top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-09

AV1: A new general-purpose video codec

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/av1/demo1.shtml

8 years ago

909 upvotes – 243 comments

Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs

http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/

8 years ago

563 upvotes – 54 comments

Don't give away historic details about yourself

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/

8 years ago

532 upvotes – 200 comments

ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401

8 years ago

★ 12.1k C
380 upvotes – 161 comments

Android container in Chrome OS

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/arc/container-bundle/

8 years ago

376 upvotes – 135 comments

Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage

https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-04-03-incident-post-mortem

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 169 comments

Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web

https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng/blob/master/README.md

8 years ago

★ 6.3k JavaScript MIT
350 upvotes – 119 comments

Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20180411/108090/HHRG-115-IF00-Wstate-ZuckerbergM-20180411.pdf

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 259 comments

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 159 comments

Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/business/credit-card-signatures.html

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 531 comments

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes

http://jdlm.info/articles/2018/03/18/markov-decision-process-2048.html?href=

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 43 comments

Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/09/facebook-urged-to-make-gdpr-its-baseline-standard-globally/

8 years ago

302 upvotes – 220 comments

Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app

https://github.com/yue/wey

8 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript
277 upvotes – 177 comments

Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released

https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals/blob/master/chapter2_interfaces/README.md

8 years ago

★ 7.9k Go
252 upvotes – 12 comments

Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/19/instagram-ranked-worst-social-network-young-peoples-mental-health/

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 96 comments

FreedomBox

https://freedombox.org/

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 59 comments

Project from Hell (2008)

https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-from-hell/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 148 comments

Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

8 years ago

★ 7k C MIT
247 upvotes – 166 comments

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

http://www.nber.org/papers/w24489

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 87 comments

Qusim.py – A toy multi-qubit quantum computer simulator written in Python

https://github.com/adamisntdead/QuSimPy

8 years ago

★ 723 Python AGPL-3.0
242 upvotes – 44 comments

OpenAI Charter

https://blog.openai.com/openai-charter/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 177 comments

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) [pdf]

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/KILLINGSWORTH-WanderingMind.pdf

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 73 comments

Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper

http://amid.fish/reproducing-deep-rl

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 22 comments

Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/524610/?single_page=true

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 240 comments

Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed

http://weirdstuff.com/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 161 comments

Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)

http://www.martynemko.com/articles/do-what-you-love-and-starve_id1380

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 98 comments

Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-enters-dockless-bike-wars-with-jump-acquisition-1523280600

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 303 comments

BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 48 comments

My experience with off-shoring teams and what went wrong

https://return.co.de/blog/articles/india-scaling-people/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 120 comments

Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/home-values-are-rising-by-800-a-day-in-san-jose

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 237 comments

Tinn: A tiny neural network library written in C99

https://github.com/glouw/tinn

8 years ago

★ 2.1k C MIT
189 upvotes – 58 comments

A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks

https://flaviocopes.com/chrome-devtools-tips/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 28 comments

OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API

https://zdware.com/2018/okcupid_removed_visitor_api/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 80 comments

Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows?

https://theconversation.com/its-time-for-third-party-data-brokers-to-emerge-from-the-shadows-94298

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 51 comments

A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016)

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 41 comments

Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

http://shadyurl.com/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 68 comments

FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.17

8 years ago

★ 30.6k C++ LGPL-2.1
177 upvotes – 58 comments

ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries

https://dyn.com/blog/ace-submarine-cable-cut-impacts-ten-countries/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 103 comments

Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics

https://mordrax.gitbooks.io/elm-at-phd/content/

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 56 comments

Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (2016)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 53 comments

Rust Formal Verification Working Group

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-verification-working-group/7240

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 9 comments

Mythology About Security

https://gettys.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/mythology-about-security/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 41 comments

Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors in January SpaceX Spy-Satellite Failure

https://www.wsj.com/articles/probes-point-to-northrop-grumman-errors-in-january-spy-satellite-failure-1523220500

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 87 comments

Leap Motion designed a $100 augmented reality headset with hand tracking

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17208192/leap-motion-project-north-star-augmented-reality-headset-open-source-concept

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 20 comments

85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Understanding of African Migration

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-85000-year-old-finger-bone-could-complicate-our-understanding-african-migration-180968720/?no-ist

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 92 comments

Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story of a Russian Boy's Photos

https://flashbak.com/finding-dmitry-magical-story-russian-boys-photos-396364/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 11 comments

Rationale: Or why am I bothering to rewrite nanomsg?

https://nanomsg.github.io/nng/RATIONALE.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 58 comments

Crystals That May Have Helped Vikings Navigate Northern Seas

https://nytimes.com/2018/04/06/science/vikings-navigation-sunstones.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

An interactive guide to learning Rust

https://github.com/toidiu/learn-rust

8 years ago

★ 357 Rust
112 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping

https://turntouch.com

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

Course: Mathematics for machine learning

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine-learning

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Email doesn’t disappear

https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/04/09/email-doesnt-disappear/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 57 comments

Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/when-a-robot-makes-you-dinner

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 78 comments

Incrementally Improving the DOM

http://blog.functorial.com/posts/2018-04-08-Incrementally-Improving-The-DOM.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

Tracking is the opposite of freedom

http://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/172752515693/tracking-is-the-opposite-of-freedom

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/upshot/the-10-year-baby-window-that-is-the-key-to-the-womens-pay-gap.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 120 comments

What makes a tree a tree?

https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/what-makes-tree-tree

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love

https://medium.com/@ThatBJTerry/never-do-for-money-what-others-do-for-love-28351bfb2f4

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

Solid ship ballast from the age of sail tells surprising stories about history

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/how-bomb-debris-from-bristol-england-made-a-road-in-nyc/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Detecting Methane from Miles Away

https://cires.colorado.edu/news/detecting-methane-miles-away

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments
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