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

RSS: there's nothing better

https://davidyat.es/2017/05/18/rss-nothing-better/

9 years ago

640 upvotes – 287 comments

Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant

https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/

9 years ago

591 upvotes – 92 comments

I hate telephones

https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/08/i-hate-telephones

9 years ago

493 upvotes – 431 comments

OVH outage explained

http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=15162#comment18119

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 123 comments

A penetration tester’s guide to sub-domain enumeration

https://blog.appsecco.com/a-penetration-testers-guide-to-sub-domain-enumeration-7d842d5570f6

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 32 comments

Is it time to stop trusting Google search?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16633574/stop-trusting-google-search-texas-shooting-twitter-misinformation

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 193 comments

Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57

http://www.morbo.org/2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-in.html

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 102 comments

Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/alibaba-singles-day.html

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 170 comments

The math and algorithms behind a search library

https://blog.kabir.ml/posts/inside-wade

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 24 comments

The cargo cult of versioning

http://akkartik.name/post/versioning

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 183 comments

Older Americans who live in RVs and drive from one low-wage job to another

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-older-americans-are-living-a-desperate-nomadic-life-2017-11-06

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 150 comments

Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016)

https://namakajiri.net/nikki/joyo-kanji-variants-the-curious-case-of-and-%E5%8F%B1/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 149 comments

Software architecture is failing

https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/14/software-architecture-failing/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 140 comments

Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the Doubters to Keep Mum

https://www.wsj.com/articles/snaps-rise-and-fall-how-a-big-splashy-ipo-prompted-the-doubters-to-keep-mum-1510249164

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 148 comments

Lyft Set to Claim Third of U.S. Market in 2017

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-11/lyft-set-to-claim-third-of-u-s-market-in-2017-document-shows

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 64 comments

Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles

http://www.inference.vc/high-dimensional-gaussian-distributions-are-soap-bubble/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 33 comments

Experiment with particles using WebAssembly and WebGL

https://maierfelix.github.io/wasm-particles/static/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy

http://nibrahim.net.in/2017/11/04/pycon_india_2017_keynote.html

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

The Church of the SubGenius Finally Plays It Straight

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 58 comments

Godot Editor ported to WebAssembly

https://www.godot.online/wasm/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 22 comments

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack (2014)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 12 comments

AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine

http://gvu.gatech.edu/index.php?q=ai-uses-less-two-minutes-videogame-footage-recreate-game-engine

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

Capsule Networks Explained

https://kndrck.co/posts/capsule_networks_explained/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

A Very Long, Super-Nerdy NBA Podcast Is Making Money

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-10/even-this-very-long-super-nerdy-nba-podcast-is-making-money

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/is-mark-zuckerberg-facebooks-last-true-believer

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015)

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 89 comments

On Web Extensions shortcomings and their impact on add-on security

https://palant.de/2017/11/11/on-web-extensions-shortcomings-and-their-impact-on-add-on-security

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

Plain Functional Programming by Martin Odersky [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDm3WHZT5g

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

Jony Ive on Apple’s New HQ and the Disappearing iPhone

https://www.wallpaper.com/design/jony-ive-apple-park

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 113 comments

Julia: A Modern Language for Modern ML [video]

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/julia-ml?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=videos_homepage&utm_campaign=videos_row1

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

2017 Interactive Fiction Competition

https://ifcomp.org/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/11/09/starks_part_1.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/biomimicry-designers-learning-natural-world/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How much did you sell your startup for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15677465

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Deepest hand dug well in the world (2006)

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6948_path__0p115p1224p597p.aspx

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments
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