top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-16

Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse

https://www.krackattacks.com/

9 years ago

1371 upvotes – 411 comments

I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived

https://uss-la-ca135.org/60/1960Judkins-Knott.html

9 years ago

950 upvotes – 246 comments

Keyboard latency

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

9 years ago

747 upvotes – 265 comments

ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1733/

9 years ago

566 upvotes – 146 comments

Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/

9 years ago

550 upvotes – 79 comments

You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy

https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/you-fired-your-top-talent-i-hope-youre-happy-cf57c41183dd

9 years ago

460 upvotes – 172 comments

A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly

https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722

9 years ago

388 upvotes – 86 comments

The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune

https://priceonomics.com/the-inventor-of-auto-tune/

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 86 comments

Python Graph Gallery

https://python-graph-gallery.com/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 28 comments

Perceptually uniform color spaces

https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/perceptually-uniform-color-spaces/

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 51 comments

Efficient pagination of a SQL table with 100M records

http://allyouneedisbackend.com/blog/2017/09/24/the-sql-i-love-part-1-scanning-large-table/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 73 comments

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Is Worth a Shot

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-16/the-long-term-stock-exchange-is-worth-a-shot

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 132 comments

Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue

https://www.yubico.com/2017/10/infineon-rsa-key-generation-issue/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 87 comments

Enabling Rust on Embedded Platforms – Linux, RTOS, Bare Metal

https://github.com/rust-embedded/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 50 comments

Data Structure Visualizations

http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 9 comments

Suggested Topics on Data Structures (2016) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs166/handouts/090%20Final%20Project%20Topics.pdf

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 12 comments

Tesla’s New Car Smell

https://mondaynote.com/teslas-new-car-smell-315c72c955d3

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 198 comments

Consul 1.0 Released

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-consul-1-0/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 62 comments

Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/16/facebook-acquires-anonymous-teen-compliment-app-tbh-will-let-it-run/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 141 comments

DragonflyBSD 5.0

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release50/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 33 comments

Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?

http://profsjt.blogspot.com/2017/10/is-haskell-right-language-for-teaching.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 219 comments

The Founder’s Guide to Raising a Series A Venture Financing

https://blog.atrium.co/the-founders-guide-to-raising-a-series-a-venture-financing-1de4f5aff312?gi=607acbe24e0c

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 24 comments

Fiat is Effective: fiat for the crypto crowd [pdf]

http://www.interfluidity.com/uploads/2017/10/Fiat-Is-Effective-Minitalk-light-edit-to-share.pdf

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 267 comments

The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend

https://www.gwern.net/Tanks

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 61 comments

Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food

http://www.crowdedcities.com

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

https://www.faxrocket.com/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 75 comments

ESO (European Southern Observatory) Announcing Unprecedented Discovery

https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann17071/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 1 comments

Return of Coppersmith’s Attack: Vulnerable RSA Generation

https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/public/papers/rsa_ccs17

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

Ophelia became a major hurricane where no storm had before

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/ophelia-became-a-major-hurricane-where-the-waters-are-usually-too-cold/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15480233

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

The great thaw of America’s north is coming

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171016-the-great-thaw-of-americas-north-is-coming

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 95 comments

Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3

https://microsoft.github.io/ELL/tutorials/Active-cooling-your-Raspberry-Pi-3/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

Charlie Munger – The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-psychology-of-human-misdgugement

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 35 comments

Gender Distribution in North Korean Posters

http://digitalnk.com/blog/2017/09/30/gender-distribution-in-north-korean-posters/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 26 comments

Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward (2013)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/skinner-marketing-were-the-rats-and-facebook-likes-are-the-reward/276613/?single_page=true

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

The pitfalls of A/B testing in social networks

https://tech.okcupid.com/the-pitfalls-of-a-b-testing-in-social-networks/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 18 comments

For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-views-maps-unknown-oceans-power-transmission-distance-cities

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: What is your yearly passive income?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483692

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 103 comments

North Korea's 6000-man army of hackers come into their own

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/north-korea-hacking-cyber-sony.html

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 64 comments

Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/self-driving-car-accidents-robot-drivers-are-odd-and-thats-why-they-get-hit/?utm_content=buffer0acdd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_buffer_tw_m

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 362 comments

Polhems Prize awarded to Daniel Stenberg for the creation of cURL

http://www.polhemspriset.se/aktuellt/arets-polhemspris-till-daniel-stenberg/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

A Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/how-a-quarter-of-the-cow-genome-came-from-reptiles/542868/?single_page=true

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Cali Police, Civil Liberties Groups Agreed on Transparency, Gov Brown Vetoed It

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/gov-brown-kills-law-enforcement-transparency-bill

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 8 comments

Discord Postmortem from Friday

https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/qk9cdgnqnhcn

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans, and our health care system

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/16/16357790/health-care-prices-problem

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 116 comments

Facebook Is Looking for Employees with National Security Clearances

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/facebook-is-said-to-seek-staff-with-national-security-clearance

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

What Hacker News readers want in a job

https://medium.com/@lynnetye/what-does-hacker-news-care-about-e364fb87431c

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 75 comments

Six agricultural giants on the verge of merging into three companies (2016)

https://qz.com/786382/monsanto-bayer-dupont-dow-chemical-and-syngenta-defend-their-coming-oligopoly-mon-dd-dow-syt/?utm_content=bufferd7c37&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Node.js port of WhisperSystem's libsignal

https://github.com/ForstaLabs/libsignal-node

9 years ago

★ 170 JavaScript GPL-3.0
88 upvotes – 16 comments
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