top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-31

Productivity Is About Attention Management

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html

7 years ago

Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/intel-visa-sa-00086-exploit-researchers-computer-data-access-2014854

7 years ago

Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic

https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/1112025340644196352

7 years ago

The one-salary experiment, ten years in

https://iwantmyname.com/blog/the-one-salary-experiment-ten-years-in

7 years ago

OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly

https://milek7.pl/openttd-wasm/

7 years ago

Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles

https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity

7 years ago

★ 47 C++ BSD-2-Clause

WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2019/security-alert-pipdig-insecure-ddosing-competitors/

7 years ago

PHP 8 to Add a JIT

https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/03/php-gr8.html

7 years ago

Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build-100-million-business.html

7 years ago

Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/plastic-bag-ban-.html

7 years ago

On Being a Free Software Maintainer

https://feaneron.com/2019/03/28/on-being-a-free-software-maintainer/

7 years ago

You Have to Pay the Right Person

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-have-to-pay-the-right-person

7 years ago

Ask HN: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19536156

7 years ago

New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter

https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/29/new-studies-confirm-existence-galaxies-almost-no-dark-matter

7 years ago

A Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/rent-stabilized-buildings-facial-recognition.html

7 years ago

Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Taiwan-to-block-Tencent-and-Baidu-streaming-sites-on-security-risk

7 years ago

Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile

https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/uber-lyft-strike-ipo-los-angeles-san-francisco.html

7 years ago

How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (2017)

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented

7 years ago

Texas cancer researcher was called ‘foolish’, then won the Nobel Prize (2018)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/25/texas-scientist-was-called-foolish-arguing-immune-system-could-fight-cancer-then-he-won-nobel-prize/

7 years ago

DeepMind readies first commercial product

https://www.ft.com/content/0e099914-514a-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49

7 years ago

Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu

7 years ago

Native Javascript alternatives to jQuery methods

https://github.com/nefe/You-Dont-Need-jQuery

7 years ago

★ 20.1k JavaScript MIT

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)

http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder

7 years ago

Gmail spam-filters Stripe security messages as well

https://github.com/nh2/gmail-spamfilters-paypal-security-messages#update-gmail-spamfilters-stripe-as-well

7 years ago

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First government survey of hikikomori

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/613000-japan-aged-40-64-recluses-says-first-government-survey-hikikomori/

7 years ago

The Terrible Secret (2011)

https://blog.corememory.io/tom-bombadil.html

7 years ago

Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? (2016)

https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-teaching/

7 years ago

William S. Burroughs’ Manifesto for Overthrowing a Government with Fake News

http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/william-s-burroughs-manifesto-for-overthrowing-a-corrupt-government-with-fake-news.html

7 years ago

Gravity Payments: Seattle company with a minimum salary of $70K

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/dan-price-minimum-wage.html

7 years ago

Teardown of a 50-Year-Old Modem

https://hackaday.com/2019/03/29/teardown-of-a-50-year-old-modem/

7 years ago

PostgreSQL DBaaS vendor comparison and calculator

https://barnabas.me/articles/postgres-dbaas.html

7 years ago

Who can I hire to hack me?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/who-can-i-hire-to-hack-me/

7 years ago

The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ColdLockupMachineMystery

7 years ago

The ETF Tax Dodge

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-etf-tax-dodge-lets-investors-save-big/

7 years ago

Entrepreneurism Is Overrated

http://greyenlightenment.com/entrepreneurism-is-overrated/

7 years ago

The Matrix Code Came from Sushi Recipes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-matrix-code-sushi-recipe/

7 years ago

Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse

https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse

7 years ago

Man Plans to Retire to Holiday Inn Instead of Nursing Home Because It’s Cheaper

https://www.distractify.com/p/retire-to-holiday-inn

7 years ago

Boeing Crashes Highlight the High Costs of Cheap Government

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/boeing-737-max-crashes-highlight-the-high-costs-of-cheap-government.html

7 years ago

Yelp tried to strong-arm us

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/b76d01/yelp_tried_to_strong_arm_us_today/

7 years ago