top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-24

Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

https://www.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974

8 years ago

1314 upvotes – 710 comments

Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look

https://wiredjs.com/

8 years ago

650 upvotes – 120 comments

Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 468 comments

Cool Backgrounds

https://coolbackgrounds.io/

8 years ago

409 upvotes – 50 comments

Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/andy-rubin-s-phone-maker-essential-is-said-to-consider-sale

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 363 comments

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

8 years ago

370 upvotes – 207 comments

Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-off-the-grid-compressed-air-energy-storage.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 231 comments

U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/bitcoin-manipulation-is-said-to-be-focus-of-u-s-criminal-probe

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 215 comments

Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

https://parabola.io/

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 66 comments

StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

https://medium.com/@gc/su-is-moving-to-mix-c2c3bff037a5

8 years ago

279 upvotes – 129 comments

Netflix is now worth more than Comcast

https://www.recode.net/2018/5/23/17386696/netflix-reed-hastings-comcast-worth-more

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 138 comments

Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17387146/instapaper-gdpr-europe-access-shut-down-privacy-changes

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 366 comments

In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time

https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 137 comments

ReasonML – React as first intended

https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/reasonml-react-as-first-intended/amp/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 187 comments

Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Shipments

https://www.voicebot.ai/2018/05/23/google-home-beats-amazon-echo-in-q1-2018-smart-speaker-shipments-according-to-new-study/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 212 comments

The Egg (2009)

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 51 comments

Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/mark-zuckerberg-set-up-fraudulent-scheme-weaponise-data-facebook-court-case-alleges?CMP=share_btn_tw

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 26 comments

Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/24/pornhub-launches-vpnhub-its-own-virtual-private-network-app/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 128 comments

GDPR Hall of Shame

http://gdprhallofshame.com/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: Clippi.io lets you collect your visual inspiration from any video

https://clippi.io/

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 7 comments

Postgres 11 Beta 1 released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1855/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 68 comments

Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/3-charged-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-attack/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 319 comments

Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/24/kubernetes-containerd-integration-goes-ga/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 57 comments

Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/apple-wins-539-million-from-samsung-in-damages-retrial

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 203 comments

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Able to Drill Holes into Rocks Again

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-is-able-to-drill-holes-into-rock-1826271498

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 34 comments

Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44228756

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 117 comments

A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning

https://github.com/experiencor/self-driving-toy-car

8 years ago

★ 520Jupyter Notebook
156 upvotes – 29 comments

RIP Robin “Roblimo” Miller

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rip-robin-roblimo-miller

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

Tesla Accused of Deception in Promoting Autopilot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/tesla-s-autopilot-promotions-are-deceptive-watchdog-groups-say

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 85 comments

NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/nasa-is-bringing-cryosleep-chambers-out-of-fiction-and-into-science

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 112 comments

American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war-on-stupid-people/485618/?single_page=true

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 168 comments

Every 202,500 Years, Earth Wanders in a New Direction

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/science/earth-orbit-change.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

Suggestive Drawing Among Humans and AIs

http://nono.ma/suggestive-drawing

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 25 comments

3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/3d-face-reconstruction-with-position-map-regression-networks-36f0ac2d3ef1

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 5 comments

Computing Partial Differential Equations with Water

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 8 comments

A simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-simple-mechanism-decisive-life.html

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 61 comments

The Last Days of Time Inc

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/19/business/media/time-inc-oral-history.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

Assessing Cavium’s ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized

https://www.anandtech.com/print/12694/assessing-cavium-thunderx2-arm-server-reality

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3a3gg/iphone-6-touch-disease-documents

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 88 comments

On Counting (2017)

http://www.doxsey.net/blog/on-counting

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Mathematical Education (1990)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503081

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Interview with Deliveroo couriers appealing bargaining-rights decision

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/24/deliveroo-couriers-dystopia-union

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 105 comments

Apple Rejects Valve's Steam Link App Due to 'Business Conflicts'

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/24/apple-rejects-valve-steam-link-app/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

What Write Skew Looks Like

http://justinjaffray.com/what-does-write-skew-look-like/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

React 16.4 release notes (pointer events)

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/05/23/react-v-16-4.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

ECMA TC39: “SmooshGate” was officially resolved by renaming flatten to flat

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 104 comments

Drawpile is a free software collaborative drawing program

https://drawpile.net/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Chasing missing SIGINT signals down the SSH rabbit hole

https://gravitational.com/blog/ssh-client-signal-handling/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Anon – A Unix Command to Anonymise Data

https://github.com/intenthq/anon

8 years ago

★ 351GoMIT
79 upvotes – 23 comments

Should Psychiatry Test for Lead More?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/should-psychiatry-test-for-lead-more/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Someone Has Infected at Least 500,000 Routers All Over the World

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj3ma5/vpnfilter-router-malware-champions-league-cisco-talos

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Places in the U.S. Where Disaster Strikes Again and Again

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/24/us/disasters-hurricanes-wildfires-storms.html

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

Some frustrated publishers are sitting out Google’s GDPR meetings

https://digiday.com/media/no-one-thinks-good-idea-frustrated-publishers-sitting-googles-gdpr-meetings/

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 80 comments
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