top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-27

The Follower Factory

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html

8 years ago

An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense

8 years ago

Terraforming 1Password

https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/01/25/terraforming-1password/

8 years ago

Finding Profitable Startup Ideas

https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/770/how-to-find-profitable-business-ideas.html

8 years ago

If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker

https://kottke.org/18/01/if-you-watch-closely-enough-everything-is-a-speaker

8 years ago

Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset

https://hackernoon.com/craftsmanship-the-alternative-to-the-four-hour-work-week-mindset-e464a2dd34f4

8 years ago

Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm

8 years ago

USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise

8 years ago

Principles of Chaos Engineering

http://principlesofchaos.org/

8 years ago

Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time

https://techandmortals.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/kaggle-learn-review-there-is-a-deep-learning-track-and-it-is-worth-your-time/

8 years ago

Data Science at the Command Line

https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/

8 years ago

Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/editor?pli=1&shellonly=true

8 years ago

Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-fails-to-perform-promised-audits-instead-they-have-a-shareholder-tell-everyone-its-all-965ae7037b5d

8 years ago

My Delorean runs Perl

https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl

8 years ago

Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

8 years ago

Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo

8 years ago

Postgres indexes under the hood

https://rcoh.me/posts/postgres-indexes-under-the-hood/

8 years ago

Ivy – A static website generator built in Python

http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/

8 years ago

Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/01/the-biggest-wastes-of-time-we-regret-when-we-get-older/

8 years ago

The good guy/bad guy myth

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

8 years ago

Understanding the C/C++ memory model

https://davmac.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/understanding-the-c-c-memory-model/

8 years ago

Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

https://projectboard.xyz/

8 years ago

FOSDEM 2018 schedule

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/

8 years ago

‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/business/media/we-shall-overcome-copyright.html

8 years ago

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/956964986353528832

8 years ago

VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/

8 years ago

Online Communities Are the Best Thing About the Internet

https://biznology.com/2018/01/online-communities-best-thing-internet-not-worst/

8 years ago

Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP

https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/957381065190133767

8 years ago

Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation

https://blog.confiant.com/uncovering-2017s-largest-malvertising-operation-b84cd38d6b85

8 years ago

Towards LaTeX in the Browser

https://hackernoon.com/towards-latex-in-the-browser-2ff4d94a0c08

8 years ago

How Does MoviePass Make Money?

https://www.wired.com/story/moviepass-second-act/

8 years ago

What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html

8 years ago

Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977

https://archive.org/details/SelectedPapers1977

8 years ago

Nicolas Cage DeepFake

http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/170154814961/nicolas-cage-deepfake-redditor-derpfakes-has

8 years ago

Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/mania13.pdf

8 years ago

MacOS High Sierra Kills Terminal FTP

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8093031

8 years ago

A Washington state bill that would make it easier to fix your electronics

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqa49/washington-right-to-repair-iphone-cpu-throttling

8 years ago

Show HN: Gymphy – Create Free Shareable Workout Plans

http://www.gymphy.com

8 years ago

A look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/take-a-look-inside-amazons-spheres-as-they-get-set-for-next-weeks-opening/

8 years ago

Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400M

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/cryptocurrencies-drop-after-japanese-exchange-halts-withdrawals

8 years ago

Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235

8 years ago

Compared to paper towel, Dyson hand dryers blow 1300x as many viral germs (2016)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/

8 years ago

Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-floodgates-are-open-increased-network-bandwidth-for-ec2-instances/

8 years ago