top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-10-20

Iceland's attempts to replant its forests

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-reforestation.html

8 years ago

697 upvotes – 273 comments

HolyJit: A New Hope

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new-hope/

8 years ago

627 upvotes – 199 comments

Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities

8 years ago

477 upvotes – 214 comments

Mastodon 2.0

https://medium.com/@Gargron/mastodon-2-0-e93d9d28dbb9?

8 years ago

408 upvotes – 190 comments

Writing a Bootloader

http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/

8 years ago

391 upvotes – 52 comments

Plain emails not only save time but work better (2016)

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/dont-design-emails/

8 years ago

388 upvotes – 117 comments

Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014)

http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/82710718100/kernel-101-lets-write-a-kernel

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 50 comments

What you should know as a founder of a software company

https://qotoqot.com/blog/founder-skills/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 108 comments

IPv6 Buddy

http://www.ipv6buddy.com/

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2017/ps4-namedobj-exploit/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 54 comments

“How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/how-amazon-took-seattles-soul.html

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 213 comments

Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf]

https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 57 comments

A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/upshot/a-big-test-of-police-body-cameras-defies-expectations.html

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 339 comments

My night at the museum

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20/my-night-at-the-museum/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx

https://elliotec.com/how-to-get-100-google-page-speed-score/

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 98 comments

Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger jets

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/boom-has-orders-for-76-of-its-future-supersonic-passenger-jets/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 204 comments

Google's CEO is increasingly boxed in by regulators, critics, and employees

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-19/everyone-s-mad-at-google-and-sundar-pichai-has-to-fix-it

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 181 comments

Avoiding Startup Tarpits

https://medium.com/@DanielTawfik1/its-not-a-feature-problem-avoiding-startup-tarpits-7d5ec4b8c81b

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 68 comments

FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

http://owen.cymru/fzf-ripgrep-navigate-with-bash-faster-than-ever-before/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 53 comments

Becoming Foolish

https://hmemcpy.com/2017/10/becoming-foolish/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 31 comments
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