top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-11

Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

https://signal.org/blog/skype-partnership/

8 years ago

794 upvotes – 331 comments

Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122999

8 years ago

709 upvotes – 82 comments

Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-google-cloud-customers-new-vulnerabilities-without-impacting-performance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28The+Keyword+%7C+Official+Google+Blog%29

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 129 comments

Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/dropbox-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-initial-offering

8 years ago

435 upvotes – 270 comments

Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/steep-slopes-on-mars-reveal-structure-of-buried-ice

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 60 comments

YC Bio

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 144 comments

House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 172 comments

Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf

8 years ago

301 upvotes – 61 comments

Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

https://www.maps.org/news/media/7012-press-release-pineapple-fund-offers-$4-million-matching-grant-to-maps

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 65 comments

Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/website-glitch-let-me-overstock-my-coinbase/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 130 comments

GitHub down

https://github.com/#

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 187 comments

Spectre and the end of langsec

http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 190 comments

The Making of Apple’s Emoji

https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 107 comments

MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple

https://www.wsj.com/articles/moneygram-signs-deal-to-work-with-currency-startup-ripple-1515679285

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 118 comments

The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125139

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 134 comments

Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/chinese-workers-abandon-silicon-valley-for-riches-back-home

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 319 comments

‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a15050414/incredible-hypatia-stone-contains-compounds-not-found-in-the-solar-system/

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 67 comments

Understanding the React Source Code, Part 1

https://hackernoon.com/understanding-the-react-source-code-initial-rendering-simple-component-i-80263fe46cf1

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 33 comments

South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-bitcoin-law/south-korea-justice-ministry-prepares-to-ban-cryptocurrency-trading-exchanges-raided-idUSKBN1F00B7

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 137 comments

What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software

http://alexkudlick.com/blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-teach-us-about-writing-software/

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 54 comments

Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention

https://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 63 comments

Writing a C Compiler, Part 5

https://norasandler.com/2018/01/08/Write-a-Compiler-5.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 5 comments

How Neglecting Minorities in Medical Research Has Led to Deadly Outcomes

https://www.hdphealth.com/how-neglecting-minorities-in-medical-research-has-led-to-deadly-outcomes-solving-a-1t-problem-1318

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 141 comments

Turning brain signals into useful information

https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21733192-once-data-have-been-extracted-brain-how-can-they-be-employed-best

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 65 comments

The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017

https://research.googleblog.com/2018/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-back-on.html

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 6 comments

Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/10/attack-of-the-week-group-messaging-in-whatsapp-and-signal/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 34 comments

Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update

https://filecoin.io/blog/update-2017-q4/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 71 comments

Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming

https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/01/11/making-tab-switching-faster-in-firefox-with-tab-warming/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 100 comments

The problem of game developers receiving abusive messages

https://medium.com/@morganjaffit/the-cost-of-doing-business-c09cc5cc8728

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: TensorFlow-Resources – Organized and Useful Resources about TensorFlow

https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-World-Resources

8 years ago

★ 21 Python
152 upvotes – 11 comments

Elizabeth Warren's bill would fine the next Equifax for data breach

https://www.cnet.com/news/elizabeth-warren-equifax-mark-warner-credit-reporting-agencies-data-breach-bill-fines/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 105 comments

Samsung is the latest OEM to unlock FM chips in new phones

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/samsung-will-start-unlocking-fm-radio-chips-in-new-phones/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 114 comments

Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

https://teslasuit.io/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 104 comments

Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169582189317/incident-report-npm-inc-operations-incident-of

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/conservative-google-employees-are-blacklisted-lawsuit-alleges-2018-1

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 126 comments

Huawei’s CEO going off-script to rage at US carriers was the best speech of CES

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16871538/huawei-ces-2018-event-ceo-richard-yu-keynote-speech

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-secret-tool-for-keeping-the-cops-in-the-dark

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 107 comments

Update Regarding ACME TLS-SNI and Shared Hosting Infrastructure

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-11-update-regarding-acme-tls-sni-and-shared-hosting-infrastructure/50188

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126132

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of the Last Jedi

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/01/millennials-strike-back-an-esoteric-reading-of-the-last-jedi

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 73 comments

Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]

http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/p7536_readings/kruger_dunning.pdf

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 82 comments

Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/two-suns-no-its-a-supernova-drawn-6000-years-ago-say-indian-scientists

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (1900)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US787412A/en?before=priority:19030101&after=priority:18900101

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Detecting Spectre and Meltdown Using Hardware Performance Counters

https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/detecting-spectre-and-meltdown-using-hardware-performance-counters

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

A simple makefile is a unicorn

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-simple-makefile-is-unicorn.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 130 comments

Using Yelp Data to Predict Restaurant Closure

https://towardsdatascience.com/using-yelp-data-to-predict-restaurant-closure-8aafa4f72ad6

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Simcoin – A Docker-Based Blockchain Simulation Framework

https://github.com/simonmulser/simcoin

8 years ago

★ 488 Python MIT
105 upvotes – 22 comments

Two genes in Chromosomes 13 and 14, linked to Homosexuality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15736-4

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 130 comments

Neural Style Transfer for Musical Melodies

https://ashispati.github.io//style-transfer/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Why dolphins are deep thinkers (2003)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gawker-thiel/peter-thiel-submits-bid-for-gawker-faces-challenges-idUSKBN1F02V2

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 145 comments

States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/net-neutrality-states.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Learning Tree-Based Deep Model for Recommender Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02294

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

SAFE Network: a decentralized data storage and communications network

https://safenetwork.org/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Cierge – passwordless authentication

https://pwdless.github.io/Cierge-Website/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

OpenSSL wins the Levchin prize

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/01/10/levchin/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

In the eating disorder unit

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/01/09/hannah-brown/in-the-eating-disorder-unit/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

Études for Elixir

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001642/index.html

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/01/why-humans-need-rethink-their-place-animal-kingdom

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Does Brexit end not with a bang but a whimper?

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2018/01/does-brexit-end-not-with-bang-but.html

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 231 comments

Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/poverty-segregation-persist-in-u-s-schools-report-says

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: Best practice for estimating development tasks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122963

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments

YouTube Drops Online Star Logan Paul from Premium Advertising

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/technology/logan-paul-youtube.html

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 109 comments
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