top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-27

Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

http://githubengineering.com/rearchitecting-github-pages/

11 years ago

477 upvotes – 149 comments

Go in Go

http://talks.golang.org/2015/gogo.slide

11 years ago

447 upvotes – 146 comments

Rust for Python Programmers

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/5/27/rust-for-pythonistas/

11 years ago

442 upvotes – 143 comments

FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?_r=0

11 years ago

405 upvotes – 250 comments

Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger

https://medium.com/@arankhanna/stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger-9da8820bd27d

11 years ago

391 upvotes – 185 comments

The State of Go

http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#1

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 167 comments

Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

https://8ch.net/hola.html

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 133 comments

Enterprise Sales Guide: The Process of Selling Enterprise Software Demystified

http://www.enterprisesales.nyc/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 66 comments

The end for Mandriva

http://lwn.net/Articles/645862/rss

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 73 comments

The WTF-8 encoding

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611219

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: An old rotary phone converted into a mobile phone

http://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 61 comments

Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain Security Vulnerabilities

http://www.banyanops.com/blog/analyzing-docker-hub/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 77 comments

PathFinding.js

http://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 47 comments

Is there such a thing as half a derivative?

http://www.askamathematician.com/2015/05/q-is-there-such-a-thing-as-half-a-derivative/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 61 comments

White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides-with-oracle-tells-supreme-court-apis-are-copyrightable/

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 162 comments

Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/27/pebble-time-review/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 94 comments

SpaceX cleared for US military launches

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32894760

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 116 comments

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 142 comments

My Immigration Story

http://ilyasemin.com/immigration/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

“It appears that SourceForge took control of the 'GIMP for Windows' account”

https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 81 comments

“The benchmark numbers are completely wrong for both databases”

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/4282#issuecomment-105718709

11 years ago

★ 26.9k C++
165 upvotes – 57 comments

MAME and the New Emulation Reality

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4641

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 46 comments

Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150526085138.htm

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 139 comments

Optimistic UI with Meteor

http://info.meteor.com/blog/optimistic-ui-with-meteor-latency-compensation

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

France’s Zone Rouge – Land Poisoned by War

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 20 comments

Deep Learning – Review by LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature14539.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing

http://fortune.com/2015/05/26/google-oracle-api-supremecourt-obama-appeal/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Multiplayer NES Server in 77 Lines of Go

https://github.com/olahol/melody-jsnes

11 years ago

★ 766 HTML
127 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease and You Can’t (2012)

http://www.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure

http://blog.confluent.io/2015/05/27/using-logs-to-build-a-solid-data-infrastructure-or-why-dual-writes-are-a-bad-idea/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/nebraska-abolishes-death-penalty.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 124 comments

India should make more of a valuable asset abroad

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21651331-india-should-make-more-valuable-asset-abroad-worldwide-web

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 123 comments

Ext4 encryption

https://lwn.net/Articles/639427/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Wrapper Types in Rust: Choosing Your Guarantees

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/27/wrapper-types-in-rust-choosing-your-guarantees/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Zero-downtime Postgres migrations – the hard parts

https://gocardless.com/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-migrations-the-hard-parts/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Building a Recurring Revenue Consulting Business [audio]

http://www.freelancetransformation.com/blog/building-a-recurring-revenue-consulting-business-with-einar-vollset

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

AngularJS 1.4

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

★ 58.6k JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 12 comments

America's Peculiar Bail System

http://priceonomics.com/americas-peculiar-bail-system/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 108 comments

Surviving an Alcoholic

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/surviving-an-alcoholic/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 63 comments

What is PL research and how is it useful?

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/05/27/what-is-pl-research-and-how-is-it-useful/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

Python bug: Can assign [] = (), but not () = []

https://bugs.python.org/issue23275

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Patent Liability, but Limits Defenses

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/supreme-court-rejects-attempt-expand-patent-liability-limits-defenses

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Abandoned: The Rise, Fall and Decay of Disney’s River Country

http://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20150323/30074/abandoned-rise-fall-and-decay-disney-s-river-country

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

The Web of Alexandria

http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/2.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 18 comments

Basho Relaunches to Deliver a Cohesive Big Data Platform

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/05/27/basho-relaunches-to-deliver-a-cohesive-big-data-platform/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

I Fooled Millions into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How

http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: A coding test or working for free?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611145

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 88 comments

Los Angeles Plays Itself

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/city-by-city/los-angeles-plays-itself/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 90 comments

New monitoring powers 'to tackle terrorism' proposed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

What’s Hot in the Art World? Algorithms

http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-hot-in-the-art-world-algorithms-1432687554#win

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Easy cluster parallelization with ZeroMQ

http://mdup.fr/blog/easy-cluster-parallelization-with-zeromq

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

On Flying Balls, Cameras and GPUs: Anatomy of a Computer Vision App

http://www.tenniscamera.com/2015/05/26/on-flying-balls-cameras-and-gpus-anatomy-of-a-computer-vision-app/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

The case for publicly funded therapy

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-case-for-publicly-funded-therapy/article24567332/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Military technology: Laser weapons get real

http://www.nature.com/news/military-technology-laser-weapons-get-real-1.17613

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

A Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/technology/personaltech/a-murky-road-ahead-for-android-despite-market-dominance.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 74 comments

Synthesising Drum Sounds with the Web Audio API

https://dev.opera.com/articles/drum-sounds-webaudio/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Do we really want to fuse our minds together?

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/do-we-really-want-to-fuse-our-minds-together/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

The Open Organization

http://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Get notified whenever there’s a new top post on Hacker News

http://top.hn

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: ‘We Need to IPO’

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-snapchat-ipo-20150527-story.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Raft Consensus Algorithm

http://raftconsensus.github.io/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments
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