top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-01

More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued

https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/

8 years ago

New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367642/travellers-refusing-digital-search-now-face-5000-customs-fine

8 years ago

Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects

http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects

8 years ago

Sourcegraph is now open source

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-is-now-open-source

8 years ago

DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]

https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF%20CON%2026%20voting%20village%20report.pdf

8 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113144

8 years ago

Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/Introducing-dav1d

8 years ago

An Innovative Phishing Style

https://tehaurum.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/an-innovative-phishing-style/

8 years ago

An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756

8 years ago

M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools

https://www.wsj.com/articles/m-b-a-applications-keep-falling-in-u-s-this-year-hitting-even-elite-schools-1538366461

8 years ago

The annoying habits of highly effective people

https://www.economist.com/node/21751671

8 years ago

Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/using-haproxy-as-an-api-gateway-part-1/

8 years ago

I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html

8 years ago

Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/voice-phishing-scams-are-getting-more-clever/

8 years ago

Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/technology/net-neutrality-california.html

8 years ago

Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions

https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2018/09/29/lolbench/

8 years ago

You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-workers/

8 years ago

James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/01/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine

8 years ago

The End: I can not finish Limit Theory

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theory-an-infinite-procedural-space-game/posts/2270873

8 years ago

Khosla Rebuffed as Supreme Court Rejects Beach-Access Appeal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/khosla-rebuffed-as-supreme-court-rejects-beach-access-appeal

8 years ago

Magic Leap Review Part I

https://www.kguttag.com/2018/09/26/magic-leap-review-part-1-the-terrible-view-through-diffraction-gratings/

8 years ago

Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default

https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensions-by-default.html

8 years ago

US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45680490

8 years ago

Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices

https://micromdm.io/

8 years ago

Show HN: An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser

https://kabas.online/

8 years ago

Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix

https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images

8 years ago

When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges on Demand

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/remember-when-blockbuster-video-tried-burning-game-cartridges-on-demand/

8 years ago

Project Atlas

https://www.bittorrent.com/project-atlas/

8 years ago

WorkerDom – The Same DOM API and Frameworks You Know, but in a Web Worker

https://github.com/ampproject/worker-dom

8 years ago

★ 3.2k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Teen Behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-teen-behavior-9938/

8 years ago

Impossibly Hungry Judges (2017)

http://m.nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

8 years ago

Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/google-gets-into-game-streaming-with-project-stream-and-assassins-creed-odyssey-in-chrome/

8 years ago

What Made Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Hard to Prove

https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/what-made-godels-incompleteness-theorem-hard-to-prove-its-about-how-you-say-it-not-just-what-you-say/

8 years ago

Show HN: We made a real-time editor for web database apps

http://demo.hyperfiddle.net/:quick-demo/

8 years ago

I lived in a Tokyo coworking space

https://www.curbed.com/2018/9/28/17910536/tokyo-coworking-midori-so

8 years ago

RAM Doubler 2 (1996)

https://tidbits.com/article/837

8 years ago

Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/

8 years ago

Prepare for changes to macOS Server 5.7.1

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

8 years ago

Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/apollo-contacts-data-breach/

8 years ago

California governor signs nation’s strictest net neutrality rules into law

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/california-governor-signs-net-neutrality-rules-into-law/

8 years ago

GeoCities Japan is shutting down

https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/

8 years ago

Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/monday-s-medical-myth-you-need-eight-hours-of-continuous-sleep-each-night

8 years ago

FBI solves mystery surrounding 15-year-old Fruitfly Mac malware

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-solves-mystery-surrounding-15-year-old-fruitfly-mac-malware/

8 years ago

Nvidia drivers on Linux are trash

https://nvidialinuxdriversaretrash.github.io/

8 years ago

Why do things go right?

https://web.archive.org/web/20181001110144/http://www.safetydifferently.com/why-do-things-go-right/

8 years ago

A story about a Kubernetes migration

https://medium.com/unbabel/unbabel-migrated-to-kubernetes-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b39f082def1c

8 years ago

Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Our DNA (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/ancient-viruses-dna-genome.html

8 years ago

Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/22/physicists-investigate-why-matter-and-antimatter-are-not-mirror-images

8 years ago

Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/books/review/irad-kimhi-thinking-and-being.html

8 years ago

Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age [pdf]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783610/pdf/elife-31157.pdf

8 years ago

Cisco coughs up baker’s dozen of vulnerabilities and other security nasties

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/27/cisco_vulns_h2_18/

8 years ago

Cern scientist: 'Physics built by men – not by invitation'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45703700

8 years ago

Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/netflix-is-said-to-plan-choose-your-own-adventure-black-mirror

8 years ago

Use of internet, social media, digital devices plateaus in US

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/28/internet-social-media-use-and-device-ownership-in-u-s-have-plateaued-after-years-of-growth/

8 years ago

“I'm surrounded by people - but I feel so lonely”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45561334

8 years ago

A Penthouse Made for Instagram

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/business/media/instagram-influencers-penthouse.html

8 years ago

Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/30/news/california-requires-women-board-of-directors/index.html

8 years ago

Institutional Investors Are Using Back Door for Crypto Purchases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/institutional-investors-are-using-back-door-for-crypto-purchases

8 years ago

IPCC: Climate scientists consider ‘life changing’ report

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45653099

8 years ago