top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-05

ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification

http://teletext.zaibatsutel.net/post/145370716258/deadupdate-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and

10 years ago

762 upvotes – 196 comments

Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/results-votes-june-5th-2016-in-switzerland/42153620

10 years ago

410 upvotes – 568 comments

Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook

https://medium.com/@hunchly/bait-and-switch-the-failure-of-facebook-advertising-an-osint-investigation-37d693b2a858#.6g98nbipi

10 years ago

308 upvotes – 97 comments

Headless Chrome is coming soon

https://twitter.com/samccone/status/739166801427210240

10 years ago

293 upvotes – 45 comments

DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-an-obsolete-connector/

10 years ago

289 upvotes – 64 comments

I Was Wrong About TypeScript

https://www.triplet.fi/blog/i-was-wrong-about-typescript-here-is-why/

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 192 comments

GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2016-06/msg00014.html

10 years ago

276 upvotes – 187 comments

Nick Farr's 30c3 Jake Appelbaum story of abuse and harassment

https://medium.com/@nickf4rr/hi-im-nick-farr-nickf4rr-35c32f13da4d#.uzs72fnhp

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 101 comments

What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?

https://github.com/rasbt/python-machine-learning-book/blob/master/faq/difference-deep-and-normal-learning.md

10 years ago

★ 12.6k Jupyter Notebook MIT
228 upvotes – 124 comments

Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3079224/it-careers/judge-sends-two-to-prison-for-7-years-for-h-1b-fraud.html

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 191 comments

Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/panama-papers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 137 comments

Nest’s time at Alphabet

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/nests-time-at-alphabet-a-virtually-unlimited-budget-with-no-results/

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 179 comments

TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/06/teamviewer-users-hacked-but-how/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 52 comments

Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development

https://vvvv.org

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 36 comments

Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual

http://www.wsj.com/articles/to-beat-the-blues-visits-must-be-real-not-virtual-1464899707

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

To approximate 52! by hand, compute 54! and divide by 3000

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/Calculating52FactorialByHand.html?HN_20160605

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AyI_u66Bw

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 99 comments

Hellcat: netcat that takes unfair advantage of traffic shaping systems

https://github.com/matildah/hellcat

10 years ago

★ 2 C MIT
161 upvotes – 24 comments

Be warned, there's a nasty Google 2 factor auth attack going around

https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/739232334541524992

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 56 comments

17 years of government contracts on BigQuery

https://github.com/antontarasenko/gpq/blob/master/notebooks/contracts_intro.ipynb

10 years ago

★ 141 Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
136 upvotes – 20 comments

How cancer was created by evolution

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160601-is-cancer-inevitable

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 88 comments

Is your smartphone listening to you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35639549

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 119 comments

RCP 11 – Stream data type proposal for Redis

https://github.com/redis/redis-rcp/blob/master/RCP11.md

10 years ago

★ 136
125 upvotes – 16 comments

US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-set-to-approve-moon-mission-by-commercial-space-venture-1465166277

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (1995)

http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Slide – an open-source plain text presentation maker

http://trikita.co/slide

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843347

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

On the Left

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/06/04/On-the-Left

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Reddit quietly updates 16 day old post: you are now tracked even if logged out

https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/1083516

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Disadvantages of purely functional programming

http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/disadvantages-of-purely-functional.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 68 comments

Managing containers on Mesos with HalfLife2

https://www.wehkamplabs.com/blog/2016/06/02/docker-and-zombies/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Google: new concerns raised about political influence by ‘revolving door’ jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/04/google-influence-hiring-government-officials

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Hylogen: Haskell EDSL for live-coding fragment shaders

https://github.com/sleexyz/hylogen

10 years ago

★ 489 JavaScript
86 upvotes – 10 comments

Java Exception Handling

http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/04/26/java-exception-handling.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

Mean of two floating point numbers can be dangerous

http://blog.honzabrabec.cz/2016/06/05/mean-of-two-floating-point-numbers-can-be-dangerous/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

AWS Service Interuptions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839846

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

Make your own tagging system from scratch

http://www.kequc.com/2016/06/03/make-your-own-tagging-system-from-scratch

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Writing a Simple Operating System From Scratch (2010) [pdf]

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/os-dev.pdf

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Building Problem Solvers (1993)

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/BPS/readme.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments
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