top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-21

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

7 years ago

How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/

7 years ago

Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

https://colorsupplyyy.com/app

7 years ago

Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19455224

7 years ago

There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html

7 years ago

Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server

https://translate.google.com/translate?u=https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/

7 years ago

Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning

https://captrobau.blogspot.com/2019/03/remastering-star-trek-deep-space-nine.html

7 years ago

Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser

https://repl.it/site/blog/gfx?ref=updates

7 years ago

A Julia Interpreter and Debugger

https://julialang.org/blog/2019/03/debuggers

7 years ago

Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/amsterdam-rental-housing-prices-new-home-owner-occupied/585235/

7 years ago

A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)

https://www.ge.com/reports/try-this-at-home-this-kid-built-an-incredibly-detailed-model-of-a-boeing-777-from-cut-up-paper-folders/

7 years ago

So you want your app/website to work in China

https://chanind.github.io/china/2019/01/19/launching-an-app-or-website-in-china.html

7 years ago

Why I turned down my Y Combinator interview

https://www.facetdev.com/blog/posts/why-i-turned-down-my-y-combinator-interview/

7 years ago

A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online

https://thetoolsweneed.com/a-few-simple-steps-to-vastly-increase-your-privacy-online/

7 years ago

Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)

https://github.com/ammonb/stereogram-raycaster

7 years ago

★ 274 JavaScript

Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-lawsuit/tesla-sues-former-employees-for-allegedly-stealing-data-autopilot-source-code-idUSKCN1R21P9

7 years ago

LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhcb-discovers-matter-antimatter-asymmetry-in-charm-quarks

7 years ago

Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook

7 years ago

VC Starter Kit

https://vcstarterkit.com/

7 years ago

Tell HN: Google removing Gmail access from IFTTT

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19458172

7 years ago

EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13

https://nextcloud.com/blog/130-eu-businesses-sign-open-letter-against-copyright-directive-art-11-13/

7 years ago

Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-has-enough-solar-wind-storage-in-pipeline-to-go-100-renewables-81953/

7 years ago

Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450331

7 years ago

US Army applying new areas of math

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/03/21/us-army-math/

7 years ago

The principle of charity: Criticize the best interpretation of an argument

https://effectiviology.com/principle-of-charity/

7 years ago

A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music

https://www.rootsmusic.ca/2019/03/14/a-brief-history-of-why-artists-are-no-longer-making-a-living-making-music/

7 years ago

80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)

https://haydenjames.io/80-percent-web-powered-by-php/

7 years ago

A look at an original iPhone prototype

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18263844/apple-iphone-prototype-m68-original-development-board-red

7 years ago

Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists

https://hbr.org/2019/03/why-data-science-teams-need-generalists-not-specialists

7 years ago

AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall during a live interview

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18274519/att-ceo-robocall-randall-stephenson-live-interview-fcc-ajit-pai

7 years ago

Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/hello-data-dna-storage/

7 years ago

Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275670/mpaa-report-streaming-video-cable-subscription-worldwide

7 years ago

In Defense of YAML

https://blog.atomist.com/in-defense-of-yaml

7 years ago

Why Is It So Hard to Build Profitable Robot Companies?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/robotic-dreams-robotic-realities

7 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to MMT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-21/modern-monetary-theory-beginner-s-guide

7 years ago

React Router v5

https://reacttraining.com/blog/react-router-v5/

7 years ago

Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on the page at all

https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-ranking-keyword-not-in-content

7 years ago

UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1108655511858278400

7 years ago

Vanishing Violence

https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/vanishing-violence/

7 years ago

So Long, MSDN Blog

https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/

7 years ago

Google Stadia uses Style Transfer ML to change video game art in real time

https://www.turingtribe.com/story/google-stadia-uses-style-transfer-ml-to-change-video-game-art-in-real-time-BGk226TY9zNP3tSpZ

7 years ago

CVE-2019-5418 – File Content Disclosure on Rails

https://github.com/mpgn/CVE-2019-5418

7 years ago

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Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/lumotive-says-its-got-a-solidstate-lidar-that-really-works

7 years ago

KiCad 5.1.0

http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2019/03/KiCad-5.1.0-Release/

7 years ago

Cutter: Open-source GUI disassembler, with Python plugins

https://github.com/radareorg/cutter/releases/tag/v1.8.0

7 years ago

Cloudflare Registrar

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

7 years ago

Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society [video]

https://lexfridman.com/eric-weinstein/

7 years ago

Swift UTF-8 String

https://swift.org/blog/utf8-string/

7 years ago

Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-spin-out-starts-producing-graphene-at-commercial-scale

7 years ago

Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3356098

7 years ago

The Priest of Abu Ghraib

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/priest-abu-grahib-180971013/

7 years ago

What Made Apollo a Success? (1971) [pdf]

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720005243.pdf

7 years ago

Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol

https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken/

7 years ago

Show HN: IDE for Learning RISC-V

https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars

7 years ago

★ 1.5k Java

Tickling (2018)

https://www.jefftk.com/p/tickling

7 years ago

How internet mercenaries do battle for authoritarian governments

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/politics/government-hackers-nso-darkmatter.html

7 years ago

Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/exercises-in-emulation-xbox-360s-fma-instruction/

7 years ago

Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/boeing-safety-features-charge.html

7 years ago

Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-scarring-appears-to-defy-universes-push-for-disorder-20190320/

7 years ago

How My Fears Doomed My First Startup

https://dsdoes.com/how-my-fears-doomed-my-first-startup-81d7e3f0c47c

7 years ago

Intel Processor Graphics Gen11 Architecture [pdf]

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/db/88/The-Architecture-of-Intel-Processor-Graphics-Gen11_R1new.pdf

7 years ago

Concurrency with Python: Threads and Locks

https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/01/12/concurrency_with_python_threads_and_locks/

7 years ago

Handbook of Analog Computation [pdf]

http://www.analogmuseum.org/library/handbook_of_analog_computation.pdf

7 years ago

Sprayprinter – A graffiti robot startup

https://sifted.eu/articles/the-graffiti-robot-startup-thats-turned-down-millions/

7 years ago

Why big tech should fear Europe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/03/23/why-big-tech-should-fear-europe

7 years ago