top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-04

How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

https://medium.com/@konarkmodi/how-airlines-dont-care-about-your-privacy-case-study-emirates-com-6271b3b8474b

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 174 comments

Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord

https://jalopnik.com/this-glorious-madman-stuffed-a-p85-tesla-drivetrain-int-1823461909

8 years ago

416 upvotes – 154 comments

Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2018/03/two-girls-dead-raccoon-and-my-crockpot.html

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 55 comments

Make Medium Readable Again

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readable-agai/kljjfejkagofbgklifblndjelgabcmig

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 179 comments

Ask HN: Move to product management at 35?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515470

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16517412

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Emacs Anywhere

https://github.com/zachcurry/emacs-anywhere

8 years ago

★ 1kShellMIT
248 upvotes – 91 comments

The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-of-happiness-debunked-nick-brown

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 213 comments

Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-crack-the-cursed-curve-20171207/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 33 comments

Message Passing and the Actor Model

http://dist-prog-book.com/chapter/3/message-passing.html

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515923

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 116 comments

The world of Linux Handhelds in 2018

https://www.giantpockets.com/?p=5615

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 126 comments

How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/one-winning-move.html?m=1

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/chuck-feeney-the-billionaire-who-gave-it-all-away-1.3413084

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 93 comments

Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/first-floating-wind-farm-has-performed-better-than-expected/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 98 comments

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 39 comments

RIP Cert.org

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2018/02/rip-cert-org-you-will-be-missed/

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 29 comments

SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990)

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 47 comments

Nerd Sniped by BINFMT_MISC

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/nerd-sniped-by-binfmt_misc/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 32 comments

"Sonic attack" may have been two ultrasonic signals accidentally interfering

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-likely-explanation-for-the-sonic-weapon-used-at-the-us-embassy-in-cuba

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 72 comments

Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

https://github.com/enocom/gopher-reading-list

8 years ago

★ 8kApache-2.0
168 upvotes – 23 comments

Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/04/australia-could-become-first-country-to-eradicate-cervical-cancer

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 87 comments

Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/einsteins-first-proof-pythagorean-theorem

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 80 comments

Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)

http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 151 comments

Moral outrage in the digital age

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0213-3.epdf?author_access_token=g7DCcgI5RN7lYtll2TN91dRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NeX9lcnqMb85KhxxCNXPvcT9GiKnBqrtnmpjrd_GOPGrJhzSoffolMzocFxY_IUgW1PXgqUTxBApfNabbmgnbQzUbucqLUbY5EV9bfCBawVA%3D%3D

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 176 comments

DNA nanobot 'starves' tumors

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/71161

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 21 comments

DOSBox x86 system emulator

https://www.dosbox.com/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 72 comments

DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

http://dec64.com/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 78 comments

MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revisited

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-wage-study/mit-study-that-found-low-pay-for-uber-drivers-to-be-revisited-idUSKCN1GF0RL

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 103 comments

The best Nintendo Switch feature is its lack of region-locking

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14867076/nintendo-switch-no-region-locking-awesome

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 57 comments

Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02180

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 123 comments

Roger Bannister has died

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43273249

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Representing the Impractical and Impossible with JDK 10 “var”

http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2018/03/03/representing-the-impractical-and-impossible-with-jdk-10-var/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 128 comments

APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns

https://sway.com/b1pRwmzuGjqB30On

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

On journeys (2015)

https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/03/on-journeys.html

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 43 comments

Silicon Valley VCs tour the Midwest

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/silicon-valley-midwest.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 112 comments

Some of the World's Biggest Lakes Are Drying Up

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/03/drying-lakes-climate-change-global-warming-drought/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

The Tyranny of Convenience

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html?referer=https://www.metafilter.com/172744/Technologies-of-Mass-Individualization

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 66 comments

Why I hate all articles about design patterns (2016)

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/why-i-hate-all-articles-about-design-patterns

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 108 comments

What Managers Need to Know About Slack, Yammer, and Chatter

https://hbr.org/2017/11/what-managers-need-to-know-about-social-tools?_lrsc=8d4748d3-511b-4e25-896d-c2963ddacbc9

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Fear and Loathing in APL (2015)

http://theburningmonk.com/2015/06/fear-and-loathing-with-apl/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick

https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/how-not-to-be-a-crank-819103800502

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515080

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

VisiData 1.0 released

http://visidata.org/releases/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox

https://slimerjs.org/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

For whom, the bell tolls

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21737489-whom-bell-tolls-court-common-usage-old-pronoun-losing-its-case

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

Emacs JIT Calling Convention

http://tromey.com/blog/?p=999

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 1 comments
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