top 50% 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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

458 upvotes – 308 comments

5G Got me Fired

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

8 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/

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 369 comments

Writing system software: code comments

http://antirez.com/news/124

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 80 comments

The Python Unicode Mess

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

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 272 comments

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 104 comments

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

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

8 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

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 188 comments

Brave – A private, secure and fast browser

https://brave.com/index/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 233 comments

NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]

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

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

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

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

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician

http://standupmaths.com/

8 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

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

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

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

8 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript MIT
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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]

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

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments

Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/supply-chain-security-is-the-whole-enchilada-but-whos-willing-to-pay-for-it/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization

https://ramesaliyev.com/trigonoparty/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 30 comments

On the Law of Diminishing Specialization

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/10/03/on-the-law-of-diminishing-specialization/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 50 comments

How to read Kafka: part I

https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/10/how-to-read-kafka-part-i

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

The Prolog Story (2010)

http://kylecordes.com/2010/the-prolog-story

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stripe-payments-apple-amazon-facebook

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords

https://github.com/jcs/login_duress

8 years ago

★ 108 C
125 upvotes – 59 comments

AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator-kubernetes-available/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

Oxford Electric Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

The Scots Language

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 123 comments

Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX

https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-may-have-used-firm-to-plant-anti-spacex-oped-2018-10?r=US&IR=T

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

We Found a Way to Increase Voter Turnout in Texas, but Texas Isn’t Interested

https://medium.com/s/story/texas-rejected-1000s-of-legally-submitted-voter-registration-forms-days-before-the-deadline-d4dbc7fa8504

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 47 comments

Formalizing 100 theorems in Coq

https://madiot.fr/coq100/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments
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