top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-31

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb

6 years ago

1324 upvotes – 618 comments

Htop Explained

https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/

6 years ago

818 upvotes – 98 comments

NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUSKBN1XA27H

6 years ago

686 upvotes – 301 comments

Restic – Backups Done Right

https://restic.net/

6 years ago

593 upvotes – 177 comments

The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-tracking-our-faces-in-secret-were-suing/

6 years ago

511 upvotes – 147 comments

Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX

https://makezine.com/2019/10/25/build-your-own-thrust-vectored-rockets-for-vertical-landings-like-spacex/

6 years ago

457 upvotes – 72 comments

Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-31/blizzard-employees-blizzcon-protests

6 years ago

374 upvotes – 319 comments

Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 362 comments

Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/31/775068218/how-deep-sleep-may-help-the-brain-clear-alzheimers-toxins

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 213 comments

Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 311 comments

Getting Started with Security Keys

https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 99 comments

GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 638 comments

Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability

https://www.piper.com/press-releases/piper-announces-new-m600-sls/

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 232 comments

We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management

https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 47 comments

Which Planet Is Closest?

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/which-planet-is-closest

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 71 comments

The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview

https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-designs-the-machine-learning-software-engineering-interview-bbbb9fc8bb28

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 74 comments

Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system

http://alf.io

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 40 comments

Plants “panic” when it rains

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-panic.html

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software background

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408415

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 145 comments

Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21410579

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 69 comments

Typestates in Rust (2018)

https://yoric.github.io/post/rust-typestate/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 73 comments

Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise

http://gustavlundin.com/di-frameworks-are-dynamic-binding/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 164 comments

Frab – free and open conference management system

https://frab.github.io/frab/

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 36 comments

The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain

https://www.fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 160 comments

Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/31/destroying-x86_64-instruction-decoders-with-differential-fuzzing/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 111 comments

The Global Fertility Crash

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-global-fertility-crash

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 250 comments

Here Dragons Abound: Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps

https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 8 comments

WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUKKBN1XA27H

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 4 comments

Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 2 comments

FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch

https://medium.com/@rajasekar3eg/fastspark-a-new-fast-native-implementation-of-spark-from-scratch-368373a29a5c

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 92 comments

Is Death Reversible?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-death-reversible/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 176 comments

Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1811.10154/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compression-in-a-row-oriented-database/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/sexual-use-of-eggplant-and-peach-emojis-banned-on-facebook-instagram/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 150 comments

Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article236413328.html

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-30/softbank-s-son-speaks-to-an-almost-empty-room-at-saudi-summit

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/economy/long-term-unemployed.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 203 comments

Snake game made in Go

https://github.com/tristangoossens/snake-go

6 years ago

★ 329 Go MIT
119 upvotes – 49 comments

Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012)

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/8-static-analysis-of-an-unknown-compression-format.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 1 comments

Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane

https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-ng-qantas-finds-crack-airlines-inspect-fleets-reports-2019-10

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Launch HN: zeroheight (YC S19) – UX design docs that stay up-to-date

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21409845

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory

https://numenta.com/blog/2019/10/24/machine-learning-guide-to-htm

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 6 comments

Rise of the Mathematicians

https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-rise-of-the-mathematicians

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

K-means clustering using sklearn and Python

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/k-means-clustering-using-sklearn-and-python-4a054d67b187

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers

https://www.vice.com/en_au/partners/audible-no-gangsters-in-paradise/how-a-western-sydney-gang-got-hold-of-military-grade-rocket-launchers

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 89 comments

Sunset Geometry (2016)

https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 5 comments

Take Better Screenshots

http://www.stilldrinking.org/take-better-screenshots

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 59 comments

Swift Server Work Group Annual Update

https://swift.org/blog/sswg-update/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405501

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/foie-gras-ban-nyc.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 90 comments
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