top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-13

Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-manipulation.html

8 years ago

574 upvotes – 388 comments

Id Software

https://github.com/id-Software

8 years ago

516 upvotes – 170 comments

Vue Native

https://vue-native.io

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 203 comments

Console.table()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/table

8 years ago

409 upvotes – 144 comments

Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

https://twitter.com/thelarkinn/status/1006746626617008128?s=21

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 437 comments

Librarian wins surprise judgement against Equifax in small claims court

https://vtdigger.org/2018/06/12/randolph-librarian-wins-surprise-judgement-equifax/

8 years ago

392 upvotes – 131 comments

Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/netflix-and-alphabet-will-need-to-become-isps-fast/

8 years ago

389 upvotes – 274 comments

Intel FP security issue

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/13/7

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 92 comments

Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

http://rfpose.csail.mit.edu/

8 years ago

355 upvotes – 169 comments

Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/facebook-confirms-that-it-tracks-how-you-move-mouse-on-the-computer-screen-1258189-2018-06-12

8 years ago

345 upvotes – 182 comments

A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R

http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 225 comments

Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Crack Devices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/apple-iphone-police.html

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 232 comments

Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17304227

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 164 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis

http://discrete.gr/complexity/

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 12 comments

How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL

https://www.howtographql.com/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 61 comments

Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system

https://github.com/alibaba/Dragonfly

8 years ago

★ 5.9kGoApache-2.0
269 upvotes – 56 comments

Windows NTFS Tricks Collection

https://sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/06/pentesters-windows-ntfs-tricks-collection/

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 101 comments

Comcast, in 2nd Try, Offers $65B Cash for 21st Century Fox

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/business/media/comcast-fox-disney-bidding-war.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 84 comments

Intel SA-00145: Lazy FP State Restore

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00145.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

The End of Video Coding?

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-end-of-video-coding-40cf10e711a2

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 127 comments

How the modern containerization trend is exploited by attackers

https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/cryptojacking-invades-cloud-how-modern-containerization-trend-is-exploited-by-attackers

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 99 comments

Can this cooler save kids from dying?

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/The-big-chill

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 34 comments

Delft scientists make first “on demand” entanglement link

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2018/tu-delft/delft-scientists-make-first-on-demand-entanglement-link/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 73 comments

Learning Programming with Nim

https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 110 comments

Tensorflow.js – A Practical Guide

https://blog.yellowant.com/tensorflow-js-a-practical-guide-2ed58327c455

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 31 comments

Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04510

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018

https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 82 comments

Google is working on Python 3 for App Engine Standard Environment

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35876441#comment104

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 57 comments

Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-iq-scores-1970s.amp

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 207 comments

Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300599

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 121 comments

Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons

https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 9 comments

Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works

https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2018/06/13/everyone-is-watching-what-you-do-online-how-user-tracking-with-cookies-works/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 66 comments

Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05404-6

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 237 comments

Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44470208

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/opinion/stephen-king-can-a-novelist-be-too-productive.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 92 comments

WeWork Is Raising Funds at $35B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/softbank-executive-says-wework-is-raising-funds-at-35-billion-valuation

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 134 comments

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 126 comments

Usql: v0.7.0 released

https://github.com/xo/usql/releases/tag/v0.7.0

8 years ago

★ 9.9kGoMIT
112 upvotes – 31 comments

Recovery of Lost Indigenous Languages by Optical Scanning of Old Wax Cylinders

http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/optical-scanning-technology-lets-researchers-recover-lost-indigenous-languages-old-wax-cylinder-recordings.html

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

Coinbase opens its crypto index fund to accredited U.S. investors

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/coinbase-opens-its-crypto-index-fund-to-accredited-u-s-investors/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

Mechanism many macOS security tools used to check signatures could be bypassed

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/simple-technique-bypassed-macos-signature-checks-by-third-party-tools/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (1944)

https://archive.org/details/StickAndRudderAnExplanationOfTheArtOfFlying

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)

https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Cracking the Tapplock Smart Lock

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/totally-pwning-the-tapplock-smart-lock/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Type-safe Bitmasks in C++

https://gpfault.net/posts/typesafe-bitmasks.txt.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

UK’s Dixons Carphone admits huge data breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44465331

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Mininet on OpenBSD: Interactive SDN Testing and Development [pdf]

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan2018-mininet.pdf

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 2 comments

Attitudes matter in an aging world

https://agewell.orbmedia.org/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

ECDSA Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

Tesla short sellers $2B in the red for June as shares soar

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stocks-shorts/tesla-short-sellers-2-billion-in-the-red-for-june-as-shares-soar-idUSKBN1J82OX

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

New UK startup visa route announced by the Home Secretary

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-start-up-visa-route-announced-by-the-home-secretary

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 93 comments

Introducing Multi-Leg Options Strategies

http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/6/12/introducing-multi-leg-options-strategies

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 98 comments
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