top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-30

“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 159 comments

Ask HN: I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 153 comments

Writing a website in Rust

http://blog.viraptor.info/post/i-wrote-a-website-in-rust-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 135 comments

Yesterday's best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdDwKJWNqWK1o4xMtYpKZCJYjM/present

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 77 comments

Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee

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

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 81 comments

Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript

http://pdfmake.org/#/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Italian boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italian-boy-survives-being-trapped-underwater-for-42-minutes-10280563.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

Lojban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

Google Photos – Can I get out?

https://rocketeer.be/blog/2015/05/google-photos/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: Are there forgotten servers out there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629714

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 105 comments

GNU Octave 4.0 released with a new GUI

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.0.html

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 32 comments

Modelling game economy with Neo4j

http://theburningmonk.com/2015/04/modelling-game-economy-with-neo4j/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 9 comments

Isaac Asimov: The Relativity of Wrong (1989)

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 138 comments

Elon Musk's companies are fueled by government subsidies

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

Humans should think of sizeof() as a function, says Linus Torvalds

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/11/103

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 132 comments

A new study urges trials of MDMA to treat anxiety in autistic adults

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/30/can-ecstasy-replace-xanax.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages

http://dns.js.org/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud

http://adage.com/article/digital/inside-google-s-secret-war-ad-fraud/298652/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Rand Paul: 'I will force the expiration' of portions of Patriot Act

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/exclusive-rand-paul-i-will-force-the-expiration-of-the-patriot-act-118443.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 94 comments

FBI notifies crime labs of errors used in DNA match calculations since 1999

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-notifies-crime-labs-of-errors-used-in-dna-match-calculations-since-1999/2015/05/29/f04234fc-0591-11e5-8bda-c7b4e9a8f7ac_story.html?hpid=z3

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Mr. Robot

http://www.whoismrrobot.com/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

Paypal and Crowdfunding: don’t do it

http://garethhayes.net/paypal-warning/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32929962

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 136 comments

Direct Train to Europe: London to the Mediterranean

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32916197

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Automated personal bookkeeping for hackers

http://www.hinance.org

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Conway's Law

http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Breaking Out of Scientific Magic Systems in RPGs

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/magic/antiscience.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630718

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society (2014)

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html?mid=facebook_nymag

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

The Manual That Dictates Every Detail of the NYC Subway

http://gizmodo.com/the-legendary-manual-that-dictates-every-detail-of-the-1572251522

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

What Haskell taught me about writing Swift

https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-abizer-nasir-lessons-from-haskell/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Evaluate Machine Learning Models: Hyperparameter Tuning

http://blog.dato.com/how-to-evaluate-machine-learning-models-part-4-hyperparameter-tuning

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

John Ochsendorf: The architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/ingenious-john-ochsendorf

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

How I Walked Every Block in Manhattan in 10 Weeks (2005)

http://linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu/Manhattan_Walk/Walk.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Simple C++11 metaprogramming

http://pdimov.com/cpp2/simple_cxx11_metaprogramming.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Elixir and the Internet of Things (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OCorBXX7M

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Making a toy programming language in Lua, part 1

http://www.playwithlua.com/?p=66

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

NirCmd – a multipurpose Windows command line tool

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html?2

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Geometry of the structure of viruses [pdf]

http://www.liga.ens.fr/~deza/Sem-FullCCirmVirusSpFull/VirusConf.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See (2011)

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see-20120504

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments
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