top 50% 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

Teaching C (2016)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1393

7 years ago

Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

https://github.com/skidding/jobs-done

7 years ago

★ 944 JavaScript MIT

A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies

https://towardsdatascience.com/a-tour-of-the-top-10-algorithms-for-machine-learning-newbies-dde4edffae11

7 years ago

Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/invaderz

7 years ago

★ 709 JavaScript MIT

The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free

https://longreads.com/2018/10/30/the-masterless-people-pirates-maroons-and-the-struggle-to-live-free/

7 years ago

Create your own dysfunctional single-page app

https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html

7 years ago

Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/apple-finally-announces-an-overhauled-mac-mini/

7 years ago

This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100

https://dronedj.com/2018/10/30/amazon-reviews-hs100/

7 years ago

Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/business/mini-books-pocket-john-green.html

7 years ago

The backlash against overtourism

https://www.economist.com/node/21752943

7 years ago

It's not okay to pretend your software is open source

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/30/Its-not-okay-to-pretend-youre-open-source.html

7 years ago

Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702

7 years ago

Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46019429

7 years ago

15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13523/western-digital-15tb-hdd-ultrastar-dc-hc620

7 years ago

How I Lent My Camera Kit and Had It ‘Legally Stolen’

https://petapixel.com/2018/10/29/how-i-lent-my-4500-camera-kit-for-95-and-had-it-legally-stolen/

7 years ago

‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/10/29/on-oumuamua-thin-films-and-lightsails/

7 years ago

C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)

https://github.com/tcbrindle/raytracer.hpp

7 years ago

★ 720 C

Massive octopus nursery found in deep sea

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/10/deep-sea-octopus-nursery-discovered-animals-news/

7 years ago

Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/launching-managed-cockroachdb/

7 years ago

Fedora 29

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/

7 years ago

Designing a new funding structure for bootstrappers

https://earnestcapital.co/funding-for-bootstrappers/

7 years ago

Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs

https://spatial-lang.org/

7 years ago

How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript

https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javascript

7 years ago

Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview

https://www.atrium.co/blog/yc-interview-guide/

7 years ago

TinyEMU, a RISC-V/i486 VM for Linux in the Browser

https://bellard.org/tinyemu/

7 years ago

Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F#

https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe

7 years ago

★ 2.2k F# Apache-2.0

How much does a cable box really cost? The industry would prefer you don't ask

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-spectrum-cable-rate-hike-20181030-story.html

7 years ago

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-history-of-silicon-valley-disruption/

7 years ago

Why some things are darker when wet (1988)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-some-things-are-darker-when-wet

7 years ago

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dissecting-the-bloodthirsty-bliss-of-death-metal/

7 years ago

Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-adanet-fast-and-flexible.html

7 years ago

Analyzing the Walmart site performance

https://iamakulov.com/notes/walmart/

7 years ago

Google X Executive Accused of Sexual Harassment Still Works There, Employees Say

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-x-sexual-harassment-allegations-employment.html

7 years ago