top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-27

Introducing MIR

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

10 years ago

736 upvotes – 164 comments

Xamarin Open-Sourced

http://open.xamarin.com/

10 years ago

581 upvotes – 199 comments

Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments

http://stackoverflow.com/q/36827659/563941

10 years ago

507 upvotes – 104 comments

SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/04/spacex-debut-red-dragon-2018-mars-mission/

10 years ago

486 upvotes – 234 comments

CV of Failures [pdf]

https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf

10 years ago

451 upvotes – 87 comments

The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html

10 years ago

398 upvotes – 134 comments

Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324#.yankhfx9h

10 years ago

376 upvotes – 671 comments

Never trust the client

http://gafferongames.com/2016/04/25/never-trust-the-client/

10 years ago

360 upvotes – 152 comments

Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-email-idUSKCN0XO1J7

10 years ago

338 upvotes – 115 comments

OpenAI Gym: Toolkit for developing, comparing reinforcement learning algorithms

https://gym.openai.com/

10 years ago

337 upvotes – 18 comments

GCC 6.1 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00244.html

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 169 comments

Note from Mark Zuckerberg

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/marknote/

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 272 comments

GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues

https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 91 comments

Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikipedia-usage-idUSKCN0XO080?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 140 comments

Future Screens Are Mostly Blue

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/

10 years ago

256 upvotes – 164 comments

Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/japanese-priests-collected-almost-seven-centuries-climate-data-180958929/?no-ist

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 30 comments

ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel

http://www.thingiequery.com/

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 111 comments

Postgraphql: A GraphQL schema created by reflection over a PostgreSQL schema

https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql

10 years ago

★ 12.9k TypeScript MIT
217 upvotes – 24 comments

My Favorite Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Five

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-100-books-part-5

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 23 comments

Announcing Vue.js 2.0

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/announcing-vue-js-2-0-8af1bde7ab9#.t4ssx4l9s

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 50 comments

At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/business/a-windfall-for-chobani-employees-stakes-in-the-company.html?_r=0

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 86 comments

F*** You, I Quit – Hiring Is Broken

https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324#.2hi5s1kd9

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 22 comments

Hidden motors in cycling: Van den Dreissche banned for 6 years, titles stripped

http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/hidden-motors-van-den-dreissche-banned-for-six-years-stripped-of-european-and-belgian-under-23-titles/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 200 comments

FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-27/fbi-makes-official-its-decision-to-keep-apple-iphone-hack-secret

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments

German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany-idUSKCN0XN2OS

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 94 comments

Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib

http://www.radgametools.com/oodlewhatsnew.htm

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 68 comments

GitHub has 20,927,907 closed issues

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 30 comments

The F-35’s Software Is So Buggy It Might Ground the Whole Fleet

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-f-35s-software-is-so-buggy-it-might-ground-the-whole-fleet

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 188 comments

Shopify Capital

https://www.shopify.com/capital

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Hindley-Milner Type Inference Algorithm in OCaml

https://github.com/prakhar1989/type-inference#hindley-milner-type-inference

10 years ago

★ 376 OCaml
136 upvotes – 28 comments

Inside OpenAI

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-plan-to-set-artificial-intelligence-free/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

How Erlang does scheduling (2013)

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-scheduling.html

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

TypeScript Won

https://medium.com/@basarat/typescript-won-a4e0dfde4b08#.a8e1ay4m6

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 127 comments

Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/04/google-calendar-for-android-find-time.html

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-04/msg00075.html

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

One Regulation Is Painless – A Million of Them Hurt

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-27/one-regulation-is-painless-a-million-of-them-hurt

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 137 comments

Don’t Blame Silicon Valley for Theranos

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/dont-blame-silicon-valley-for-theranos.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-1&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 134 comments

Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-26/japan-s-growing-poverty-defies-glib-explanations

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 149 comments

UDP for games – encryption and DDoS protection

http://ithare.com/udp-for-games-security-encryption-and-ddos-protection/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 44 comments

Elon Musk Supports His Business Empire with Unusual Financial Moves

http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-supports-his-business-empire-with-unusual-financial-moves-1461781962

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 125 comments

Sketch Simplification: Fully Convolutional Networks for Rough Sketch Cleanup

http://www.creativeai.net/posts/mTSh873ex4Gag5BEw/sketch-simplification-fully-convolutional-networks-for-rough

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Raspberry Pi3 cluster with Docker/Kubernetes

http://www.sweclockers.com/galleri/13818-raspberry-pi-cluster

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

SpaceX on Twitter: “Planning to Send Dragon to Mars as Soon as 2018”

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/725351354537906176/photo/1

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 1 comments

CMU’s computer science dean on its poaching problem

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/26/it-isnt-just-uber-carnegie-mellons-computer-science-dean-on-its-poaching-problem/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Leicester City: Dirty Dozen or Harvard Case Study?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-26/leicester-city-dirty-dozen-or-harvard-case-study

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 94 comments

Searching for USB Power Supplies That Won't Explode

http://hackaday.com/2016/04/27/searching-for-usb-power-supplies-that-wont-explode/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

VIVE X: HTC's Accelerator for VR Startups

http://www.htcvive.com/us/vivex/index.php

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Theranos and the Blood-Testing Delusion

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-27/theranos-and-the-blood-testing-delusion

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/46

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments
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