top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-23

Why you should never use Upwork

https://medium.com/@AdShadlabs/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-5c62848bdf46#.1n597kqcn

10 years ago

1175 upvotes – 264 comments

HN comments are underrated

http://danluu.com/hn-comments/

10 years ago

733 upvotes – 359 comments

Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online

https://www.ops-class.org/

10 years ago

611 upvotes – 55 comments

PayPal 2FA Bypass

https://henryhoggard.co.uk/blog/Paypal-2FA-Bypass

10 years ago

525 upvotes – 137 comments

The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork

https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer

10 years ago

★ 7.4k Unlicense
494 upvotes – 72 comments

IPFS is the Distributed Web

http://ipfs.io

10 years ago

404 upvotes – 280 comments

Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/batteries-may-trip-death-spiral-in-3-4-trillion-credit-market

10 years ago

392 upvotes – 268 comments

The Best Way to Not Get Tenure

https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu/posts/2016-10-22-the-best-way-to-not-get-tenure/

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 201 comments

Elon Musk SpaceX AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_becoming_a/

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 92 comments

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/using-rowhammer-bitflips-to-root-android-phones-is-now-a-thing/

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 141 comments

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned

https://medium.com/baqend-blog/building-a-shop-with-sub-second-page-loads-lessons-learned-4bb1be3ed07#.adk9fij92

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 96 comments

‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/arts/television/review-black-mirror-finds-terror-and-soul-in-the-machine.html

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 138 comments

Probabilistic Programming

http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 51 comments

The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations

http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 68 comments

China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-plan-to-organize-its-whole-society-around-big-data-a-rating-for-everyone/2016/10/20/1cd0dd9c-9516-11e6-ae9d-0030ac1899cd_story.html

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 163 comments

Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pwa/#https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-a-land-of-vikings-braces-for-a-pirate-party-takeover/2016/10/23/f1bfe992-9540-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 139 comments

How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi

http://monterail.com/blog/2016/how-we-built-a-truly-smart-office-system-based-on-raspberry-pi/

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 63 comments

How I make $400 a month in Passive Income by Self-Publishing

https://medium.com/@aayushu/how-i-make-400-a-month-in-passive-income-by-self-publishing-68fa948edff5

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 61 comments

Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent

http://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 403 comments

Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again

https://blog.levit.be/twenty-years-later-i-wrote-a-tetris-again/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 42 comments

Elon Musk's finances

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709061-entrepreneurs-finances-are-jaw-dropping-inventive-and-combustible-his-space

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 86 comments

Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/03/researchers-medical-errors-now-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-united-states/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 87 comments

Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/bill-gates-he-eats-big-macs-for-lunch-and-schedules-every-minute/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 76 comments

Apple Adds ARM Support to MacOS Sierra Kernel

http://www.iclarified.com/57138/apple-adds-arm-support-to-macos-sierra-kernel

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 81 comments

The Open Steno Project

http://www.openstenoproject.org/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 36 comments

Splix.io

http://splix.io/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages

http://dippl.org/?

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12774616

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 82 comments

As Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/technology/artificial-intelligence-evolves-with-its-criminal-potential.html

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

NPM v4.0.0

https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v4.0.0

10 years ago

★ 17.6k
113 upvotes – 56 comments

The Sad State of HTML Email Input Fields and IDNs

https://grepular.com/The_Sad_State_of_HTML_Email_Input_Fields_and_IDNs

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Weekend wasted again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775797

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 74 comments

What I Learned About Julian Assange While Working Alongside Him

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/heres-what-i-learned-about-julian-assange

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 158 comments
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