top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-29

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions?via=twitter_page

8 years ago

Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser

https://refresh.study

8 years ago

Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

8 years ago

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

8 years ago

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

http://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/?p1=HP_SpecialTSA

8 years ago

I created the exact same app in React and Vue

https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd

8 years ago

Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016)

https://daiyi.co/blog/2016/11/30/Signaling-in-tech-is-some-fucked-up-shit/

8 years ago

Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers

https://codewith.mu/

8 years ago

The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/22/the-blockchain-bubble-will-pop-what-next/

8 years ago

Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17639768

8 years ago

Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/07/27/gorgan-wall-iran-second-longest/#.W1vFmRZE2Ec

8 years ago

Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?

https://medium.com/@bellmar/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b

8 years ago

Turbo Button

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

8 years ago

Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/gamifying-propositional-logic-qed-an-interactive-textbook/

8 years ago

Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History

https://bookworm.club/2018/07/salt/

8 years ago

Going sponsor-free – 3blue1brown

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19586800

8 years ago

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44981013

8 years ago

New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their Fates Being Sealed

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22487/new-video-of-f-117s-flying-out-of-tonopah-emerges-despite-their-fates-being-sealed

8 years ago

Fear of Macros

http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/

8 years ago

Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich

8 years ago

Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-18/japan-s-lonely-death-industry

8 years ago

Cheap FPGA Development Boards

https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

8 years ago

Java's Magic Sauce

https://www.azul.com/javas-magic-sauce/

8 years ago

As Economics Improve, Solar Shines in Rural America

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/solar-expands-in-rural-areas

8 years ago

Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/23/630544154/pizza-physics-why-brick-ovens-bake-the-perfect-italian-style-pie

8 years ago

Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine with PostgreSQL

https://rob.conery.io/2018/07/23/setting-up-a-fast-comprehensive-search-routine-with-postgresql/

8 years ago

Diversity quotas suck. Here’s why

http://blog.alinelerner.com/diversity-quotas-suck-heres-why/

8 years ago

What We Have Now Is Not Advertising

https://nrempel.com/posts/what-we-have-now-is-not-advertising/

8 years ago

Discontinuation of Mac Support for Autodesk Alias and VRED

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/alias-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Discontinuation-of-Mac-Support-for-Autodesk-Alias-and-VRED.html

8 years ago

Consumer DNA tests revealing misattributed parentage

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Double Faults

https://os.phil-opp.com/double-fault-exceptions/

8 years ago

Remote Spectre exploits demonstrated

https://lwn.net/Articles/761100/

8 years ago

London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (2016)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/londons-super-recognizer-police-force

8 years ago

A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html

8 years ago

Men Beware: The Abercrombie and Fitch Effect

https://www.newneuromarketing.com/men-beware-the-abercrombie-fitch-effect

8 years ago

Understanding, finding, and eliminating ground loops (2003) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/jhawk/tmp/p/EST016_Ground_Loops_handout.pdf

8 years ago

Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636856

8 years ago

Light Painting Machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bY66X1JKA

8 years ago

David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/david-bohm-quantum-mechanics-and-enlightenment/

8 years ago

Compromised supply chain within a supply chain poses new risks

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/07/26/attack-inception-compromised-supply-chain-within-a-supply-chain-poses-new-risks/

8 years ago

A Z80 from the Ground Up (2014)

http://baltazarstudios.com/z80-ground/

8 years ago

How Japan's visionaries saw the future

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180725-how-japans-visionaries-saw-the-future

8 years ago