top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-26

NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-image-satellite-is-alive/

8 years ago

826 upvotes – 91 comments

How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)

https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide

8 years ago

638 upvotes – 325 comments

Extensions in Firefox 59

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefox-59/

8 years ago

496 upvotes – 236 comments

Moving efficiently in the CLI

https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/

8 years ago

434 upvotes – 165 comments

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)

http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

8 years ago

415 upvotes – 61 comments

Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

https://applied-data.science/blog/how-to-build-your-own-alphazero-ai-using-python-and-keras/

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 55 comments

3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-online.html

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 96 comments

George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/25/george-soros-facebook-and-google-are-a-menace-to-society

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 252 comments

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-cryptocurrency/tokyo-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-losing-530-million-nhk-idUSKBN1FF29C

8 years ago

370 upvotes – 295 comments

Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/01/were-hiring-a-developer-to-work-on-thunderbird-full-time/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 190 comments

Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing

http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 76 comments

An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 31 comments

How and why I run my own DNS servers

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/26/how-and-why-i-run-my-own-dns-servers/

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 140 comments

Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-even-youtube-serves-ads-with-cpu-draining-cryptocurrency-miners

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 169 comments

Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms

http://news.mit.edu/2018/new-study-reveals-how-brain-waves-control-working-memory-0126

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 63 comments

Dutch intelligence first to alert U.S. about Russian hack of Democratic Party

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-first-to-alert-u-s-about-russian-hack-of-democratic-party.html

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 68 comments

I miss blogrolls

https://iwantmyname.com/blog/i-miss-blogrolls

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 137 comments

You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/your-money/equifax-breach.html

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 87 comments

Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/grahame28099s-number-is-too-big-for-me-to-tell-you-how-big-it-is/

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 92 comments

The UX of AI

https://design.google/library/ux-ai/

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 62 comments

OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data to a Chinese Company Without User Consent

https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/956628910308982785

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 46 comments

A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 7 comments

Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA

http://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Interactive-GPU-Programming-1-Hello-CUDA

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 29 comments

Find and analyze any reachable server and device on the internet

https://censys.io/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Hack a Turned-Off Computer, or Running Unsigned Code in Intel ME

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2018/01/running-unsigned-code-in-intel-me.html

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 16 comments

A minimalist guide to tmux

https://medium.com/actualize-network/a-minimalist-guide-to-tmux-13675fb160fa

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Interactive Ansible Tutorial

https://github.com/turkenh/ansible-interactive-tutorial

8 years ago

★ 1.5k Shell
170 upvotes – 50 comments

Webpack 4 Beta released

https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-beta-try-it-today-6b1d27d7d7e2

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 125 comments

Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released

https://solus-project.com/2018/01/26/linux-driver-management-1-0-released/

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 36 comments

How Generative Music Works

http://teropa.info/loop/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 33 comments

Warren Miller, Ski Bum Turned Filmmaker, Dies at 93

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/obituaries/warren-miller-ski-bum-turned-filmmaker-is-dead-at-93.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 28 comments

Why it costs so much to be poor in America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/25/why-it-costs-so-much-to-be-poor-in-america

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 143 comments

Ransomware as a Service

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Ransomware+as+a+Service/23277/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 36 comments

Study produces 3D images that float

https://news.byu.edu/news/better-hologram-byu-study-produces-3d-images-float-thin-air

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 56 comments

Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014)

http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/events/warhol-discovery

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 71 comments

Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 201 comments

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 83 comments

Tensorflow 1.5.0

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.5.0

8 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0
137 upvotes – 28 comments

If you multitask, so will your team

https://davepaola.com/2018/01/25/if-you-multitask-during-meetings-your-team-will-too/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 79 comments

In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy

https://www.economist.com/news/china/21735613-will-impede-governments-snooping-china-consumers-are-becoming-more-anxious-about-data

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Hawaii "button pusher" refusing to cooperate with FCC, internal investigators

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/01/24/breaking-news/schatz-to-lead-hearing-on-alert-systems-in-wake-of-hawaii-blunder/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 101 comments

Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/25/tesla-employees-say-gigafactory-problems-worse-than-known.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 159 comments

Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

https://diego.codes/post/som-tsp/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Google experiments in local news with an app called Bulletin

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/26/google-experiments-in-local-news-with-an-app-called-bulletin/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-itc-ruling/u-s-trade-body-backs-canadas-bombardier-over-boeing-in-tariff-spat-idUSKBN1FF2MB?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

What gig workers can learn from romance writers

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180119-what-gig-workers-can-learn-from-romance-writers

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 77 comments

How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-the-building-blocks-of-web-workers-5-cases-when-you-should-use-them-a547c0757f6a

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 8 comments

Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-biohazard-danger-symbols-cant-last-forever/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

https://github.com/chrisstroemel/Simple

8 years ago

★ 483 Python AGPL-3.0
96 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app

https://cobrowse.io

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Do You Consider Remote a Working Perk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16236397

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 85 comments

Great founders lead with product strategy

https://medium.com/sap-io/great-founders-lead-with-product-strategy-9eb441c19a8b

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

V8 memory quiz

http://www.mattzeunert.com/2018/01/25/v8-javascript-memory-quiz.html

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments
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