top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-12

Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

https://tls.ulfheim.net/

8 years ago

1185 upvotes – 103 comments

Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds

https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-product-support-for-rss-atom-feeds/

8 years ago

634 upvotes – 320 comments

Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/facebook-s-recent-hack-exposed-user-location-search-data

8 years ago

616 upvotes – 207 comments

A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs

https://blog.socialcops.com/technology/engineering/camelot-python-library-pdf-data/

8 years ago

501 upvotes – 99 comments

Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18198502

8 years ago

450 upvotes – 299 comments

A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-mysterious-grey-hat-is-patching-peoples-outdated-mikrotik-routers/

8 years ago

397 upvotes – 210 comments

Model-Based Machine Learning Book

http://mbmlbook.com/

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 12 comments

TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

https://robwalling.com/2018/10/12/my-next-act-the-first-startup-accelerator-designed-for-bootstrappers/

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 101 comments

Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career

https://www.joshuahu.io/blog/quitting/

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 224 comments

An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech that Tracks Almost Every American

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/12/how-an-amateur-rap-crew-stole-surveillance-tech-that-tracks-almost-every-american/#33f5c0cd50f1

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 111 comments

Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf

8 years ago

300 upvotes – 101 comments

Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work

https://qz.com/1419105/a-diet-guru-explains-why-you-should-eat-dinner-at-2pm/

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 327 comments

Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you

https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 113 comments

RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down

https://rawgit.com/

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 84 comments

No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 153 comments

Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-chronic-anxiety-a-learning-disorder/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 72 comments

Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-express-737-hits-ils-damages-wall-on-departure-flies-for-4-hours-before-diverting/

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 238 comments

Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

http://www.inrs.ca/english/actualites/worlds-fastest-camera-freezes-time-10-trillion-frames-second

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 91 comments

Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

https://www.quantamagazine.org/interstellar-comet-oumuamua-might-not-actually-be-a-comet-20181010/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 114 comments

Warp – self-contained, single binary applications

https://github.com/dgiagio/warp

8 years ago

★ 1.9k Rust MIT
197 upvotes – 155 comments

Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and Plan 9

https://github.com/mntmn/interim

8 years ago

★ 1.3k C
197 upvotes – 64 comments

Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program

https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/about-us/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 70 comments

See what you can create with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas

https://www.dwitter.net/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 24 comments

Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

https://picovoice.ai/#voice-control-demo

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 75 comments

Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eff-texas-ag-epson-tricked-its-customers-dangerous-fake-update

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/president-trump-just-signed-a-law-that-radically-changes-life-for-airline-passengers-flight-attendants-airlines-almost-nobody-even-noticed.html

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 372 comments

BetrFS: An in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage

http://www.betrfs.org/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 46 comments

Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees

http://the-paper-trail.org/post/masstree

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 21 comments

Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference

https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011/

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 125 comments

Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio in Android

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-oboe-c-library-for-low.html

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 74 comments

Mathematics as thought

https://aeon.co/essays/the-secret-intellectual-history-of-mathematics

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

Publishing more data behind our reporting

https://medium.economist.com/peeling-back-the-curtain-487bd3be0c47

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 9 comments

A Map of Every Building in America

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/12/us/map-of-every-building-in-the-united-states.html

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'

https://www.dw.com/en/doctors-warn-of-alarming-c-section-epidemic/a-45856378?maca=en-RSS_en_Flipboard-9487-xml-media

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 184 comments

4043 byte PC emulator (2013)

http://ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

Fed likely to keep raising rates

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1ML2KM

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 182 comments

Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

http://paulgraham.com/newthings.html

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

An Update on the Security Issue

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/update-on-security-issue/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 85 comments

200,000+ MikroTik routers worldwide compromised to inject cryptojacking malware

https://badpackets.net/200000-mikrotik-routers-worldwide-have-been-compromised-to-inject-cryptojacking-malware/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 75 comments

SDSL – Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0

https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite

8 years ago

★ 2.3k C++
100 upvotes – 22 comments

Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind

https://phys.org/news/2012-01-leonardo-da-vinci-tree.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

PeerTube stable 1.0.0

https://fediverse.party/en/post/peertube-stable-1.0.0/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

A Billionaire’s Sears Fiasco Is Finally Nearing Its End

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/eddie-lampert-rode-the-worst-trade-of-his-life-all-the-way-down

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

Entity Component Systems and Data Oriented Design [pdf]

http://aras-p.info/texts/files/2018Academy%20-%20ECS-DoD.pdf

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: WebRTC signalling data using QR codes

https://github.com/AquiGorka/webrtc-qr

8 years ago

★ 187 JavaScript MIT
80 upvotes – 53 comments

Fantasy Maps That Put the World’s Tallest Mountains Side by Side

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/maps-of-the-tallest-mountains

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments
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