top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-17

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

http://www.exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php

11 years ago

1562 upvotes – 516 comments

My positive experience as a woman in tech

http://lea.verou.me/2015/12/my-positive-experience-as-a-woman-in-tech/

11 years ago

520 upvotes – 385 comments

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html

11 years ago

452 upvotes – 138 comments

What You Believe Affects What You Achieve

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-of-Success

11 years ago

428 upvotes – 148 comments

Why Python 3 Exists

http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 266 comments

DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year

http://qz.com/574853/duckduckgo-the-search-engine-that-doesnt-track-its-users-grew-more-than-70-this-year/

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 183 comments

Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 290 comments

Show HN: Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API

https://fieldbook.com/developers

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 92 comments

Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/12/compiling-to-webassembly-its-happening/

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 216 comments

Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban

http://thephonesgsm.blogspot.com/2015/12/telegram-gains-1-million-users-after.html

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 260 comments

Unauthorized code in Juniper ScreenOS allows for administrative access

https://forums.juniper.net/t5/Security-Incident-Response/Important-Announcement-about-ScreenOS/ba-p/285554

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 95 comments

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/the-mystery-of-indias-deadly-exam-scam

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 173 comments

Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

http://www.ycgiftideas.com/

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 132 comments

There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random()

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/12/theres-mathrandom-and-then-theres.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 106 comments

Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/brazils-congress-has-shut-down-whatsapp-tonight-and-the-rest-of-the-social-web-could-be-next/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 164 comments

Sheryl Sandberg Says an MBA Doesn't Matter in Tech

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/sheryl-sandberg-says-business-school-doesn-t-matter-in-tech

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 133 comments

The Secret Surveillance Catalogue

https://theintercept.com/surveillance-catalogue/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 65 comments

Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/a-vaccine-for-depression

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 148 comments

UberHop: More people in fewer cars

https://newsroom.uber.com/seattle/2015/12/more-people-in-fewer-cars/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 105 comments

BayesDB – a probabilistic programming platform

http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 9 comments

Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]

http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/USA_v_Shkreli_et_al_Docket_No_115cr00637_EDNY_Dec_14_2015_Court_D/1?1450368872

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 167 comments

How I Interview

http://rkoutnik.com/articles/How-I-Interview.html

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 122 comments

Should AI Be Open?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 161 comments

Correction to article: "First Person to Hack iPhone Built Self-Driving Car"

https://www.teslamotors.com/support/correction-article-first-person-hack-iphone-built-self-driving-car

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

A Deep Learning Dissenter Thinks He Has a More Powerful AI Approach

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/544606/can-this-man-make-ai-more-human/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 71 comments

Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync-net-zfs-replication-to-the-cloud-is-finally-here-and-its-fast/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 54 comments

Bayesian Logic Programming

http://bayesianlogic.github.io

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 20 comments

89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480

http://www.damninteresting.com/89-263-201-500-337-480/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

Bug Bounty Ethics

https://www.facebook.com/notes/alex-stamos/bug-bounty-ethics/10153799951452929

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple Promotes Jeff Williams to COO, Puts Phil Schiller in Charge of App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/17/apple-promotes-jeff-williams-to-coo-puts-phil-schiller-in-charge-of-app-store/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

EFF, Access Now, and the White House Sat Down to Talk About Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/eff-access-now-and-white-house-sat-down-talk-about-encryption-details

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCs

http://www.symbos.de/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

China Cracks Down on Politically Incorrect Maps

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/12/china-cracks-down-on-politcally-incorrect-maps/421032/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/big-tech-joins-big-banks-to-create-alternative-to-bitcoins-blockchain/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 103 comments

Binaryen: Compiler infrastructure and toolchain library for WebAssembly, in C++

https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen

11 years ago

★ 8.4k WebAssembly Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 3 comments

Firefox Users Can Now Watch Netflix HTML5 Video on Windows

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/17/firefox-users-can-now-watch-netflix-html5-video-on-windows/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

Google Launchpad Accelerator: Equity-Free Accelerator Program for Startups

https://developers.google.com/startups/accelerator/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35111449

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

A-Frame: open-source WebVR framework from Mozilla

https://aframe.io/blog/2015/12/16/0.0.10-release/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Stripe was down

https://status.stripe.com/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Autotools Mythbuster

https://autotools.io/index.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: So I'm being let go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753868

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

6,000-year-old temple with sacrificial altars discovered in Ukraine

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/6000-year-old-temple-with-sacrificial-altars-discovered

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Georgia Tech Researchers Demonstrate How the Brain Can Handle So Much Data

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/georgia-tech-researchers-demonstrate-how-brain-can-handle-so-much-data

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

A Codebase is an Organism

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/a-codebase-is-an-organism/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance

http://blog.interviewing.io/people-cant-gauge-their-own-interview-performance-and-that-makes-them-harder-to-hire/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 71 comments

BBC Digital Media Distribution: How we improved throughput by 4x

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/17d22fb8-cea2-49d5-be14-86e7a1dcde04

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Plan 9: The Way the Future Was (2003)

http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/plan9.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Pyrobuf: A Cython Alternative to Google's Python Protobuf Library

https://github.com/appnexus/pyrobuf

11 years ago

★ 561 Python
77 upvotes – 35 comments

EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection Tests

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

http://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/publications/nodb-efficient-query-execution-raw-data-files-0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Italian Mafias killing less but infiltrating more businesses

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/16/world/crime-legal-world/italian-mafias-killing-less-infiltrating-businesses/#.VnJptq88Kh9

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Gizmo, a Microservice Toolkit for Go

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/introducing-gizmo/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Login will be mandatory for Firebase accounts

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/13QtLRCiIv4

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

MongoDB instances publicly exposed on the Internet

https://blog.shodan.io/its-still-the-data-stupid/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Is preventing browser fingerprinting a lost cause? (2012) [pdf]

http://www.w3.org/wiki/images/7/7d/Is_preventing_browser_fingerprinting_a_lost_cause.pdf

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

FireEye Exploitation: Project Zero’s Vulnerability of the Beast

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/12/fireeye-exploitation-project-zeros.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Hacking the PS4, part 3: Kernel exploitation

http://cturt.github.io/ps4-3.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

https://exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments
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