top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-21

How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script

http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/

10 years ago

865 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet

http://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet

10 years ago

847 upvotes – 161 comments

Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/

10 years ago

437 upvotes – 287 comments

Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset

https://github.com/amznlabs/ion-java

10 years ago

★ 879 Java Apache-2.0
359 upvotes – 163 comments

Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/drone-believed-to-have-hit-british-airways-flight-may-have-been/

10 years ago

348 upvotes – 171 comments

BootStrap 4 cheatsheet

http://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet#dropdown

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 4 comments

FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone

http://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-hack-san-bernardino-iphone-1461266641

10 years ago

316 upvotes – 199 comments

Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-the-s-e-c-didnt-hit-goldman-sachs-harder

10 years ago

294 upvotes – 191 comments

Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser

https://iceddev.com/blog/jarvis-an-amazon-echo-clone-in-your-browser/

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 75 comments

Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

https://mastermind.atavist.com/eyes-everywhere

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 58 comments

PyPy 5.1 released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/04/pypy-51-released.html

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 99 comments

Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 127 comments

Prince Has Died

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480332/prince-has-died-tmz-reports

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN

https://github.com/pavelgonchar/colornet

10 years ago

★ 3.5k Python
219 upvotes – 77 comments

Implementers, Solvers, and Finders

https://rkoutnik.com/2016/04/21/implementers-solvers-and-finders.html

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 62 comments

The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-04-21/the-2-trillion-project-to-get-saudi-arabia-s-economy-off-oil

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 133 comments

Why Wait? the Science Behind Procrastination

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2013/april-13/why-wait-the-science-behind-procrastination.html

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 63 comments

The Epic Rise of John D. Rockefeller

http://thehustle.co/the-history-of-john-d-rockefeller-standard-oil

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 93 comments

Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto

http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/15/argentine-government-favors-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 176 comments

Show HN: Turned Facebook Messenger into a JavaScript REPL

http://github.com/peralmq/bot-wat

10 years ago

★ 240 JavaScript MIT
171 upvotes – 33 comments

Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him

http://www.wsj.com/articles/snowden-seeks-assurance-from-norway-it-wont-extradite-him-1461270001

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 128 comments

Alphabet slides 5% after missing earnings expectations on revenue of $20.3B

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/21/alphabet-slides-6-after-missing-earnings-expectations/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 193 comments

Google I/O 2016

https://events.google.com/io2016/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps on cognitive tests

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/when-it-comes-to-brains-size-doesnt-matter/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 60 comments

UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch

http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell

https://github.com/ilyash/ngs/

10 years ago

★ 1.5k C GPL-3.0
151 upvotes – 199 comments

Wikipedia to the Moon

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 81 comments

Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German]

https://www.pressetext.com/de#news/20160415021

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 189 comments

Virtual Weapons Are Turning Gamers into Serious Gamblers

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 106 comments

Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker

http://jdlm.info/articles/2016/03/06/lessons-building-node-app-docker.html?r=0

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 28 comments

Congress is clueless about tech because it killed its tutor

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/office-technology-assessment-congress-clueless-tech-killed-tutor/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Inside Pascal: Nvidia 's Newest Computing Platform

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Born for it – How the image of software developers came about

http://martinfowler.com/articles/born-for-it.html

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 122 comments

Why do so many people continue to pursue doctorates?

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/bad-job-market-phds/479205/?single_page=true

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 140 comments

On the Road to Recap

http://abovethecrowd.com/2016/04/21/on-the-road-to-recap/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 9 comments

I Am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He Is Wrong About Women in Tech

https://medium.com/@milistjohn/i-am-alex-st-john-s-daughter-and-he-is-wrong-about-women-in-tech-4728545e7c0e#.miz0024yn

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 167 comments

Organize Your Closet Like a Computer Organizes Memory

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/computer-science-reveals-exactly-organize-closet/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 60 comments

TensorFlow Simplified Interface Examples

https://github.com/tflearn/tflearn/blob/0.1.0/examples/README.md

10 years ago

★ 9.5k Python
105 upvotes – 16 comments

Intel Releases the Arduino 101 Source Code

https://blog.arduino.cc/2016/04/21/intel-releases-the-arduino-101-firmware-source-code/

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Kite: Thoughts on Security

https://kite.com/blog/thoughts-on-security/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

The best is the last

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/4/20/the-best-is-the-last

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

How Animals Think

http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/how-animals-think/476364/?single_page=true

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Anonymous Redditor Dumps Logins of 33K US Govt Employees

https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/4fsxse/us_government_data/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Scientists Unveil the 'Most Clever' CRISPR Gadget So Far

https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/20/clever-crispr-advance-unveiled/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

My take at making AWS EC2 cheaper by automating SPOT instances with AutoScaling

https://mcristi.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/my-approach-at-making-aws-ec2-affordable-automatic-replacement-of-autoscaling-nodes-with-equivalent-spot-instances/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering

https://thestack.com/world/2016/04/21/sites-that-block-adblockers-seem-to-be-suffering/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Performance These Days

http://inessential.com/2016/04/21/performance_these_days

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Music Icon Prince Dead at 57

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-dead-dies_us_57190013e4b0c9244a7b2a5b

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

The Bitcoin hash rate has increased by 28.2% over the last month

https://kaiko.com/statistics/hash-rate

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 95 comments

Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $36M Series C

http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-raises-series-c/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/20/quora-begins-making-money-with-the-introduction-of-advertising/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Uber rolls out facial recognition in China

https://www.techinasia.com/uber-china-facial-recognition

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Battleship game built with Elixir, Phoenix, React and Redux

https://github.com/bigardone/phoenix-battleship

10 years ago

★ 525 Elixir MIT
73 upvotes – 10 comments

A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch – part 2

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch-part-2/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

What Is the Difference Between Wireframe, Mockup and Prototype?

http://brainhub.eu/blog/2016/04/20/difference-between-wireframe-mockup-prototype/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Silicon Valley's $585B Problem

http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-tech-ipo-market/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

Opera browser build adds a first: Free, unlimited VPN for secure surfing

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3059514/browsers/opera-browser-build-adds-a-first-free-unlimited-vpn-for-secure-surfing.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

How biological invaders challenge our idea of self and other

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/parasites-are-us

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

How people 'of no security interest' are keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/bulk_personal_datasets/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments
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