top 50% 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

Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/style/what-is-cryptocurrency.html

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 224 comments

Instagram daily use surpasses Snapchat

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/instagram-stories-anniversary/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 97 comments

Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-02/tesla-burns-through-record-cash-as-musk-brings-model-3-to-market

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 208 comments

‘This’ in JavaScript

https://zellwk.com/blog/this/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 97 comments

Cargo cult data science

http://blog.richardweiss.org/2017/07/25/data-science-in-organizations.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 40 comments

Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

https://github.com/mrmekon/toucHNews

9 years ago

★ 193 Rust Apache-2.0
143 upvotes – 146 comments

Falling lithium-ion battery prices to drive rapid storage uptake

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2017/08/03/falling-lithium-ion-battery-prices-to-drive-rapid-storage-uptake/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: RESTful Doom – HTTP+JSON API inside Doom

http://1amstudios.com/2017/08/01/restful-doom/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

Transitioning entirely to neural machine translation

https://code.facebook.com/posts/289921871474277/transitioning-entirely-to-neural-machine-translation/?utm_source=codedot_rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS+Feed

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 45 comments

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/?single_page=true

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 85 comments

Verizon and AT&T Are Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans

http://gizmodo.com/yup-verizon-and-at-t-are-a-lot-slower-after-adding-unl-1797480110

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 79 comments

Sabotaged by Polish orthography

http://blog.plover.com/lang/ogonek.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 132 comments

Japan’s labor market is tight, and higher wages may be needed to retain workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/japan-inc-may-finally-have-to-fatten-paychecks

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 134 comments

WannaCry ransomware bitcoins move from online wallets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40811972

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 137 comments

NTSB Issues Investigative Update on San Francisco Airport Near Miss

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/pr20170802.aspx

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 117 comments

Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming

http://zabanaa.github.io/notes/functional-programming-and-javascript-arrays.html

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

B2fJ – A Java Virtual Machine to run on the 8-bit home computers of the 80s

https://mzattera.github.io/b2fJ/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

'That Fentanyl – That's Death': A Story of Recovery in Baltimore

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/03/537683319/that-fentanyl-thats-death-a-story-of-recovery-in-baltimore

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 113 comments

The Science of Passionate Sex

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-science-of-passionate-sex/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Tesla's Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry

http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/13058/the-model-3-is-further-proof-of-teslas-asymmetric-war-against-the-auto-industry

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 109 comments

The Development of Chez Scheme (2006) [pdf]

https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

Germany's biggest Bitcoin exchange surrenders user data to the police

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6r9n1f/germanys_biggest_bitcoin_exchange_bitcoin/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

Encode state transitions in types using linear types

http://www.tweag.io/posts/2017-08-03-linear-typestates.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 35 comments

I was wrong (part 2)

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/i-was-wrong-part-2/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Tinker with a Neural Network (2016)

http://playground.tensorflow.org/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Texas Uses More Energy Than Any Other State

http://www.texasmonthly.com/energy/texas-uses-energy-state/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 136 comments

Writing an OS in Rust

https://os.phil-opp.com/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Places to promote your software company

https://www.mypresences.com/services/software-company/united-states/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

The ctenophore’s brain and the evolution of intelligence

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

AD – A Javascript implementation of common Active Directory tasks

https://github.com/dthree/ad/blob/master/readme.md/#

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016)

http://thenorthcode.net/2016/01/15/making-the-most-of-the-javascript-language/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

FBI Arrests Wannacry Hero Hutchins in Las Vegas

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/03/fbi-arrests-wannacry-hero-marcus-hutchins-las-vegas-reports/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments
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