top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-05-06

SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-spacex-successfully-rockets-stage-space.html

10 years ago

814 upvotes – 474 comments

Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165

10 years ago

653 upvotes – 206 comments

Inside Palantir

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silicon-valleys-most-secretive-company

10 years ago

569 upvotes – 307 comments

Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades

http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/

10 years ago

425 upvotes – 189 comments

SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/728457165606780928

10 years ago

398 upvotes – 1 comments

Phrack 69 released

http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html

10 years ago

381 upvotes – 56 comments

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010)

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 129 comments

Panama Papers source issues statement

https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160506-john-doe-statement.html

10 years ago

376 upvotes – 138 comments

Redis 3.2.0 is out

http://antirez.com/news/104

10 years ago

366 upvotes – 67 comments

Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016

http://polygraph.cool/history/

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 106 comments

Rails 5.0.0.rc1

https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v5.0.0.rc1

10 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
283 upvotes – 138 comments

GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa

https://givedirectly.org/basic-income

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 213 comments

GNU name system

https://www.gnunet.org/gns

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 58 comments

Homeless alone

http://homelessalone.blogspot.com/

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 270 comments

FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demand Meeting, but Refusing to Explain Why

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160505/00383034349/fbi-harassing-core-tor-developer-demanding-she-meet-with-them-refusing-to-explain-why.shtml

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 122 comments

TheAIGames – Develop your coding skills by competing in various AI competitions

http://theaigames.com/

10 years ago

236 upvotes – 39 comments

Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog

https://jimpick.com/2016/05/05/introducing-lambda-comments/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 121 comments

Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”

https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets

10 years ago

★ 7.7k C GPL-3.0
216 upvotes – 54 comments

'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36225652

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 249 comments

Go upgrade Xcode. Fix your Git security hole

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/05/05/xcode/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 89 comments
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