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

iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-stealpassword-easily-get-the-users-apple-id-password-just-by-asking

9 years ago

867 upvotes – 320 comments

The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/

9 years ago

853 upvotes – 207 comments

150 days of living and coding in a van

https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-150-days-of-van-life/

9 years ago

720 upvotes – 436 comments

Disabling the Intel Management Engine

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine

9 years ago

707 upvotes – 219 comments

Dangers of CSV Injection

http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

9 years ago

645 upvotes – 188 comments

The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case

http://www.dreamhost.com/blog/the-end-of-the-road/

9 years ago

596 upvotes – 135 comments

Google Data Studio

https://www.google.com/analytics/data-studio

9 years ago

512 upvotes – 228 comments

CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/circleci-is-hopelessly-insecure/

9 years ago

508 upvotes – 190 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

474 upvotes – 10 comments

OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics

https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analytics/

9 years ago

422 upvotes – 180 comments

Pencil and Paper Games

http://www.papg.com

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 48 comments

Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners

http://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/elliptic-curves

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 30 comments

What happened when I opened a restaurant in Portland

http://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2016/09/30/heres-what-happened-when-i-opened-a-restaurant-in-portland/

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 323 comments

A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire

https://theartandscienceofdata.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/the-billionaire-clusters/

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 92 comments

Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated

https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 95 comments

The Corrosion of High School Debate

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/09/26/corrosion-high-school-debate-and-how-it-mirrors-american-politics

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 262 comments

APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99%

https://fractalwrench.co.uk/posts/playing-apk-golf-how-low-can-an-android-app-go/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 70 comments

Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 145 comments

SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox

https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-leads-164-million-bet-on-digital-mapping-startup-mapbox-1507640404

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 58 comments

.NET core spies on users by default

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093

9 years ago

★ 3.4k
250 upvotes – 150 comments

Study finds putting people in prison increases re-offence rate vs. probation

http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/05/uc-berkeley-professor-co-authors-study-saying-people-sentenced-prison-likely-return/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 154 comments

Google's $19B Black Box Is Worrying Investors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-09/google-s-19-billion-black-box-is-worrying-investors

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 135 comments

The Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/prejudice-pride

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 97 comments

NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/10/08/nextdoor-says-users-who-share-posts-with-reporters-could-be-kicked-off-the-site/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 299 comments

How to Be a Know-It-All

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/16/how-to-be-a-know-it-all

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 48 comments

Functor-Oriented Programming

http://r6.ca/blog/20171010T001746Z.html

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 67 comments

Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)

http://www.zoon.cc/stupid/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 88 comments

Is Uncle Bob serious?

https://dev.to/bosepchuk/is-uncle-bob-serious-dhi

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 171 comments

On St. Augustine's Confessions

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/10/26/sarah-ruden-augustine-dialogue-god/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 26 comments

Bubble – Visual Programming

https://bubble.is

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 117 comments

Times I've Messed Up as a Developer

https://medium.com/@zacharykuhn/the-times-ive-messed-up-as-a-developer-3c0bcaa1afd6

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 136 comments

37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/09/fake-adblock-plus-chrome-extension/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 39 comments

How We Built the ARKit Sudoku Solver

https://blog.prototypr.io/behind-the-magic-how-we-built-the-arkit-sudoku-solver-e586e5b685b0

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

A Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend

https://www.gq.com/story/the-man-who-forgot-he-was-a-rapper

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 24 comments

Universal Basic Income and the threat of tyranny

http://quillette.com/2017/10/09/universal-basic-income-threat-tyranny/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 144 comments

Will automation put an end to the American trucker?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 178 comments

Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wjRD/solo-founders-with-profitable-businesses-collected-stories.html

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

Killing the C++ Modules Technical Specification

https://izzys.casa/posts/millennials-are-killing-the-modules-ts.html

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 132 comments

Rat: Compose shell commands to build interactive terminal applications

https://github.com/ericfreese/rat

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Go MIT
120 upvotes – 13 comments

Singular Value Decomposition for Programmers

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Numerics-4-Singular-Value-Decomposition-SVD

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 8 comments

Out to Get You

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/out-to-get-you/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Women who had high-level roles in breaking codes

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171009-the-female-code-breakers-who-were-left-out-of-history-books

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 20 comments

The privilege of risk

http://blog.edtechie.net/asides/the-privilege-of-risk/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 80 comments

My Sudden Synaesthesia

https://mosaicscience.com/story/-synaesthesia-blind-seeing-colours-synasthesia

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

The IIT Bombay English-Hindi Parallel Corpus [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02855

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 13 comments

Bacteria with synthetic gene circuit self-assemble into working device

http://pratt.duke.edu/news/pressure-sensor

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining?

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/california-school-test-scores-why-are-they-flatlining/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 226 comments

Electromagnetic compatibility, come and see

https://helentronica.com/2017/07/23/emc-come-and-see/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 26 comments

Porsche will begin an app-based subscription service next month

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-10/drivers-to-summon-porsches-with-new-2-000-a-month-subscriptions

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 89 comments

Reverse engineering a Gameboy ROM with radare2

https://www.megabeets.net/reverse-engineering-a-gameboy-rom-with-radare2/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 4 comments

A collection of non-standard punctuation marks

http://progressivepunctuation.com/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 87 comments

Macro-Less Code Exec in MSWord

https://sensepost.com/blog/2017/macro-less-code-exec-in-msword/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments
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