top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-11

Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish

https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/cand/284981/1-0.html

11 years ago

579 upvotes – 228 comments

Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy

http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2015/05/just-released-full-introductory-sql.html

11 years ago

439 upvotes – 86 comments

Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2015/05/05-10-15-did-i-ever-mention-that-i.html

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 277 comments

Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/warrantless-airport-search-of-laptop-cannot-be-justified-judge-rules/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 84 comments

The Mind of Marc Andreessen

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 139 comments

Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522973

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 219 comments

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-46fc9f3e6088

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 279 comments

Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API

http://deckofcardsapi.com

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 137 comments

Game theory’s cure for corruption

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/game-theorys-cure-for-corruption-make-us-all-cops/

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 115 comments

Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of

http://sahandsaba.com/nine-anti-patterns-every-programmer-should-be-aware-of-with-examples.html

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 117 comments

Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 137 comments

Please stop calling databases CP or AP

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 34 comments

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

https://aralbalkan.com/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 139 comments

Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React

https://segment.com/blog/deku-our-functional-alternative-to-react/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 83 comments

Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

http://carol-nichols.com/2015/05/10/rustc-discovery/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 15 comments

Fundraising While Female

http://advice.datingring.com/fundraising-while-female/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 194 comments

Russia now selling home-grown CPUs with Transmeta-like x86 emulation

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/russia-now-selling-home-grown-cpus-with-transmeta-like-x86-emulation/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 79 comments

CloudFlare “Interview Questions”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-interview-questions/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 73 comments

Using Go at The New York Times [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQ9ShmXYLY

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

Elon Musk email to Tesla employee about missing an event to witness the birth

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employee-2015-5

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 161 comments

Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab

https://www.recurse.com/blog/83-michael-nielsen-joins-the-recurse-center-to-help-build-a-research-lab

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 9 comments

Immutable Infrastructure is the future

http://michaeldehaan.net/post/118717252307/immutable-infrastructure-is-the-future

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 51 comments

White House Names Dr. Ed Felten as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/11/white-house-names-dr-ed-felten-deputy-us-chief-technology-officer

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Narrowing a residential street – McAllister

http://narrowstreetssf.com/mcallister/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 97 comments

Ask HN: How to talk smart?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522379

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 82 comments

Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many smaller spots

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19547

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 74 comments

HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/05/07/http2-for-tcpip-geeks/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Windows 1.01 in Your Browser

http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/cga/256kb/win101/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Lawnmower robots – the end of VLF time signals?

http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20150509.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Intro to Node on AWS Lambda for S3 and Kinesis

http://eng.localytics.com/taming-aws-lambda-for-s3-and-kinesis-at-localytics/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Passcard

https://passcard.info/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 64 comments

Microsoft Invests in 3 Undersea Cables to Improve Data Center Connectivity

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/11/microsoft-invests-in-3-undersea-cable-projects-to-improve-its-data-center-connectivity/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Flexport (YC W14) raises $6.9M to reinvent global trade

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-11/flexport-wants-to-be-uber-of-the-oceans

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Matrix HiFi – Blind testing high end full equipment

http://matrixhifi.com/contenedor_ppec_eng.htm

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 91 comments

More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-coffees-benefits-than-you-might-think.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/11/microsoft-edge-building-a-safer-browser/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Windows 10 Design: Getting the balance right

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/04/29/windows-10-design-getting-the-balance-right/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

New Debian project leader talks open source careers, PPAs and more

http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/829303-new-debian-project-leader-talks-open-source-careers-ppas-and-more

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Website launch checklist

https://tryblocks.com/departure/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

British Gut Project

http://www.britishgut.org/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Wind Power Without the Mills

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billtucker/2015/05/07/wind-power-without-the-mills/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments

A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bitcoin-technology-gets-nasdaq-test-1431296886

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

How World of Warcraft led to Glassdoor

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-world-of-warcraft-led-to-glassdoor-2015-5

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Ninja Blocks – What’s been happening, what’s happening next

https://discuss.ninjablocks.com/t/ninja-blocks-whats-been-happening-whats-happening-next/3608

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Map Maker will be temporarily unavailable for editing

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/map-maker/news-and-announcements/crFEbGXJ-HI

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 91 comments

The Terms Behind the Unicorn Valuations

http://www.fenwick.com/publications/pages/the-terms-behind-the-unicorn-valuations.aspx

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Why are there so few law startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9528321

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 67 comments

Re:publica 15: Google Promotes Privacy, But Not Too Much

https://tutanota.de/blog/posts/republica-google-promotes-privacy-but-not-too-much

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 77 comments

Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (2013)

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/05/the-two-problems-i-had-to-solve-in-my.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/spooky-quantum-action-might-hold-universe-together/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Counting ants

http://grahamshawcross.com/2014/07/26/counting-ants/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

We used to build steel mills near cheap power, now that's where we put servers

http://danluu.com/datacenter-power/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Using Monads in C++ to Solve Constraints: 1. The List Monad

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/05/11/using-monads-in-c-to-solve-constraints-1-the-list-monad/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 70 comments

A machine that speeds up evolution is revolutionizing genome design

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/330/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Pipelining – A Successful Data Processing Model

http://blog.stuartowen.com/pipelining-a-successful-data-processing-model

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple Could Make Money by Bailing Out Greece

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-11/apple-could-make-money-by-bailing-out-greece

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

Press Me: The buttons that lie to you

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150415-the-buttons-that-do-nothing

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 53 comments

“I lead a cryonics team and freeze people's brains for a living”

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/what_do_you_do/213599-cryonics-interview

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

What happens when your profile pic shows up on the first page on Google

http://very-busy-andy.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Seymour Cray: Cray-1 Introduction (1976) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOA1vuoDgQ

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/bitcoin-faces-a-crossroads-needs-an-effective-decision-making-process/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Finding topics in Harry Potter using K-Means clustering

http://dogdogfish.com/2015/05/11/finding-topics-in-harry-potter-using-k-means-clustering/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

The need for timezone awareness

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/05/10/the-need-timezones.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments

Coolors – color scheme generator for designers

http://coolors.co

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

JavaScript library for the visualization of statistical distributions

https://github.com/richarddmorey/stat-distributions-js

11 years ago

★ 255 JavaScript MIT
49 upvotes – 5 comments

The End of the Open Road: How Hitchhiking Died

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/end-of-the-open-road-inside-story-of-how-hitchhiking-died

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 58 comments

The Libertarian Futurism of Peter Thiel (2011)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-taxes

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 66 comments

Secure Package Distribution for Haskell

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/secure-package-distribution

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Say Good-Bye to Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Disappearing for $140M

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/good-bye-forever-to-picassos-women-of-algiers.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 83 comments

Let's Crowd-Write a GitHub Novel

https://github.com/why-el/crowd-written-novel

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments
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