top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-05

Browser auto-fill phishing

https://github.com/anttiviljami/browser-autofill-phishing

9 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript MIT
802 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535

9 years ago

800 upvotes – 629 comments

LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/27751961/

9 years ago

630 upvotes – 208 comments

I've removed all ad network code from my blog

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-just-permanently-removed-all-ad-network-code-from-my-blog

9 years ago

591 upvotes – 327 comments

Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo

http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-while-still-flying

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 213 comments

AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

9 years ago

345 upvotes – 329 comments

The Reality of Developer Burnout

https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/the-reality-of-developer-burnout

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 176 comments

Lessons learned as a React contractor

https://medium.com/@jolyon_russ/11-lessons-learned-as-a-react-contractor-f515cd0491cf

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 168 comments

Learning to code at 56

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/yes-im-56-and-learning-to-code-f33abea6fd4c#.zhqs1isvb

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 156 comments

Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax

https://github.com/knsv/mermaid

9 years ago

★ 87.6k TypeScript MIT
292 upvotes – 52 comments

Irssi 1.0.0 Released

https://irssi.org/2017/01/05/irssi-1.0.0-released/

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 130 comments

Snapchat Has Been Faking Growth Numbers, Ex-Employee Alleges

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/snapchat-fake-growth-lawsuit-pompliano-1201952800/

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 83 comments

Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 206 comments

Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

https://hnews.xyz/new

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 107 comments

HDMI 2.1 Announced: 10Kp120, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11003/hdmi-21-announced-supports-10kp120-dynamic-hdr-new-color-spaces-new-48g-cable

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 187 comments

Yubikey with USB-C

https://www.yubico.com/2017/01/yubikey-usb-c-ces2017/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 169 comments

Taichi – Physically based Computer Graphics Library

http://taichi.graphics/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 32 comments

Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/nvidia-and-audi-aim-to-bring-a-self-driving-ai-car-to-market-by-2020/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 133 comments

105-Year-Old Cyclist Rides 14 Miles in an Hour En Route to a World Record

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/04/508213332/105-year-old-cyclist-rides-14-miles-in-an-hour-en-route-to-a-world-record

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 109 comments

'Legitimate' US healthcare pricing could reduce costs by a third

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161014/news/161019940

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 200 comments

Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

https://vivaldi.com/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 183 comments

Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language

https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 84 comments

The True Size of Countries

http://thetruesize.com/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 66 comments

Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage

https://eklitzke.org/goroutines-nonblocking-io-and-memory-usage

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 77 comments

Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/01/04/rumors-of-cmds-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 194 comments

The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-polyamorous-christian-socialist-utopia-that-made-silverware-for-proper-americans/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 83 comments

Goodbye to GNU Libreboot

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-01/msg00001.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 82 comments

Hands on with the First Open Source Microcontroller

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/05/hands-on-with-the-first-open-source-microcontroller/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Project Valerie – The world's first triple display laptop

http://www.razerzone.com/project-valerie

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 71 comments

Working remotely with 150+ people

https://medium.com/@jobv/how-to-work-remotely-with-150-people-89741118418c#.yicmuqwdn

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High

https://hackernoon.com/the-cost-of-native-mobile-app-development-is-too-damn-high-4d258025033a

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 95 comments

Experimental Cancer Treatment That Terminates Rogue Cells Could Arrive in 2017

http://www.seeker.com/a-biologic-assassin-car-t-cell-turns-immune-system-against-cancer-2161950283.html

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/01/google-brain-residency-program-7-months_5.html

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Partition a Billion-Node Graph [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Partition.pdf

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 14 comments

OSX Chrome 55 Blocking non-store extensions without dev mode

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/703

9 years ago

★ 6.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
124 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: News from Reddit

http://fastnews.me

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

Go Proposal: Accept GitHub PRs

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517

9 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
122 upvotes – 52 comments

MuGo: A minimalist Go engine modeled after AlphaGo

https://github.com/brilee/MuGo

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Python Apache-2.0
119 upvotes – 36 comments

Select(2) is fundamentally broken

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-01-06-select-is-fundamentally-broken/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 85 comments

Dementia rates 'higher near busy roads'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38506735

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/americans-are-putting-billions-more-than-usual-in-their-401-k-s

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 452 comments

Wi-Fi TimeSync

http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-timesync

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

Venture capital is going to murder Medium

https://m.signalvnoise.com/venture-capital-is-going-to-murder-medium-656cbccf4829#.tkfbmwfm4

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: ColorMe

https://tylergaw.com/articles/introducing-colorme

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

The 10x software development gap

http://blog.contino.io/blog/the-10x-software-development-gap-why-do-some-organisations-win-and-others-lose-when-it-comes-to-software

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 115 comments

Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals

http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-in-germany-peru-and-taiwan-to-lose-access-to-elsevier-journals-1.21223

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Emirates Has Invested $500M to Build a 'Fort Knox' of Wine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/how-emirates-airline-serves-the-best-wine-list-in-the-sky

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 102 comments

.NET Core WebSockets – Cross-Platform WebSockets From DMZ to API - Service Zone

https://github.com/NetCoreStack/WebSockets

9 years ago

★ 126 C#
93 upvotes – 17 comments

The “Faster Zombies” blog post

https://richg42.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-faster-zombies-blog-post.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 15 comments

Efficient Wi-Fi Phishing Attacks

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness/efficient-wi-fi-phishing-attacks-would-you-fall-for-that/#.WG0DNcFl3Ck.twitter

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Estimated losses would make Snapchat the most unprofitable social media IPO

https://sentieo.com/blog/why-snap-will-be-the-most-unprofitable-social-media-ipo-ever/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Introducing Inferno 1.0

https://medium.com/inferno-js/introducing-inferno-1-0-f3da5c4e773b

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments
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