top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-04

Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-crime-exclusive-idUSKBN1802U1

9 years ago

Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party

https://martinruenz.de/article/data-privacy/2017/05/03/something-is-wrong.html#page-content

9 years ago

How Stripe teaches employees to code

https://stripe.com/blog/teaching-employees-to-code

9 years ago

Build yourself a Linux

https://github.com/MichielDerhaeg/build-linux

9 years ago

★ 5.2k Shell

How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So

http://www.sizefivegames.com/2017/05/04/how-to-survive-as-a-solo-dev-for-like-a-decade-or-so/

9 years ago

Thieves drain 2FA-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/thieves-drain-2fa-protected-bank-accounts-by-abusing-ss7-routing-protocol/

9 years ago

I tried Haskell for 5 years

https://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/i-tried-haskell-for-5-years-and-heres-how-it-was/

9 years ago

Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress

https://rietta.com/blog/2017/05/03/americans-access-to-strong-encryption-is-at-risk/

9 years ago

Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/03/coinbase-adds-support-for-litecoin/

9 years ago

Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

http://blog.soylent.com/post/160300733977/soylent-closes-50-million-series-b-round-led-by

9 years ago

Mini.css – Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework

http://minicss.org/

9 years ago

Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/04/apple-plans-to-spend-1-billion-to-support-advanced-manufacturing-jobs-in-the-u-s/

9 years ago

Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/truly-seamless-reloads-with-haproxy-no-more-hacks/

9 years ago

Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

https://kotaku.com/guy-finds-starcraft-source-code-and-returns-it-to-blizz-1794897125

9 years ago

Apple has damaged the perceived value of software

http://mattgemmell.com/damage/

9 years ago

Ethical considerations of access to the HackerOne community

https://www.hackerone.com/blog/ethical-considerations-of-access-to-the-HackerOne-community

9 years ago

Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-are-there-so-many-17th-century.html

9 years ago

Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute

9 years ago

Sydney’s solar-powered e-paper traffic signs report zero failures since 2013

https://www.visionect.com/blog/epaper-reports-zero-failure/

9 years ago

High performance models in TensorFlow

https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/performance_models

9 years ago

Password reuse and credential stuffing

https://www.troyhunt.com/password-reuse-credential-stuffing-and-another-1-billion-records-in-have-i-been-pwned/

9 years ago

Some Android apps are using ultrasonic beacons to track users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/234-android-applications-are-currently-using-ultrasonic-beacons-to-track-users/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Did your life as a parent affected your life as a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14268528

9 years ago

Show HN: Interface Lovers – Interviews with designers

https://interfacelovers.com

9 years ago

Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

https://hbr.org/2017/05/why-germany-still-has-so-many-middle-class-manufacturing-jobs

9 years ago

Weed will soon clobber beer sales, Wall Street says

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/beer-sales-are-going-to-fall-because-marijuana-is-getting-so-popular-wall-street-says.html

9 years ago

Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/11896203/

9 years ago

WordPress Core up to 4.7.4 – Potential Unauthorized Password Reset

https://exploitbox.io/vuln/WordPress-Exploit-4-7-Unauth-Password-Reset-0day-CVE-2017-8295.html

9 years ago

Another Group of Google Veterans Starts a Self-Driving Technology Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/another-group-of-google-veterans-starts-a-self-driving-technology-company

9 years ago

Startup School 9: Alex Schultz, How to Grow

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/9

9 years ago

Giving the Behemoths a Leg Up on the Little Guy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-giving-behemoths-leg-up.html

9 years ago

NASA: High Performance Fast Computing Challenge

https://herox.com/HPFCC

9 years ago

Visual Studio Code April 2017

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_12

9 years ago

When Satyajit Ray Came to Hollywood

http://hazlitt.net/feature/when-satyajit-ray-came-hollywood

9 years ago

Why Haskell Is Worth Learning

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/03/05/why-haskell/

9 years ago

Open Sourcing My Personal Medical Record

https://www.hdphealth.com/open-sourcing-my-personal-medical-record-1301

9 years ago

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]

http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1049.pdf

9 years ago

Wrapping up Java 9 new Features

https://aboullaite.me/wrapping-up-java-9-new-features/

9 years ago

Why Security Backdoors are Bad (2016)

https://medium.com/@CM30/why-security-backdoors-are-bad-common-sense-version-d7776cb58781

9 years ago

Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose from Single RGB Images

https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/projects/hand3d/

9 years ago

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource

9 years ago

So You Want to Make Games

http://szafranek.net/blog/2017/05/04/so-you-want-to-make-games/

9 years ago

Build2 – A C++ Build Toolchain and Package Manager

https://build2.org/

9 years ago

Insights into High Frequency Trading from the Virtu IPO [pdf]

https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/VirtuOverview.pdf

9 years ago

A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their IQ

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/puzzle-given-ellis-island-immigrants-test-intelligence-180962779/

9 years ago

Generating Music Using GANs and Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08292

9 years ago

Reaction Engines begins construction of UK rocket engine test facility

https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/reaction-engines-begins-construction-uk-rocket-engine-test-facility/

9 years ago

Is the GPL Really Declining?

https://meshedinsights.com/2017/05/03/is-the-gpl-really-declining/

9 years ago

Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/selfhealing-transistors-for-chipscale-starships

9 years ago

Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/upshot/who-wins-and-who-loses-in-the-latest-gop-health-care-bill.html

9 years ago