top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-07

U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSKBN0NS1IN20150507

11 years ago

653 upvotes – 143 comments

Facebook PathPicker

http://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/

11 years ago

538 upvotes – 162 comments

NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats

http://gizmodo.com/nasas-radar-found-4-men-trapped-in-rubble-in-nepal-by-t-1702553957

11 years ago

473 upvotes – 86 comments

Tmux 2.0 released

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/tmux/tmux-2.0/

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 216 comments

Why Lisp?

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/05/why-lisp.html

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 241 comments

Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/mysterious-planes-over-baltimore-spark-surveillance-suspicions

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 143 comments

Accepting payments is getting harder

https://medium.com/@folsen/accepting-payments-is-getting-harder-1b2f342e4ea

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 115 comments

Join the Engineering Leisure Class

https://medium.com/@chrisloer/join-the-engineering-leisure-class-b3083c09a78e

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 192 comments

Go crypto: bridging the performance gap

https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-crypto-bridging-the-performance-gap/

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 87 comments

GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks

https://github.com/blog/1995-github-jupyter-notebooks-3

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 51 comments

The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)

http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-vision/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 121 comments

Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/07/bringing-asm-js-to-chakra-microsoft-edge/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

Crossing the US in an open-air, two-seat aeroplane

http://www.bbc.com/travel/bespoke/story/20150424-a-view-that-puts-window-seats-to-shame/index.html

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 42 comments

Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-51-passes-in-house-of-commons-1.3064235

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 76 comments

25% of Cars Cause 90% of Automobile Air Pollution

http://ecosalon.com/25-percent-of-cars-cause-90-percent-of-air-pollution-study-finds/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 148 comments

Go-bootstrap: Generates a lean and mean Go web project

http://go-bootstrap.io/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 58 comments

The Earl Grey programming language

http://breuleux.github.io/earl-grey/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 126 comments

Engineering Statistics Handbook

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 13 comments

Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol

https://threatpost.com/weak-homegrown-crypto-dooms-open-smart-grid-protocol/112680

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video]

http://aeon.co/video/technology/the-internets-own-boy-the-story-of-aaron-swartz/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AeonMagazineEssays+%28Aeon+Magazine+Essays%29

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 84 comments
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