top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-22

Exposing high-end poker cheating devices

https://www.elie.net/blog/security/fuller-house-exposing-high-end-poker-cheating-devices

10 years ago

AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-m-a-at-t-idUSKCN12L1Y0

10 years ago

2017 Rust Roadmap

https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/roadmap-2017/text/0000-roadmap-2017.md

10 years ago

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A Professor Who Was Right About Index Funds All Along

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/the-professor-who-was-right-about-index-funds-all-along

10 years ago

1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk

10 years ago

Comparison with Other Frameworks

https://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html

10 years ago

Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html

10 years ago

Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine

https://freeablo.org/

10 years ago

When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas

http://tombh.co.uk/when-your-screen-breaks-in-the-himalayas

10 years ago

Japan’s koseki system: dull, uncaring but efficient

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/06/22/issues/japans-koseki-system-dull-uncaring-terribly-efficient/#.WAq-taOZNP0

10 years ago

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

10 years ago

Hackers say Friday's massive DDoS attacks were just a dry run

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hackers-ddos-attacks-1.3817392

10 years ago

When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]

https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf

10 years ago

How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is

https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/how-to-accept-over-engineering-for-what-it-really-is-6fca9a919263

10 years ago

How BitTorrent Works

http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-bittorrent-really-works.html

10 years ago

GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Editor

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/22/gitlab-8-13-released/

10 years ago

How to Make a Computer Operating System

https://github.com/SamyPesse/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System

10 years ago

★ 22.4k C Apache-2.0

Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation

http://www.nature.com/news/tardigrade-protein-helps-human-dna-withstand-radiation-1.20648

10 years ago

ZMODEM

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

10 years ago

Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-150d11df-c541-44a9-9332-560a19828c47

10 years ago

Category Theory for the Working Hacker [video]

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/category-theory-propositions-principle

10 years ago

It’s official: Venezuela is a dictatorship

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/10/21/its-official-venezuela-is-a-dictatorship/?utm_term=.fdf079a69190

10 years ago

Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks

https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/mirai-botnet-linked-dyn-dns-ddos-attacks/

10 years ago

Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Trolling in 1847

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/13/kierkegaard-diary-bullying-trolling-haters/

10 years ago

“Curl Bash piping” wall of shame

https://gnu.moe/wallofshame.md

10 years ago

LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’

https://thestack.com/security/2016/10/06/linkedin-accesses-gmail-contacts-via-auto-authorization/

10 years ago

How can you tell if someone is kind? Ask how rich they are

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/21/how-can-you-tell-if-someone-is-kind-ask-how-rich-they-are

10 years ago

Cooperative Domain Name System

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/codons.php

10 years ago

Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/colonizing-mars

10 years ago

The Art of Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3605/the-art-of-fiction-no-64-kurt-vonnegut

10 years ago

Netflix Denominator – Portably control DNS clouds using Java or bash

https://github.com/Netflix/denominator

10 years ago

★ 581 Java Apache-2.0

Iceland Is Drilling a 3-Mile Hole to Tap Magma Power

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/news/a23490/iceland-3-mile-hole-magma/

10 years ago

I spent 28 years on death row

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/21/28-years-on-death-row

10 years ago

DNSChain – A blockchain-based DNS and HTTP server

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

10 years ago

★ 1.7k CoffeeScript

Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack

http://hub.dyn.com/dyn-blog/dyn-statement-on-10-21-2016-ddos-attack

10 years ago

LibVMI: virtual machine introspection

http://libvmi.com/

10 years ago

Using the KVM API

http://lwn.net/Articles/658511/

10 years ago

Mirai Botnet Client, Echo Loader and CNC source code

https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code

10 years ago

★ 9.2k C GPL-3.0

The Perils of Peak Attention

https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention

10 years ago

We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345?s=08

10 years ago

Update Regarding DDoS Event Against Dyn Managed DNS on Oct 21

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/5r9mppc1kb77

10 years ago