top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-23

Wire open-sourced

https://github.com/wireapp

10 years ago

488 upvotes – 132 comments

How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k

https://www.evonide.com/how-we-broke-php-hacked-pornhub-and-earned-20000-dollar/

10 years ago

327 upvotes – 104 comments

Category Theory for the Sciences

http://category-theory.mitpress.mit.edu/

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 75 comments

Rust: The New LLVM

http://notes.willcrichton.net/rust-the-new-llvm/

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 121 comments

Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System

http://gizmodo.com/pokemon-go-is-secretly-teaching-americans-the-metric-sy-1783459191

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 161 comments

Journalists confused an opinion piece for an alcohol-cancer study

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/that-time-a-bunch-of-journalists-confused-an-opinion-piece-for-a-study/

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 91 comments

Twitter's Vine source code dump

https://avicoder.me/2016/07/22/Twitter-Vine-Source-code-dump/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 23 comments

Overview of all Amazon AWS APIs

http://aws-api.info/

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 29 comments

Project delays: why good software estimates are impossible

http://chrismm.com/blog/project-delays-why-software-estimates/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 108 comments

Richer command line interfaces

http://ballingt.com/rich-terminal-applications-2

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 26 comments

How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years (2013)

http://www.fistfulofsquid.com/blog/how_to_write_48_hour_game_in_2_years.html

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: I joined a big co, like the team, hate some policies, what should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148212

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 151 comments

PR converts the Three.js codebase to ES2015 modules

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/9310

10 years ago

★ 112.1k JavaScript MIT
134 upvotes – 38 comments

Ruining the Magic of Magento's Encryption Library

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/3

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 50 comments

Introducing Vulkan-Hpp – Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp

10 years ago

★ 3.6k C++ Apache-2.0
130 upvotes – 70 comments

Soylent CEO Could Face Criminal Charges for LA Hilltop 'Experiment'

http://la.curbed.com/2016/7/21/12245620/soylent-illegal-shipping-container-home-lincoln-heights

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 162 comments

When the Body Attacks the Mind

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/when-the-body-attacks-the-mind/485564/?single_page=true

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Google X: Waiting for a Moonshot

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/technology/they-promised-us-jet-packs-they-promised-the-bosses-profit.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 87 comments

Repairing the only known prototype of Nintendo PlayStation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh91IO9cV48

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 25 comments

Japanese 'rent men' who are paid just to listen

https://www.yahoo.com/news/japanese-rent-men-paid-just-listen-045544065.html?ref=gs

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

The Majority Illusion in Social Networks

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03022

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 119 comments

What if financial systems were hacked

http://worldif.economist.com/article/12136/joker-pack

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 87 comments

Failsafe – failure handling with retries, circuit breakers and fallbacks

https://github.com/jhalterman/failsafe

10 years ago

★ 4.3k Java Apache-2.0
116 upvotes – 41 comments

Notepad++ 6.9.2 released (tail -f)

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.9.2-released.html

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

How banks are refusing to shoulder responsibility for fraud

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current-accounts/how-banks-are-refusing-to-shoulder-responsibility-for-fraud/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 87 comments

I Accidentally Some Machine Learning – My Story of a Month of Learning Elixir

http://fredwu.me/post/147855522498/i-accidentally-some-machine-learning-my-story-of

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Using ImGui with modern C++ and STL for creating game dev tools – Part 2

https://eliasdaler.github.io/using-imgui-with-sfml-pt2

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Zapping Their Brains at Home

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/zapping-their-brains-at-home.html?ribbon-ad-idx=19&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart

http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/how-climate-change-is-rapidly-taking-the-planet-apart/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 103 comments

Rich Countries Often Fail to Bolster Well-Being, Boston Consulting Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/rich-countries-often-fail-to-bolster-well-being-boston-consulting-says

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

A Gel That's Revolutionizing Pain Treatment

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/the-gel-thats-revolutionizing-pain-treatment/492641/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Circuit Breakers in Elixir

http://blog.rokkincat.com/circuit-breakers-in-elixir/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

A Debate Over the Physics of Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160719-time-and-cosmology/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/transistors-will-stop-shrinking-in-2021-moores-law-roadmap-predicts

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601242/qa-bill-gates/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Blockchains: Past, Present and Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1U0Mu0qEU

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Running at 150,000 RPM, a tiny motor could help satellites

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/22/running-at-150000-rpm-this-tiny-motor-could-help-satellites-keep-on-course/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Chalkbot

http://engineering.hipolabs.com/chalkbot/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Lazy GNU make variables

http://blog.jgc.org/2016/07/lazy-gnu-make-variables.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Weaintfoundshit.js

https://nicosantangelo.github.io/weaintfoundshit.js

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]

http://dsp.rice.edu/sites/dsp.rice.edu/files/shannon-bandwagon.pdf

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006)

https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments
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