top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-07

Why is modern web development so complicated?

https://www.vrk.dev/2019/07/11/why-is-modern-web-development-so-complicated-a-long-yet-hasty-explanation-part-1/

7 years ago

AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen

7 years ago

The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-fully-remote-attack-surface-of.html

7 years ago

Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

https://amonitoring.ru/article/steamclient-0day/

7 years ago

A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts

https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-787-code-leak-security-flaws/

7 years ago

Wine on Windows 10

https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/607714.html

7 years ago

MoviePass Worked Out Great

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great

7 years ago

Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

https://github.com/amejiarosario/dsa.js-data-structures-algorithms-javascript

7 years ago

★ 7.7k JavaScript MIT

Can ads on a page read my password?

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/214784/can-ads-on-a-page-read-my-password

7 years ago

Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflated-bond-ratings-helped-spur-the-financial-crisis-theyre-back-11565194951?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003

https://joshefin.xyz/air-quality-with-raspberrypi-pms7003-and-java/

7 years ago

Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mailroom

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/warshipping-hackers-ship-exploits-mail-room/

7 years ago

Unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/07/03/five-unusual-evidence-based-ways-to-get-better-at-a-new-language/

7 years ago

Technical Vision for Qt 6

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/08/07/technical-vision-qt-6/

7 years ago

The Cloud

https://txt.black/~jack/cloud.txt

7 years ago

Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/cybersecurity-pros-name-their-price-as-hacker-attacks-multiply

7 years ago

Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

https://meetglimpse.com

7 years ago

Man and man's best friend have both been experiencing declines in sperm quality

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/august-3-2019-science-of-awe-blue-whales-and-sonar-chromosomes-and-sleep-and-more-1.5047142/man-and-man-s-best-friend-have-both-been-experiencing-declines-in-sperm-quality-1.5047150

7 years ago

FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/fedex-deepens-pullback-from-amazon-as-ground-delivery-deal-ends

7 years ago

Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/

7 years ago

Basic Electron Framework Exploitation

https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/basic-electron-framework-exploitation

7 years ago

Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2019/08/04/dont-underestimate-grep-based-code-scanning/

7 years ago

Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/uber-is-biggest-loser-in-softbank-ipo-returns-slack-turns-down

7 years ago

Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) Went from Near Bankruptcy to $72M Series A

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/08/07/webflow-went-from-near-bankruptcy-to-72-million-series-a/

7 years ago

Wine-dark sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_dark_sea_%28Homer%29

7 years ago

FCC closes telemarketing loophole used by scammers

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/fcc-closes-telemarketing-loophole-used-by-scammers-080519.html

7 years ago

The last working Olivetti mainframe sits in a Tuscan high school

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/silicon-revolution/when-the-history-of-computing-comes-alive

7 years ago

Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-national-reconnaissance-office-spy-satellites-artificial-intelligence-ai

7 years ago

Launch HN: Gold Fig (YC S19) – Version Control for Settings Pages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20636546

7 years ago

Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10

https://ubuntu.com/blog/enhancing-our-zfs-support-on-ubuntu-19-10-an-introduction

7 years ago

Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against

https://lawtomated.com/to-code-or-not-to-code-should-lawyers-learn-to-code-3-2/

7 years ago

Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beautiful places

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/fugitives-on-the-run-what-s-next-for-puerto-rico-instagram-vs-nature-the-pinkertons-ride-again-and-more-1.5232456/how-millions-of-selfie-seeking-instagrammers-are-ruining-the-world-s-most-beautiful-places-1.5232466

7 years ago

Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City

https://www.livescience.com/66045-underwater-ancient-egypt-city-temple.html

7 years ago

Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over Model 3 safety claims

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/07/tesla-scrutinized-by-the-nhsta-over-model-3-safety-claims.html

7 years ago

LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in downtown

https://la.curbed.com/2019/8/6/20698162/parking-minimums-downtown-los-angeles

7 years ago

Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dark-horse-music-industry-1.5235743

7 years ago

Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve

https://theoutline.com/post/7752/victim-offender-overlap

7 years ago

QualPwn – Exploiting Qualcomm WLAN and Modem over the Air

https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/

7 years ago

British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49261497

7 years ago

Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06902v1

7 years ago

Kazakhstan's National HTTPS Certificate Is Cancelled

https://tsarka.org/post/national-certificate-cancelled

7 years ago

Scientists must rise above politics and restate their value to society

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02379-w

7 years ago

Smartphone Sales Are in Freefall, and That’s Okay

https://www.ifixit.com/News/smartphone-sales-are-in-freefall-and-that-is-totally-okay

7 years ago

The Past, Present and Future of Competitive Magic The Gathering

https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-past-present-and-future-of-competitive-magic/

7 years ago

HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn

https://portswigger.net/blog/http-desync-attacks-request-smuggling-reborn

7 years ago

Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-madmen/

7 years ago

A Framework for Moderation

https://stratechery.com/2019/a-framework-for-moderation/

7 years ago

Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29307/air-force-reveals-tests-of-supposed-record-setting-scramjet-engine-from-northrop-grumman

7 years ago

JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. SVG

https://uxdesign.cc/jpg-vs-png-vs-gif-vs-svg-aefeca89f61

7 years ago

Show HN: Tranquility Calendar

https://anoopelias.github.io/tranquility-calendar/

7 years ago

Pesticide 'contaminating' Prairie wetlands: scientist (2014)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/pesticide-contaminating-prairie-wetlands-scientist-1.2482082

7 years ago

Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules

https://gizmodo.com/chelsea-manning-can-remain-in-jail-for-another-year-ju-1837022114

7 years ago