top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-16

The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/seymour_hersh_osama_bin_laden.php

11 years ago

369 upvotes – 179 comments

Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/05/15/pmtud/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 57 comments

Multiprocess Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox

11 years ago

286 upvotes – 164 comments

Julia issue #8839 closed

https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/8839

11 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
273 upvotes – 22 comments

Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 303 comments

AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app

http://lg.io/2015/05/16/the-future-is-now-and-its-using-aws-lambda.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 73 comments

Clinkle Implodes as Employees Quit in Protest of CEO

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/15/clunk/

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 150 comments

The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’

https://blog.httpwatch.com/2015/04/20/the-day-google-decided-httpwatch-was-unwanted-software/

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 73 comments

Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

http://www.alexvking.com/12_inch_macbook_and_windows_10.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 166 comments

Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled

https://shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org/trust/governmentSurveillance

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 101 comments

Diving into C++ internals of Node

https://blog.indutny.com/c.cpp-in-node

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 31 comments

How I learned to stop worrying and love React

http://firstdoit.com/react-1/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 106 comments

Engineers of addiction

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 127 comments

Why squared error?

http://www.benkuhn.net/squared

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans

http://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-american-organizations-seek-federal-probe-of-harvard-admission-policies-1431719348

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 129 comments

Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern (2014)

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2014/01/22/the-crunch-mode-antipattern/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science

http://nytimes.com/2015/05/16/opinion/it-is-in-fact-rocket-science.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Rain simulator for pluviophiles

http://pluvior.com/raindrops.html

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Arduino Announces New Brand, Genuino, Manufacturing Partnership with Adafruit

http://makezine.com/2015/05/16/arduino-adafruit-manufacturing-genuino/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

http://goodandtidy.com

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Most children are happy, but material deprivation catches up eventually

http://qz.com/405960/most-children-are-happy-no-matter-what-but-materialism-catches-up-eventually/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

Roman Mars Explains the Genius of the Chicago Flag

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/May-2015/Roman-Mars-Explains-the-Genius-of-the-Chicago-Flag/?utm_campaign=Chimag+Flag+051515&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=FB

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

Pgsql: Support Grouping Sets, Cube, and Rollup

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Switching from imperative to functional programming with games in Elm

https://www.github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/switching_from_imperative_to_functional_programming_with_games_in_Elm.md

11 years ago

★ 1.5k Python
67 upvotes – 2 comments

Tries and Lexers

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2015/05/tries-and-lexers.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

In-database R coming to SQL Server 2016

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/05/r-in-sql-server.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Go: A Surprising Edge Case Concerning Append and Slice Aliasing

http://www.jjinux.com/2015/05/go-surprising-edge-case-concerning.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 72 comments

Frankencamera

https://frankencamera.wordpress.com/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

John McCarthy: Challenges to Machine Learning (2007) [pdf]

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/appearance/appearance.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

The network nonsense of Albert-László Barabási

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-nonsense-of-albert-laszlo-barabasi/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/upshot/unless-you-are-spock-irrelevant-things-matter-in-economic-behavior.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Google will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/can-google-outsell-amazon-and-ebay-1431730741-lMyQjAxMTE1ODEwNTYxMTU2Wj

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

The Future of Wind Turbines: No Blades

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/future-wind-turbines-no-blades/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Nobody is unemployable

http://mattwest.io/on-being-unemployable/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

Prototyping a 3D light field display video projector array

http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/lfd/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Close Call Database for Cycling

http://closecalldatabase.com

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 47 comments

Training for Discontent

https://medium.com/@saraheisner/training-for-discontent-42591cf57baf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

William Zinsser, Author of “On Writing Well”, Dies at 92

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/arts/william-zinsser-author-of-on-writing-well-dies-at-92.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

How to turn an Arduino-based proof of concept into a final prototype

http://digitaljunky.io/how-to-turn-an-arduino-based-proof-of-concept-into-a-final-prototype/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

In a world of venture capital

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/in-a-world-of-venture-capital/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments
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