top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-07

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained

https://tls13.ulfheim.net/

7 years ago

Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_alternative_to_photoshop_that_is/

7 years ago

We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio

https://www.ke6mt.us/2018/05/hf-ham-radio-on-a-budget-qrp-labs-and-qrpguys/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400020

7 years ago

Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-06/bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion-by-reinventing-the-toilet

7 years ago

Linux on Dex

https://www.linuxondex.com/

7 years ago

WireGuard for iOS

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/003526.html

7 years ago

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html

7 years ago

Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more

https://blog.zulip.org/2018/11/07/zulip-1-9-released/?n=1

7 years ago

Chicken Scheme 5.0

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html

7 years ago

Phoenix 1.4.0 released

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-4-0-released

7 years ago

Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612375/using-wi-fi-to-see-behind-closed-doors-is-easier-than-anyone-thought/

7 years ago

“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/smartphone-voting-is-coming-just-in-time-for-midterms-voatz

7 years ago

A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/04/a-cure-for-cancer-how-to-kill-a-killer-revolutionary-immune-system-immunotherapy

7 years ago

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

7 years ago

Show HN: Cruip – Free landing page templates for startups

https://cruip.com/

7 years ago

The Road to GraphQL

https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-graphql-book/

7 years ago

Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database

https://www.outlyer.com/blog/why-not-to-build-a-time-series-database/

7 years ago

China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/china-can-apparently-now-identify-citizens-based-on-the-way-they-walk/

7 years ago

Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/georgia-secretary-of-state-brian-kemp-doxes-thousands-absentee-voters/

7 years ago

Writing Network Drivers in Go [pdf]

https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/theses/2018-ixy-go.pdf

7 years ago

Ads just work, no matter what you think

https://hackernoon.com/nobody-is-immune-to-ads-7142a4245c2c

7 years ago

AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown

https://www.axios.com/scoop-att-to-terminate-service-over-piracy-for-first-time-1541465187-749442e3-7b71-4cc7-a694-865779b6fb96.html

7 years ago

Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/apple-walks-ars-through-the-ipad-pros-a12x-system-on-a-chip/

7 years ago

Learning Concepts with Energy Functions

https://blog.openai.com/learning-concepts-with-energy-functions/

7 years ago

Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform

https://blog.apollographql.com/introducing-the-apollo-graphql-platform-8ef34bb269e5

7 years ago

In Tuesday's Vote, California Opts for Year-Round Daylight Saving

https://gizmodo.com/in-tuesdays-absolute-worst-vote-california-opts-for-yea-1830275687

7 years ago

How to implement a multi-CDN strategy

https://blog.streamroot.io/how-to-implement-a-multi-cdn-strategy-everything-you-need-to-know/

7 years ago

The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/08/22/spotlight-attention-more-strobe-say-researchers

7 years ago

How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

7 years ago

Before sale to IBM for billions, Red Hat started in cofounder's closet

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/before-sale-to-ibm-for-billions-red-hat-started-in-cofounders-closet.html

7 years ago

Zero-shot learning: Using text to more accurately identify images

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/zero-shot-learning/

7 years ago

We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-should-teach-media-literacy-in-elementary-school/

7 years ago

The Mercury programming language

https://www.mercurylang.org

7 years ago

Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on freedoms, rights groups say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/07/facial-image-matching-system-risks-chilling-effect-on-freedoms-rights-groups-say

7 years ago

Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/police-decrypt-258000-messages-after-breaking-pricey-ironchat-crypto-app/

7 years ago

Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/war-done

7 years ago

What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?

https://newrepublic.com/article/152111/oldest-books-say-us

7 years ago

Easy-To-use, FPGA-Accelerated Hardware Simulation of RISC-V Systems in the Cloud

https://fires.im/

7 years ago

Google Sheets Query Function (2016)

https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/google-sheets-query-sql/

7 years ago

RemoteMac.io – Dedicated Mac mini

https://www.remotemac.io/

7 years ago