top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-23

Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com/2015/05/tracking-protection-for-firefox-at-web.html

11 years ago

491 upvotes – 288 comments

Silk

http://weavesilk.com/

11 years ago

442 upvotes – 63 comments

NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2293

11 years ago

286 upvotes – 34 comments

I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week

https://medium.com/how-we-get-to-next/i-let-ibm-s-robot-chef-tell-me-what-to-cook-for-a-week-d881fc884748

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 58 comments

Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13889

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 90 comments

Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse

http://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-like-technical-debt-but-worse/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 73 comments

Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extension

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/23/408927009/senate-blocks-patriot-act-extension

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 66 comments

Mastering Emacs

https://www.masteringemacs.org/

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 99 comments

Rust Programming Language Book

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 48 comments

Cryptographic Right Answers

https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 130 comments

PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash

http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

d-Threeact: Making d3 and React the Best of Friends

http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/making-d3-react-the-best-of-friends

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 6 comments

American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/owning-trailer-parks-mobile-home-university-investment

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 233 comments

Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/oversight-report-fbis-use-patriot-act-highlights-need-intelligence-reform-crucial

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 17 comments

A Plea for Culinary Modernism

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/slow-food-artisanal-natural-preservatives/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 74 comments

How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers

http://priceonomics.com/how-employers-get-out-of-paying-their-workers/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 62 comments

Self-Promoters Tend to Misjudge How Annoying They Are to Others

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/self-promoters-tend-to-misjudge-how-annoying-they-are-to-others.html#.VV_dj_UtOHY.twitter

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593292

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

Text-only NPR

http://thin.npr.org

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

What are red flags that signal you should walk away from a startup job?

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-red-flags-that-signal-you-should-walk-away-from-a-start-up-job?share=1

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans worms

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/rej.2014.1636

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Wifi Skeleton Key has 270M active users, now valued at $1B

https://www.techinasia.com/chinese-app-stealing-free-wifi-270m-monthly-active-users-worth-1b/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Jonathan James and Aaron Swartz-Two Obituaries One Prosecutor

https://thehacktimes.com/jonathan-james-and-aaron-swartz-two-obituaries-one-prosecutor/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

OCaml and Mirage now running on rumprun, including bare metal

https://www.freelists.org/post/rumpkernel-users/OCaml-and-Mirage-now-running-on-rumprun-including-bare-metal

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Snap: A visual drag-and-drop programming language

http://byob.berkeley.edu/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

F-Droid Dropping Firefox

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.mozilla.firefox

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Wall Street's New Financial Product: Your Rent Check

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/blackstone-rental-homes-bundled-derivatives

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 82 comments

30 Years Ago They Retired at 35: An Update

http://www.nextavenue.org/30-years-ago-they-retired-35-update/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

Nand to Tetris 1

http://experiments.oskarth.com/nand-to-tetris-1

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

USA Freedom Act fails as senators reject bill to scrap NSA bulk collection

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/23/usa-freedom-act-fails-as-senators-reject-bill-to-scrap-nsa-bulk-collection

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Why We Need a ViewBox Property in CSS

http://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-art-direction-using-viewbox/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Multipath routing on a Raspberry Pi 2

http://www.whizzy.org/2015/05/multipathrouting-rasppi2/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Zapcc: A faster C++ compiler

http://www.zapcc.com/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

Can Aging Be Cured?

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/22/408025154/can-aging-be-cured

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments
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