top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-06

Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018

https://letsencrypt.org//2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-coming-jan-2018.html

9 years ago

Mental health is still an issue in the workplace

https://medium.com/@OlarkLiveChat/its-2017-and-mental-health-is-still-an-issue-in-the-workplace-61efbef092f

9 years ago

Defending a website with Zip bombs

https://blog.haschek.at/2017/how-to-defend-your-website-with-zip-bombs.html

9 years ago

Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708350

9 years ago

SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/soundcloud-the-youtube-for-audio-cuts-173-jobs-closes-san-francisco-london-offices

9 years ago

OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openbsd-will-get-unique-kernels-on-each-reboot-do-you-hear-that-linux-windows/

9 years ago

Regex Puzzle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5LCB3rN2dWLqsmGMy5KYtBf/puzzle-for-today

9 years ago

Fixing bugs like it's 1988

https://0xa000.blogspot.com/2017/06/fixing-bugs-like-its-1988.html

9 years ago

Magma – An encrypted email server daemon

https://magmadaemon.org/

9 years ago

Google VR Blocks: A Free 3D Modeling Tool for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

https://vr.google.com/blocks/

9 years ago

Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)

http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climate-change/

9 years ago

An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/an-uber-for-garbage-picks-up-steam-and-11-7-million-in-series-a-funding

9 years ago

Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related health startup

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/jawbone-is-being-liquidated-as-its-ceo-launches-a-related-health-startup

9 years ago

Probabilistic programming from scratch

http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/07/06/probabilistic-programming-from-scratch.html

9 years ago

Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709767

9 years ago

Amazon engineer will let strangers manage his $50,000 stock portfolio 'forever'

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/amazon-engineer-will-let-strangers-manage-his-portfolio-forever.html

9 years ago

DeepMind expands to Canada with new research office in Edmonton

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-office-canada-edmonton/?href=

9 years ago

NIST to redefine the kilogram based on a fundamental universal constant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/05/scientists-are-about-to-change-what-a-kilogram-is-thats-massive

9 years ago

France to end sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/france-petrol-diesel-ban-vehicles-cars-2040-a7826831.html

9 years ago

Pillow-SIMD – Fast, production-ready image resize for x86

https://blog.uploadcare.com/the-fastest-production-ready-image-resize-out-there-part-0-7c974d520ad9

9 years ago

MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub

https://githubengineering.com/mysql-testing-automation-at-github/

9 years ago

Migration from Postgres to Datomic

http://grishaev.me/en/pg-to-datomic

9 years ago

Analog Computers

https://blog.degruyter.com/algorithms-suck-analog-computers-future/

9 years ago

Show HN: An online interactive Kubernetes playground

http://play-with-k8s.com

9 years ago

A ReasonReact Tutorial

https://jaredforsyth.com/2017/07/05/a-reason-react-tutorial/

9 years ago

Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/intel-core-i9-fastest-chip-but-too-darn-expensive/

9 years ago

Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks

https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/cats/

9 years ago

17776

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1

9 years ago

Introducing code owners

https://github.com/blog/2392-introducing-code-owners

9 years ago

“Easy” Desk Alert Button (ESP8266 and Staples Easy Button)

https://www.nicksypteras.com/projects/easy-button-desk-alert-hack

9 years ago

Learning Elixir: My side-project

http://adrian-philipp.com/post/learning-elixir-first-side-project

9 years ago

Language Server Protocol, Rust and Emacs

https://christian.kellner.me/2017/05/31/language-server-protocol-lsp-rust-and-emacs/

9 years ago

Entropy Maximization and intelligent behaviour

http://paulispace.com/intelligence/2017/07/06/maxent.html

9 years ago

Two Commits and the User Experience of Git

https://redfin.engineering/two-commits-that-wrecked-the-user-experience-of-git-f0075b77eab1

9 years ago

The story behind the default Windows XP desktop background

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-story-worlds-famous-desktop-background

9 years ago

OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/onedrive-has-stopped-working-on-non-ntfs-drives/

9 years ago

Undersea rivers we know little about

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170706-the-mystery-of-the-massive-deep-sea-rivers

9 years ago

What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees?

https://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/6lhxme/what_happens_when_you_pay_paypal_15k_in_fees/

9 years ago

How to Create a MOOC in 28 Days

https://www.indiehackers.com/@sknthla/how-to-create-a-mooc-in-28-days

9 years ago

Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/1.html

9 years ago

Distributions are becoming irrelevant: difference was our strength and liability

https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2017/06/distributions-becoming-irrelevant/

9 years ago

Self-Managing People Are Smart about Asking for Help

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/07/05/asking-for-help/

9 years ago

A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-after-pokemon-go-where-are-the-augmented-reality-hits-1499284437

9 years ago

Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-physicists-retrocausal-quantum-theory-future.html

9 years ago

How much do hackers at the CIA/NSA/FBI make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14710305

9 years ago

Genomic Analyses of Modern Dog Breed Development

http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)30456-4

9 years ago

Exploiting a Heap Overflow in VMware

http://acez.re/the-weak-bug-exploiting-a-heap-overflow-in-vmware/

9 years ago

Theoretical Computer Science – An Introduction [pdf]

http://www-cc.cs.uni-saarland.de/media/lectures/W1415/L-Grundz%C3%BCgederTheoretischenInformatik/ti_FfSJlCM.pdf

9 years ago

Three New Open Source Container Utilities

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/three-new-open-source-container-utilities

9 years ago

An obsession with eminence warps research

http://www.nature.com/news/our-obsession-with-eminence-warps-research-1.22251

9 years ago

How the Clipboard Works, Part 1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ntdebugging/2012/03/16/how-the-clipboard-works-part-1/

9 years ago

LHCb announces a charming new particle

https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/07/lhcb-announces-charming-new-particle

9 years ago

The third thumb

http://www.daniclodedesign.com/thethirdthumb

9 years ago

Lavabit Security Misconfiguration

https://www.grepular.com/Lavabit_Security_Misconfiguration

9 years ago

A reality check for virtual headsets

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21724863-vr-has-been-more-about-hype-substance-will-change-reality-check-virtual?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2017076n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/44954/n

9 years ago

I'm a startup founder and I had sex with an investor

http://www.businessinsider.com/sexism-women-silicon-valley-tech-why-startup-founder-sex-investor-2017-7?utm_content=buffer7bf31&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti

9 years ago