top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-27

LastPass autofill exploit

https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-give-me-all-your-passwords/

10 years ago

1008 upvotes – 420 comments

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery

http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/significant-gene-discovery-072516.html

10 years ago

481 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12172379

10 years ago

450 upvotes – 231 comments

Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/security-experts-have-cloned-all-seven-tsa-master-keys/

10 years ago

413 upvotes – 168 comments

Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/you-know-this-all-sounds-familiar/

10 years ago

382 upvotes – 437 comments

Twitter's Fucked

http://degoes.net/articles/fuck-twitter

10 years ago

370 upvotes – 376 comments

The Rust Platform

https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/

10 years ago

362 upvotes – 250 comments

Salary transparency at Stack Overflow

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/07/salary-transparency/

10 years ago

334 upvotes – 282 comments

YC’s Summer Reading

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/yc-summer-reading/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 180 comments

Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf]

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/veryconference-paper10.pdf

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 108 comments

Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/mercedes-benz-shows-off-the-first-fully-electric-heavy-urban-transport-truck/

10 years ago

268 upvotes – 198 comments

Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/07/27/chakracore-on-linux-osx/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 120 comments

Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye”

https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/757938537803153408

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 47 comments

Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 173 comments

The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’

https://blog.nelsoncash.com/the-typography-of-stranger-things-e35771f40d31#.37yms804p

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 67 comments

Moment().endOf(‘term’)

https://medium.com/@timrwood/moment-endof-term-522d8965689

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 52 comments

A Report on the Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5O9I4XJdSISNzJyaWIxaWpZWnM/view

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 174 comments

Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36893104

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 94 comments

What makes music sound “good?”

http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/whatmakesmusicsoundgood.html

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 71 comments

Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth

http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-posts-strong-profit-and-revenue-growth-1469650289

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 194 comments

At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/dealbook/bridgewater-associates-hedge-fund-culture-ray-dalio.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

167 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM

https://blog.minio.io/accelerating-sha256-by-100x-in-golang-on-arm-1517225f5ff4#.jmo3osv3q

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 86 comments

LastPass: design flaw in communication to privileged components

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=884

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 41 comments

Why poetry is good for the rational mind

https://newhumanist.org.uk/5052/why-poetry-is-good-for-the-rational-mind

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 42 comments

How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People

https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-United-Arab-Emirates-Intelligence-Tried-to-Hire-me-to-Spy-on-its-People/#.V5kvSWj9f78.hackernews

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-weather-climatechange-science-idUSKCN1061RH?rpc=401

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 191 comments

What Happened to Howard Stern?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/howard-stern-sirius.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 80 comments

Some Silicon Valley Tech Workers Get Home Loans with No Money Down

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-27/zero-down-on-a-2-million-house-is-no-problem-in-silicon-valley

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 182 comments

500 Lines or Less

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 19 comments

LexVec, a word embedding model written in Go that outperforms word2vec

https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec

10 years ago

★ 801 Go MIT
131 upvotes – 43 comments

Platform wars: the final score

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 125 comments

What is the roundest country?

http://gciruelos.com/what-is-the-roundest-country.html

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple celebrates one billion iPhones

http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/07/apple-celebrates-one-billion-iphones.html

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 147 comments

Epic Games founder says Microsoft's patches will make Steam progressively worse

http://www.pcgamer.com/tim-sweeney-thinks-microsoft-will-make-steam-progressively-worse-with-windows-10-patches/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 131 comments

Anti Mediocracy Manifesto for Software Development

http://gabordemooij.com/index.php?p=/manifest

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 104 comments

Gradient Boosting Explained in 3D

https://arogozhnikov.github.io/2016/06/24/gradient_boosting_explained.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 15 comments

The short list of jobs with high and rising pay

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/26/the-short-list-of-jobs-with-high-and-rising-pay/?mod=e2tw

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 114 comments

Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/27/facebook-is-censoring-posts-on-indian-kashmir-some-say

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Vizio acquired by LeEco for $2B

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/26/12286756/leeco-buys-vizio-tv-company-2-billion-acquisition

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

A Plane Just Flew Around the World Without a Single Drop of Fuel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/solar-impulse-2-around-the-world-flight_us_5796aca1e4b01180b530065b

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

http://downlode.org/Etext/alicebob.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Steven A. Cohen’s Newest Bet: Do-It-Yourself Computer Traders

http://www.wsj.com/articles/steven-a-cohens-newest-bet-do-it-yourself-computer-traders-1469592001

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Xen exploitation part 2: XSA-148, from guest to host

http://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-2-xsa-148-from-guest-to-host.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

Apple’s China Problem Is That Local Phones Are Good – And Cheap

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-24/apple-s-china-problem-is-that-local-phones-are-good-and-cheap

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

Jupyter: “take the domain name down immediately”

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/07/jupyter-take-domain-name-down.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Compile OCaml to JavaScript, use ReactJS, bindings to ReactJS, several examples

https://github.com/fxfactorial/ocaml-reactjs

10 years ago

★ 116 OCaml BSD-3-Clause
82 upvotes – 29 comments
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