top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-23

Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139

9 years ago

Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html

9 years ago

Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/alphabet-s-waymo-sues-uber-for-stealing-self-driving-patents?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

9 years ago

Txt.fyi

https://txt.fyi/about/

9 years ago

An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors

https://medium.com/@mitch_freada/an-open-letter-to-the-uber-board-and-investors-2dc0c48c3a7#.wk1fnq4ax

9 years ago

Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39054778

9 years ago

Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/

9 years ago

Missing $10,000 package of PAL SNES games recovered

https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/

9 years ago

Runner Disqualified After Claiming 2nd Place in Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon

http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2017/02/runner-disqualified-after-claiming-2nd.html

9 years ago

Do we really need swap on modern systems?

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/do-we-really-need-swap-modern-systems

9 years ago

Interview with John O'Nolan of Ghost

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/ghost

9 years ago

Bitcoin hits 3-year peak, nears record high on U.S. ETF approval

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin-idUSKBN16221V

9 years ago

Rails 5.1.0 Beta 1

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/2/23/Rails-5-1-beta1/

9 years ago

An epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful medical treatments

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes/517368/?single_page=true

9 years ago

“A state of flow can be achieved by deep work”

https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/

9 years ago

Math Professor Fighting Gerrymandering with Geometry

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Math-Professor/239260/

9 years ago

AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331144-500-ai-learns-to-write-its-own-code-by-stealing-from-other-programs/

9 years ago

A Simple Rust GUI with QML

https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-gui-with-qml.html

9 years ago

Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21717371-thats-no-reason-governments-stop-supporting-them-wind-and-solar-power-are-disrupting

9 years ago

White House Indicates Potential Crackdown on Recreational Marijuana

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2017/02/white-house-indicates-potential-crackdown-recreational-marijuana

9 years ago

Docker in Production: An Update

https://thehftguy.com/2017/02/23/docker-in-production-an-update/

9 years ago

The Internet Archive Pushes Back on “Notice and Staydown”

http://blog.archive.org/2017/02/23/the-internet-archive-pushes-back-on-notice-and-staydown-in-recent-comments-to-the-copyright-office/

9 years ago

Court rules search warrant applies to US emails stored on foreign servers

https://casetext.com/case/in-re-in-re-search-warrant-no-16-1061-m-to-google

9 years ago

Tips to Improve Your Mental Math Ability

http://gizmodo.com/10-tips-to-improve-your-mental-math-ability-1792597814

9 years ago

Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCON4zfMzjU

9 years ago

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

http://shattered.it

9 years ago

The Myers diff algorithm: part 1

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/

9 years ago

Problems with Android Studio

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/19/why-is-android-studio-still-such-a-gruesome-embarrassment/

9 years ago

Harvey Friedman bringing incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/this-man-is-about-to-blow-up-mathematics

9 years ago

Uber CLI

https://github.com/jaebradley/uber-cli

9 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript

PGP needs to be retired in honor

https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/on_pgp.html

9 years ago

Peter Todd (Bitcoin core dev) set up a SHA-1 “Pinata” and it's been claimed

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/834770508633694208

9 years ago

V8 is going to switch to a new compiler architecture after 5.8 branch cut

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-dev/YXpjhVeHlbI

9 years ago

Airbnb finalizes deal to buy social payments startups Tilt

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/22/airbnb-finalizes-deal-to-buy-social-payments-startups-tilt/

9 years ago

Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/

9 years ago

Perspective API – An API that makes it easier to host better conversations

http://www.perspectiveapi.com

9 years ago

Why Nothing Works Anymore

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/the-singularity-in-the-toilet-stall/517551/?single_page=true

9 years ago