top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-20

“I'm wiping this repository away”

https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

11 years ago

★ 2.6k
485 upvotes – 187 comments

Improve your touch typing

http://www.keybr.com/#!game

11 years ago

413 upvotes – 195 comments

PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32810280

11 years ago

380 upvotes – 217 comments

Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers

http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-mass-imprisonment-and-the-failure-of-american-lawyers/

11 years ago

374 upvotes – 315 comments

Logjam TLS attack

https://weakdh.org/

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 99 comments

Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]

http://floor.senate.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&event_id=320

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 136 comments

WCF is Open Source

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/wcf-is-open-source

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 142 comments

Ta'izz

http://www.idlewords.com/2015/05/ta_izz.htm

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 52 comments

Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014)

https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safely-is-nearly-impossible/

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 166 comments

Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints

http://ejohn.org/blog/using-waifu2x-to-upscale-japanese-prints/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 64 comments

Why do buses bunch?

http://setosa.io/bus/

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 154 comments

MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition

http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-community-edition/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 54 comments

Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/update-05-20-2015

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom

https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 70 comments

The trickiest bug I've encountered

http://mokafive.tumblr.com/post/41912162643/the-case-of-the-mystery-data-blocks

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 65 comments

Norwegian butter crisis (2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 111 comments

NYSE launches a Bitcoin index

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/05/19/nyse-launches-a-bitcoin-index/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Understanding C by learning assembly

https://www.recurse.com/blog/7-understanding-c-by-learning-assembly

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 52 comments

Reasons for Python async/await

https://lwn.net/Articles/644128/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLy0mVkoLio

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 24 comments
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