814
474
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
653
206
Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165
569
307
Inside Palantir
https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/inside-palantir-silicon-valleys-most-secretive-company
425
189
Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/
398
1
SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/728457165606780928
381
56
Phrack 69 released
http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html
378
129
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010)
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
376
138
Panama Papers source issues statement
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160506-john-doe-statement.html
366
67
Redis 3.2.0 is out
http://antirez.com/news/104
340
106
Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016
http://polygraph.cool/history/
283
Rails 5.0.0.rc1
https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/v5.0.0.rc1
★ 58.3k Ruby MIT– 10 years ago
274
213
GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa
https://givedirectly.org/basic-income
265
58
GNU name system
https://www.gnunet.org/gns
254
270
Homeless alone
http://homelessalone.blogspot.com/
249
122
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
236
39
TheAIGames – Develop your coding skills by competing in various AI competitions
http://theaigames.com/
226
121
Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog
https://jimpick.com/2016/05/05/introducing-lambda-comments/
216
54
Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
★ 7.7k C GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
214
'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36225652
180
89
Go upgrade Xcode. Fix your Git security hole
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/05/05/xcode/
175
275
Millennials and the Working Class Are Leaving America's Expensive Cities
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/where-millennials-and-the-working-class-are-being-priced-out/480243/
173
127
US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS
https://www.senate.gov/
165
74
The Massive Wildfire Burning in Alberta
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/05/the-massive-wildfire-burning-in-alberta/481611/?single_page=true
157
109
.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/05/06/net-core-rc2-improvements-schedule-and-roadmap/
156
46
Typed Python: new Mypy release
http://mypy-lang.blogspot.com/2016/05/mypy-04-released.html
154
76
Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-lithium-defied-the-global-commodities-rout-1462450790
143
40
Geocities Forever – neural network generated geocities pages
http://www.geocitiesforever.com/
137
19
XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matplotlib/
135
37
The first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601390/gene-therapys-first-out-and-out-cure-is-here/
126
17
Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software
http://www.arfon.org/announcing-the-journal-of-open-source-software
94
0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world
http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/00-icelanders-25-years-or-younger-believe-god-created-world-new-poll-reveals
13
VXHeaven: Source code for classic viruses
https://vxheaven.org/src.php
93
Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
https://www.candyjapan.com/results-from-box-design-ab-test
Locking in WebKit
https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
118
Two Years Open Source
http://blog.atom.io/2016/05/06/two-years-open-source.html
116
45
When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination
http://jeffq.com/blog/when-code-is-suspiciously-fast-adventures-in-dead-code-elimination/
115
29
Inside the Magic Pocket
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pocket/
112
41
Inside the Gigafactory That Will Decide Tesla’s Fate
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-inside-tesla-gigafactory/
108
95
Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641453
102
20
A multitouch musical synth built in Typescript/React
http://femurdesign.com/theremin
66
Microsoft is cutting free OneDrive storage from 15 to 5 GB
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Microsoft-OneDrive-storage-changes-bf91132d-d0cb-4cbb-96ba-86278c5c1c2f?WT.mc_id=PART_OneDrive-Email_OneRM_StorageChanges_FAQ&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
42
Ncollide – 2D and 3D collision detection library
http://ncollide.org/
90
43
Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee
http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/this-philosopher-helped-ensure-there-was-no-nobel-for-relativity
82
Archivist Won’t Call “Torture Report” a Permanent Record
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/05/archivist-record/
