top 50% 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

★ 7k Python MIT
199 upvotes – 47 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHp0WNe3OaSXAr1C_Oi0AQ/videos

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 27 comments

China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 186 comments

Proton.B: What this Mac malware does

https://www.cybereason.com/labs-proton-b-what-this-mac-malware-actually-does/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 87 comments

Happy nations don't focus on growth

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-20/happy-nations-don-t-focus-on-growth

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 56 comments

A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf]

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos

https://gitorials.com/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 25 comments

Fuzzing Irssi

https://irssi.org/2017/05/12/fuzzing-irssi/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 15 comments

Chaos Communication Congress is moving to Leipzig

http://ccc.de/en/updates/2017/34C3-in-leipzig

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

Google is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 167 comments

Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video]

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/12

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014)

https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

Animated Algorithms

http://www.algomation.com/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 11 comments

Writing Performance Sensitive OCaml Code

https://janestreet.github.io/ocaml-perf-notes.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 58 comments

Isdal Woman: A mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39369429

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 72 comments

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js

https://medium.com/@enjalot/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-d3-js-a8552174733a

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 9 comments

Petition against UK Home Office plans for surveillance and encryption backdoors

https://act.openmedia.org/saveoursecurityuk

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstractive summarization

https://metamind.io/research/your-tldr-by-an-ai-a-deep-reinforced-model-for-abstractive-summarization

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

The Tools We Use To Stay Afloat

https://colloq.io/blog/the-tools-we-use-to-stay-afloat

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)

https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Video Solves Mystery of How Narwhals Use Their Tusks

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/drone-footage-narwhal-tusk-mystery/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

Emulating the Rust borrow checker with C++ move-only types

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/05/emulating-rust-borrow-checker-with-c.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3196080/data-center/intels-itanium-once-destined-to-replace-x86-in-pcs-hits-end-of-line.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 95 comments

I Don’t Believe in Blockchain

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/05/13/Not-Believing-in-Blockchain

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 93 comments

What Does Perlin Noise Sound Like?

http://gpfault.net/posts/perlin-sound.txt.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Fractals Made from Shape Languages and Fancy Geometry

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329548

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Airbus A380 – $6.1B in additional costs due to project delays

http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments
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