Hacknews favorites 2018

Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours

https://doublepulsar.com/hijack-of-amazons-internet-domain-service-used-to-reroute-web-traffic-for-two-hours-unnoticed-3a6f0dda6a6f

Socioeconomic group classification based on user features

http://pimg-faiw.uspto.gov/fdd/83/2018/28/003/0.pdf

The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font (qz.com)

https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/

Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

Introducing Cloud Text-to-Speech powered by DeepMind WaveNet technology

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Cloud-Text-to-Speech-powered-by-Deepmind-WaveNet-technology.html

Announcing gRPC Support in NGINX

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-13-10-grpc/

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live

PIXAR’S 22 RULES OF STORYTELLING

https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/

Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar

Machine Learning Crash Course

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/

The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

http://www.olioapps.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-the-makefile/

How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/

Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/

Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu

Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective

Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/

A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript

https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js

What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/what-i-learned-advertising-on-youtube