top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-03

The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months

http://electrek.co/2016/05/02/price-solar-power-fell-50-16-months-dubai-0299kwh/

10 years ago

756 upvotes – 435 comments

A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-05-02/a-basic-income-should-be-the-next-big-thing

10 years ago

641 upvotes – 809 comments

Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick

https://imagetragick.com/

10 years ago

478 upvotes – 230 comments

Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment

http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we-do-deployment-2016-edition/

10 years ago

428 upvotes – 140 comments

Programming cheat sheets

http://overapi.com/

10 years ago

324 upvotes – 46 comments

Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/02/this-disease-has-killed-a-million-trees-in-california-and-scientists-say-its-basically-unstoppable/

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 136 comments

Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL

https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack

10 years ago

★ 3.1k Python MIT
261 upvotes – 40 comments

Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/putting-tesla-hepa-filter-and-bioweapon-defense-mode-to-the-test

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 145 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160503.txt

10 years ago

259 upvotes – 228 comments

Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36190557

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 385 comments

Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram security flaw

http://www.theverge.com/tech/2016/5/3/11579972/facebook-10-year-old-hacking-instagram-security-bug-10k

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 86 comments

My path to OpenAI

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/my-path-to-openai

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 67 comments

HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10291/hp-unveils-premium-chromebook-3k-display-intel-core-m3-16-gb-of-ram-and-usbc

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 229 comments

Improving Angular performance with 1 line of code

https://medium.com/@hackupstate/improving-angular-performance-with-1-line-of-code-a1fb814a6476#.f94wuqq7d

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 114 comments

WhatsApp is back online in Brazil

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102814103934951

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 166 comments

Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

https://www.lede-project.org/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 81 comments

Two-factor paper passwords

http://blog.jgc.org/2016/05/two-factor-paper-passwords.html

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 96 comments

Angular 2 Release Candidate

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

10 years ago

★ 100k TypeScript MIT
177 upvotes – 135 comments

Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/05/03/preparing-future-artificial-intelligence

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 90 comments

Writing a Compiler in Go

http://squanch.org/writing-a-compiler-in-go

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-and-father-of-information-theory

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 29 comments

Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9569

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 135 comments

The cryptographically provable con man

https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/03/the-cryptographically-provable-con-man/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 46 comments

AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/adblock-plus-teams-up-with-flattr-to-help-readers-pay-publishers/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 123 comments

Reddit and Facebook Veteran on How to Troubleshoot Troublemakers

http://firstround.com/review/reddit-and-facebook-veteran-on-how-to-troubleshoot-troublemakers/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 133 comments

Lead Water Pipes in 1900 Caused Higher Crime Rates in 1920?

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/lead-water-pipes-1900-caused-higher-crime-rates-1920

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11618937

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 100 comments

Supersingular elliptic curve isogeny Diffie-Hellman 101

https://www.lvh.io/posts/supersingular-isogeny-diffie-hellman-101.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 8 comments

Probabilistic Programming for Anomaly Detection

http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/post/143792498983/probabilistic-programming-for-anomaly-detection

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Releasing Text Isn't Enough: Behind the Scenes of TTIP

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/why-releasing-text-isnt-enough-behind-scenes-ttip

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 8 comments

Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon

http://www.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa-farm-cartoonist-fired-after-creating-this-cartoon/39337816

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 80 comments

Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/tesla-bioweapon-mode-for-whiffy-cities/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers

https://21.co/features/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Go Actor Model, fast distributed actors for Golang

https://github.com/rogeralsing/gam

10 years ago

★ 5.4k Go Apache-2.0
115 upvotes – 9 comments

Deep Language Modeling for Question Answering Using Keras

http://benjaminbolte.com/blog/2016/keras-language-modeling.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 6 comments

Critical Security Release for GitLab 8.2 through 8.7

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/02/cve-2016-4340-patches/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Rewrite Tor in Rust

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11331

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Go 1.7 freeze announced

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/lcvpM-vAoE8

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

NASA’s new WB-57F (high-altitude aircraft) flies for the first time in 41 years

http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2013/08/10/nasas-new-wb-57-n927na-flies/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

How Uber conquered London

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/how-uber-conquered-london

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Our Open and Autonomous Salary System

http://www.multunus.com/blog/2015/09/our-autonomous-salary-system-the-background-story-part-1/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

PieMessage: iMessage on Android

https://github.com/bboyairwreck/piemessage

10 years ago

★ 1k Java
83 upvotes – 31 comments

Johnson and Johnson hit with $55M damages in talc cancer case

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36191495

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

10/10 job application app

http://www.adultswim.com/misc/developer-test/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Boiling Water Shapes Martian Terrain

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/573.html

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

Calysto: A Scheme kernel for Jupyter that can use Python libraries

https://github.com/Calysto/calysto_scheme

10 years ago

★ 294 Scheme BSD-3-Clause
74 upvotes – 3 comments

Neural Programmer-Interpreters

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~reedscot/iclr_project.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook (2014)

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/the-long-term-effects-of-ugly-political-discussions-on-facebook/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 76 comments

As venture capital dries up, tech startups discover frugality

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-downturn-20160429-story.html

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions

https://github.com/chassing/linux-sysadmin-interview-questions

10 years ago

★ 5.2k Unlicense
62 upvotes – 62 comments
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