1209
270
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/
8 years ago
451
221
Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext
https://thehackernews.com/2018/05/signal-desktop-hacking.html
370
188
Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/facebook-use-dropped-sharply-after-the-us-election.html
369
923
GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
https://monal.im/blog/gdpr-removing-monal-from-the-eu/
333
193
MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
http://latacora.singles/2018/05/16/there-will-be.html
294
75
A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/
292
94
Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust
https://github.com/joncatanio/cannoli
★ 766 Rust MIT– 8 years ago
291
410
College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/college-useful-cost-jobs.html
256
93
Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland
https://weburbanist.com/2018/05/08/tiny-trains-neat-narrow-gauge-rail-connects-german-island-to-mainland/
235
82
Book recommendation: Measure what matters
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Measure-What-Matters?WT.mc_id=20180516172000_MeasureWhatMatters_BG-LI&WT.tsrc=BGLI&linkId=51788990
229
318
YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/05/youtube-music-new-music-streaming.html
216
189
Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/uh-did-google-fake-its-big-ai-demo
213
37
Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing
https://www.contextis.com/blog/binary-sms-the-old-backdoor-to-your-new-thing
202
153
The SpaceDrive Project – First Results on EMDrive and Mach-Effect Thrusters
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325177082_The_SpaceDrive_Project_-_First_Results_on_EMDrive_and_Mach-Effect_Thrusters
184
58
Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-16/this-2-billion-ai-startup-aims-to-teach-factory-robots-to-think
175
138
Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN
https://hackerforums.co
172
208
Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/15/611225541/reluctant-psychonaut-michael-pollan-embraces-the-new-science-of-psychedelics
167
113
Boeing 747s are back in demand as workhorses of global shipping
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-16/boeing-747s-given-up-for-dead-find-new-life-in-air-cargo-surge
166
174
Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/05/16/our-relationship-with-teeth-is-uneven-messy-and-grim
415
US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/17/611898421/u-s-births-falls-to-30-year-low-sending-fertility-rate-to-a-record-low
162
151
Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/16/someone-somewhere-is-making-a-banned-chemical-that-destroys-the-ozone-layer-scientists-suspect/
159
104
An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
157
120
U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement
https://www.army.mil/article/204882/us_army_uber_sign_research_agreement
152
137
Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/disarm or lock/unlock
https://twitter.com/nestsupport/status/996955985343270913
149
51
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine-20180515/
143
26
Southern White Rhino Victoria Is Pregnant, Could Save Subspecies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/rhino-in-san-diego-pregnant-could-help-save-subspecies
140
109
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalable-gold-6138p-with-integrated-fpga-shipping-to-vendors
132
29
Raising a seed round instead of a Series A
https://www.atrium.co/blog/seed-stage-funding-startups/
131
Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models
http://osim-rl.stanford.edu/
127
Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyer-beware-hundreds-of-bitcoin-wannabes-show-hallmarks-of-fraud-1526573115
76
Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale (2016) [pdf]
https://ndmitchell.com/downloads/paper-non_recursive_make_considered_harmful-22_sep_2016.pdf
112
Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
https://apnews.com/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b
111
148
California AG Files Extortion Charges Against MugShots.com
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article211255899.html
107
72
Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8375
103
96
IPv6 excuse bingo
https://ipv6bingo.com/
102
63
Ask HN: Which VPN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17091855
101
78
Evolving Chrome's security indicators
https://blog.chromium.org/2018/05/evolving-chromes-security-indicators.html
98
Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088759
95
New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
https://nytimes.com/2018/05/17/health/migraines-prevention-drug-aimovig.html
92
49
Snowflake to Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family for Crypto
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUy4jh5mGNZvLkjies1RWM4YuvJh5o2FYopNPVYwrRVGV
88
87
Getting close to 40, mid life crisis, depression, and finding release
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17090776
41
Semantic Compression
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015
83
Acephalic Agile: Worse than Waterfall?
https://tech.labs.oliverwyman.com/blog/2018/05/16/acephalic-agile/
64
Amazon Charges Couple More Than $1,000 to Ship Paper Plates
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/amazon-charges-couple-more-than-1000-to-ship-paper-plates
85
Drone Maker Accused of Covering Up Bomb in Bag on Delta Flight
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/drone-maker-accused-of-covering-up-bomb-in-bag-on-delta-flight
81
What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-the-history-of-math-can-teach-us-about-the-future-of-ai/
79
50
Windows 1803 Update Turns on SSH
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-openssh-client-installed-by-default-in-april-2018-update/
77
65
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a replacement
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/16/twitter-delays-shutdown-of-legacy-apis-by-3-months-as-it-launches-a-replacement/
150
New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/new-study-quantifies-bitcoins-ludicrous-energy-consumption
34
Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
https://medium.com/@robertyusert/there-are-free-ethreum-spam-botnets-ravaging-twitter-68b25d12c2a
46
In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/science/virtual-reality-body.html
74
EU parliaments website in violation of GDPR
https://medium.com/matthias-gliwka/eu-parliament-websites-violates-gdpr-200eb2c00e8f
73
Unfortunately.tech – a collection of rejection letters
https://unfortunately.tech/
Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/magazine/is-a-dumber-phone-a-better-phone.html
71
1976 letter from Silicon Valley exec calls Steve Jobs 'flaky' and a 'joker'
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/1976-letter-from-silicon-valley-exec-calls-steve-jobs-flaky-joker.html
70
16
A SQLite Tutorial with Node.js
http://stackabuse.com/a-sqlite-tutorial-with-node-js/