top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-25

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall

https://thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway

8 years ago

We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password

https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-firefox-and-1password/

8 years ago

OpenAI Five

https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/

8 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-civil-asset-forfeiture.html

8 years ago

Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-intelligence/layoffs-at-watson-health-reveal-ibms-problem-with-ai

8 years ago

Losing 100 pounds in 276 days

https://posts.alexgr.in/losing-100-pounds-in-276-days/

8 years ago

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

8 years ago

DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos

https://dev.tube/

8 years ago

Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector

8 years ago

Introducing A16Z Crypto

https://a16zcrypto.com/

8 years ago

Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation

https://google-developers.appspot.com/machine-learning/crash-course/backprop-scroll/

8 years ago

Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf]

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/202/notes.pdf

8 years ago

Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe

https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2018/6/22/new-model-predicts-that-were-probably-the-only-advanced-civilization-in-the-observable-universe

8 years ago

Ways to think about machine learning

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy

8 years ago

‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/business/what-is-yield-curve-recession-prediction.html

8 years ago

Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/4413312/04_18

8 years ago

Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/amazon-workers-facing-firing-can-appeal-to-a-jury-of-their-co-workers

8 years ago

John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/john-oliver-is-erased-from-chinese-internet-following-segment-on-china/

8 years ago

Docker Considered Harmful (2016)

http://catern.com/posts/docker.html

8 years ago

Intel and the Danger of Integration

https://stratechery.com/2018/intel-and-the-danger-of-integration/

8 years ago

Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly

https://rustwasm.github.io/2018/06/25/vision-for-rust-and-wasm.html

8 years ago

Oxy – A Security Focused Remote Access Tool

https://oxy-secure.app/

8 years ago

Homemade GPS Receiver (2013)

http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm

8 years ago

OpenBSD chief de Raadt says no easy fix for new Intel CPU bug

https://www.itwire.com/security/83347-openbsd-chief-de-raadt-says-no-easy-fix-for-new-intel-cpu-bug.html

8 years ago

The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain [pdf]

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/Economic-Limits-Bitcoin-Blockchain.pdf

8 years ago

The F-106A That Flew Itself – After the Pilot Ejected, Landing Gently in a Field

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/plane-flew-pilot-ejected-f-106a-flew-miles-landing-gently-field.html

8 years ago

AT&T confirms it is buying ad platform AppNexus reportedly for between $1.6B-$2B

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/att-appnexus/

8 years ago

Old Internet Files

https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/

8 years ago

FDA approves first marijuana-derived drug and it may spark DEA rescheduling

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/fda-approves-first-marijuana-derived-drug-and-it-may-spark-dea-rescheduling/

8 years ago

Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html

8 years ago

Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

8 years ago

Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay.html

8 years ago

Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/06/25/testing-firefox-monitor-a-new-security-tool/

8 years ago

Facial recognition CEO: software is not ready for use by law enforcement

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/facial-recognition-software-is-not-ready-for-use-by-law-enforcement/

8 years ago

Physics as a Way of Thinking (1936) [pdf]

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/72567/OSLJ_V2N3_0241.pdf

8 years ago

Europe's first solar panel recycling plant opens in France

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling/europes-first-solar-panel-recycling-plant-opens-in-france-idUSKBN1JL28Z

8 years ago

If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do?

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52862/if-a-pilot-ejects-what-is-the-autopilot-programmed-to-do

8 years ago

Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986937/

8 years ago

Probiotics for bipolar disorder mania

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/probiotics-for-bipolar-disorder-mania-2018062514125

8 years ago