top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-21

DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

10 years ago

1563 upvotes – 674 comments

Why we chose Vue.js

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/20/why-we-chose-vue/

10 years ago

637 upvotes – 271 comments

Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37713939

10 years ago

606 upvotes – 215 comments

Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking

10 years ago

513 upvotes – 288 comments

Deep learning papers reading roadmap

https://github.com/songrotek/Deep-Learning-Papers-Reading-Roadmap

10 years ago

★ 39.4k Python
421 upvotes – 25 comments

Massive Dyn DNS outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520

10 years ago

391 upvotes – 265 comments

CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the wrong people

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311713

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 180 comments

Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC

http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/268627/cuomo-signs-bill-prohibiting-airbnb-listings-in-nyc/

10 years ago

333 upvotes – 493 comments

Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 248 comments

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter_views_Schiaparelli_landing_site

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 112 comments

'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498734538/black-mirror-is-back-reflecting-our-technological-fears

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 136 comments

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (1998)

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758085

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 294 comments

Herman Miller Launches New Aeron Chair

http://www.hermanmiller.com/about-us/press/press-releases/all/herman-miller-launches-new-aeron-chair.html

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 176 comments

Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-21/microsoft-shares-poised-to-hit-record-high-boosted-by-cloud

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759064

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 90 comments

Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-21/internet-service-disrupted-in-large-parts-of-eastern-u-s

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 198 comments

Show HN: TCP over sound on Android

https://github.com/quiet/org.quietmodem.Quiet

10 years ago

★ 1.4k C
179 upvotes – 62 comments

Macs are 3 times cheaper to own than Windows PCs, says IBM's IT guy

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/macs-cost-one-third-much-223047938.html

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 171 comments

Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer

http://kellysutton.com/2016/10/20/visualizing-a-job-search-or-how-to-find-a-job-as-a-software-engineer.html

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 154 comments

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289070

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 102 comments

Nightmare Machine – Horror imagery generated by deep learning

http://nightmare.mit.edu/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Curl-library: An alert on the upcoming 7.51.0 release

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-10/0076.html

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 12 comments

AT&T Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Time Warner

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-is-in-advanced-talks-to-acquire-time-warner-1477061850

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 120 comments

The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/the-tech-bubble-didn-t-burst-this-year-just-wait

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 109 comments

Who Should a Startup Hire First?

https://shift.newco.co/who-should-a-startup-hire-first-c12b279814aa?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_PCXMqeUnmSOzPWyBIGy31CyC-5UU43rFLyLvKWs9ImS-ILur5n7fPrpvHNLBqL6uP62y3R0kT6GfuHQNJ5ohkuSCLVg&_hsmi=36077482#.dx41p7m5o

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 79 comments

Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/20/bryan-johnson-invests-100-million-in-kernel-to-unlock-the-power-of-the-human-brain/?hn

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 68 comments

A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/configurable-cloud-acceleration/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 51 comments

Vim: So long Pathogen, hello native package loading

https://shapeshed.com/vim-packages/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Bombardier to Cut 7,500 More Jobs Through 2018, Most in Rail

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/10/21/business/21reuters-bombardier-jobs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 107 comments

Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37721193

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

32GB iPhone 7 significantly slower than more expensive versions, tests show

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/32gb-iphone-7-slower-than-more-expensive-versions-tests-show

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 44 comments

The mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ might be causing the whole solar system to wobble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/20/the-mysterious-planet-nine-might-be-causing-the-whole-solar-system-to-wobble/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

Pointing the Way Forward

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/pointer-events?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=updates_feed

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

How did an entire state price itself out for entry-level home buyers?

http://www.builderonline.com/building/regulation-policy/the-unintended-consequences-of-law_o

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 166 comments

The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (1998) [pdf]

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Guidelines for Edtech Products

http://www.ycombinator.com/guidelines-for-edtech-products/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic algorithms

http://www.cypherpunks.ru/gost/English.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderly desk

http://timharford.com/2016/10/theres-magic-in-mess-why-you-should-embrace-a-disorderly-desk/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: A chat client built on git

https://github.com/staab/git-chat

10 years ago

★ 108 JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 33 comments

I Was Wrong About Offline

https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering/i-was-wrong-about-offline-fe5426894740#.fkjjlzqvp

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Verifying Wikileaks DKIM-Signatures

http://solsticlipse.com/2016/10/21/Verifying-Wikileaks-DKIM-Signatures.html

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 37 comments

A New Tack to Stave Off Alzheimer's Years Before the First Symptom

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/a-new-tack-to-stave-off-alzheimer-s-years-before-the-first-symptom/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments
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