top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-10-06

An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-artwork-banksy-shredded-selling-13-million-sothebys

7 years ago

621 upvotes – 290 comments

Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/programmers-play-minecrafts-inner-workings

7 years ago

536 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi

7 years ago

458 upvotes – 308 comments

5G Got me Fired

https://medium.com/@dvorak/5g-got-me-fired-ce407e584c4a

7 years ago

410 upvotes – 123 comments

Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/

7 years ago

384 upvotes – 369 comments

Writing system software: code comments

http://antirez.com/news/124

7 years ago

310 upvotes – 80 comments

The Python Unicode Mess

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9938-the-python-unicode-mess

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 272 comments

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

https://antipolygraph.org/statements/statement-038.shtml

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 104 comments

Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet

https://ifixit.org/blog/11673/

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 160 comments

The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 188 comments

Brave – A private, secure and fast browser

https://brave.com/index/

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 233 comments

NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

Ham vs. Ham as Radio Amateurs Are in Conflict with ARRL

https://perens.com/static/ARRL/TransparencyOctober2018.html

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician

http://standupmaths.com/

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 38 comments

How not to say the wrong thing (2013)

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/07/opinion/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

https://github.com/oscarmorrison/md-page

7 years ago

★ 1.3kJavaScriptMIT
169 upvotes – 84 comments

Why Patterns Failed and Why You Should Care

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-05T15_39_10.htm

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 95 comments

Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish traffic from center

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/05/inenglish/1538733317_890210.html

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 160 comments

Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/01/endurance-test-circa-1958

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/effective-programming/

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments
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