top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-17

Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse/

11 years ago

408 upvotes – 36 comments

UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/uk-government-quietly-rewrites-hacking-laws-to-grant-gchq-immunity/

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 179 comments

How I do my computing

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 327 comments

Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C

https://kore.io

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 170 comments

Amazing Source Code Related Easter Egg in Ex Machina

http://moviecode.tumblr.com/post/119171520870/in-the-movie-ex-machina-which-is-really-great

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 57 comments

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction

http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 38 comments

Learning C with gdb

https://www.recurse.com/blog/5-learning-c-with-gdb

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 24 comments

About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/872-About-the-supposed-factoring-of-a-4096-bit-RSA-key.html

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 33 comments

4096 RSA key in the strongset factored?

http://trilema.com/2015/full-disclosure-4096-rsa-key-in-the-strongset-factored/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 103 comments

Start doing more things alone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/02/why-you-should-really-start-doing-more-things-alone/?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 107 comments

Yum is dead, long live DNF

http://dnf.baseurl.org/2015/05/11/yum-is-dead-long-live-dnf/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 124 comments

No Longer Wanting to Die

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/05/16/no-longer-wanting-to-die/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 100 comments

Inside a $34 smartphone

http://projectgus.com/2015/05/inside-a-34-dollar-smartphone/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Snake: Full Python Scripting in Vim

https://github.com/amoffat/snake

11 years ago

★ 1.3k Python
154 upvotes – 20 comments

Hn Downvote notes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9559376

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 130 comments

AEADs: getting better at symmetric cryptography

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/05/16/aeads.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best HN comments that you've read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9562212

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

MicroPython: Python for microcontrollers

http://micropython.org/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Hacker News Classifier and Categorizer

http://www.newscombinator.com/2015-05-16

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 10 comments

Projects from the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon West

http://stupidhackathon.github.io/index.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Sniffing GSM Traffic with HackRF

https://z4ziggy.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/sniffing-gsm-traffic-with-hackrf/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Poor Little Rich Women

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/poor-little-rich-women.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 82 comments

How a drug dealer’s IP was found out by package tracking

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/how-the-usps-targeted-a-drug-dealer-via-his-ip-address/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 60 comments

Learning the Cello as an Adult (1997)

http://ethanwiner.com/adultbeg.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

The dangers of letting algorithms make decisions in law enforcement

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/the_dangers_of_letting_algorithms_enforce_policy.single.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Transistor-level simulation of the Atari 2600 (2014)

http://blog.visual6502.org/2014/10/atari-2600-simulation.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Bamboo Mathematicians

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/15/bamboo-mathematicians/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid (1981) [pdf]

http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/people/smalley/ESCI7205F2009/misc_files/The_truth_about_Unix_cleaned.pdf

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 87 comments

Dear PG: Make up/down voting reversible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9561747

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cities-history

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 119 comments

Linux kernel initialization, part 9: RCU initialization

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initialization/linux-initialization-9.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
70 upvotes – 2 comments

A Dutch City Makes Room for Its River and a New Identity

http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/05/a-dutch-city-makes-room-for-its-river-and-a-new-identity/393404/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Node.js Foundation – Node.js and Io.js Convergence

https://github.com/nodejs/node

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
63 upvotes – 7 comments

Cryptographic Data Structures

http://blog.bren2010.io/2015/04/07/data-structures.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

Exercise alone doesn't make you lose weight

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/15/take-off-that-fitbit-exercise-alone-wont-make-you-lose-weight/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 71 comments

Hacker told FBI he made plane fly sideways after cracking entertainment system

http://aptn.ca/news/2015/05/15/hacker-told-f-b-made-plane-fly-sideways-cracking-entertainment-system/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 61 comments

Endless Horse

http://endless.horse/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Approximating images with Voronoi diagrams

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/50299/8478

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments
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