top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-25

Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

https://ifixit.org/blog/11951/1201-copyright-final-rule/

7 years ago

1064 upvotes – 343 comments

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair

7 years ago

924 upvotes – 2 comments

Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html

7 years ago

819 upvotes – 535 comments

End-to-end implementation of a machine learning pipeline (2017)

https://spandan-madan.github.io/DeepLearningProject/docs/Deep_Learning_Project-Pytorch.html

7 years ago

504 upvotes – 42 comments

Introducing Hooks

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

7 years ago

501 upvotes – 296 comments

Night Sight for Pixel phones

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18021944/google-night-sight-pixel-3-camera-samples

7 years ago

455 upvotes – 131 comments

First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1

7 years ago

415 upvotes – 162 comments

Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/285

7 years ago

★ 1.1k
378 upvotes – 127 comments

Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave

https://paulmillr.com/posts/using-dark-mode-in-css/

7 years ago

344 upvotes – 124 comments

Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?

https://medium.com/@russroberts/do-the-rich-capture-all-the-gains-from-economic-growth-c96d93101f9c

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 301 comments

List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities

https://qz.com/1437623/600-free-online-courses-you-can-take-from-universities-worldwide/

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 59 comments

Qt Design Studio 1.0

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/10/25/qt-design-studio-1-0-released/

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 127 comments

My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-25/my-phone-is-spying-on-me-so-i-decided-to-spy-on-my-phone/10306586

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 76 comments

At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency-and-blunt-firings-unsettle-the-ranks-1540497174

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 323 comments

MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable

https://www.processmechanics.com/2018/10/18/the-server-side-public-license-is-flawed/

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 239 comments

Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/24/entire-pesticide-class-should-be-banned-for-effect-on-childrens-health

7 years ago

252 upvotes – 99 comments

Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?

https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-gutenberg/

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 171 comments

Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit

https://github.com/gophish/gophish

7 years ago

★ 13.7kGo
235 upvotes – 40 comments

An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/10/an-aws-region-is-coming-to-south-africa.html

7 years ago

220 upvotes – 73 comments

Raising of Chicago

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

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 134 comments

Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/19/ditching-windows-2-weeks-with-ubuntu-linux-on-the-dell-xps-13/#6d821ce91836

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 230 comments

Joanna Rutkowska leaves Qubes OS, joins Golem

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 68 comments

PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died

https://sourceforge.net/p/png-mng/mailman/message/36447670/

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 24 comments

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

7 years ago

196 upvotes – 150 comments

Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18023266/ai-art-portrait-christies-obvious-sold

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-seems-to-be-a-hit-with-satellite-companies/

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 59 comments

Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

https://www.unicorn-engine.org/

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Raise Money (2013)

http://paulgraham.com/fr.html

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 61 comments

The X hole

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154050351216908&w=2

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/24/apple-just-killed-the-graykey-iphone-passcode-hack/#7fa224f05318

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 90 comments

Announcing Rust 1.30

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/10/25/Rust-1.30.0.html

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

https://github.com/aviaviavi/toodles

7 years ago

★ 979HaskellMIT
151 upvotes – 44 comments

Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js

https://blog.mgechev.com/2018/10/20/transfer-learning-tensorflow-js-data-augmentation-mobile-net/

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 26 comments

Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf]

http://verso.mat.uam.es/~pablo.fernandez/ems63-pablo-fernandez_final.pdf

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Green tea supplements ruined my liver

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45971416

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 161 comments

Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45986510

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 155 comments

Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (2016)

https://skie.net/skynet/projects/tesla/view_post/14_Autopilot+Retrofit+on+Classic+P85

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 165 comments

The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peer-review-industry-implausible-outrageous/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project

http://temporary.directory/blog/10-23-2018.html

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 95 comments

Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/visualizing-science-illustration-and-beyond/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 2 comments

The Water Abundance XPrize winner makes water from air

https://www.fastcompany.com/90253718/a-device-that-can-pull-drinking-water-from-the-air-just-won-the-latest-x-prize

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 128 comments

Pine64 is Working on a Linux Smartphone Running KDE Plasma

https://itsfoss.com/pinebook-kde-smartphone/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-curry-history

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 62 comments

FDA approves new drug to treat influenza

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm624226.htm

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps

https://sinxloud.com/how-create-build-serverless-website-steps/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 75 comments

How working memory gets you through the day

http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-picower-how-working-memory-gets-you-through-the-day-1024

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

Can optical illusions fool AI too?

http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=278

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

As a female engineer, I am not diversity

https://hackernoon.com/i-am-not-diversity-8f5abc876acc

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 135 comments

Reusing Old Hardware

https://www.honestrepair.net/index.php/2018/10/24/reusing-old-hardware/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 67 comments

Ply: Lightweight, Dynamic Tracing in Linux

https://wkz.github.io/ply/

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 3 comments

Option Pricing with Fourier Transform and Exponential Lévy Models [pdf]

http://maxmatsuda.com/Papers/2004/Matsuda%20Intro%20FT%20Pricing.pdf

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Lowly Moss-Like Plant Seems to Copy Cannabis

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lowly-moss-like-plant-seems-to-copy-cannabis/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

FoundationDB Summit Program Announced

https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-summit-program-announced/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments