top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-18

MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114

7 years ago

Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/17/amazon-accidentally-sold-13000-camera-gear-for-100-on-prime-day/

7 years ago

HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide

https://nullsweep.com/http-security-headers-a-complete-guide/

7 years ago

At what time of day do famous programmers work?

https://ivan.bessarabov.com/blog/famous-programmers-work-time

7 years ago

Think in Math, Write in Code

https://justinmeiners.github.io/think-in-math/

7 years ago

33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190718/p2a/00m/0na/002000c

7 years ago

FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#25ca052b62f1

7 years ago

Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store credits

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/17/exmicrosoft_engineer_arrested_fraud/

7 years ago

The Loneliness Epidemic

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-loneliness-epidemic-is-so-bad-world-leaders-have-been-forced-to-intervene

7 years ago

TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVM

https://tinygo.org/

7 years ago

How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account

https://thezerohack.com/hack-any-instagram

7 years ago

AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43j99g/eff-hits-atandt-with-class-action-lawsuit-for-selling-customers-location-to-bounty-hunters

7 years ago

Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft

https://www.amplenote.com/blog/2019_examples_amazon_textract_rekognition_microsoft_cognitive_services_google_vision

7 years ago

H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018)

https://eng.uber.com/h3/#hco

7 years ago

What does an unprocessed RAW file look like?

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/15/what-does-an-unprocessed-raw-file-look-like/

7 years ago

Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/foreign-purchases-of-american-homes-plunge-36percent-as-chinese-buyers-flee.html

7 years ago

Microsoft to Explore Using Rust

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-explore-using-rust/

7 years ago

WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales, Loans

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-co-founder-has-cashed-out-at-least-700-million-from-the-company-11563481395?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com

https://techpost.io/why-you-cant-compete-with-google-the-deplatforming-of-livevideo-com/

7 years ago

Building the New Twitter.com

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/buildingthenewtwitter.html

7 years ago

Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/frontend-design-react-and-a-bridge-over-the-great-divide/

7 years ago

America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/

7 years ago

The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-glorious-profitable-inescapable-art.html

7 years ago

The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targeting

https://digiday.com/media/were-building-for-media-businesses-of-tomorrow-how-the-washington-post-is-preparing-for-a-cookieless-future/

7 years ago

I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry

https://networkingnerd.net/2019/07/18/i-was-a-10x-engineer-and-im-sorry/

7 years ago

A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud

http://www.platformonomics.com/2019/07/a-very-cold-take-on-ibm-red-hat-and-their-hybrid-cloud-hyperbole/

7 years ago

Adventures Building a Self-Driving RC Car

http://rahulrav.com/blog/self_driving_radio_controlled_cars.html

7 years ago

Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (1996) [pdf]

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf

7 years ago

Gallery of Programmer Interfaces

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RPX_9u01MEU-QDWU4h-90QF9XqZo7PvH/view

7 years ago

Slug: Dynamic GPU Font Rendering and Advanced Text Layout

http://sluglibrary.com/

7 years ago

Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation

https://coralproject.net/talk/

7 years ago

Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/gorillas-have-developed-humanlike-social-structure-controversial-study-suggests

7 years ago

Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/arts/design/a-catch-22-of-art-and-taxes-starring-a-stuffed-eagle.html

7 years ago

Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from major tech companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/google-facebook-sex-websites.html

7 years ago

Powering a Mainframe

https://blog.mainframe.dev/2019/07/powering-mainframe.html

7 years ago

A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon

https://blog.google/products/maps/margaret-hamilton-apollo-11-tribute/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472640

7 years ago

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now

https://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/the-apollo-11-moon-landing-spacecraft-design-then-and-now.html

7 years ago

A plan to mine the world’s research papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02142-1

7 years ago

Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of documents

https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-documents-leak-courts/

7 years ago

Abscissa: Security-oriented Rust application framework

https://iqlusion.blog/introducing-abscissa-rust-application-framework

7 years ago

The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice

https://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/the-bedpan-the-poor-cant-afford-to-follow-public-health-advice/7025532.article

7 years ago

H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/17/h-1b-federal-judge-backs-governments-narrower-view-of-specialty-occupation-in-tossing-indian-womans-case/

7 years ago

Notes on a Smaller Rust

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/

7 years ago

Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there

https://www.economist.com/international/2019/07/18/space-law-is-inadequate-for-the-boom-in-human-activity-there

7 years ago

How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf]

http://sigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CDQ18002_Meng_Steinhardt_Schubert.pdf

7 years ago

Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49008300

7 years ago

Software design is also about relationships

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-relationships-part-3-of-3-changers-changers-20eeac7846e0

7 years ago

More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their grabs and how they’re discovered

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-technical-deep-dive/

7 years ago

How to survive an open office

https://blog.dijit.sh/how-to-survive-an-open-office

7 years ago

Rent the Backyard (YC S19) wants to build a studio apartment in your yard

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/rent-the-backyard/

7 years ago

Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2019/07/12/gmail-on-nt-3-51-with-ie1-5-via-wrp-4-1/

7 years ago

Symmetry Minute

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

7 years ago

China Is Drafting Urgent Plan to Resolve Hong Kong Chaos, SCMP Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/china-drafting-urgent-plan-to-resolve-hong-kong-chaos-scmp-says

7 years ago

China scrambles to stem manufacturing exodus as companies leave

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-scrambles-to-stem-manufacturing-exodus-as-50-companies-leave

7 years ago

Returning Due Process to Campus

https://www.city-journal.org/john-doe-v-purdue-univ

7 years ago

What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/07/18/building-community-inclusivity-stack-overflow/

7 years ago

Investigating sources of PII used in Facebook’s targeted advertising [pdf]

https://mislove.org/publications/PII-PETS.pdf

7 years ago

New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident

https://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident

7 years ago

Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and turmoil

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/grindr-chinese-owner-company-chaos

7 years ago