top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-07

GitHub Enterprise SQL Injection

http://blog.orange.tw/2017/01/bug-bounty-github-enterprise-sql-injection.html?m=1

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 51 comments

“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 261 comments

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://medium.com/@JorgenVeisdal/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f#.9hp0wrml3

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 61 comments

Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/vunp/the_case_of_the_500mile_email/cvw60/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 82 comments

King – man + woman is queen; but why?

http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 101 comments

TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/07/tv_anchor_says_alexa_buy_me_a_dollhouse_and_she_does/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 232 comments

The science of Westworld

https://blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47#.th6i2yuzb

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 142 comments

Online databases dropping like flies, with 10,000 falling to ransomware

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/01/more-than-10000-online-databases-taken-hostage-by-ransomware-attackers/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13343697

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 170 comments

Reasons not to use Skype (2012)

https://stallman.org/skype.html

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 167 comments

Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks

https://medium.com/transit-app/san-franciscos-real-time-transit-data-just-went-offline-so-we-re-going-live-9ebe78f89ea1

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 72 comments

Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions

https://blog.cronitor.io/lessons-learned-with-stripe-subscriptions-d6c8d408eb1

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

9 years ago

★ 32.6k Python GPL-3.0
192 upvotes – 88 comments

Norway’s new passport – already a design classic?

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/nov/17/norway-new-passport-design

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13343042

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 318 comments

Svelte – The magical disappearing UI framework

https://svelte.technology/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 73 comments

Dropped (2014)

http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 46 comments

What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3772

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 204 comments

Family Lives in the Arctic Circle by Building Cob House in a Solar Geodesic Dome

http://mymodernmet.com/hjertefolger-arctic-circle-cob-house/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 48 comments

Lecture on Creativity (1991)

http://genius.com/John-cleese-lecture-on-creativity-annotated

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 29 comments

Kitten – A statically typed, stack-based functional programming language

http://kittenlang.org/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

An obscure research project could accelerate innovation in language design

https://blog.plan99.net/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69#.2j7ev3wf6

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

Why I Spent $100k to Fight a $10k Small Claims Lawsuit

http://joelx.com/why-i-spent-100k-to-fight-a-10k-small-claims-lawsuit/12050/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Yaft – Yet another framebuffer terminal

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft

9 years ago

★ 670 C MIT
130 upvotes – 19 comments

Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)

https://stallman.org/google.html

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 81 comments

Fix for Golang runtime memory corruption bug

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/34835/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Ransomware Spreading onto Smart TVs, Is a Pain to Fix

https://consumerist.com/2017/01/06/ransomware-spreading-onto-smart-tvs-is-a-pain-to-fix/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 117 comments

Please don’t pay to use a pay toilet

https://stallman.org/pay-toilets.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 120 comments

Chilean officials can’t identify a strange IR signal seen by its Navy

http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/after-two-years-of-study-chilean-officials-cant-explain-ufo-sighting/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: How can I get involved with Linux/OpenSSL/GnuPG/etc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13346359

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from Local App Stores

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?smid=tw-nytimestech&smtyp=cur&referer=http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/russia-forces-apple-to-remove-linkedin-from-russian-app-store.2026212/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 131 comments

Text Your Way to College

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/sunday/text-your-way-to-college.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 90 comments

10 years with util-linux project

http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2017/01/10-years-with-util-linux-project.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users’ homes, families and finances

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/wikileaks-proposes-tracking-verified-twitter-users-homes-families-and-finances/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 113 comments

Amazon's Alexa Moves in on Google's Android System

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ces-android-alexa-idUSKBN14R005

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 74 comments

The PC is interesting again

http://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/4/14167980/microsoft-windows-10-pc-laptops-desktops-interesting-again-ces-2017

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 116 comments

C99/C11 dynamic array that mimics C++'s std::vector

https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/01/06/c99-c11-dynamic-array-mimics-cpp-vector/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 158 comments

3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170103-fractal-dynamics-from-3d-julia-sets/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Did Media Literacy Backfire?

https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d#.oyyr1srvy

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 131 comments

Carrot and Stick: that doesn’t work on Programmers

https://myprogrammingexperiments.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/carrot-stick-that-doesnt-work-on-programmers/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Online CBT is no more effective than usual GP care for depression

https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article/4000366/online-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-is-no-more-effective-than-usual-gp-care-for-people-with-depression?utm_content=buffer3572b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

The spy with no name

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38261956

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Urbanisation signal detected in evolution, study shows

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38519299

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Lispy sets

http://vicsydev.blogspot.com/2016/12/lispy-sets.html

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments
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