what-it-was-like-to-fly-the-baddest-airplane-the-world-has-ever-known/

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 67 comments

A Lunar Space Elevator Is Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find

https://observer.com/2019/09/moon-space-elevator-lunar-exploration-columbia-study/

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 198 comments

Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter

https://www.troyhunt.com/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter/

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 224 comments

Google Fi Unlimited Plan

https://fi.google.com/about/plans/

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 249 comments

AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile

https://steveblank.com/2019/09/17/agilefall-when-waterfall-sneaks-back-into-agile/

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 173 comments

How to Be a Professional Author and Not Die Screaming and Starving

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2019/09/17/how-to-be-a-professional-author-and-not-die-screaming-and-starving-in-a-lightless-abyss/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 126 comments

Ldraw: Lego Modeling in Rust

https://segfault87.github.io/ldraw-rs-preview/#models/car.ldr

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 33 comments

Day Two to One Day

https://stratechery.com/2019/day-two-to-one-day/

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 67 comments

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

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

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Slack Shared Channels

https://slackhq.com/slack-shared-channels

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/17/joel-spolsky-clive-thompson-discuss-coders-software-programming/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 108 comments

Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond Street

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/09/17/take-a-look-at-the-crossrail-station-under-bond-street/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 68 comments

Open sourcing crypto-arbitrage bot in Python – back to the dawn of crypto hype

http://my-it-notes.com/2019/08/chronicles_of_one_crypto_arbitrage_bot/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer [video]

https://vimeo.com/70589461

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments

WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-back-is-against-a-wall-11568733815?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Statistical tool for analyzing a Git repository

https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats/

7 years ago

★ 6.9k Shell MIT
120 upvotes – 9 comments

Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/climate/trump-california-emissions-waiver.html

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 134 comments

Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/revealed-catastrophic-effects-working-facebook-moderator

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 94 comments

Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected

https://greenbankobservatory.org/most-massive-neutron-star-ever-detected/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 105 comments

Endurance Running Hypothesis

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

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Pwnat – Autonomous Nat Traversal (2010)

https://samy.pl/pwnat/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation

https://www.startupgifs.com/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

Classical music works of the 21st century

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/12/best-classical-music-works-of-the-21st-century

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

A basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/09/how-a-basement-hacker-transformed-donkey-kong-for-the-atari-2600/

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments
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