top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-29

Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/kansas-man-killed-in-swatting-attack/

8 years ago

Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123

https://www.twistlock.com/2017/12/27/escaping-docker-container-using-waitid-cve-2017-5123/

8 years ago

Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational

https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/things-i-have-learnt-as-the-software-engineering-lead-of-a-multinational/

8 years ago

From Bootstrap to CSS Grid

https://open.nytimes.com/bootstrap-to-css-grid-87b3f5f830e4?pagewanted=all

8 years ago

Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

8 years ago

★ 14.1k Python

Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/sunday/internet-security-questions.html

8 years ago

Review: Copperhead OS

https://www.adventuresinoss.com/2017/01/18/review-copperhead-os/

8 years ago

A Pragmatic Introduction to Signal Processing

https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/

8 years ago

The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html

8 years ago

Dumping a PS4 Kernel in “Only” 6 Days

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2017/ps4-crashdump-dump/

8 years ago

Free electron laser – A fourth-generation synchrotron light source [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8832-free_electron_lasers

8 years ago

An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask

8 years ago

Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch/

8 years ago

Dude, You Broke the Future [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future

8 years ago

What We Get Wrong About Dying

http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/what-we-get-wrong-about-dying

8 years ago

Why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/29/american-reams-why-the-paperless-world-hasnt-happened

8 years ago

Not Explicit

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit-is-not/

8 years ago

How Raganwald Lost His Crown

http://braythwayt.com/2017/12/29/crown.html

8 years ago

Lack of sleep boosts levels of Alzheimer's proteins

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-lack-boosts-alzheimer-proteins.html

8 years ago

Gridcoin: Rewarding Scientific Distributed Computing

http://gridcoin.us/

8 years ago

Exercise is good for boosting memory and thinking skills, new guidelines say

http://beta.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-exercise-mild-cognitive-impairment-20171228-story.html

8 years ago

A visual ARM emulator

https://salmanarif.bitbucket.io/visual/index.html

8 years ago

The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical-treatments-evidence-based-expensive-cost-stents

8 years ago

The Refuseniks

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/11/09/in-the-magazine/the-refuseniks.html

8 years ago

ThunderSVM: A Fast SVM Library on GPUs and CPUs

https://github.com/zeyiwen/thundersvm

8 years ago

★ 1.6k C++ Apache-2.0

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/long-distance-rocker-miller

8 years ago

The Near Future of Electric Cars: Many Models, Few Buyers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-19/the-near-future-of-electric-cars-many-models-few-buyers

8 years ago

The Rendering of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

http://www.elopezr.com/the-rendering-of-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor/

8 years ago

Legal Marijuana Isn’t the Boon Small Businesses Thought It Would Be

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/legal-weed-isnt-the-boon-small-businesses-thought-it-would-be/

8 years ago

Firefighter Math

http://www.firefightermath.org

8 years ago

ChromeOS: How VM and Containers will seem to run

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/742f8j/how_chromeos_vm_and_containers_will_seem_to_run/

8 years ago

Taxation – Explaining What a Double Irish Sandwich Is

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9047-taxation

8 years ago

Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

http://nautil.us/blog/-how-classical-cryptography-will-survive-quantum-computers

8 years ago

Best of ArXiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – November 2017

https://insidebigdata.com/2017/11/27/best-of-arxiv-for-machine-learning-february-2016/

8 years ago

Show HN: Simple Gameboy Emulator

https://github.com/sacert/Gameboy

8 years ago

★ 189 C

A Very Old Man for a Wolf

https://www.outsideonline.com/2255971/very-old-man-wolf?page=all

8 years ago

The great error: the Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/house-of-government-slezkine/

8 years ago

I went full nomad and it almost broke me

https://hackernoon.com/i-went-full-nomad-and-it-almost-broke-me-2a02c5e8f138?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

8 years ago

Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/goodbye-george-bailey-decline-of-rural-lending-crimps-small-town-business/ar-BBHkUYm

8 years ago

Adversarial Learning for Good: On Deep Learning Blindspots

http://blog.kjamistan.com/adversarial-learning-for-good-my-talk-at-34c3-on-deep-learning-blindspots/

8 years ago

Intel ME: Myths and Reality [pdf]

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/003/391/original/Intel_ME_myths_and_reality.pdf

8 years ago

Investing in “Magic” Cards

https://kotaku.com/forget-bitcoin-these-guys-invest-in-magic-cards-1821624926

8 years ago

Try exercise to improve memory, thinking

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/new-guideline-try-exercise-to-improve-memory-thinking/

8 years ago

Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (2011)

https://www.gwern.net/Greenland

8 years ago

640k Really Is Enough for Anyone

https://blog.sourcerer.io/640k-really-is-enough-for-anyone-314f393ca5b8

8 years ago

Kodi for the Xbox One

https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-xbox-one

8 years ago

Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/home-in-a-can/

8 years ago

Hold off on AWS Aurora and Postgres until further notice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16030819

8 years ago