top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-21

What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-happens-when-you-send-zero-day-to.html

9 years ago

Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

http://donw.io/post/github-comments/

9 years ago

Introducing Token

https://blog.tokenbrowser.com/introducing-token-2f2ceeab6d4c

9 years ago

Survivorship Bias

https://xkcd.com/1827/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163905

9 years ago

The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/zelda/

9 years ago

A Mind is Born

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

9 years ago

Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

http://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/

9 years ago

Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet

https://lilium.com/

9 years ago

Resources on creating programming languages

https://tomassetti.me/resources-create-programming-languages/

9 years ago

Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-secretly-bought-outside-lab-gear-ran-fake-tests-court-filings-1492794470

9 years ago

The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/04/the-evolution-of-container-usage-at.html

9 years ago

Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python

9 years ago

Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages

https://github.com/Babylonpartners/fastText_multilingual

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Jupyter Notebook BSD-3-Clause

Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (2015)

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/05/15/

9 years ago

Caddy 0.10 Released

https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_10-released#HNSaysPreviouslySubmittedButCouldNotFind

9 years ago

Louisiana’s Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/20/524896256/louisianas-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-disappearing-coastline

9 years ago

The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/the-internet-isnt-making-us-dumber-its-making-us-more-meta-ignorant.html

9 years ago

The Benefits of Solitude

https://thewalrus.ca/the-benefits-of-solitude/

9 years ago

Chicago's About to Get a Lot Less Orange

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2017/Its-Really-Hard-to-Figure-Out-What-Color-a-Citys-Streetlights-Should-Be

9 years ago

Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/04/net-neutrality-alive-well-canada-crtc-crafts-full-code-zero-rating-decision/

9 years ago

Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website

https://wrapapi.com/v2

9 years ago

I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices

https://ayende.com/blog/177921/i-was-wrong-reflecting-on-the-net-design-choices

9 years ago

Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014)

http://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html

9 years ago

Cap'n'Proto remote vuln: pointer overflow check optimized away by compiler

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/blob/master/security-advisories/2017-04-17-0-apple-clang-elides-bounds-check.md

9 years ago

★ 13k C++

Billionaire Mike Novogratz says 10% of his money is in Bitcoin and Ether

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/20/investing/mike-novogratz-bets-big-on-bitcoin-ether-blockchain/index.html

9 years ago

Uber is pushing anti-union propaganda to its drivers

https://theoutline.com/post/1417/we-listened-to-every-episode-of-uber-s-anti-union-propaganda-podcast

9 years ago

Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39579321

9 years ago

Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

http://www.nature.com/news/young-human-blood-makes-old-mice-smarter-1.21848

9 years ago

Amazon Strategy Teardown

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/amazon-strategy-teardown/

9 years ago

Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/mozilla-microsoft-rebuilding-their-browsers-foundations-without-anyone-noticing/

9 years ago

Automatic compilation of partially available C source code

http://cuda.dcc.ufmg.br/psyche-c/

9 years ago

Metaprogramming is less fun in D

https://epi.github.io/2017/03/18/less_fun.html

9 years ago

Show HN: Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint

https://recdnsfp.github.io/

9 years ago

Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/20/intel-shuts-lustre-file-system-business/

9 years ago

Alexander Grothendieck, a genius of mathematics (2015)

https://al3x.svbtle.com/alexander-grothendieck

9 years ago

Type Systems as Macros

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5426

9 years ago

Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-21/tesla-s-musk-paid-at-least-593-million-in-income-taxes-in-2016

9 years ago

Knowing where you are: custom array indices in Julia

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/04/offset-arrays

9 years ago

How gut bacteria change cancer drug activity

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-gut-bacteria-cancer-drug.html

9 years ago

Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on new hardware

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3191427/microsoft-windows/developer-lifts-windows-7s-update-blockade-with-unsanctioned-patch.html

9 years ago

Most people prosecuted for terrorism since 2001 haven’t committed a violent act

https://trial-and-terror.theintercept.com/

9 years ago

Show HN: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/deep-learning-program-synthesis/?wt.mc_id=MCR_378116_FB1

9 years ago

Power Outages Coincide in LA, New York, and San Francisco

https://www.inverse.com/article/30631-lax-sf-ny-power-outages

9 years ago

The SQL layer in CockroachDB

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/tech-notes/sql.md

9 years ago

★ 32.1k Go

Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/naked-mole-rat-oxygen-take-my-breath-awaaaaaaaay/523515/?single_page=true

9 years ago