top 50% 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

The Joy of Slow Computing

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121832/pleasure-do-it-yourself-slow-computing

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/algolia-grabs-18-3-million-from-accel-for-its-search-api-on-steroids

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

http://250bpm.com/blog:4

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 143 comments

NetUSB Impacts the Security of Millions of Devices Worldwide

http://blog.sec-consult.com/2015/05/kcodes-netusb-how-small-taiwanese.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

Snowden Sees Some Victories, from a Distance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/world/europe/snowden-sees-some-victories-from-a-distance.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 171 comments

The Nature of Lisp (2006)

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

The $10 Hedge Fund Supercomputer That’s Sweeping Wall Street

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/the-10-hedge-fund-supercomputer-that-s-sweeping-wall-street

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/forgotify-only-plays-spotify-songs-that-no-one-has-ever-played-before/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 50 comments

Python Coroutines with Async and Await

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/643786/9c0bd83dff0df3b8/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-physics-what-is-really-real-1.17585

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/a-developers-guide-to-the-wild-west-of-app-discovery/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 46 comments

Interview with Michael Fogus

http://blog.fogcreek.com/dev-life-interview-with-michael-fogus/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

LightSail Sends First Data Back to Earth

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20150520-lightsail-first-data.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg886512.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

Zoox, a Robo-Taxi Start-Up Taking on Google and Uber

http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/advanced-cars/meet-zoox-the-robotaxi-startup-taking-on-google-and-uber

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Buckminster Fuller's FBI File

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/we-got-buckminster-fullers-fbi-file-1704777475

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

The S stands for Simple (2006)

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

A paper’s central finding was based on polling that probably never happened

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/as-a-major-retraction-shows-were-all-vulnerable-to-faked-data/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Payments company WePay (YC S09) raises $40M to go global

http://fortune.com/2015/05/20/wepay-funding-payments/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Renaming the Company

http://www.typesafe.com/blog/whats-in-a-name/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

Speculation About The Eventual Death Of Bitcoin

http://tonyarcieri.com/the-death-of-bitcoin

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 108 comments

Nasdaq experiments with Bitcoin's blockchain

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/13/nasdaq-bitcoin-blockchain

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Reqlite – A RethinkDB ReQL server written in JavaScript

https://github.com/neumino/reqlite

11 years ago

★ 337 JavaScript MIT
63 upvotes – 11 comments

Delivering Fast JavaScript Performance in Microsoft Edge

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/20/delivering-fast-javascript-performance-in-microsoft-edge/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC

https://brandur.org/postgres-queues

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Introduction to Keyboard Programming

https://www.massdrop.com/article/introduction-to-keyboard-programming

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, and Activity-Based Playlists

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/spotify-introduces-video-clips-podcasts-and-activity-based-playlists/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Russia plans Linux-based mobile operating system to rival Android and iOS

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/05/russia-plans-linux-based-mobile-operating-system-to-rival-android-and-ios/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 54 comments

uTox – Free, Secure Instant Messaging

http://utox.org/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 61 comments

Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here’s Why We Use It

http://bravenewgeek.com/go-is-unapologetically-flawed-heres-why-we-use-it/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Wide-band WebSDR: Control a short-wave receiver over the web

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Pubmail.io

https://pubmail.io

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Univalent Foundations: “No Comment.”

https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/univalent-foundations-no-comment

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Panda guts not suited to digesting bamboo

http://www.nature.com/news/panda-guts-not-suited-to-digesting-bamboo-1.17582

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Vim Tips For Intermediate Users

http://ideasintosoftware.com/vim-productivity-tips/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 48 comments

Stupid NES Tricks – Screen Wrap Detection

http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/05/20/stupid-nes-tricks-screen-wrap-detection/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

The In-State Tuition Break, Slowly Disappearing

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/upshot/the-in-state-tuition-break-slowly-disappearing.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20150519&nl=upshot&nlid=71956317&ref=headline&abt=0002&abg=0

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments

Revocable, Self-Signed TLS Certificates

https://github.com/ChristopherA/revocable-self-signed-tls-certificates-hack

11 years ago

★ 122 CoffeeScript BSD-2-Clause
47 upvotes – 7 comments

What happens to light when it hits the sun?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astroquizzical-what-happens-to-light-when-it-hits-the-sun-b55f68b46710

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

I’ve Read Obama’s Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/tpp-elizabeth-warren-labor-118068.html#.VVyZUiiCOnN

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

A Tunable Liquid Metal Antennas for Tuning in to Anything

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/a-tunable-liquid-metal-antenna-increases-the-frequency-range-of-communication-devices-

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments

We Need to Ditch Generational Labels

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/we-need-to-ditch-generational-labels/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 61 comments

Saturn Quake

http://www.richwhitehouse.com/index.php?postid=68

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments

DodgerCMS – A static markdown CMS built on top of Amazon S3

https://github.com/ChrisZieba/dodgercms

11 years ago

★ 297 JavaScript MIT
44 upvotes – 19 comments
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