top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-11

Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/21/hackers-are-hijacking-phone-numbers-and-breaking-into-email-and-bank-accounts-how-to-protect-yourself/#b71d52e360f7

9 years ago

650 upvotes – 362 comments

Inkscape Moves to GitLab

https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/06/10/inkscape-moves-gitlab/

9 years ago

525 upvotes – 208 comments

Windows93 SP2

http://www.windows93.net/#

9 years ago

517 upvotes – 121 comments

The relationship between mindset and getting old

http://aging.nautil.us/feature/218/why-you-cant-help-but-act-your-age

9 years ago

347 upvotes – 158 comments

An introduction to Wayland

https://drewdevault.com/2017/06/10/Introduction-to-Wayland.html

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular

https://github.com/berzerk0/Probable-Wordlists

9 years ago

★ 9.2k CC-BY-SA-4.0
184 upvotes – 52 comments

Signal intelligence 101: SIGINT targets

https://satelliteobservation.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/signal-intelligence-101-sigint-targets/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 9 comments

Forecasting at Uber with RNNs

https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple Is Trying to Make iMessages More Private

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-is-trying-to-make-your-imessages-even-more-private

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 110 comments

Uber Board to Discuss CEO Absence, Policy Changes: Source

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/06/11/business/11reuters-uber-board-ceo.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 100 comments

RISC-V Foundation

https://riscv.org/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 18 comments

Don't publicly expose .git (2015)

https://en.internetwache.org/dont-publicly-expose-git-or-how-we-downloaded-your-websites-sourcecode-an-analysis-of-alexas-1m-28-07-2015/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

https://sultan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

Bingrep: Like grep, but for binaries

https://github.com/m4b/bingrep

9 years ago

★ 1.7k Rust MIT
145 upvotes – 31 comments

Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/style/anxiety-is-the-new-depression-xanax.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 161 comments

GUN 0.7.9 – 15M read/sec, 15K write/sec, 2K sync/sec MIT Licensed Graph Database

https://github.com/amark/gun

9 years ago

★ 19k JavaScript
142 upvotes – 47 comments

Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (2015)

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421239869/babies-on-display-when-a-hospital-couldnt-save-them-a-sideshow-did

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple removes Facebook and Twitter integration from iOS 11

https://www.axios.com/apple-removes-facebook-and-twitter-integration-from-ios-11-2433996734.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Mapping the Shadows of New York City

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

PAAS Comparison – Dokku vs. Flynn vs. Deis vs. Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm

http://www.jancarloviray.com/blog/paas-comparison-2017-dokku-flynn-deis-kubernetes-docker-swarm/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 72 comments

It's Now Possible to Boot Android on I.MX6 Platforms Without Proprietary Blobs

http://news.softpedia.com/news/it-s-now-possible-to-boot-android-on-i-mx6-platforms-without-proprietary-blobs-516364.shtml

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

How 'OK' took over the world (2011)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12503686

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 99 comments

Snek: An experimental system for writing generative art systems

http://inconvergent.net/snek-is-not-an-acronym/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

We Know Not the Hour, but Alex Did

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448515/alex-batey-rip

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Translating a C++ parser to Haskell

http://www.haskellforall.com/2017/06/translating-c-parser-to-haskell.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

‘Low End’ Means Good Enough

http://lowendmac.com/2017/low-end-means-good-enough/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 97 comments

From Facebook account takeover to an empty bank account

https://badcyber.com/from-full-facebook-account-takeover-to-an-empty-bank-account/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

A computational linguistic farce in three acts

http://www.earningmyturns.org/2017/06/a-computational-linguistic-farce-in.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

Buying Lotion on Amazon.com

https://chrxs.net/articles/2017/06/11/buying-lotion-amazon-com/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 80 comments

The Day I Played Bill Gates and Satya at Ping-Pong

http://info.capitalandgrowth.org/bill-gates-lp/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

Random access memory (2016)

http://www.rlfbckr.org/work/random-access-memory/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Group theoretical methods in machine learning (2008) [pdf]

https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~risi/papers/KondorThesis.pdf

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/google-plans-to-demonstrate-the-supremacy-of-quantum-computing

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

There’s graft, and then there’s Odebrecht graft

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-08/no-one-has-ever-made-a-corruption-machine-like-this-one

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

April 1970: Trying to kill a sniper

http://mashable.com/2017/04/29/trying-to-kill-a-sniper/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Russian Vending Machine Sells Fake Instagram Likes

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/russian-vending-machine-fake-instagram-likes?utm_source=mbtwitter

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 now available

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2017-June/087242.html

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

How MutexGuard Was Sync When It Should Not Have Been

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2017/06/09/mutexguard-sync.html

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Stephanie, open-source virtual assistant built to control and automate tasks

https://slapbot.github.io/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 68 comments

Pavel Durov: “last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies”

https://twitter.com/durov/status/873868773119451136

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

The largest confirmed waterfall in Earth's history

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170601-the-largest-waterfall-that-ever-existed

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? (2012) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WhyFromNigeria.pdf

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Do you respect DNT in your personal websites? How?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14532344

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Anthropology professor teaching college students to live like early humans

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/professor-caveman/517815/?single_page=true

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments
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