top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-11

Ad blocking is under attack

https://blog.adguard.com/en/ad-blocking-is-under-attack/

8 years ago

1111 upvotes – 559 comments

I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon

https://petapixel.com/2017/08/11/fell-victim-1500-used-camera-lens-scam-amazon/

8 years ago

937 upvotes – 428 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201708#10

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 191 comments

SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/11/soundcloud-saved

8 years ago

550 upvotes – 218 comments

OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships

https://openai.com/the-international/

8 years ago

510 upvotes – 213 comments

Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=150238802328673&w=2

8 years ago

366 upvotes – 125 comments

Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sundar-pichai-google-memo-diversity.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

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 472 comments

UX brutalism

https://www.uxbrutalism.com/

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 177 comments

HyperCard On The Archive

http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 115 comments

How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon Valley

http://huyenchip.com/2017/08/09/sexism-in-silicon-valley.html

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 233 comments

Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI

8 years ago

314 upvotes – 92 comments

Bootstrap 4 Beta

https://getbootstrap.com/

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 149 comments

Why I Was Fired by Google

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1502481290

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 440 comments

Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/filecoin-suspends-ico-raising-186-million-one-hour-clogs-system/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 360 comments

Crafting Plausible Maps (2015)

https://m.mythcreants.com/blog/crafting-plausible-maps/

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 55 comments

Is LIBOR, Benchmark for Trillions of Dollars in Transactions, a Lie?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-is-libor-crucial-financial-benchmark-a-lie-w497305

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 85 comments

How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/escape-time/

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 132 comments

Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs

https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/safari_should_display_favicons_in_its_tabs

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 135 comments

A note on programmer salaries

http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/12/7/a-note-on-programmer-salaries

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 222 comments

A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 66 comments

Japan’s ’golden coder’ making games apps aged 82 [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-40852480/japan-s-golden-coder-making-games-apps-aged-82

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 49 comments

Confession of a so-called AI expert

https://huyenchip.com/2017/07/28/confession.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 96 comments

Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms

http://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-fccs-new-advisory-panel-works-for-telecoms

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 82 comments

Galaxy Magazine: Free Texts

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine&tab=collection

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 23 comments

High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 95 comments

The Origin of Japanese Tempura

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-the-truth-about-japanese-tempura

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 69 comments

Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned Into Morons by TV”

http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 85 comments

Why our outdated brains are making us unhappy

https://medium.com/wills-newsletter/do-it-for-the-gram-3cffb5741f90?5

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 90 comments

Brief thoughts on the “Google memo”

https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/08/brief-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 179 comments

Small functions considered harmful

https://medium.com/@cindysridharan/small-functions-considered-harmful-91035d316c29

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 115 comments

MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-you-fix-a-school-bus-problem-call-mit-1502456400

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 109 comments

James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his legal case against Google

http://www.businessinsider.com/james-damore-may-win-nlra-legal-case-google-2017-8

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 274 comments

Lab hidden inside a famous monument

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170810-the-medieval-lab-hidden-inside-a-famous-monument

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 30 comments

Uber shareholder group wants Benchmark off board

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-uber-shareholder-group-wants-benchmark-off-board-2471805592.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 71 comments

Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory from User Mode

https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 5 comments

100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest building

https://www.nzaht.org/pages/100-year-old-fruit-cake-found-in-antarcticas-oldest-building

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 88 comments

Body Count of the Roman Empire

http://necrometrics.com/romestat.htm

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 61 comments

Companies play around with their origin stories

https://www.wsj.com/articles/forever-young-tech-startups-like-hollywood-celebrities-fudge-their-age-1502461847

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/05/bike-lane-highway-network-united-kingdom-bike-boom/527226

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 52 comments

How corporates co-opted mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable (2015)

https://theconversation.com/how-corporates-co-opted-the-art-of-mindfulness-to-make-us-bear-the-unbearable-47768

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

California Court Orders Vinod Khosla to Reopen Disputed Beach

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/11/542827955/california-court-orders-venture-capitalist-to-reopen-disputed-beach

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: What methods, tools etc. do you use to validate your business ideas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990416

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

DMCA, Easylist, Adblock, Copyright Access Control and Admiral

https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-access-control-admiral-10-things-to-know/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

Typed nils in Go 2

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/09/typed-nils-in-go-2

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 111 comments

HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node

http://save418.com/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

A Theory of Jerks (2014)

https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-re-surrounded-by-idiots-guess-who-the-real-jerk-is

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Why did we switch from Braintree to Stripe?

https://www.deekit.com/braintree-to-stripe/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 59 comments

Creating domain-specific languages in Julia using macros

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/08/dsl

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments
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