1747
2180
Richard M. Stallman resigns
https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
6 years ago
848
349
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/
649
272
Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/opinion/equifax-settlement.html
569
358
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc
450
338
WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo/wework-parent-expected-to-delay-ipo-wsj-idUSKBN1W12T6
414
125
Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game
https://cosmoteer.net/
375
334
Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2019-report
372
150
MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
https://github.com/microsoft/STL
353
157
Raising Prices Is Hard
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/
348
241
Fossil fuel divestment has ‘zero’ climate impact, says Bill Gates
https://www.ft.com/content/21009e1c-d8c9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
177
NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/business/overnight-lending-rate-spike-ny-fed/index.html
333
61
Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction
https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/
332
186
Firefox moving to 4 week releases
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/
278
26
How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)
https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity
273
459
United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/united-states-files-civil-lawsuit-against-edward-snowden
265
165
Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers
https://bytevitae.com/
259
2
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
248
51
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
235
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
222
84
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/
211
85
A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts
https://transformer.huggingface.co/
209
137
Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/iowa-courthouse-burglary.html
204
95
A Love Letter to Personal Websites
https://www.vanschneider.com/a-love-letter-to-personal-websites
197
147
Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49728071
188
67
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/
198
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find
https://observer.com/2019/09/moon-space-elevator-lunar-exploration-columbia-study/
183
224
Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter
https://www.troyhunt.com/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter/
176
249
Google Fi Unlimited Plan
https://fi.google.com/about/plans/
173
AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile
https://steveblank.com/2019/09/17/agilefall-when-waterfall-sneaks-back-into-agile/
175
126
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/
174
33
Ldraw: Lego Modeling in Rust
https://segfault87.github.io/ldraw-rs-preview/#models/car.ldr
166
Day Two to One Day
https://stratechery.com/2019/day-two-to-one-day/
153
22
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
145
71
Slack Shared Channels
https://slackhq.com/slack-shared-channels
144
108
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/
142
68
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/
139
37
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/
129
34
UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer [video]
https://vimeo.com/70589461
WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-back-is-against-a-wall-11568733815?mod=rsswn
120
9
Show HN: Statistical tool for analyzing a Git repository
https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats/
113
134
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
94
Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/revealed-catastrophic-effects-working-facebook-moderator
104
105
Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected
https://greenbankobservatory.org/most-massive-neutron-star-ever-detected/
97
53
Endurance Running Hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis
40
Pwnat – Autonomous Nat Traversal (2010)
https://samy.pl/pwnat/
52
Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
https://www.startupgifs.com/
88
35
Classical music works of the 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/12/best-classical-music-works-of-the-21st-century
87
36
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/
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding