top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-23

Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

https://perens.com/2018/08/22/new-intel-microcode-license-restriction-is-not-acceptable/

8 years ago

1318 upvotes – 484 comments

How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

https://dejanseo.com.au/competitor-hack/

8 years ago

766 upvotes – 309 comments

Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

8 years ago

★ 10.9k C MIT
578 upvotes – 154 comments

Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

https://www.home-assistant.io/

8 years ago

540 upvotes – 196 comments

Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153504937925732&w=2

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 153 comments

Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-is-the-latest-company-to-try-bypassing-apples-app-store-2018-08-23

8 years ago

378 upvotes – 462 comments

Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmj4v/spyware-company-spyfone-terabytes-data-exposed-online-leak

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 141 comments

The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source

https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book

8 years ago

★ 3.3k Python
327 upvotes – 14 comments

Magic Leap One Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/112245

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 136 comments

Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer

https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-arent-a-technical-writer-part-one-ef08a09870d1

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 80 comments

Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:parisdiderot+56002+session03/about

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 162 comments

24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-type-an-email-part-two/

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 98 comments

Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05988-z

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 53 comments

Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years

https://hackernoon.com/8-mistakes-we-made-in-our-companys-first-8-years-3d38422333b

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 81 comments

Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft-bug-testers-unionized-then-they-were-dismissed

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron App

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

8 years ago

★ 24.1k TypeScript
213 upvotes – 110 comments

Court has confirmed coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde in Germany were illegal

https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html#update

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 21 comments

Privatizing Poverty

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/privatizing-poverty-phillips-fein

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 192 comments

Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons

https://honest.engineering/posts/why-use-graphql-good-and-bad-reasons

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 113 comments

Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2

https://jepsen.io/analyses/dgraph-1-0-2

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 124 comments

The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide

8 years ago

★ 14.5k Python MPL-2.0
173 upvotes – 52 comments

Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-microcode-benchmark-mitigation,37684.html

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 56 comments

The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man

https://newrepublic.com/article/150497/vanishing-idealism-burning-man

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO

https://tech.buzzfeed.com/unleashing-the-a6a1a5da39d6

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 36 comments

NLP’s generalization problem, and how researchers are tackling it

https://thegradient.pub/frontiers-of-generalization-in-natural-language-processing/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

Some Techies Are Shunning Silicon Valley for the Japanese Dream

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/why-some-techies-are-shunning-silicon-valley-for-japanese-dream

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 218 comments

Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from supplying technology for its 5G network

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/australia-bans-huawei-and-zte-from-supplying-technology-for-its-5g-network/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 94 comments

Researchers have observed the Lyman-alpha transition in the antihydrogen atom

https://home.cern/about/updates/2018/08/alpha-experiment-takes-antimatter-new-level

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token

https://conorpp.com/designing-solo-a-new-u2ffido2-token

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 93 comments

Eventbrite S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000119312518255960/d593770ds1.htm

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 102 comments

L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-counting system

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-los-angeles-gets-the-state-s-approval-1534946283-htmlstory.html

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 68 comments

End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/ban-stock-buybacks.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 272 comments

Life as a bug bounty hunter

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611896/life-as-a-bug-bounty-hunter/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 75 comments

On HtDP

http://felleisen.org/matthias/OnHtDP/index.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-lifeexpectancy/life-expectancy-declines-seen-in-u-s-and-other-high-income-countries-idUSKCN1L723R

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 172 comments

Johnny-Five v1.0 – JavaScript Robotics and IoT Framework

http://johnny-five.io/news/v1_0/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]

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

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 11 comments

Dear Ad Networks

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Dear_Ad_Networks/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire

https://medium.com/@aliceminium/the-dark-reality-behind-americas-greatest-thrift-store-empire-183967087a1e

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

An update on state-sponsored activity

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/update-state-sponsored-activity/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine

https://www.wired.com/story/stratolaunch-airplane-burt-rutan-paul-allen/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1363339

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Music and Machine Learning

http://ai.sensilab.monash.edu/2018/08/23/Neural-Music/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Python coding interview challenges

https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges

8 years ago

★ 31.3k Python
80 upvotes – 0 comments

China’s Consumption Downgrade: Skip Avocados, Cocktails and Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/business/china-consumer-downgrade.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 87 comments

California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/californias-strict-net-neutrality-bill-is-close-to-final-passage/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Why I Pull Out My Hair

https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-i-pull-out-my-hair-trich-ocd-bfrbs-therapy/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments
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