top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-21

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

11 years ago

913 upvotes – 207 comments

Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation

http://iem.easydns.com/link.php?M=1080600&N=201&L=181&F=H

11 years ago

604 upvotes – 219 comments

RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

http://regexr.com/

11 years ago

384 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

http://www.jsgraphs.com/

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 114 comments

Your data fits in RAM

http://yourdatafitsinram.com/

11 years ago

317 upvotes – 224 comments

Hackers build a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tor-astoria-timing-attack-client/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 31 comments

Blog Post Driven Development

http://blog.estimote.com/post/119525082855/user-stories-on-steroids-how-estimote-uses-blog

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 29 comments

Underscore and Lodash Merge Thread

https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2182

11 years ago

★ 27.3k JavaScript MIT
208 upvotes – 67 comments

Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/africas-worst-new-internet-censorship-law-could-be-coming-south-africa

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 48 comments

OCaml 4.03 will, “if all goes well”, support multicore

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2015-05/msg00034.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 113 comments

PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/645020/e1ba36cff8248df0/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail

https://www.inboxsdk.com

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 62 comments

Space Engine

http://en.spaceengine.org/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments

Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU

https://lwn.net/Articles/645455/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 43 comments

First images of collisions at 13 TeV

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/05/first-images-collisions-13-tev

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 47 comments

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 22 comments

How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a15615/how-eddie-van-halen-hacks-a-guitar/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Yahoo Open-Sources MySQL Performance Analyzer

https://github.com/yahoo/mysql_perf_analyzer

11 years ago

★ 1.4k Java Apache-2.0
139 upvotes – 54 comments

A Simple Guide to Meditation

http://www.theflowstatecollective.com/flow-habits/a-simple-guide-to-meditation

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 45 comments

I quit working full-time years ago–here’s why I recommend it highly

http://qz.com/241043/i-quit-working-full-time-years-ago-heres-why-i-recommend-it-highly/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 184 comments
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