top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-06

Chrome breaks the Web

http://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/

8 years ago

1187 upvotes – 458 comments

Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1

https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/

8 years ago

929 upvotes – 183 comments

The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

8 years ago

675 upvotes – 103 comments

Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends

https://aerolab.co/blog/flexbox-grids/

8 years ago

522 upvotes – 145 comments

Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development

http://masteringpostgresql.com

8 years ago

440 upvotes – 94 comments

Tufte CSS

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

8 years ago

377 upvotes – 59 comments

How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41889787

8 years ago

372 upvotes – 331 comments

Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rivals-intel-and-amd-team-up-on-pc-chips-to-battle-nvidia-1509966064

8 years ago

348 upvotes – 201 comments

Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 112 comments

Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/broadcom-offers-130-billion-for-qualcomm-in-landmark-tech-deal

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 171 comments

A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)

https://github.com/kickingvegas/12pt-should-be-the-same-everywhere/blob/master/absoluteMeasurementDPI.md

8 years ago

★ 145
290 upvotes – 156 comments

Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/critical-tor-flaw-leaks-users-real-ip-address-update-now/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

P5.js Crash Course: Recreate Art You Love

https://blog.kadenze.com/creative-technology/p5-js-crash-course-recreate-art-you-love/

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 25 comments

US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub

https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-grants-isps-and-search-engine-blockade-of-sci-hub-171106

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 123 comments

Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-tokens-bitfinex-started-a-ponzi-scheme-86a9291add29

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 96 comments

Living cells are very fast and crowded places (2012)

http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 79 comments

Building A.I. That Can Build A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/technology/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-ai.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 99 comments

Tesla's head of battery engineering exits

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-moves-jon-wagner/teslas-head-of-battery-engineering-exits-idUSKBN1D62OO

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 187 comments

Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

https://olivierpieters.be/projects/limecv

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 75 comments

Auto Complete with Redis (2010)

http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/autocomplete-with-redis.html

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 24 comments

MINIX – The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Is there something wrong with internet right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637607

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 73 comments

Shut up and calculate: an extreme mathematical universe

https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4024

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 181 comments

A look at inner workings of Joycon and Nintendo Switch

https://github.com/dekuNukem/Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Engineering

8 years ago

★ 3.7kC
146 upvotes – 61 comments

What it means to be a Postgres extension

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/10/25/what-it-means-to-be-a-postgresql-extension/?hn

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 33 comments

Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language

https://eng.uber.com/pyro/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

How Pure Is This Cup of Joe?

https://hackaday.com/2017/11/06/how-pure-is-this-cup-of-joe-coffee-conspiracy-and-citizen-science/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 21 comments

Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/10/robot-assisted-surgery-for-kidney-removal-linked-to-longer-times.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 62 comments

Fixing the Ethernet Board from a Vintage Xerox Alto

http://www.righto.com/2017/11/fixing-ethernet-board-from-vintage.html

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/06/workplace-surveillance-big-brother-technology

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: OSX-ISO – Create a bootable ISO of macOS from the installation app file

https://github.com/busterc/osx-iso

8 years ago

★ 672Shell
135 upvotes – 44 comments

PoC||GTFO 0x16 [pdf]

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo16.pdf

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

Beyond Horizons: 443km world record of distant landscape photography

https://beyondhorizons.eu/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestrelles-pic-gaspard-ecrins-443-km/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 60 comments

Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/blog/2014/11/23/way-vim-ide/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Exploring Previously Unknown Remote Kernel Bugs Affecting Android Phones

https://pleasestopnamingvulnerabilities.com/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

Chalktalk – A digital presentation and communication language

https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk

8 years ago

★ 2.1kJavaScriptMIT
112 upvotes – 8 comments

Untangling the WebRTC Flow

https://www.pkcsecurity.com/untangling-webrtc-flow.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637194

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

The end of the cloud is coming

https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/04/the-end-of-the-cloud-is-coming/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 115 comments

The Magic of CSS

http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

Do Bitcoin Markets Have a Conversion Tort Problem?

https://mechanicalmarkets.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/bitcoin-nemo-dat/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Google just released its internal tool to collaborate on AI

https://qz.com/1113999/nerds-rejoice-google-just-released-its-internal-tool-to-collaborate-on-ai/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

CSS Creatures

https://bennettfeely.com/csscreatures/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: UltraEd – A level editor/game engine for the Nintendo 64

https://github.com/deadcast/UltraEd

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Why and how the Cryptobubble will burst

https://medium.com/@dennyk/why-and-how-the-cryptobubble-will-burst-de9bc7fc5332

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 60 comments

Cody'sLab channel suspended [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXT5T9MH7cI

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

Humble Book Bundle, Start a Startup by Wiley

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/start-a-startup-books

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments
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