The Weekly Weird - 2018-04-27
- Hacking bgp to steal bitcoin is so 2014. Hacking bgp to redirect all of AWS' DNS resolution to steal bitcoin is the new hotness. HN comments, cloudflare's take.
- I should coin a law: every product eventually evolves to be able to mine bitcoin.
- At least we're getting great research on money laundering out of all these bitcoin heists.
- Considering I just checked out of a hotel, this nearly-universal hotel room master key is concerning on an unusually personal level.
- Mushroom leather.
- AIs: detecting diabetes. Great, now when the robots take over it'll be to ban soda so they don't have to work as hard. Or mandate soda if we get the utility curve wrong I guess.
- What an amazing visual: four planets.
- The F-Zero soundtrack is amazing. Nintendo realized this and did the obvious thing: commissioned a jazz arrangement. It's amazing.
- Every job not taken by a robot will be taken by an old person.
- I'll be honest, I didn't get more than a few paragraphs into this article but it says go is bad so it must be right: Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful.
