top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-13

We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change

https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

8 years ago

Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/eff-court-accessing-publicly-available-information-internet-not-crime

8 years ago

HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-sorry-you-feel-this-way-natwest-but-https-on-your-landing-page-is-important/

8 years ago

Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research

https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392

8 years ago

France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/france-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools-from-september

8 years ago

TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tplink-aggressive-ntp

8 years ago

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

https://fishshell.com/

8 years ago

Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

https://pineapplefund.org/

8 years ago

A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree

https://www.flightradar24.com/AIB232E/fd1fd63

8 years ago

The State of JavaScript 2017

http://stateofjs.com/2017/introduction/

8 years ago

Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler

https://blog.avast.com/avast-open-sources-its-machine-code-decompiler

8 years ago

Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia

https://bgpmon.net/popular-destinations-rerouted-to-russia/

8 years ago

Game Theory: Open Access textbook

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06808

8 years ago

I went to production heaven

https://dailykanban.com/2017/12/go-production-hell-went-production-heaven/

8 years ago

How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/how-to-break-a-captcha-system-in-15-minutes-with-machine-learning-dbebb035a710

8 years ago

Target to Buy Shipt for $550M

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/target-to-buy-shipt-for-550-million-in-bet-on-same-day-delivery

8 years ago

AWS Single Sign-On

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/announcing-aws-single-sign-on--sso/

8 years ago

Show HN: Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company

https://www.workatastartup.com/?1

8 years ago

An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712

8 years ago

Encryption in Transit in Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/

8 years ago

Algorithmia – Open Marketplace for Algorithms

https://algorithmia.com/

8 years ago

Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html?_r=0

8 years ago

South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-bitcoin-southkorea/south-korea-to-hold-emergency-meeting-on-cryptocurrencies-measures-expected-friday-idUSKBN1E703O?il=0

8 years ago

Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff

https://www.twistlock.com/2017/12/13/hiding-content-git-escape-sequence-twistlock-labs-experiment/

8 years ago

Japanese startup Ispace raises $90M, targets landing on moon surface by 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/space-startup-raises-90-million-to-bring-ads-to-moon-by-2020

8 years ago

An Open Letter from Freelancers at Nautilus Magazine

https://nwu.org/an-open-letter-from-freelancers-at-nautilus-magazine/

8 years ago

No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting

https://code.likeagirl.io/no-need-to-pinkify-c5609faf6f7f

8 years ago

The Great American Share – Sam Altman Interview on Basic Income

https://spectacle.com/001/sam-altman-interview-universal-basic-income/

8 years ago

Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-archive-online.html

8 years ago

Google to open artificial intelligence centre in China

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42334583

8 years ago

The End to Apple’s Cash Dilemma

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/12/12/the-end-to-apples-cash-dilemma

8 years ago

Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake

https://pratt.duke.edu/news/water-cloak

8 years ago

Show HN: Fullstack React Native – A Project-Based Guide to Learning React Native

https://www.fullstackreact.com/react-native/

8 years ago

Visualizing Realtime Bitcoin Transactions in ReactVR

https://bitcoin-vr.github.io/

8 years ago

Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?

https://medium.com/@josecamachocollados/is-alphazero-really-a-scientific-breakthrough-in-ai-bf66ae1c84f2

8 years ago

OSX.Pirrit Mac Adware Part III: The DaVinci Code

https://www.cybereason.com/blog/targetingedge-mac-os-x-pirrit-malware-adware-still-active

8 years ago

Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/this-electric-truck-will-probably-beat-tesla-s-to-market

8 years ago

Bruce Brown, 80, Dies; His ‘Endless Summer’ Documented Surfing

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/obituaries/bruce-brown-documentarian-of-surfing-is-dead-at-80.html

8 years ago

The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

8 years ago

$17B Modernization Plan for Puerto Rico's Grid

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/17-billion-modernization-plan-for-puerto-rico-is-released

8 years ago

The Limits to Growth (1972) [pdf]

http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf

8 years ago

Recursion to Iteration, Part 4: The Trampoline (2013)

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-06-12-recursion-to-iteration-4-trampolines.html

8 years ago

The Objective-C Runtime and Swift Dynamism

https://academy.realm.io/posts/mobilization-roy-marmelstein-objective-c-runtime-swift-dynamic/

8 years ago

Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Significant Cyber Attacks

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-and-guilty-pleas-three-computer-crime-cases

8 years ago

Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/13/accident-forgiveness-comes-to-gplv2/

8 years ago

Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/12/11/detonating-a-bad-rabbit-windows-defender-antivirus-and-layered-machine-learning-defenses/

8 years ago

Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

http://getconcertmaster.com/

8 years ago

Upstart Gangs Filling the Yakuza Power Vacuum

https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c04205/

8 years ago

What are you banned from? Why?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-you-banned-from-Why/answers/65209949?srid=uw7w&share=1

8 years ago

T-Mobile Agrees to Buy Layer3 TV in Preparation for TV Service

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/t-mobile-agrees-to-buy-layer3-in-preparation-for-new-tv-service?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech

8 years ago

Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/

8 years ago

Creating Web Traffic “Out of Thin Air”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet

8 years ago