top 50% 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

9 years ago

HolyJit: A New Hope

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

9 years ago

Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities

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

9 years ago

Mastodon 2.0

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

9 years ago

Writing a Bootloader

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014)

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

9 years ago

What you should know as a founder of a software company

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

9 years ago

IPv6 Buddy

http://www.ipv6buddy.com/

9 years ago

The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu

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

9 years ago

“How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

My night at the museum

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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/

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

Avoiding Startup Tarpits

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

9 years ago

FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

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

9 years ago

Becoming Foolish

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

9 years ago

MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements

https://consumerist.com/2017/10/19/mastercard-ending-signature-requirements/

9 years ago

The story of the 1968 “Fuck the Draft” poster

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_never_before_told_story_of_the_man_in_the_fuck_the_draft_poster

9 years ago

Airbus’s tie-up with Bombardier is damaging for Boeing

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21730466-american-aerospace-giants-campaign-tariffs-against-c-series-aircraft-has

9 years ago

DotNetAnywhere: An Alternative .NET Runtime

http://www.mattwarren.org/2017/10/19/DotNetAnywhere-an-Alternative-.NET-Runtime/

9 years ago

Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges – The Aliens Are All Asleep

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/computing-and-the-fermi-paradox-a-new-idea-emergestheyre-all-asleep

9 years ago

The Source Code for NYC's Forensic DNA Statistical Analysis Tool

https://github.com/propublica/nyc-dna-software

9 years ago

★ 321 C#

Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/world/australia/holden-automaker-factory-closes.html

9 years ago

A History of Music Notation

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/music/maps/sound-systems

9 years ago

My first experience with formal methods

http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/10/19/formal-intro.html

9 years ago

In Fermat’s Library, No Margin Is Too Narrow

http://nautil.us/blog/in-fermats-library-no-margin-is-too-narrow

9 years ago

Attacking a co-hosted VM: A hacker, a hammer and two memory modules

https://thisissecurity.stormshield.com/2017/10/19/attacking-co-hosted-vm-hacker-hammer-two-memory-modules/

9 years ago

Ren: a lightweight data-exchange text format

https://pointillistic.com/ren/

9 years ago

Global pollution kills 9M a year, according to new study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies?CMP=share_btn_tw

9 years ago

Cape Coral, a boomtown that shouldn’t exist

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/fastest-growing-city-america-florida-cape-coral-215724

9 years ago

Report: Ageism in the Tech Industry

http://blog.indeed.com/2017/10/19/tech-ageism-report/

9 years ago

Bitcoin has crossed $6,000 USD for the first time

https://twitter.com/coinhubplatform/status/921395537093332993

9 years ago

Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're a magician?

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39758/is-it-illegal-to-own-a-rabbit-in-queensland-unless-youre-a-magician

9 years ago

Rust for real time audio analysis

http://www.tzaeru.com/squeezing-rust-into-production-part-2/

9 years ago

Simplifying build in C++

https://mropert.github.io/2017/10/19/simplifying_build-part1/

9 years ago