top 50% 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

Things that aren't work

http://www.aaronkharris.com/things-that-arent-work

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

The Town That Creep Built

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-town-that-creep-built.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

German intelligence agency halts Internet monitoring for NSA

http://www.dw.de/german-intelligence-agency-halts-internet-monitoring-for-nsa/a-18435768

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Fitbit Files IPO

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447599/000119312515176980/0001193125-15-176980-index.htm

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 101 comments

Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/triplebyte/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 127 comments

Signal Processing for Everyone (2000) [pdf]

http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/newsigproc.pdf

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 8 comments

Whistleblower accuses cybersecurity company of extorting clients

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/tiversa-labmd-ftc/index.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

Problems with Go Get

http://0x74696d.com/posts/go-get-considered-harmful/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 82 comments

Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened Links

http://www.thesempost.com/bit-ly-viglink-quietly-adding-their-own-affiliate-cookies-on-shortened-links/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

Yelp Is Exploring a Sale

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/yelp-is-exploring-a-sale-1431018383-lMyQjAxMTA1MDA2NzcwNTc0Wj

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments

The Price of Nice Nails

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Grepping logs is still terrible

http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/07/grepping-logs-is-still-terrible/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 123 comments

Twitter Needs New Leadership

https://stratechery.com/2015/twitter-needs-new-leadership/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

Bitcoin Exchange Receives First License in New York State

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/business/dealbook/bitcoin-exchange-receives-first-license-in-new-york-state.html?ref=dealbook

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in photo storage

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8562387/flickr-camera-roll-uploadr-mobile-redesign

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

Free (as in beer) Dynos

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/7/heroku-free-dynos

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store

https://medium.com/@clarky07/4-years-of-success-and-failure-on-the-app-store-195dd35bd6a3

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

Miles per Gallon

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/MilesPerGallon.html?HN_20150507

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 94 comments

The tensor renaissance in data science

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/05/the-tensor-renaissance-in-data-science.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-journey-to-mars-challenge-seeks-public-input-on-establishing-sustained

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

New Dyno Types and Pricing Public Beta

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/7/new-dyno-types-public-beta

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Robinhood raises $50M

http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2015/5/4/onward

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

How friendship became a tool of the powerful

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/07/how-friendship-became-tool-of-powerful

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Cody Wilson, Who Posted Gun Instructions Online, Sues State Department

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/us/cody-wilson-who-posted-gun-instructions-online-sues-state-department.html?_r=0

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

Meerkat Founder on Getting the Kill Call from Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/meerkat-founder-on-getting-the-kill-call-from-twitter/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Unlearning Helplessness

http://braythwayt.com/2015/01/20/learned-helplessness.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Reactive Streams for the JVM hits 1.0.0

http://www.reactive-streams.org/announce-1.0.0

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Zenefits CEO publicly rescinds an offer on Quora

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-career-Uber-or-Zenefits?share=1

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

VoxieBox Displays 3D Images Just Like R2D2’s Message from Princess Leia

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/voxiebox-displays-3d-images-just-like-r2d2s-message-from-princess-leia/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

I am thinking of returning my Apple Watch

http://words.hunzekerhesed.com/i-am-thinking-of-returning-my-apple-watch

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: CSS Filter Effects

http://www.cssreflex.com/css-generators/filter/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Work at a YC Startup v2

http://blog.ycombinator.com/work-at-a-yc-startup-v2

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

NSA phone records program illegal, court rules

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

Redacted for Mac Launch [#8 in App Store off just 59 sales]

http://blog.soff.es/redacted-for-mac-launch/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Berlin startup Blacklane serves more cities and airports worldwide than Uber

http://tech.eu/features/4507/blacklane-jens-wohltorf-interview/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/05/07/large-scale-cluster-management-at-google-with-borg/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Why you should have a programming blog

http://samurails.com/lifestyle/why-you-should-have-a-programming-blog/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments

ARM Processor – Sowing the Seeds of Success [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOJl8gRPyQ

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Jitsu: Just-In-Time Summoning of Unikernels

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/madhavapeddy

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508528

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Containerfactory.io – GitHub repo to docker image

http://www.containerfactory.io

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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