top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-09

Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp

https://robertheaton.com/2017/10/09/tracking-friends-and-strangers-using-whatsapp/

9 years ago

828 upvotes – 150 comments

Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41551546

9 years ago

812 upvotes – 710 comments

Librem 5 Phone Funded

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

9 years ago

364 upvotes – 171 comments

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-your-salary-history/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 126 comments

Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/08/dear-silicon-valley-americas-fallen-out-of-love-with-you/

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 457 comments

Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=climate

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 210 comments

Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

https://jewelbots.com/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: How and where can I publish my research on AI as a college dropout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435371

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 81 comments

Reverse Engineering MacOS High Sierra Supplemental Update

https://cocoaengineering.com/2017/10/08/reverse-engineering-macos-high-sierra-supplemental-update/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 130 comments

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

http://redbook.io

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 42 comments

Java at Alibaba [pdf]

https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ec-public/materials/2017-02-14/Java_at_Alibaba.pdf

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 38 comments

Debian 9.2 released

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20171007

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 117 comments

Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-quietly-enters-starcraft-war-for-ai-bots-and-loses/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 121 comments

GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c-round-led-by-gv

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 154 comments

How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80%

https://www.schneems.com/2017/07/18/how-i-reduced-my-db-server-load-by-80/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 110 comments

PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker

https://torrentfreak.com/purevpn-logs-helped-fbi-net-alleged-cyberstalker-171009/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 95 comments

First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149742-half-the-universes-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 122 comments

Doitlive, a tool for live presentations in the terminal

https://doitlive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Rejection Conditioner for YC Applications

http://rejectionconditioner.com

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 69 comments

Disqus Demonstrates How to Do Breach Disclosure Right

https://www.troyhunt.com/disqus-demonstrates-how-to-do-data-breach-disclosure-right/

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 53 comments

GM to buy LIDAR sensor-tech firm Strobe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-strobe-m-a-gm/gm-to-buy-sensor-tech-firm-strobe-to-boost-self-driving-car-push-idUSKBN1CE1IS

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

http://nautil.us/blog/-how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 70 comments

Crypto Anchors: Exfiltration Resistant Infrastructure

https://diogomonica.com/2017/10/08/crypto-anchors-exfiltration-resistant-infrastructure/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 57 comments

Redshift vs. BigQuery vs. Snowflake benchmark

https://blog.fivetran.com/warehouse-benchmark-dce9f4c529c1

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

Report: TSMC's 3nm Fab Could Cost $20B

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332419

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 78 comments

“Peer review” is younger than we think

http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2017/09/peer-review-is-younger-than-you-think.html

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

Half of all JavaScript npm packages could have been hacked via weak credentials

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of-all-javascript-npm-packages-could-have-been-hacked-via-weak-credentials/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 37 comments

Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trusted-setup-ceremony

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Cockpit – create tmux panes and windows with ease

http://cockpit.27ae60.com/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 47 comments

The Asynchronous Computability Theorem

https://medium.com/@eulerfx/asynchronous-computability-theorem-171e9d7b9423

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 9 comments

Applied Machine Learning: A Less Confusing Guide

https://udarajay.com/applied-machine-learning-the-less-confusing-guide/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 3 comments

AthenaX – Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform

https://eng.uber.com/athenax/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

Medical marijuana patients report reduction in use of prescription drugs

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-medical-marijuana-illinois-study-painkillers-met-20171008-story.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-home-key-stone-age.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

SpaceX Iridium-3 Mission Launching Streaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4N4xF2B2w

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/intel-coffee-lake-8700k-review/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 110 comments

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2017/press.html

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/business/robot-food-cost-jobs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 224 comments

Using blockchain for identity management is mostly ridiculous

https://blog.xot.nl/2017/09/06/blockcerts-using-blokchain-for-identity-management-is-mostly-ridiculous/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Inside the CIA’s black site torture room

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support

https://blog.project-fifo.net/project-fifo-0-9-3-release-hello-freebsd/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Privoxy, a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities

https://www.privoxy.org/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Gameboy Camera Extraction Via Arduino

http://briankhuu.com/projects/gameboy_camera_arduino/gameboy_camera_arduino.html

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Paperclip optimizer

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Diagnosing a Linux-only unit test failure

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2017/10/08/diagnosing-a-linux-only-unit-test-failure/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

The Last Line Effect

https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0260/

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments
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