top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-10-15

US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data

https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024

9 years ago

1273 upvotes – 301 comments

New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior

http://www.planetizen.com/features/95227-new-research-how-ride-hailing-impacts-travel-behavior

9 years ago

604 upvotes – 441 comments

What is Nix and why you should try it

https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/what-and-why-nix/

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 193 comments

My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/

9 years ago

413 upvotes – 147 comments

Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)

http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 293 comments

Essential C

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 55 comments

Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_vanhoef.pdf

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 49 comments

The trouble with text-only email

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 152 comments

As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/travel/747-airplane-jet-pilot.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 117 comments

Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead, but His Offspring Are All Right

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/jeremy-lefty-snail.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments
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