top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-28

Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

8 years ago

1677 upvotes – 609 comments

Did I just waste 3 years?

https://infinitroid.com/blog/posts/did_i_just_waste_3_years

8 years ago

905 upvotes – 564 comments

Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

https://githubengineering.com/upgrading-github-from-rails-3-2-to-5-2/

8 years ago

510 upvotes – 263 comments

How a Website Exploited Amazon S3 to Outrank Everyone on Google

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-one-affiliate-used-amazon-s3-to-outrank-everyone-on-google-9744c8e7322f

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 117 comments

LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/27/lojax-first-uefi-rootkit-found-wild-courtesy-sednit-group/

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095579

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 273 comments

The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0

https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

8 years ago

★ 31.8k Assembly MIT
328 upvotes – 115 comments

Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley

https://www.gq.com/story/stardew-valley-eric-barone-profile

8 years ago

320 upvotes – 120 comments

Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds

https://www.wsj.com/articles/widely-used-election-systems-are-vulnerable-to-attack-report-finds-1538020802

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 202 comments

Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45637826

8 years ago

279 upvotes – 142 comments

Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-28/35-year-old-unknown-creates-the-world-s-most-valuable-startup

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 179 comments

Introducing Workers KV

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-kv/

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 100 comments

MacOS Marzipan

http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/marzipan

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 141 comments

But don’t let that distract you; it was designed to kill people (2017)

https://www.calebthompson.io/talks/dont-get-distracted/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 118 comments

New Standard Deal

https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-standard-deal/

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12

https://blog.timac.org/2018/0924-state-of-swift-ios12/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 139 comments

Git is already federated and decentralized

https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distributed.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 106 comments

How YC Has Changed

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-has-changed/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article

https://mobile.twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1045757268124467200

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17887692/voxcare-surprise-er-bills-senate

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 151 comments

Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub

https://github.com/drujensen/fib

8 years ago

★ 906 Ruby
165 upvotes – 164 comments

Zig 0.3.0 Released

https://ziglang.org/download/0.3.0/release-notes.html

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 45 comments

Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/28/academics-uk-universities-accused-bullying-students-colleagues

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 75 comments

One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wireless Direct Link Protocol

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03156

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

CppCon 2018: Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ak6xtVXno

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 82 comments

Kubernetes 1.12

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/09/27/kubernetes-1.12-kubelet-tls-bootstrap-and-azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets-vmss-move-to-general-availability/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

Tesla meets Q3 production goals of 50,000 to 55,000 Model 3s

https://electrek.co/2018/09/28/tesla-model-3-production-goal-achieved-record-quarter/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 103 comments

Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Office apps for Windows

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/microsoft-suspends-development-of-touch-friendly-office-apps-for-windows/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 139 comments

See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7673989

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 111 comments

Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/28/zuckerberg-facebook-page-hacker-livestream/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 54 comments

Bracing for the Vanilla Boom

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/madagascar-vanilla-boom/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 67 comments

Google CEO will testify before U.S. House panel in November

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-congress/google-ceo-will-testify-before-u-s-house-panel-in-november-idUSKCN1M8275

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 103 comments

Jobs at Google (1999)

https://web.archive.org/web/19991013034717/http://google.com:80/jobs.html

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 126 comments

Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/architecture-of-nautilus-the-new-dropbox-search-engine

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

FreshRSS – A free, self-hostable aggregator

https://freshrss.org/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Intel Tock-Ticks Chipsets Back to 22nm

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-14nm-shortage-h310c,37819.html

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 75 comments

Plus codes: addresses for everyone

https://plus.codes/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

Scheduling in Go: Part II

https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/08/scheduling-in-go-part2.html

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 44 comments

Genetic algorithms for training deep neural networks (2017)

https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-dirty-money-disappears-into-the-black-hole-of-cryptocurrency-1538149743

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 100 comments

Tesla’s Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/teslas-musk-pulled-plug-on-settlement-with-sec-at-last-minute.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 102 comments

Test && commit || revert

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 87 comments

SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 39 comments

Charles Kao, Nobel laureate who revolutionized fiber optics, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/obituaries/charles-kuen-kao-dead.html

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

Building apps on top of Google Sheets

https://tryretool.com/blog/google-sheets/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Study confirms massive scale of lowland Maya civilization

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-unprecedented-massive-scale-lowland-maya.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 1 comments

A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/27/a-texas-sized-pavement-problem

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't Japan's asteroid rover landing the top story in the US?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092930

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments (2010) [pdf]

http://users.stat.umn.edu/~gary/book/fcdae.pdf

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xj4vg/watch-scientists-accidentally-blow-up-their-lab-with-the-strongest-indoor-magnetic-field-ever

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments
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