top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-07

The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user

8 years ago

1023 upvotes – 506 comments

TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV

https://github.com/dinedal/textql

8 years ago

★ 9.1k Go MIT
658 upvotes – 91 comments

I miss Windows Phone

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/7/17206174/microsoft-windows-phone-influence-editorial

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 355 comments

PostgreSQL Begins Adding LLVM JIT Support For Faster Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PostgreSQL-LLVM-JIT-Landing

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 28 comments

Mailinator launches Disposable SMS

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2018/04/mailinator-launches-disposable-sms.html

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 72 comments

Hash-based Signatures: An illustrated Primer

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/07/hash-based-signatures-an-illustrated-primer/

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 25 comments

“Close to tears, he left at the intermission”: how Kubrick upset Clarke (2017)

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/01/close-tears-he-left-intermission-how-stanley-kubrick-upset-arthur-c-clarke

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 164 comments

At 88, doctor pursues a long-ignored treatment for strokes, heart attacks

https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/06/victor-gurewich-harvard-stroke-heart-attack/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 71 comments

Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/07/global-inequality-tipping-point-2030

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 357 comments

Are unsound type systems wrong?

http://frenchy64.github.io/2018/04/07/unsoundness-in-untyped-types.html

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 158 comments

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/health/antidepressants-withdrawal-prozac-cymbalta.html

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 220 comments

2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases

https://www.mass.gov/lists/2017-tax-software-developers-guides-and-test-cases

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: TerrainVer – Generate Worms-Style Cartoon Terrain in JavaScript

https://juliango202.com/terrainver/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 12 comments

Why is everyone so busy? (2014)

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 142 comments

YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/youtube-kids-is-going-to-release-a-whitelisted-non

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 124 comments

‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/technology/india-id-aadhaar.html

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 165 comments

China's global kidnapping campaign may now be reaching inside U.S. borders

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-renditions-kidnapping/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Turn a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware

https://github.com/bijection/sistine

8 years ago

★ 3.4k Python MIT
147 upvotes – 13 comments

China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has started

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-social-credit-laboratory/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 175 comments

The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

http://www.nucalc.com/Story/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 21 comments

A Food Shortage Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-disease

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Python library for GoPro cameras

https://github.com/konradit/gopro-py-api

8 years ago

★ 1.4k Python MIT
131 upvotes – 25 comments

A Wyoming Creek Flows into Two Oceans (2017)

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-wyoming-creek-flows-into-two-oceans

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Wizard for Mac – new kind of statistics program

http://www.wizardmac.com/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 62 comments

Molyneux's problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

Dunbar's Number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 63 comments

The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017)

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-24/qualcomm-s-tax-collection-days-are-looking-numbered

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

Curated List of Privacy Respecting Services and Software

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting#readme

8 years ago

★ 2k
105 upvotes – 40 comments

Ratings inflation on Uber and elsewhere

https://qz.com/1244155/good-luck-leaving-your-uber-driver-less-than-five-stars/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 119 comments

Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16782266

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 89 comments

The Crayon programming language

https://crayonlang.org

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

Months Before Deadly Crash, Helicopter Pilots Warned of Safety Issues

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/nyregion/flynyon-crash-helicopter-east-river.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-to-let-users-unsend-messages-after-mark-zuckerberg-caught-2018-4

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments
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