top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-28

Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

9 years ago

734 upvotes – 218 comments

Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116379

9 years ago

628 upvotes – 135 comments

FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to MDMA for treatment of PTSD

http://www.maps.org/news/media/6786-press-release-fda-grants-breakthrough-therapy-designation-for-mdma-assisted-psychotherapy-for-ptsd,-agrees-on-special-protocol-assessment-for-phase-3-trials

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 113 comments

Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute

https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute/

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 106 comments

My wonderful world of macOS

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os/

9 years ago

★ 21.1k Rust MIT
402 upvotes – 231 comments

Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be its next CEO

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/27/16212552/uber-board-ceo-decision-staff

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 199 comments

Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/toyotas-research-institute-head-says-full-autonomous-driving-is-not-even-close/

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 428 comments

Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swos-a-culture-in-crisis/

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 342 comments

KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksql-open-source-streaming-sql-for-apache-kafka/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 81 comments

Why successful startups stumble at 40 employees

https://thinkgrowth.org/why-successful-startups-stumble-at-40-employees-66312ac70fba

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 119 comments

Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development

http://lpan.io/what-i-learnt-from-viw/

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 181 comments

Void Linux

https://www.voidlinux.eu/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 88 comments

Teach Yourself Logic 2017: A Study Guide [pdf]

http://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/TeachYourselfLogic2017.pdf

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 43 comments

When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job

https://medium.com/@taitems/how-i-replicated-an-86-million-project-in-57-lines-of-code-277031330ee9

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 92 comments

An MNIST-like fashion product dataset

https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist

9 years ago

★ 12.7k Python MIT
220 upvotes – 21 comments

North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/north-korea-fires-missile-yonhap-reports

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS

https://github.com/alexellis/faas-netes

9 years ago

★ 2.1k Go
194 upvotes – 67 comments

Claude Shannon’s method for formulating and solving problems

http://www.businessinsider.com/engineer-claude-shannon-problem-solving-process-2017-7

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 24 comments

Missilemap

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/faq/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15119591

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 127 comments

JuNest: Arch Linux-based distro that runs on any Linux OS, without root access

http://fsquillace.github.io/junest-site/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 68 comments

6502cloud – Bringing the 80's to the cloud

http://www.6502cloud.com/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin investing using Dollar Cost Averaging strategy

https://github.com/0x13a/bitcoin-trading-dca

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 120 comments

The significance of plot without conflict (2012)

http://stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/25153960313/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)

https://phys.org/news/2007-10-snowdrift-game-tops-prisoner-dilemma.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 115 comments

6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten

https://dev.to/peteranglea/6-months-of-working-remotely-taught-me-a-thing-orten

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 55 comments

Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/why-are-so-many-base-jumpers-dying/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 268 comments

Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/inside-the-collection-of-industry-newsletters-continues-to-bet-on-email-the-largest-social-network/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 146 comments

Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/28/facebook-fake-news-ads/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 246 comments

I’ll write you a Slack bot in return for a $5K donation to ScriptEd

http://dopeboy.github.io/bot-for-a-cause/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

German students win hyperloop competition, reaching 200 mph

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/28/16213348/hyperloop-pod-competition-spacex-warr-elon-musk

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 97 comments

Taking meldonium for performance enhancement

http://deadspin.com/i-doped-like-maria-sharapova-and-it-was-actually-pretty-1798352480

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 151 comments

Sharding data models

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/08/28/five-data-models-for-sharding/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 19 comments

How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day

https://stackshare.io/uploadcare/how-uploadcare-built-a-stack-that-handles-350m-file-api-requests-per-day

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 40 comments

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sandbagger: sometimes TV from the 70s holds up

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2017/08/27/tinker-tailor-soldier-sandbagger-sometimes-tv-70s-holds/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 85 comments

Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-some-psychiatric-disorders-a-ph-problem/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X VPU, Featuring ‘Neural Compute Engine’

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11771/intel-announces-movidius-myriad-x-vpu

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

This VR cycle is dead

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/26/this-vr-cycle-is-dead/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 173 comments

Investor Alert: Public Companies Making ICO-Related Claims

https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-alert-public-companies-making-ico-related

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

Rust – Coroutines support merged

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43076

9 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
111 upvotes – 39 comments

China forbids anonymous online posts

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

The truth about toilet swirl (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaad0rsV38

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/dining/restaurant-software-analytics-data-mining.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116487

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 77 comments

The “free” economy comes at a cost

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21727073-economists-struggle-work-out-how-much-free-economy-comes-cost

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 72 comments

Optimizing latency of an Arduino MIDI controller

http://www.jonnor.com/2017/04/optimizing-arduino-midi-controller-latency/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

Interview with Ken Thompson (2011)

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/interview-with-ken-thompson/229502480

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

North Korea fires missile over Japan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/north-korea-fires-missile-japan

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

From Burn-Out Entrepreneur to Automating My $4M Company

https://medium.com/@neocody/how-i-went-from-burn-out-entrepreneur-to-automating-my-4m-company-and-10x-my-productivity-45cefcbcac0c

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

The Limits of Copy-On-write: How Ruby Allocates Memory

https://brandur.org/ruby-memory

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Keylogging on IPhone and Android Using Gyroscope Data and Machine Learning

https://medium.com/@tomasreimers/axolotl-a-keylogger-for-iphone-and-android-a8b7b62cdab4

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-tr-1950x

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Create Page Layout Visualizations in R

https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/ggpage

9 years ago

★ 342 R
82 upvotes – 35 comments
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