top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-27

Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

9 years ago

★ 22.5k Python MIT

European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm

9 years ago

Author of cURL denied entry to the USA

https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152

9 years ago

How HTTPS Handshake Happens

http://sudhakar.online/programming/2015/08/09/https.html

9 years ago

Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot

https://mtlynch.io/greenpithumb/

9 years ago

Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/

9 years ago

How I learned to code in my 30s

https://medium.com/udacity/how-i-learned-to-code-in-my-30s-61ad21180208

9 years ago

Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

https://www.numfocus.org/blog/why-is-numpy-only-now-getting-funded/

9 years ago

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/09/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-a-guide-for-non-scientists/

9 years ago

MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/mits-gas-powered-drone-is-able-to-stay-in-the-air-for-five-days-at-a-time

9 years ago

Moderate drinking associated with atrophy in brain related to memory, learning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/even-moderate-drinking-causes-atrophy-in-brain-area-related-to-memory-learning/2017/06/23/7e07debc-576c-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

9 years ago

Kill sticky headers (2013)

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

9 years ago

Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers

https://landave.io/2017/06/avast-antivirus-remote-stack-buffer-overflow-with-magic-numbers/

9 years ago

A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry

https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-facing-the-meal-kit-industry-345f14df45ad

9 years ago

An Ikea Bowl Has Been Setting Things on Fire

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ikea-bowl-blanda-blank-fire

9 years ago

Google's response to the European Commission fine

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-europe/european-commission-decision-shopping-google-story/

9 years ago

Solving Industry-Specific Problems by Combining AI and Subject Matter Expertise

http://www.bradfordcross.com/blog/2017/6/13/vertical-ai-startups-solving-industry-specific-problems-by-combining-ai-and-subject-matter-expertise?imm_mid=0f3d3e&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170626

9 years ago

Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit

https://gusto.com/framework/payroll/new-federal-rd-tax-credit/

9 years ago

TypeScript 2.4

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/06/27/announcing-typescript-2-4/

9 years ago

Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103831654565331

9 years ago

The Limits of the CAP Theorem

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/limits-of-the-cap-theorem/

9 years ago

Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Despite-money-and-work-homelessness-in-SF-as-bad-11242946.php

9 years ago

Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive

https://tesoro.io

9 years ago

Deepest Dive Under Antarctica

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/under-antarctica-frozen-beauty-exotic-creatures-penguins/

9 years ago

Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

9 years ago

A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/

9 years ago

Learn React with Copywork

https://daveceddia.com/learn-react-with-copywork/

9 years ago

JavaScript Fatigue or My History with Web Development

https://www.alexkras.com/my-history-with-web-development-or-javascript-fatigue/

9 years ago

History of Lisp Editing

https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-editing

9 years ago

★ 590

We Analyzed 100M Headlines

http://buzzsumo.com/blog/most-shared-headlines-study/

9 years ago

China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from cameras to monitor citizens

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-all-seeing-surveillance-state-feared-in-the-west-is-a-reality-in-china-1498493020

9 years ago

Compiling a subset of Python syntax to x86-64 assembly for fun and zero profit

http://benhoyt.com/writings/pyast64/

9 years ago

Show HN: StackImpact – Python Production Profiler: CPU, Memory, Exceptions

https://github.com/stackimpact/stackimpact-python

9 years ago

★ 654 Python BSD-3-Clause

Artistically shaped magnets may make stellarators easier to manage than ITER

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/wibbly-wobbly-magnetic-fusion-stuff-the-return-of-the-stellarator/

9 years ago

A shift in China to less toxic coatings for containers increases shipping costs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-26/an-environmental-push-is-rocking-the-global-shipping-industry

9 years ago

Curl author Daniel Stenberg‏ denied entry to U.S. by ESTA

https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879193489753485312

9 years ago

Growing fibers

https://wingolog.org/archives/2017/06/27/growing-fibers

9 years ago

Sony open-sources NNabla – a simple, fast and lightweight NN library

https://github.com/sony/nnabla

9 years ago

★ 2.7k Python Apache-2.0

Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/cloudflare-launches-cloudflare-apps-platform-and-100m-fund-from-investors

9 years ago

Maersk IT systems infected with ransomware

https://twitter.com/Maersk/status/879679584282738688

9 years ago

Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern

https://hackernoon.com/functional-programming-in-javascript-is-an-antipattern-58526819f21e

9 years ago

California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1

9 years ago

Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack

https://medium.com/@ianjsikes/get-started-with-rust-webassembly-and-webpack-58d28e219635

9 years ago

Rise of ARM: First Windows 10 PC Running Snapdragon 835 Chip Demonstrated

https://fossbytes.com/windows-10-pc-snapdragon-835-arm-microsoft/

9 years ago

Build your own FPGA (2012)

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA

9 years ago

The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-27/the-chaos-computer-club-is-fighting-to-save-democracy

9 years ago

Show HN: Find maintained forks of your favorite GitHub repos

http://forked.yannick.io/tensorflow/models

9 years ago

Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/15/how-a-street-in-brooklyn-is-changing-the-energy-grid-215268

9 years ago

HMS Queen Elizabeth is 'running outdated Windows XP', raising cyber attack fears

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/27/hms-queen-elizabeth-running-outdated-windows-xp-software-raising/

9 years ago

A Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/latest-high-severity-flaw-in-windows-defender-highlights-the-dark-side-of-av/

9 years ago

The Future of Coal Country

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-future-of-coal-country

9 years ago