top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-13

Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1664#issuecomment-101828384

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
794 upvotes – 81 comments

How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/11/how-the-dea-took-a-young-mans-life-savings-without-ever-charging-him-of-a-crime/

11 years ago

602 upvotes – 433 comments

House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us/house-votes-to-end-nsas-bulk-phone-data-collection.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews&region=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=34380121&pgtype=Homepage

11 years ago

368 upvotes – 186 comments

The Failure of Agile

http://blog.toolshed.com/2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 255 comments

Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/05/11/google-moves-its-corporate-applications-to-the-internet/

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 148 comments

Facebook Visual Identity

http://officeofbenbarry.com/see/facebook-visual-identity

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 48 comments

Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-santa-monica-airbnb-20150512-htmlstory.html

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 409 comments

Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code

http://venom.crowdstrike.com/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 118 comments

How Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/12/how-virtual-world-edge-of-apocalypse-and-back-again

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 114 comments

The last male northern white rhino

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/last-male-northern-white-rhino

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 133 comments

Inspiration vs. Imitation

http://cushionapp.com/journal/inspiration-vs-imitation

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 26 comments

Servo: Embeddable Browser Engine

http://blogs.s-osg.org/servo-the-embeddable-browser-engine/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 50 comments

Linux futex_wait() bug – update to latest patches now

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/QbmpZxp6C64

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 58 comments

Implementation of Hex Grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/implementation.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 15 comments

The Way We Look at Technical Debt Is Wrong

http://bigeng.io/post/118399425343/why-the-way-we-look-at-technical-debt-is-wrong

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 109 comments

Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat

https://medium.com/@davidbyttow/scaling-secret-real-time-chat-d8589f8f0c9b

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

Estonia e-residency application now online

http://apply.e-estonia.com/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 88 comments

After 100 Years, Ramanujan Gap Filled (2013)

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/05/01/after-100-years-ramanujan-gap-filled/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 7 comments

Makerbook – A directory of free resources for creatives

http://makerbook.net

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

Introducing Windows 10 Editions

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 116 comments

Why Are Palo Alto's Kids Killing Themselves?

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/why-are-palo-altos-kids-killing-themselves

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 127 comments

ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]

http://www.chrismccord.com/blog/2015/05/09/elixirconfeu-keynote-phoenix-takes-flight/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily

https://telegram.org/blog/2-billion

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

A Look at Backblaze’s Toshiba Hard Drives

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-hard-drives/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework

http://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/2015/05/01/famous-unsolved-math-problems-as-homework/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 95 comments

The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

https://www.imageidentify.com/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Getting to €20k in MRR in 90 days

http://blog.rubyandduke.com/2015/05/13/how-we-built-e20000-in-monthly-recurring-revenue-for-our-start-up-within-90-days-of-launch/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

MicroservicePremium

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePremium.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Virtual DOM in Elm

http://elm-lang.org/blog/Blazing-Fast-Html.elm

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

It looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips

https://plus.google.com/+MarcBevand/posts/9waJsLiMXfZ

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 96 comments

SML and OCaml: Why was OCaml faster?

http://thebreakfastpost.com/2015/05/10/sml-and-ocaml-so-why-was-the-ocaml-faster/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Death is not the end: video games wrecked my idea of mortality

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/video-games/213589-dying-in-video-games

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8592817/rat-patrol-new-york-alberta-canada-south-georgia-eradication

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook Starts Hosting “Instant Articles”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/facebook-instant-articles/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

Alberto Santos-Dumont

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

System call conversion for year 2038

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/643234/6e05b14dcd966636/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

The real way to generate a list of primes in Haskell

http://www.garrisonjensen.com/2015/05/13/haskell-programs-are-lies.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Board Members

http://blog.samaltman.com/board-members

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Sometimes, the old ways are the best

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2015/05/13/sometimes-the-old-ways-are-the-best/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Publishing Effective Modern C++, Part 1

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/05/publishing-effective-modern-c-part-1.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Upsert Lands in PostgreSQL 9.5 – A First Look

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/05/08/upsert-lands-in-postgres-9.5/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Nantucket: an accidental limerick detector

http://www.daniellesucher.com/2012/04/nantucket-an-accidental-limerick-detector/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

The Secrets of Cloth Simulation in Alan Wake

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132771/the_secrets_of_cloth_simulation_in_.php

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-scientists-atomic-scale-hardware-natural.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU in 4096 bytes [pdf]

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/nvscene2008/rwwtt.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

What’s Next for Moore’s Law? For Intel, III+V = 10nm QWFETs

http://www.realworldtech.com/intel-10nm-qwfet/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

MacKeeper 0-day flaw more than 20M users affected

https://thehacktimes.com/mackeeper-0-day-flaw-more-than-20-million-users-affected/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Rare Spanish Shipwreck from 17th Century Uncovered Off Panama

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150512-shipwreck-panama-spain-merchant-ship-encarnacion-ocean-archaeology

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?

http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

On Rust Hate-Writing

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/209581.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Your Life on Earth: How you and the world have changed since you were born

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141016-your-life-on-earth

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

PlainJS – The Vanilla JavaScript Repository

http://plainjs.com/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 37 comments

House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act Without Amendments

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/landslide-vote-house-overwhelmingly-passes-usa-freedom-act-without-amendments

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 1 comments

The TLA+ Hyperbook

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/hyperbook.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Fastblr – Running Shoes Marketplace

http://www.fastblr.com/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (1994)

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments
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