top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-10-30

iPhones are allergic to helium

https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium/

7 years ago

We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-senators-to-run-ads-on-facebook-facebook-approved-all-of-them

7 years ago

JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464

7 years ago

Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07196-1

7 years ago

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

7 years ago

Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.html

7 years ago

iPad Pro

https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/

7 years ago

October 21 post-incident analysis

https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

7 years ago

How to Make a Roguelike

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshGe/20181029/329512/How_to_Make_a_Roguelike.php

7 years ago

Micro.blog

https://micro.blog/

7 years ago

The SOS in my Halloween decorations

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45976946

7 years ago

Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]

https://www.apple.com/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overview.pdf

7 years ago

Pre-Existing Immunity to CRISPR Found in 96% of People in Study

https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/10/29/pre-existing-immunity-to-crispr-found-in-96-of-people-in-study/

7 years ago

Google Home (in)Security

https://jerrygamblin.com/2018/10/29/google-home-insecurity/

7 years ago

Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools

https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/

7 years ago

Show HN: SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises

https://app.bytescout.com/sql-trainer/index.html

7 years ago

A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app

https://www.gregnavis.com/articles/the-architecture-no-one-needs.html

7 years ago

Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/apple-finally-updates-macbook-air-with-retina-display/

7 years ago

WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/wasm-threads

7 years ago

World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)

https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2016/07/28809-world-of-warcraft-one-simple-line-of-code-can-cost-you-dearly

7 years ago