top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-03

Exa, a modern replacement for ls

https://the.exa.website/

9 years ago

740 upvotes – 403 comments

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

https://defaultnamehere.tumblr.com/post/163734466355/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without#jfuf232n3

9 years ago

728 upvotes – 162 comments

Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16086272/mozilla-send-file-sharing-service-launches

9 years ago

598 upvotes – 318 comments

Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con

9 years ago

567 upvotes – 254 comments

Summer Reading List

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-2017-summer-reading-list/

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 272 comments

Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16084248/patreon-profile-jack-conte-crowdfunding-art-politics-culture

9 years ago

400 upvotes – 413 comments

How I implemented my own crypto

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/implemented-my-own-crypto

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 386 comments

Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation/

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 210 comments

Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer

https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/

9 years ago

353 upvotes – 120 comments

300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/introducing-306-million-freely-downloadable-pwned-passwords/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 177 comments

Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912520-Marcus-Hutchinson-Indictment.html

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 195 comments

Languages Which Almost Became CSS

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-languages-which-almost-became-css/?f

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 136 comments

To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/open-source-software-hacker-voting.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 242 comments

Dumbo: CIA system to take over webcams, microphones

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Dumbo

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 90 comments

Update on Bitcoin Cash

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-bitcoin-cash-8a67a7e8dbdf

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 226 comments

Introducing the Keybase filesystem

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 79 comments

How Canada became an education superpower

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40708421

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 262 comments

Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918647

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 155 comments

Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-offered-to-buy-snapchat-for-at-least-30-in-early-2016-insiders-say-2017-8

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 96 comments

Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars to Drivers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/smoke-then-fire-uber-knowingly-leased-unsafe-cars-to-drivers-1501786430

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments
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