top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-21

82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html

8 years ago

709 upvotes – 214 comments

$36k Google App Engine RCE

https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/-36k-google-app-engine-rce

8 years ago

602 upvotes – 155 comments

Getting Google to ban our entire company

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_getting_google_to_ban_our_entire_company/

8 years ago

538 upvotes – 336 comments

The Power of Prolog

https://metalevel.at/prolog

8 years ago

480 upvotes – 158 comments

How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015)

http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 34 comments

PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements

https://pgdash.io/blog/partition-postgres-11.html

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 55 comments

Playing battleships over BGP

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships

8 years ago

352 upvotes – 37 comments

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)

https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 36 comments

Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17370066/facebook-addiction-support-groups-rehab-patient-brokering

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 171 comments

CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance

https://www.yelpblog.com/2018/05/cbs-60-minutes-piece-on-googles-abuse-of-dominance

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 179 comments

Japan's secret spy agency

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/japan-dfs-surveillance-agency/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 90 comments

Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes

https://worthdoingbadly.com/appkitcompat/

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 125 comments

Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy

http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ethiopia-is-now-africa-s-fastest-growing-economy/article_7c72f20d-3d2b-5901-9d02-9aba91e68e04.html

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 194 comments

A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-look-inside-theranos-dysfunctional-corporate-culture/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 111 comments

Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelona-decidim-ada-colau-francesca-bria-decode

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 59 comments

One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-11/miami-commuter-train-to-blast-through-florida-traffic-nightmare

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 274 comments

Speculative execution, variant 4: speculative store bypass

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1528

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 21 comments

Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ig8ecXlrA

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 39 comments

Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8kzx5p/some_kind_of_explosive_lying_on_the_floor_of/

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 48 comments

Big tech products are mostly useless

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/21/big-tech-products-silicon-valley

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 135 comments

Ask HN: How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17117243

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 82 comments

Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine

https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa

8 years ago

★ 11.6kGoApache-2.0
157 upvotes – 39 comments

People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-16/with-vultures-circling-moviepass-still-believes-in-a-happy-ending

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 151 comments

A ‘delayed infection’ theory of childhood leukaemia

https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/leading-uk-scientist-reveals-likely-cause-of-childhood-leukaemia

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 73 comments

Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/google-sued-tracking-44m-uk-iphone-users-browsing-data-apple-safari

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 90 comments

Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent

https://blog.ropnop.com/extracting-ssh-private-keys-from-windows-10-ssh-agent/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 63 comments

Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)

https://nealmueller.com/uber/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 291 comments

Adobe to Acquire Magento

https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/adobe-to-acquire-magento

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 151 comments

Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)

http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 100 comments

NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/20/nyregion/nyc-affordable-housing.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 258 comments

Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error

https://codeengineered.com/blog/2018/golang-vgo-semver-human-error/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Growing up with AI

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/growing-up-with-ai-how-can-families-play-and-learn-with-their-new-smart-toys-and-companions-fe9abcc6e152

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 33 comments

Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/science/nucleolus-cells-aging.html

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 67 comments

The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

GDPR Hysteria Part II, Nuts and Bolts, Actionable Advice

https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria-part-ii-nuts-and-bolts

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 170 comments

Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/18/boeing-folding-wingtips-faa-777X/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 125 comments

Value Type Hygiene

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/value-type-hygiene.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-upholds-workplace-arbitration-contracts.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 175 comments

How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong

https://chinachannel.org/2018/05/18/macartney/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-may-be-even-spookier-than-you-think/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Live Coding in Sporth: A Stack-Based Language for Audio Synthesis [pdf]

https://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2017/cameraReady/sporth.pdf

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Mandaeism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

How a Company Scammed Silicon Valley and How It Got Caught

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/books/review/bad-blood-john-carreyrou.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

The Year on the Net (1996)

https://www.wsj.com/public/current/summaries/hypetoc.htm

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Scanner: Processing Terabytes of Video on Hundreds of Machines

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~apoms/blog/scanner/2018/05/21/scanner.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/sweden-distributes-be-prepared-for-war-cyber-terror-attack-leaflet-to-every-home

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments
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