top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-05

Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/10/05/making-sense-of-the-supermicro-motherboard-attack/

8 years ago

The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-rule-of-microsoft-exceldont-tell-anyone-youre-good-at-it-1538754380

8 years ago

Don’t sign a CLA

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html

8 years ago

Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com

https://qz.com/1414238/secret-amazon-brands-are-quietly-taking-over-amazon-com/

8 years ago

My Journey into Fractals

https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2

8 years ago

The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

https://www.lesspenguiny.com/articles/best-article-on-bragging

8 years ago

How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-neural-network-from-scratch-in-python-68998a08e4f6

8 years ago

Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/chat-not-snap/

8 years ago

What Businessweek got wrong about Apple

https://www.apple.com/au/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got-wrong-about-apple/

8 years ago

The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets

8 years ago

Interpol chief Meng Hongwei vanishes on trip to China

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45761466

8 years ago

Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/3/17933644/microsoft-android-apps-windows-10-app-mirroring-report

8 years ago

GitHub and Jira Software Integration

https://blog.github.com/2018-10-04-announcing-the-new-github-and-jira-software-cloud-integration/

8 years ago

Don't shoot, I'm disabled

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45739335

8 years ago

The Awful German Language (1880)

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

8 years ago

A Brief History of High Availability

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/brief-history-high-availability/

8 years ago

Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/scaling-engineering-teams-via-writing-things-down-rfcs/

8 years ago

Language Server Protocol Support for Sublime Text 3

https://github.com/tomv564/LSP

8 years ago

★ 1.7k Python MIT

Asynchronous (Clockless) CPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchronous_CPU

8 years ago

Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e

http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-using-mu-and-/

8 years ago

Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrations-may-point-massive-gru-security-breach/

8 years ago

How to deliver on Machine Learning projects

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/how-to-deliver-on-machine-learning-projects-c8d82ce642b0

8 years ago

Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faster web

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-to-support-googles-webp-image-format-for-a-faster-web/

8 years ago

Bloomberg’s chip story reveals murky world of national security reporting

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/bloomberg-spy-chip-murky-world-national-security-reporting/

8 years ago

UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN

8 years ago

The tragic end of Telltale Games

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934166/telltale-games-studio-closed-layoffs-end-the-walking-dead

8 years ago

California to ban weak default passwords on internet-connected devices

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/california_iot_password/

8 years ago

How Twitter poisoned politics

https://prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/how-twitter-poisoned-politics

8 years ago

Flocking

https://www.blog.drewcutchins.com/blog/2018-8-16-flocking

8 years ago

Internet Archive is adding in-browser emulation support for Commodore 64

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1048017789884067840

8 years ago

Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said to Have Faltered on Tech Access

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-05/honda-waymo-talks-are-said-to-have-faltered-on-tech-access-evs

8 years ago

Ask HN: Did reading HN bring anything valuable into your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151061

8 years ago

US to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/new-rules-of-the-road-allow-steeringwheelfree-cars

8 years ago

Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean

https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/

8 years ago

The Big Hack: The Software Side of China’s Supply Chain Attack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-the-software-side-of-china-s-supply-chain-attack

8 years ago

K-map, the weird cousin of k-anonymity (2017)

https://desfontain.es/privacy/k-map.html

8 years ago

How I Judge the Quality of Documentation in 30 Seconds (2014)

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2014/feb/27/how-i-judge-documentation-quality/

8 years ago

Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps Is Erasing Palestine

https://972mag.com/mapping-occupation-how-google-erases-palestine-from-its-maps/138008/

8 years ago

Kierkegaard on Escaping the Cult of Busyness

https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/how-kierkegaards-idea-of-idleness-can-help-us-diagnose-21st-century-busyness-auid-1150?

8 years ago

GINN: Geometric Illustrations for Neural Networks

http://www.bayeswatch.com/2018/09/17/GINN/

8 years ago

2080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/NVIDIA-RTX-2080-Ti-vs-2080-vs-1080-Ti-vs-Titan-V-TensorFlow-Performance-with-CUDA-10-0-1247/

8 years ago

The Meaning of “Aquemini”

https://theundefeated.com/features/outkast-aquemini-anniversary-twenty-years-south-something-say/

8 years ago

Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2B?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/business/denmark-skat-tax-scandal.html

8 years ago

Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/5/17940902/microsoft-windows-10-october-2018-update-deleting-documents-issues

8 years ago

What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/?single_page=true

8 years ago

The story behind Turkish Delight

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181003-the-secret-story-behind-turkish-delight

8 years ago

How Our Marketing Team Spends Money Each Month

https://open.buffer.com/marketing-budget/

8 years ago

The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-breach-linkedin-salesforce-data/

8 years ago

A French town that ages wine in the sea

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181004-the-french-town-that-throws-wine-in-the-sea

8 years ago

National Theater in London Offers Glasses with Live Subtitles

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/theater/uk-national-theatre-smart-glasses.html

8 years ago

New in Postgres 11: Monitoring JIT Performance, Auto Prewarm, Stored Procedures

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres11-jit-compilation-auto-prewarm-sql-stored-procedures

8 years ago