top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-29

Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/29/why-thousands-of-ai-researchers-are-boycotting-the-new-nature-journal

8 years ago

UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?

https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

8 years ago

De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/29/news/companies/de-beers-man-made-diamonds/index.html

8 years ago

Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and title if you're hooked

http://www.recommendmeabook.com/

8 years ago

I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

https://nypost.com/2018/05/28/i-wrote-a-negative-yelp-review-and-it-made-my-life-a-nightmare/

8 years ago

High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/index.html

8 years ago

Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1

https://bgpstream.com/event/138295

8 years ago

A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/05/29/announcing-the-may-2018-git-security-vulnerability/

8 years ago

A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table

https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/

8 years ago

Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/facebook-tools-are-used-to-screen-out-older-job-seekers-lawsuit-claims

8 years ago

Tcpdump Examples

https://hackertarget.com/tcpdump-examples

8 years ago

Mastodon 2.4.0

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0

8 years ago

★ 49.8k Ruby AGPL-3.0

NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791

8 years ago

★ 17.6k

So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter

https://jacquesmattheij.com/so-your-start-up-receive-the-nightmare-gdpr-letter

8 years ago

Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tesla-collision-20180529-story.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

https://recursive.recipes/

8 years ago

WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx

8 years ago

Introducing Kepler.gl, an Open-Source Geospatial Toolbox

https://ubere.ng/2H1HjFH

8 years ago

Learn cryptographic engineering by example

https://github.com/sodium-friends/learntocrypto

8 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript ISC

Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/04/17/facebook-photo-scanning-lawsuit-could-cost-it-billions/?HN2

8 years ago

Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-passwords-in-practice-real-world-examples-of-blocking-the-worst-passwords/

8 years ago

Loot boxes are obviously gambling

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/op-ed-game-companies-need-to-cut-the-crap-loot-boxes-are-obviously-gambling/

8 years ago

Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/03/13/space-is-full-of-planets-and-most-of-them-dont-even-have-stars/

8 years ago

Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance (2014)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2026

8 years ago

Shell Magic: Set Operations with uniq

http://blog.deadvax.net/2018/05/29/shell-magic-set-operations-with-uniq/

8 years ago

People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/venmo-stalkers-or-amateur-sleuths-they-out-cheating-boyfriends-spy-on-exes-and-see-who-buys-drugs-2018-05-11

8 years ago

Redis 5.0 RC1 is out

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/9FcwPtutyyQ

8 years ago

To Yarn and Back to Npm Again

https://mixmax.com/blog/to-yarn-and-back-again-npm

8 years ago

Ask HN: How do security researchers know where to look for vulnerabilites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17176711

8 years ago

Lawyers Send Mobile Ads To Phones In ER Waiting Rooms

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/25/613127311/digital-ambulance-chasers-law-firms-send-ads-to-patients-phones-inside-ers

8 years ago

Imgur launches video

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/imgur-video/

8 years ago

The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-accepted

8 years ago

Deno, a secure TypeScript runtime using V8 and Go

https://github.com/ry/deno

8 years ago

★ 446 TypeScript

Three-sided Football

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

8 years ago

Microsoft .Net Core telemetry is not opt-in

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093#issuecomment-392663561

8 years ago

★ 3.4k

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2017)

http://toc.cryptobook.us

8 years ago

The Philosophy of Computational Complexity

https://ristret.com/s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_complexity

8 years ago

Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App

https://www.jqbx.fm

8 years ago

Show HN: An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC

https://github.com/lucperkins/colossus

8 years ago

★ 1k Starlark MIT

Our machine learning and NLP journey

https://www.wootric.com/blog/our-machine-learning-journey-from-zero-to-customer-value-in-12-months/

8 years ago

How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/the-club-where-you-bare-your-soul-to-strangers/545786/?single_page=true

8 years ago

The Open Home Lab Stack (2017)

https://hackernoon.com/the-open-home-lab-stack-5e5858722fee

8 years ago

Oracle Data Marketplace

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/data-cloud/dsmkt/oracle-data-marketplace.html#GUID-5F2FD071-6C43-4804-902A-7026AD180EAB

8 years ago

NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/bae129c5e36fe3b2ded1e036fc2f6f12430f55e0

8 years ago

★ 921 C

Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month to root out 'fake users'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/papua-new-guinea-facebook-ban-study-fake-users

8 years ago

Self-driving technology is going to change more than cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/self-driving-technology-is-going-to-change-a-lot-more-than-cars/

8 years ago