top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-04-08

YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

10 years ago

989 upvotes – 321 comments

SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M#t=27m15s

10 years ago

845 upvotes – 354 comments

Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbes-site-after-begging-you-turn-off-adblocker-serves-up-steaming-pile-malware-ads.shtml

10 years ago

606 upvotes – 271 comments

Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312516530910/d168744dex991.htm

10 years ago

451 upvotes – 274 comments

WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/wordpress-com-turns-on-https-encryption-for-all-websites/

10 years ago

447 upvotes – 127 comments

Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/275567-senate-intel-encryption-bill-mandates-technical-assistance

10 years ago

389 upvotes – 209 comments

WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-end-encryption-its-1bn-users

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 226 comments

Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encrypted services

https://mappingmediafreedom.org/#/2058

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 86 comments

How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/cashless-society/477411/?single_page=true

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 130 comments

If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data

http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2016/04/if-you-cant-break-crypto-break-the-client-recovery-of-plaintext-imessage-data/

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 81 comments

Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-19-0-garbage-collector.html

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 21 comments

The Book of Shaders

http://thebookofshaders.com/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 15 comments

Apply HN: Casepad – Better Databases for Public Defenders and Others

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452884

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 65 comments

Space X lands Falcon 9 stage 1 on drone ship (picture)

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718542763545899008

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/08/cia-skincare-startup/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 57 comments

Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Cheaper Than a Haswell-E Core I7

http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

I’m not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [pdf]

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Sivakorn-Im-Not-a-Human-Breaking-the-Google-reCAPTCHA-wp.pdf

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 68 comments

How good is your French accent?

http://frenchmeter.com

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 179 comments

HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack

http://www.nature.com/news/hiv-overcomes-crispr-gene-editing-attack-1.19712

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 30 comments

LogZoom: A fast, lightweight substitute for Logstash/Fluentd in Go

https://packetzoom.com/blog/logzoom-a-fast-and-lightweight-substitute-for-logstash.html

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments
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