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

Getting Started with Headless Chrome

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome

9 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238005

9 years ago

Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole

https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/

9 years ago

Escalation of Privilege Advisory

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&languageid=en-fr

9 years ago

The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated

https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html

9 years ago

Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think

9 years ago

Esoteric programming paradigms

http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/04/09/six-programming-paradigms-that-will/

9 years ago

Y Combinator When No One Cared

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/y-combinator-when-no-one-cared

9 years ago

Moneyball teams

http://bg-blog.com/2017/04/21/moneyball-teams/

9 years ago

Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless/

9 years ago

Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key

https://krypt.co

9 years ago

Programming as a Way of Thinking

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/programming-as-a-way-of-thinking

9 years ago

Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/68k73n/we_didnt_pay_our_yelp_protection_money_heres_what/

9 years ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQpkQ1etdA

9 years ago

“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03277.html

9 years ago

Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (2014)

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/08/05/undo-the-damage-of-sitting/

9 years ago

Homebrew 1.2.0

https://brew.sh/2017/05/01/homebrew-1.2.0/

9 years ago

Intel's Remote AMT Vulnerability

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html

9 years ago

Angie's List Acquired for $500M by IAC

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/iac-to-acquire-angie-s-list-in-deal-valued-at-about-500-million

9 years ago

AMD's revenue rises 18%, but margin forecast disappoints

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amd-results-idUSKBN17X2CZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

9 years ago

Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably just build a Mac tower

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/05/hackintoshes-keep-giving-apples-frustrated-pros-a-place-to-go/

9 years ago

Asynchronous Programming in Python: Asyncio

http://djangostars.com/blog/asynchronous-programming-in-python-asyncio/

9 years ago

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications

http://codingthematrix.com/

9 years ago

Banning exploration in my infovis class

https://medium.com/@eytanadar/banning-exploration-in-my-infovis-class-9578676a4705

9 years ago

My coffeehouse nightmare (2005)

http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/

9 years ago

A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet

http://38north.org/2017/03/mwilliams030317/

9 years ago

LuaJIT 2.0.5 and 2.1.0-beta3 released

http://luajit.org/

9 years ago

FuncShell – A Haskell-based alternative to awk

https://github.com/iostreamer-X/FuncShell

9 years ago

★ 290 Haskell MIT

Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/sent-to-prison-by-a-software-programs-secret-algorithms.html

9 years ago

The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/fyre-festival-pitch-deck

9 years ago

The fifty shades of Latin

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-fifty-shades-of-latin.html

9 years ago

INTEL-SA-00075 Mitigation Guide [pdf]

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26754/eng/INTEL-SA-00075%20Mitigation%20Guide%20-%20Rev%201.1.pdf

9 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238007

9 years ago

IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw)

https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/05/no-jigsaw

9 years ago

VHDL or Verilog?

http://fpgasite.blogspot.com/2017/04/vhdl-or-verilog.html

9 years ago

How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint (2016)

https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-lead-problem-in-flint-65626

9 years ago

Open Sourcing our new Duckling – Probabilistic Parser Rewritten in Haskell

https://wit.ai/blog/2017/05/01/new-duckling

9 years ago

Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/engineers_investigate_a_no_bake_recipe_to_make_bricks_from_martian_soil

9 years ago

HardenedLinux: The way to the Ark

https://hardenedlinux.github.io/announcement/2017/04/29/hardenedlinux-statement2.html

9 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238006

9 years ago

Springer retracting 107 papers published in Tumor Biology with fake peer reviews

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/04/20/new-record-major-publisher-retracting-100-studies-cancer-journal-fake-peer-reviews/

9 years ago

Facebook told advertisers it can identify teens feeling 'insecure', 'worthless'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/01/facebook-advertising-data-insecure-teens?CMP=twt_gu

9 years ago

Are we underestimating the vulnerability of bridges?

https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/when-bridges-collapse-are-we-underestimating-risk

9 years ago