top 50% 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

7 years ago

1937 upvotes – 456 comments

RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

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

7 years ago

708 upvotes – 341 comments

iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

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

7 years ago

652 upvotes – 270 comments

Being Bored Is Good

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

7 years ago

621 upvotes – 217 comments

Ten Years of Erlang

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

7 years ago

567 upvotes – 149 comments

Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices

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

7 years ago

436 upvotes – 85 comments

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

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

7 years ago

418 upvotes – 138 comments

3D Wireframes Using SVG

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

7 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

7 years ago

375 upvotes – 129 comments

Clear is better than clever

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

7 years ago

365 upvotes – 186 comments

Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding

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

7 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/

7 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/

7 years ago

282 upvotes – 144 comments

How to Use User Mode Linux

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

7 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

7 years ago

269 upvotes – 176 comments

Data-Oriented Design (2018)

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

7 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

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 153 comments

How to run a small social network site for your friends

https://runyourown.social/

7 years ago

252 upvotes – 60 comments

Why Three Prongs? (1996)

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

7 years ago

249 upvotes – 232 comments

Atlantropa

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

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 118 comments

British Airways faces record £183M fine for data breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48905907

7 years ago

232 upvotes – 116 comments

Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code

https://github.com/nanochess/pillman

7 years ago

★ 319 Assembly
229 upvotes – 62 comments

Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces

https://reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 172 comments

Money laundering in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/05/how-britain-can-help-you-get-away-with-stealing-millions-a-five-step-guide

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 103 comments

Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors

https://qz.com/1660460/hong-kong-protesters-use-airdrop-to-breach-chinas-firewall/

7 years ago

220 upvotes – 120 comments

The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 Is the Last

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/07/the_riemann_hypothesis_says_50.html

7 years ago

219 upvotes – 56 comments

Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 127 comments

Libra, 2 Weeks In

https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-marcus/libra-2-weeks-in/10158616513819148/

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 276 comments

Employee activism in tech stops short of organizing unions

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 248 comments

Photon Micro GUI

https://www.cycfi.com/2019/07/photon-micro-gui/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 124 comments

React Server Side Rendering with GraalVM for Clojure

https://nextjournal.com/kommen/react-server-side-rendering-with-graalvm-for-clojure

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 25 comments

Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/02/1902452116

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

Cookieless cookies (2013)

http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 62 comments

ARM Mali accelerators support in Linux 5.2

https://lists.gt.net/linux/kernel/3309260#3309260

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix

https://torrentfreak.com/the-scene-pirates-ripping-content-from-amazon-netflix-190707/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 112 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

https://char.gd/blog/2019/the-state-of-switching-to-windows-from-mac-in-2019

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 191 comments

Amazon to Uber: From the lens of a software engineer

https://medium.com/@divijvaidya/amazon-to-uber-from-the-lens-of-a-software-engineer-e5bd1c38caba

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 90 comments

Code Annotations for SourceHut

https://drewdevault.com/2019/07/08/Announcing-annotations-for-sourcehut.html

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Why do you host offensive content?

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#TheLongGame

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 158 comments

The Mortgaging of Sierra Online

https://www.filfre.net/2019/07/the-mortgaging-of-sierra-online/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 40 comments

AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14525/amd-zen-2-microarchitecture-analysis-ryzen-3000-and-epyc-rome

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

The human impact of having too few nurses

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/07/03/the-price-of-austerity-new-observational-research-suggests-lower-nurse-patient-ratios-really-do-result-in-poorer-health-care-interactions/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 122 comments

Linux 5.2 released: list of changes

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.2

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 4 comments

The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-01/the-u-s-labor-market-isn-t-all-that-healthy

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 143 comments

How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-am-earning-500-followers-weekly-instagram-using-fernandes/

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 33 comments

The Art of Metaprogramming (2005)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-metaprog1/index.html

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

https://psuter.net/2019/07/07/z-index

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Where we see shapes, AI sees textures

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-we-see-shapes-ai-sees-textures-20190701/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments
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