1088
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Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-reports/
9 years ago
471
187
Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
https://twitter.com/webster/status/906346071210778625
431
87
Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free
https://unarbitrate.org/
284
209
Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason
https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#messengercom-now-50-converted-to-reason
267
52
How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
https://www.dataquest.io/blog/making-538-plots/
251
182
How to conduct a good programming interview
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/HowtoconductagoodProgrammingInterview.html
242
2
Show HN: 1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps
https://github.com/jbucaran/hyperapp
★ 19.2k JavaScript MIT– 9 years ago
217
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No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/psa-no-matter-what-you-write-equifax-may-tell-you-youve-been-impacted-by-the-hack/?ncid=mobilenavtrend
213
A modest proposal
https://www.happyassassin.net/2017/09/07/a-modest-proposal/
210
110
NASA's plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano
206
44
Restoring a Soviet-era analog synthesizer
http://imgur.com/a/8plOW
192
22
Bitcoin lecture series (2015)
http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
186
16
The Corpus Christi Prime
https://friendlyfieldsandopenmaps.com/2017/09/08/the-corpus-christi-prime/
185
141
JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0
https://blog.campvanilla.com/javascript-the-curious-case-of-null-0-7b131644e274
174
28
Breaking the x86 Instruction Set: how to find undocumented x86 instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
173
48
Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language
https://github.com/munificent/vigil
★ 3k Python – 9 years ago
164
The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault/539211/?single_page=true
162
189
France, Germany, Italy, Spain seek to base taxes on digital giants' revenues
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tax-digital/france-germany-italy-spain-seek-tax-on-digital-giants-revenues-idUSKCN1BK0HX
158
151
Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-struts-statement-on-equifax
155
70
Virginia has decertified its most hackable voting machines
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/virginia-dre-voting-machines-hack
150
33
The Little Book of Semaphores (2016) [pdf]
http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/LittleBookOfSemaphores.pdf
147
68
Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push
20
Show HN: Jupyter4kids – Notebooks to help teach kids principles of programming
https://github.com/mikkokotila/jupyter4kids
★ 773 Jupyter Notebook – 9 years ago
136
65
Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)
http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html
124
92
Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page ‘summary’
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146647-baffling-abc-maths-proof-now-has-impenetrable-300-page-summary/
118
Show HN: A library to record and intercept JavaScript at runtime
http://maierfelix.github.io/Iroh/
117
36
Smalltalk Envy
https://paulhammant.com/2017/09/01/smalltalk-envy/
116
Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual-Licensing and Breach of GPL
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/important-open-source-ruling-confirms-enforceability-dual-licensing-and-breach-gpl
109
40
Demand for sand is killing rivers in Africa
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41123284
108
Introduction to Statistics using NumPy
https://mubaris.com/2017-09-09/introduction-to-statistics-using-numpy
107
42
How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.12596/full
102
Lessons I learned while implementing technical RFCs as a management tool
https://buriti.ca/6-lessons-i-learned-while-implementing-technical-rfcs-as-a-management-tool-34687dbf46cb
Protecting a drug patent by selling it to a Native American tribe
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/health/allergan-patent-tribe.html
100
17
Database Learning: Toward a Database That Becomes Smarter Every Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05468
98
27
Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-lazy-ants-unexpected-ways.html
91
Milabot: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02349
90
XML? Be cautious
https://blog.pragmatists.com/xml-be-cautious-69a981fdc56a
Global Warming and Hurricanes, an Overview of Current Research Results
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
89
21
Numbers and tagged pointers in early Lisp implementations
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-numbers/
86
78
Robots Still Haven’t Taken Over: A brief history of machine anxiety
http://lithub.com/its-been-100-years-and-the-robots-still-havent-taken-over/
84
Quadratic voting (2014)
http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
82
67
The readability of scientific texts is decreasing
https://elifesciences.org/articles/27725
81
29
The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick
http://lithub.com/the-original-1851-reviews-of-moby-dick/
Stop SESTA: Amendments to Federal Criminal Sex Trafficking Law Sweep Too Broadly
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/stop-sesta-amendments-federal-criminal-sex-trafficking-law-sweep-too-broadly
79
80
Safari is the new IE
http://fabiofranchino.com/blog/css-height-parent-flex-safari-issue/
74
39
Tampa Bay’s coming storm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environment/tampa-bay-climate-change/?utm_term=.46562afa5dae
