top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-18

Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon

http://www.annchristy.com/ku-scammers-on-amazon-what-you-need-to-know/

10 years ago

627 upvotes – 188 comments

Remote code execution, git, and OS X

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/

10 years ago

616 upvotes – 370 comments

Brutalist Websites

http://brutalistwebsites.com/

10 years ago

447 upvotes – 179 comments

Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors

http://fittish.deadspin.com/secret-thermal-camera-footage-allegedly-shows-seven-pro-1771492666

10 years ago

432 upvotes – 298 comments

Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor

https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

10 years ago

★ 4k Python
413 upvotes – 61 comments

Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-is-subject-of-criminal-probe-by-u-s-1461019055

10 years ago

390 upvotes – 216 comments

Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers

https://barnacl.es/s/8skxre/welcome_to_barnacles

10 years ago

382 upvotes – 68 comments

Browserball

http://weareinstrument.com/ball/#

10 years ago

381 upvotes – 73 comments

Bill – by Ben Horowitz

https://medium.com/@bhorowitz/bill-d9151e6f7538#.wh71inz2l

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 24 comments

Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs

http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2016/04/18/google-cdn-beta-is-here-and-it-brings-more-than-meets-the-eye/

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 99 comments

How a Diode Changed My Life

http://onurcelebi.com/blog/how-a-diode-changed-my-life/

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 108 comments

Nuklear: A small ANSI C GUI toolkit

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

10 years ago

★ 14k C
279 upvotes – 92 comments

For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/youre-targeted-sexually-how-female-astronomers-are-being-hounded-out-of-work

10 years ago

270 upvotes – 381 comments

Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died

http://recode.net/2016/04/18/silicon-valleys-legendary-coach-bill-campbell-has-died/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 51 comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 37 comments

Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 88 comments

“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous”

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/?mbid=social_twitter

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 160 comments

The Internet Archive truck has been stolen

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/722094405931397121

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 72 comments

Instagram Is Ruining Vacation

https://backchannel.com/instagram-is-ruining-vacation-701086a67440#.axm8wkawc

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 223 comments

Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/business/media-websites-battle-falteringad-revenue-and-traffic.html?_r=0

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 70 comments

UC Davis Wondered If $175,000 Would Make the Internet Go Away. Conclusion: No

https://popehat.com/2016/04/14/uc-davis-wondered-if-175000-would-make-the-internet-go-away-conclusion-no/

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 25 comments

Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz'

https://github.com/jisungk/deepjazz

10 years ago

★ 2.8k Python Apache-2.0
189 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops

https://github.com/schollz/find

10 years ago

★ 5k Go AGPL-3.0
183 upvotes – 72 comments

React Native: A year in review

https://code.facebook.com/posts/597378980427792/react-native-a-year-in-review

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

Creativity Is Much More Than 10k Hours of Deliberate Practice

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/creativity-is-much-more-than-10-000-hours-of-deliberate-practice/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 55 comments

The Real Rates of Business Survival

https://fleximize.com/business-survival/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 69 comments

GoBGP: BGP Implemented in Go

https://github.com/osrg/gobgp

10 years ago

★ 4k Go Apache-2.0
168 upvotes – 126 comments

Telegram to award grants to bot developers

https://telegram.org/blog/botprize

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 87 comments

GPUImage 2

https://github.com/BradLarson/GPUImage2

10 years ago

★ 4.9k Swift BSD-3-Clause
162 upvotes – 24 comments

Using Dijkstra's algorithm to draw maps

https://github.com/ibaaj/dijkstra-cartography

10 years ago

★ 1.1k C++
161 upvotes – 15 comments

The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005)

http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 159 comments

How I defeated an anti-tamper APK with some Python and a homemade Smali emulator

http://www.evilsocket.net/2016/04/18/how-i-defeated-an-obfuscated-and-anti-tamper-apk-with-some-python-and-a-home-made-smali-emulator/#.VxRu3snMomQ.hackernews

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 75 comments

The story behind NetHack's first update since 2003

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/269726/The_story_behind_NetHacks_longawaited_updatethe_first_since_2003.php

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 81 comments

First Solar is making PV panels for less than China’s biggest producer

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/first-solar-making-panels-more-cheaply-than-china-s-top-supplier

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/the-humans-hiding-behind-the-chatbots

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 53 comments

Many railway lines in Britain that were closed in the 1960s are re-opening

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21697012-many-railway-lines-britain-were-closed-1960s-are-re-opening-re-coupling

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 102 comments

When Dungeons and Dragons Set Off a Moral Panic

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 82 comments

Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/722074401798287361

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mitten

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/inuit-cartography/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6047

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 78 comments

The First Roman Fonts

http://ilovetypography.com/2016/04/18/the-first-roman-fonts/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 5 comments

Smoke and Fumes: How the oil industry influenced the debate on climate change

https://www.smokeandfumes.org/#/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

What does Unsplash cost?

http://backstage.crew.co/what-does-unsplash-cost/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

StumpWM – Tiling Window Manager in Common Lisp

https://stumpwm.github.io/index.html

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

How cheap does solar power need to get before it takes over the world?

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11415510/solar-power-costs-innovation

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 106 comments

The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicle sales by 2025

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-netherlands-is-making-moves-to-ban-all-non-electric-vehicles-by-2025

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code

https://medium.com/@philipp_lgh/building-an-ibm-watson-powered-ai-chatbot-9635290fb1d3#.7wqs2pxcw

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Boosting zopfli performance

http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2016/04/boosting-zopfli-performance.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 4: It's Dynamic

http://akaptur.com/blog/2013/12/03/introduction-to-the-python-interpreter-4/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 2 comments

Memory Access Patterns Are Important (2012)

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2012/08/memory-access-patterns-are-important.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10256/intel-unveils-apollo-lake-14nm-goldmont

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 47 comments

Britain’s scientists must not be gagged

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/17/britains-scientists-must-not-be-gagged

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds detained my $42

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/i-wrote-isis-beer-funds-in-a-venmo-memo-and-the-feds-detained-my-42/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20%2Fm%2F0gh6xtp%2C%20%2Fm%2F0b2334%2C%20%2Fm%2F0289n8t&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky – Class 18 Notes of Stanford’s CS183C (2015)

https://medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/scaling-airbnb-with-brian-chesky-class-18-notes-of-stanford-university-s-cs183c-3fcf75778358#.rykucyq90

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

Bash on Windows: a hidden Bitcoin goldmine?

https://ma.ttias.be/bash-windows-hidden-bitcoin-goldmine/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Clever reforms can reduce the power of NIMBYs and cut housing costs

http://www.economist.com/node/21696949

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

Inside Equinix's NY4 data center where Wall Street trades

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-13/inside-equinix-s-ny4-data-center-where-wall-street-trades

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Hacking Team's 'Illegal' Latin American Empire

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacking-team-illegal-latin-american-empire

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge's Order to Reveal Tor Browser Exploit

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-is-pushing-back-against-judges-order-to-reveal-tor-browser-exploit

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

The tech world is wrong about marketing

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/everything-the-tech-world-says-about-marketing-is-wrong/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups

https://blog.opsee.com/what-dwarf-fortress-taught-me-about-startups-30800ea98324#.d7jgrjiu4

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Kuwait set to enforce DNA testing law on all

http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/kuwait-to-enforce-dna-testing-law-on-citizens-expats-visitors-tests-wont-be-used-to-determine-genealogy-affect-freedoms/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments
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