top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-17

Story of a failed pentest

https://threader.app/thread/1063423110513418240

7 years ago

Amazon Web Services in Plain English

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

7 years ago

Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477387

7 years ago

Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-16/oil-demand-for-cars-and-transportation-is-already-falling

7 years ago

Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading

http://paralleltext.io/

7 years ago

Intel Management Engine JTAG Proof of Concept

https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-PoC

7 years ago

★ 540 Python

A million-dollar drug

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera

7 years ago

Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yhPGyhQrJcpJI2ZFvBme3pGKaGNiLi709c37svivv0o/preview?slide=id.p

7 years ago

Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/11/16/mozilla-fights-on-for-net-neutrality/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476626

7 years ago

Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation

https://www.wired.com/story/mcsweeneys-excerpt-the-right-to-experiment/

7 years ago

Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

https://24hrstartup.com/

7 years ago

Prac­ti­cal Ty­pog­ra­phy

https://practicaltypography.com/

7 years ago

GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go

https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/

7 years ago

Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-420-bisect&num=1

7 years ago

Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

https://github.com/shellscape/gmail-classic

7 years ago

★ 217 CSS MPL-2.0

Amazon's Stealth Brands: Everything on Amazon Is Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/style/this-is-also-amazon.html

7 years ago

A Raft implementation in Haskell

https://github.com/adjoint-io/raft

7 years ago

UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin without proper attribution

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1063777353678110720

7 years ago

C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/cia-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi.html

7 years ago

MythBusters Results – List of Myths and Summaries

https://mythresults.com/

7 years ago

If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century

https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html

7 years ago

Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-verily/alphabet-unit-halts-glucose-detecting-contact-lens-project-idUSKCN1NL2B5

7 years ago

Mtime comparison considered harmful

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113

7 years ago

Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-15/unicorns-starting-their-own-vcs-welcome-to-peak-tech

7 years ago

The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018

https://blog.github.com/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-top-programming-languages/

7 years ago

Virus Explorer – visualize and compare viruses in 3D models

https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/virus-explorer

7 years ago

Show HN: RTCTunnel, build network tunnels over WebRTC

https://github.com/rtctunnel/rtctunnel

7 years ago

★ 487 Go MIT

Genetic Programming in Clojure

https://sulami.github.io/posts/genetic-programming-in-clojure/

7 years ago

Best book/paper you read in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18473561

7 years ago

Memristors built with 2-nanometer-thick parts

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/memristors-built-with-2-nanometer-thick-parts/

7 years ago