top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-08

Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

6 years ago

1937 upvotes – 456 comments

RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/

6 years ago

708 upvotes – 341 comments

iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1826

6 years ago

652 upvotes – 270 comments

Being Bored Is Good

https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/

6 years ago

621 upvotes – 217 comments

Ten Years of Erlang

https://ferd.ca/ten-years-of-erlang.html

6 years ago

567 upvotes – 149 comments

Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices

https://blog.docker.com/2019/07/intro-guide-to-dockerfile-best-practices/

6 years ago

436 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385679

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 138 comments

3D Wireframes Using SVG

https://prideout.net/blog/svg_wireframes/

6 years ago

394 upvotes – 54 comments

It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/smarter-living/its-never-going-to-be-perfect-so-just-get-it-done.html

6 years ago

375 upvotes – 129 comments

Clear is better than clever

https://dave.cheney.net/2019/07/09/clear-is-better-than-clever

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 186 comments

Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding

https://itsfoss.com/mattermost-funding/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 110 comments

More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-1000-android-apps-harvest-your-data-even-after-you-deny-permissions/

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 140 comments

Tips for reviewing code you don’t like

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/07/08/10-tips-for-reviewing-code-you-dont-like/

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 144 comments

How to Use User Mode Linux

https://christine.website/blog/howto-usermode-linux-2019-07-07

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 60 comments

Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/is-ham-radio-a-hobby-a-utilityor-both-a-battle-over-spectrum-heats-up

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 176 comments

Data-Oriented Design (2018)

http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 37 comments

Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently

https://gizmodo.com/apple-cofounder-steve-wozniak-says-most-people-should-g-1836178238

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 153 comments

How to run a small social network site for your friends

https://runyourown.social/

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 60 comments

Why Three Prongs? (1996)

http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 232 comments

Atlantropa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 118 comments
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