top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-13

Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-echolocate

8 years ago

Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208076

8 years ago

The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-the-real-reason-we-havent-directly-detected-dark-matter-3d04021b314e

8 years ago

CSS Layout cookbook

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook

8 years ago

A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013)

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

8 years ago

Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1050990035892199424.html

8 years ago

It’s better to be born rich than gifted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/its-better-be-born-rich-than-talented/

8 years ago

The Big List of RPG Plots

https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-big-list-of-rpg-plots.html

8 years ago

The Magic Leap Con

https://gizmodo.com/the-magic-leap-con-1829716266

8 years ago

On Cash

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/10/11/On-Cash

8 years ago

Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star, and the Interpol Chief, Vanish?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-did-chinas-biggest-movie-star-and-the-interpol-chief-vanish

8 years ago

The true power of regular expressions (2012)

https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html

8 years ago

Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us

https://privacyinternational.org/feature/1064/invisible-manipulation-10-ways-our-data-being-used-against-us

8 years ago

Business networking for nerds (2017)

http://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/

8 years ago

VSCode silently opts you in to data collection

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting

8 years ago

MPEG-G: the ugly

https://datageekdom.blogspot.com/2018/09/

8 years ago

Firebase outages and misleading status reporting

https://medium.com/@scosta/why-firebase-sucks-ce5d2302eb20

8 years ago

The Murgia Hack System

http://mhsys.org/notes/

8 years ago

Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing journalist

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/13/17967954/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi

8 years ago

Rapids – Open GPU Data Science

http://rapids.ai/

8 years ago

Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event

https://9to5google.com/2018/10/11/the-dirty-word-android-dead-made-by-google/

8 years ago

Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities

https://www.recordedfuture.com/russian-chinese-hacking-communities/

8 years ago

Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015)

http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot-rp

8 years ago

How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID

https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/13/cops-disable-face-id/

8 years ago

Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard

https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/10/chess-game-using-racket-s-pasteboard.html

8 years ago

Theranos Criminal Case Is Broader Than Publicly Disclosed, Prosecutors Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/theranos-criminal-case-is-broader-than-disclosed-u-s-says?srnd=premium

8 years ago

Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services

https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp

8 years ago

★ 8.5k C++ Apache-2.0

The Employee Engagement Myth

https://medium.com/@lukethomas14/the-employee-engagement-myth-3885526782d7

8 years ago

Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/10/microsoft-oin-exfat/

8 years ago

Big Integer Design

https://www.bearssl.org/bigint.html

8 years ago

Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (2015)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/thank-you-for-calling-tech-support-now-please-die/

8 years ago

U.S. Robocall Data

https://robocallindex.com

8 years ago

A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00990

8 years ago

Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206059

8 years ago

Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/saudi-arabia-arms-sales.html

8 years ago

Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should be outraged

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html

8 years ago

Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs”

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/are-influencers-overrated

8 years ago

Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers

https://torrentfreak.com/epic-games-sues-youtuber-golden-modz-over-magical-fortnite-powers-181012/

8 years ago

Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-mathematicians-possibility-gravitational.html

8 years ago

Defamation lawsuit over “Shitty Media Men” spreadsheet could break new ground

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/google-fight-subpoena-demands-shitty-media-men-spreadsheet-1151932

8 years ago

Panspermia

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

8 years ago

Tribler Invented 'Paid' Torrent Seeding Over a Decade Ago

https://torrentfreak.com/tribler-invented-paid-torrent-seeding-over-a-decade-ago-181013/

8 years ago

Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust

https://gankro.github.io/blah/rust-layouts-and-abis

8 years ago

Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf]

http://individual.utoronto.ca/jacobhirsh/publications/GoalSettingJAP2010.pdf

8 years ago