top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-07

800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

https://securitydiscovery.com/800-million-emails-leaked-online-by-email-verification-service/

7 years ago

Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6.4-released.html

7 years ago

Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/investigations/Source-Leaked-Documents-Show-the-US-Government-Tracking-Journalists-and-Advocates-Through-a-Secret-Database-506783231.html

7 years ago

Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight

https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-signs-agreement-to-acquire-hoteltonight/

7 years ago

PureOS is convergent

https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/

7 years ago

What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sxqt5/what_is_the_minimum_number_of_words_that_you/

7 years ago

ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors

https://reveried.com/article/arm-processors-nearing-performance-parity-with-x86

7 years ago

How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

https://notamonadtutorial.com/how-to-earn-your-macroeconomics-and-finance-white-belt-as-a-software-developer-136e7454866f

7 years ago

Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-v3-supercharging

7 years ago

The rise of wgpu

https://gfx-rs.github.io/2019/03/06/wgpu.html

7 years ago

Scheduling in React

https://philippspiess.com/scheduling-in-react/

7 years ago

Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

https://www.ecosia.org/

7 years ago

Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03/06/black-hole-propulsion-as-technosignature/

7 years ago

Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique

https://spritestack.io/

7 years ago

Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700801945/uber-not-criminally-liable-in-death-of-woman-hit-by-self-driving-car-says-prosec

7 years ago

Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

https://lob.com/blog/use-http-keep-alive

7 years ago

US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Source-Leaked-Documents-Show-the-US-Government-Tracking-Journalists-and-Advocates-Through-a-Secret-Database-506783231.html

7 years ago

APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (2006)

http://vector.org.uk/art10011550

7 years ago

The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/choosing-trade-school-over-college/584275/

7 years ago

The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018)

http://behavioralscientist.org/the-2-million-urinal-why-hard-work-doesnt-cut-it/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19327264

7 years ago

ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.7.13

7 years ago

★ 12.1k C

Too Clever by Half (2018)

https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/

7 years ago

Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation

http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/the-well_meaning-bad-ideas-spoiling-a-generation

7 years ago

The most important software dev skills aren’t technical

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/03/07/software-dev-skills/#.XIEhLFBznVU.hackernews

7 years ago

2017 saw highest rate of death due to alcohol, drugs, suicide in US history [pdf]

http://www.paininthenation.org/assets/pdfs/TFAH-2017-PainNationRpt.pdf

7 years ago

Writing a Book with Unix

https://joecmarshall.com/posts/book-writing-environment/

7 years ago

Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (2014)

https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/04/09/six-programming-paradigms-that-will/

7 years ago

Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/can-netflix-show-americans-how-to-cut-the-cost-of-drugs.html

7 years ago

A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018)

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/08/the-secret-history-of-ed011-the-obscure-computer-lab-that-hacked-the-world/

7 years ago

GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet [pdf]

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf

7 years ago

Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?

http://cityobservatory.org/why-do-poor-school-kids-have-to-clean-up-rich-commuters-pollution/

7 years ago

Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design

https://blog.adamant-lang.org/2019/dreaming-of-a-parser-generator/

7 years ago

Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/diving-into-technical-seo-cloudflare-workers/

7 years ago

Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication

https://community.centminmod.com/threads/16795/

7 years ago

Handbrewing Coffee

https://quanttype.net/posts/2019-03-06-handbrewing-coffee.html

7 years ago

A framework for creating Python/C++ polyglots

https://github.com/wmww/Python-plus-plus

7 years ago

★ 147 Shell WTFPL

Seven Unix Commands Every Data Scientist Should Know

http://neowaylabs.github.io/programming/unix-shell-for-data-scientists/

7 years ago

Chickens Are Bullies – Can Their Behavior Teach Us About Our Own?

https://medium.com/@s.french531/chickens-are-bullies-can-their-bad-behavior-teach-us-about-our-own-8ba58c735178

