top 50% 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

Algebrite, a computer algebra system in JavaScript

http://algebrite.org/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Do Some Poor Kids Thrive?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/kids-poverty-baltimore/476808/?single_page=true

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 158 comments

I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Premium-For-Everyone-Today

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

Sweet drug clears cholesterol, reverses heart disease–and was found by parents

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/04/drug-clears-cholesterol-reverses-heart-disease/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455449

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 128 comments

Tell HN: I'm creating an autonomous racing series

http://selfracingcars.com/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 59 comments

Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35977315

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 62 comments

Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/04/panama-papers-wordpress-email-connection/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Go gets criticized so much

http://npf.io/2014/10/why-everyone-hates-go/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 236 comments

Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-physicists-flaws-superconductor-theory.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 16 comments

Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11383392/self-driving-truck-platooning-europe

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 69 comments

Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search

http://recode.net/2016/04/06/yahoo-sale-book-financial-meltdown/

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 78 comments

Panama Papers Reveal Clinton’s Kremlin Connection

http://observer.com/2016/04/panama-papers-reveal-clintons-kremlin-connection/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 77 comments

Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455123

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/protolude.html

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Scientists store digital images in DNA and retrieve them perfectly

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/07/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Managed services killed DevOps

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/07/devops-is-dead-long-live-devops/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 148 comments

How the Commodore Amiga Powered the Prevue Channel

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-commodore-amiga-powered-your-cable-system-in-the-90s

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York?

http://digg.com/2016/broken-what-the-hell-happened-in-east-new-york

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

Writing Varnish modules in Rust

http://info.varnish-software.com/blog/writing-vmods-in-rust

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants

https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/04/05/vc1-new-affordable-variants/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple's aging Mac Pro is falling behind Windows rivals

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3052871/computer-hardware/apples-aging-mac-pro-is-falling-far-behind-windows-rivals.html

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Neutered random number generator let man rig million dollar lotteries

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/neutered-random-number-generator-let-man-rig-million-dollar-lotteries/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails

https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/04/08/how-we-get-high-availability-with-elasticsearch-and-ruby-on-rails/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Chartd: responsive, retina-compatible charts with just an img tag

http://chartd.co/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook quietly deprecated their Python/Ruby libraries for Instagram API

https://github.com/facebookarchive/python-instagram

10 years ago

★ 3k Python
66 upvotes – 29 comments

SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket on Drone Ship

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-08/spacex-attempts-to-land-a-rocket-on-a-drone-ship-for-the-fifth-time

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

How three connected hardware companies killed their devices

https://medium.com/@gigastacey/memo-to-nest-how-3-connected-hardware-companies-killed-their-devices-7f2368a5710b

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Flippaper: Draw your own pinball in real time

http://www.flippaper.org/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

The Fourth Facebook Goldrush Just Started

https://medium.com/@jeremyliew/on-your-marks-get-set-go-the-fourth-facebook-goldrush-just-started-100093c16ec8#.g8v1ktkq6

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments
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