top 50% 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

Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spy-agencies-target-mobile-phones-app-stores-to-implant-spyware-1.3076546

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

The First First-Person Shooter

http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/5/21/8627231/the-first-first-person-shooter

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

AMD says Nvidia’s GameWorks “completely sabotaged” Witcher 3 performance

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/05/amd-says-nvidias-gameworks-completely-sabotaged-witcher-3-performance/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 101 comments

What Are Traffic Waves and Why Do They Happen So Much?

http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/12/traffic-waves/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 91 comments

Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-scrolls-blackened-vesuvius-are-readable-last-herculaneum-papyri-180953950/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

The Disappearing Colorado River

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-disappearing-river

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Shopify IPO shares soar in trading debut

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/shopify-shares-soar-on-debut-day-of-trading/article24541814/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 53 comments

Logjam: the latest TLS vulnerability explained

https://blog.cloudflare.com/logjam-the-latest-tls-vulnerability-explained/?

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Oculus Rift hack transfers your facial expressions onto your virtual avatar

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/05/oculus-rift-hack-transfers-your-facial-expressions-onto-your-virtual-avatar/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Don't use Hadoop – your data isn't that big (2013)

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Zero Downtime with HAProxy

https://medium.com/@Drew_Stokes/actual-zero-downtime-with-haproxy-18318578fde6

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

Unix filesystems: How mv can be dangerous

http://jstimpfle.de/fun/mv.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Why I am happy downgrading from a $500 to a $75 smartphone

https://medium.com/@n00b/why-i-am-happy-downgrading-from-a-500-to-75-phone-3a0ed867593b

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 94 comments

Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/05/21/draft-le-sa.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 55 comments

The FCC warns Internet providers they’re on the hook now for user privacy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/21/the-fcc-warns-internet-providers-theyre-on-the-hook-now-for-user-privacy/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: TextFlow – Automator workflows for text manipulation in OS X

https://github.com/vmdanilov/TextFlow

11 years ago

★ 543 MIT
76 upvotes – 16 comments

Clipboard Hijacking with HTML5 in Chrome

http://tbranyen.com/post/clipboard-hijacking-with-html5

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mountain-shapes

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Help Reform Computer Crime Laws

https://hackerone.com/news/legally-blind-and-deaf

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Is the doctoral thesis obsolete?

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/phd-is-the-doctoral-thesis-obsolete/2020255.fullarticle

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

No more dieting and other things we do differently after reporting on healthcare

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/20/8621527/health-tips-reporter

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Hacking Starbucks to get unlimited coffee

http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/05/21/starbucks.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/im-terrified-tell-people-much-make

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 82 comments

OldNYC: Mapping historical photos from the NYPL

http://www.oldnyc.org/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

SQL MERGE is quite distinct from UPSERT

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3SWZRP0c3g6+aJ=YYDGYAcTZg0xA8-1_FCVo5Xm7hrEL34kw@mail.gmail.com

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Lambda Chat – A dynamic web app using AWS Lambda

https://cloudnative.io/blog/2015/05/lambda-chat/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

The Culture of Criticism – What Do We Owe the Enlightenment?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121837/what-do-we-owe-enlightenment

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

REBOL in One Line

http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Passwordless login done right

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/05/passwordless-login-done-right.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

Software development skills for data scientists

http://treycausey.com/software_dev_skills.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582997

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 83 comments

Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/21/intel-and-microsoft-partnering-for-an-improved-web-experience/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Boom – HTTP(S) load generator

https://github.com/rakyll/boom

11 years ago

★ 4.7k Go Apache-2.0
52 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583619

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 62 comments

Quasar and Akka – a Comparison

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/05/21/quasar-vs-akka/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 44 comments

Myths about finalizers, part two

http://ericlippert.com/2015/05/21/when-everything-you-know-is-wrong-part-two/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

California Overtime Law – Computer Professional Exemption (2013)

http://www.gotovertime.com/computer_pro.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 50 comments
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