top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-23

Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads

9 years ago

903 upvotes – 437 comments

After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=as15562&w.starttime=2017-01-15T00%3A00%3A00&w.endtime=2017-06-23T00%3A00%3A00&show=Maxmized

9 years ago

776 upvotes – 105 comments

6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault and Harassment

http://observer.com/2017/06/justin-caldbeck-binary-capital-sexual-assault-harssment/

9 years ago

467 upvotes – 430 comments

32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak/

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 91 comments

How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-to-call-bullshit-on-big-data-a-practical-guide

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 88 comments

Twice as happy customers means half the marketing spend

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/twice-as-happy-half-the-price

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 105 comments

An all-in-one beginner's guide to modern React application development

http://www.react.express/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 35 comments

Go Language – Web Application Secure Coding Practices

https://checkmarx.gitbooks.io/go-scp/

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 50 comments

Google’s Flutter = React and Java Swing

https://codeburst.io/googles-flutter-react-java-swing-8174c8d9d402

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 152 comments

Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitalism in the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/the-wrong-kind-of-entrepreneurs-flourish-in-america

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 251 comments

How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/06/hacked-my-universitys-registration-system-python-twilio.html

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 150 comments

Why is the Internet so Slow?

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/19/why-is-the-internet-so-slow/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 153 comments

My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-father-in-four-visits-over-thirty-years

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 76 comments

Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 125 comments

Ways to Get Better at C++

http://www.fluentcpp.com/2017/06/23/7-ways-better-cpp-summer/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 172 comments

Typing Nix

http://www.tweag.io/posts/2017-05-23-typing-nix.html

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 125 comments

Female founders accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted advances

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/female-founders-accuse-vc-justin-caldbeck-of-making-unwanted-advances

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Who's running a profitable newsletter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14616440

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 99 comments

A music-lover's guide to tinnitus

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2985

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 115 comments

China Bans Livestreaming

http://mashable.com/2017/06/23/china-bans-livestreaming/?from=groupmessage#ieH.shUHUqqR

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 64 comments

pREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database writting in Go

https://github.com/nuveo/prest

9 years ago

★ 4.5k Go MIT
176 upvotes – 85 comments

Why Choose Vue.js

http://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2017/Jun/23/Why-Choose-Vue

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 157 comments

Indie games don't make money

http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/06/23/your-indie-game-will-flop-and-you-will-lose-money/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 138 comments

LambdaNative – Cross-platform mobile apps in Scheme

http://www.lambdanative.org

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Binary Puzzle

http://binarypuzzle.com/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 60 comments

Differential Privacy

https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/differential-privacy

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

Smog in our brains

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/07-08/smog.aspx

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 83 comments

Tempest attacks against AES: Stealing keys using minimal equipment [pdf]

https://www.fox-it.com/nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/Tempest_attacks_against_AES.pdf

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Pop-up bike lanes show that demand exists

http://bicycletimesmag.com/if-you-build-it-they-will-ride-pop-up-bike-lanes-prove-that-demand-exists/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 141 comments

Caffeine Smalltalk – Livecode the Web

https://thiscontext.com/2017/06/22/caffeine-livecode-the-web/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 10 comments

Reducing the size of iOS app binaries

https://blog.halide.cam/one-weird-trick-to-lose-size-c0a4013de331

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 81 comments

Using Deep Learning to Reconstruct High-Resolution Audio

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/using-deep-learning-to-reconstruct-high-resolution-audio-29deee8b7ccd

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

https://instaguide.io/#priceCalc=ram&period=mo

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Russia requesting to review source code of Western companies’ security products

http://reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19E0XB

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 105 comments

To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/style/modern-love-to-stay-in-love-sign-on-the-dotted-line-36-questions.html

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 91 comments

Porting Swift to Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/return0e/2017-06-22_gsoc_2017_porting_swift_to_haiku_-_week_4_5/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Practical waterholing through DNS typosquatting

https://blog.0day.rocks/practical-waterholing-through-dns-typosquatting-e252e6a2f99e

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Retail Store that runs on Ethereum

https://github.com/brakmic/BlockchainStore

9 years ago

★ 452 TypeScript MIT
99 upvotes – 61 comments

An inside look at Quantum DOM Scheduling

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/an-inside-look-at-quantum-dom-scheduling/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

TumbleSeed Postmortem: what went wrong

http://aeiowu.com/writing/tumbleseed/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-multiverse-theory

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Official Response to “Bancor Is Flawed”

https://blog.bancor.network/this-analysis-of-bancor-is-flawed-18ab8a000d43

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-police-cancel-hundreds-of-speeding-tickets-after-wannacry-virus-attack-20170623-gwx7na.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

Google VR180

https://blog.google/products/google-vr/world-you-see-it-vr180/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]

https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

A First Reason React App for JavaScript Developers

https://jamesfriend.com.au/a-first-reason-react-app-for-js-developers

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

China's HUMINT operations against defense contractors in full swing

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/06/23/chinas-humint-operations-against-us-defense-contractors-uncovered/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

GlobalFoundries Details 7 nm Plans: Three Generations, 700 mm², HVM in 2018

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11558/globalfoundries-details-7-nm-plans-three-generations-700-mm-hvm-in-2018

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/algorithmia-raises-10-5m-series-a-round-led-by-googles-new-ai-fund

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

The story behind the Connecticut deli math sign

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4167415/the-story-behind-that-connecticut-deli-math-sign-1.4169424

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14616998

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 78 comments
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