top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-05-13

Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack

https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks.html

9 years ago

1981 upvotes – 338 comments

Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/noncompete-clauses.html?_r=0

9 years ago

662 upvotes – 385 comments

Rejection Letter

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/rejection-letter.html

9 years ago

522 upvotes – 72 comments

I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour

http://www.breakit.se/artikel/7599/i-spent-two-weeks-delivering-for-uber-eats-and-made-4-4-per-hour

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 380 comments

The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus

https://hbr.org/2017/05/your-brain-can-only-take-so-much-focus?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 69 comments

Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/three-computer-games-that-make-assembly-language-fun

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 59 comments

Reverse-Engineering the Intel Management Engine

https://puri.sm/posts/reverse-engineering-the-intel-management-engine-romp-module/

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/05/microsoft-issues-wanacrypt-patch-for-windows-8-xp/

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 209 comments

The Right to Read (1997)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around

https://github.com/schollz/howmanypeoplearearound

9 years ago

★ 7kPythonMIT
199 upvotes – 47 comments
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