top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-04

4D toys

http://4dtoys.com/

8 years ago

Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-proves-that-piracy-can-be-dangerously-useful-180804/

8 years ago

Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle

https://www.instructables.com/id/Literary-Clock-Made-From-E-reader/

8 years ago

How Does Mastodon Work?

https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/

8 years ago

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45046674

8 years ago

Generating random points inside a sphere

https://karthikkaranth.me/blog/generating-random-points-in-a-sphere/

8 years ago

ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation

http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/

8 years ago

Introduction to Computer Organization with X86-64 Assembly Language and Linux

http://bob.cs.sonoma.edu/IntroCompOrg-x64/book.html

8 years ago

Internet Archive, decentralized

https://dweb.archive.org/

8 years ago

New attack on WPA using PMKID

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html

8 years ago

The Tox project

https://tox.chat/about.html

8 years ago

Secure Secure Shell (2015)

https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html

8 years ago

Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34484972

8 years ago

Build a VM step by step with Rust

https://blog.subnetzero.io/post/building-language-vm-part-00/

8 years ago

The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/the-mind-most-polarizing-card-game-of-the-year/

8 years ago

Markdeep markup language

http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

8 years ago

How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email

https://www.wired.com/story/jpay-securus-prison-email-charging-millions/

8 years ago

Swift: When Unused Code Is a Bug

https://www.peripheryapp.com/blog/2018/08/04/swift-when-unused-code-is-a-bug/

8 years ago

What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/reader-center/off-the-record-meaning.html

8 years ago

Computer Virus Cripples Several Taiwan Semiconductor Plants

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-04/tsmc-takes-emergency-steps-as-operations-hit-by-computer-virus

8 years ago

Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer

https://polyhedra.tessera.li

8 years ago

Free-range parenting outside the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/reader-center/free-range-parenting-outside-united-states.html

8 years ago

The Dark Core of Personality

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dark-core-of-personality/

8 years ago

Tindallgrams

http://tindallgrams.net/

8 years ago

Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/06/12/collars-reveal-why-just-how-extreme-cheetahs-can-be/

8 years ago

Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows

https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream

8 years ago

★ 1.9k C++ MS-PL

Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/

8 years ago

Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow

https://github.com/dremio/gandiva

8 years ago

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User guide and WASM demos for nphysics: Rust physics engine with multibodies

http://nphysics.org/

8 years ago

Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00659

8 years ago

Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Fury Among Workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/pichai-the-pragmatic-plows-into-china-and-google-workers-fume

8 years ago

Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-wayne-apples-third-co-founder-where-is-he-now/

8 years ago