7 years ago

DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334411

7 years ago

Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-hackers-target-universities-in-pursuit-of-maritime-military-secrets-11551781800

7 years ago

Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/style/uber-ipo-san-francisco-rich.html

7 years ago

John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science (2018)

https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/24/john-ioannidis-aims-his-bazooka-nutrition-science-13357

7 years ago

Martin Shkreli steers his company from prison with contraband cellphone

https://www.wsj.com/articles/martin-shkreli-steers-his-company-from-prisonwith-contraband-cellphone-11551973574

7 years ago

A girl who was never meant to survive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/haven_shepherd

7 years ago

TensorFlow can now run on £12 edge hardware

https://techerati.com/news-hub/tensorflow-can-now-run-on-12-edge-hardware/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Cosmic JS (YC W19) - API-first drop-in replacement for WordPress

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19330262

7 years ago

Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/

7 years ago

Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3mk5w/democrats-unveil-new-bill-to-fully-restore-net-neutrality

7 years ago

Chrome and Windows Exploit: Security Beyond Bug Fixes

https://alexgaynor.net/2019/mar/07/chrome-windows-exploit-security-beyond-bugfixes/

7 years ago

Boeing acquires flight-planning app maker ForeFlight

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Boeing-acquires-Houston-flight-planning-app-maker-13668642.php

7 years ago

A Superscalar Out-of-Order x86 Soft Processor for FPGA (2017)

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80713

7 years ago

The history of “How to Lie with Smoking Statistics” (2014)

https://www.refsmmat.com/articles/smoking-statistics.html

7 years ago

Can fake names create bias in interviewing?

http://blog.interviewing.io/can-fake-names-create-bias/

7 years ago

Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey (2018) [pdf]

http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf

7 years ago

Why do old books smell? [video]

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2019/03/why-do-old-books-smell.html

7 years ago

ChaCha20-Poly1305 with long nonces – OpenSSL CVE-2019-1543

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190306.txt

7 years ago

Effective Code Reviews – A Primer

https://deepsource.io/blog/code-review-best-practices/

7 years ago

Terminal emulators benchmarking suite (2018)

https://github.com/anarcat/terms-benchmarks

7 years ago

★ 130 Jupyter Notebook

Why we built our core engineering team outside of the SF Bay Area

https://medium.com/p/7fadb6cfdc7e

7 years ago

Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/cars-killing-us-driving-environment-phase-out

7 years ago

Philadelphia Is First U.S. City to Ban Cashless Stores

https://www.wsj.com/articles/philadelphia-is-first-u-s-city-to-ban-cashless-stores-11551967201

7 years ago

A deep dive into macOS MDM and how it can be compromised (2018) [pdf]

https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Thu-August-9/us-18-Endahl-A-Deep-Dive-Into-macOS-MDM-And-How-It-Can-Be-Compromised-wp.pdf

7 years ago

Huawei Sues U.S. as a ‘Last Resort’ Over What It Calls an Unfair Ban

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/business/huawei-united-states-trade-lawsuit.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Two Kilo – A curses-based text editor in 2kb of code

https://0x0.st/zolW.txt

7 years ago

Are Headers in C++ the Problem?

https://buckaroo.pm/posts/are-headers-really-the-problem/

7 years ago

Boss charters helicopter to find employees in tree over crocodile-infested river

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-06/boss-charters-helicopter-to-rescue-two-employees-stuck-in-tree/10877412?pfmredir=sm

7 years ago

Heap Exploitation Part 1: Understanding the Glibc Heap Implementation

https://azeria-labs.com/heap-exploitation-part-1-understanding-the-glibc-heap-implementation/

7 years ago

GitLab Vulnerability PoC: Exfiltrate and mutate repository via injected template

https://hackerone.com/reports/446585

7 years ago

The perils of federated protocols (2016)

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/687294/f0e0d89fe4a77b4d/

7 years ago