top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-08

New GNU Emacs website

http://gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html

10 years ago

547 upvotes – 229 comments

How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying It from India

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/84000-hep-c-drug-only-1500

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 342 comments

Java Polyfill for the Browser

https://www.javapoly.com

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 88 comments

Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure

http://slides.com/mricon/giant-bags-of-mostly-water#/

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 116 comments

Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for

https://marco.org/2016/05/07/apple-role-in-podcasting

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 68 comments

Learning Chess at 40

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/learning-chess-at-40

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 98 comments

Number plate recognition with Tensorflow

https://matthewearl.github.io/2016/05/06/cnn-anpr/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 43 comments

“Ask 'why' five times about every matter”

http://www.toyota-global.com/company/toyota_traditions/quality/mar_apr_2006.html

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 168 comments

Why Suburbia Sucks

https://likewise.am/2016/05/08/why-suburbia-sucks/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 295 comments

Code Page 437 Refuses to Die

http://horstmann.com/unblog/2016-05-06/index.html

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 89 comments

Living Only on Bitcoins

https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/05/08/Hacking-Yourself-out-of-the-Banking-System-and-Live-only-on-BitCoins/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 174 comments

Death by GPS

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Phone verification at no cost

https://github.com/natsu90/dial2verify-twilio

10 years ago

★ 443 PHP
147 upvotes – 62 comments

Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/arcade-raid-the-duke-of-lancaster-ship/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 20 comments

Mathematical Intuition Behind Bezier Curves

https://buildingvts.com/mathematical-intuition-behind-bezier-curves-2ea4e9645681

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 19 comments

MSVC CRT Sneaks in Telemetry by Default?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4hoyzr/msvc_mutex_is_slower_than_you_might_expect/d2thalz

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 33 comments

Estonia's e-Residency Program

http://www.vice.com/read/estonias-e-residency-program-is-the-future-of-immigration

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 41 comments

FBI can obtain a warrant if you run Tor [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcr16_mj80.pdf

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 22 comments

Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal

https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/lyft-uber-to-halt-operations-in-austin-after-vote

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 191 comments

Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf]

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/POSIXpaper.pdf

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/7/11615806/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-pascal-specs-price-release-date

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow

https://gist.github.com/rygorous/e0f055bfb74e3d5f0af20690759de5a7

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/science/phd-post-doc-positions-study.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 116 comments

Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startups

http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-cutting-at-dropbox-and-silicon-valley-startups-2016-5?op=1

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 88 comments

What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists

http://gizmodo.com/want-to-know-what-facebook-really-thinks-of-journalists-1773916117

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 99 comments

Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to headaches for developers

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/round-2-of-oracle-v-google-is-an-unpredictable-trial-over-api-fair-use/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 90 comments

The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (1989)

http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

A Fast Lightweight Time-Series Store for IoT Data

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01435

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Cron best practices

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/cron-best-practices/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

Analyzing 10,000 Show HN Submissions

http://antontarasenko.github.io/show-hn/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

Visualizing Large-Scale and High-Dimensional Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00370v2

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: What are the cons of Google Polymer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653746

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Is grit the true secret of success?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/07/is-grit-the-true-secret-of-success

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 86 comments

Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction (2013)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/why-todays-inventors-need-to-read-more-science-fiction/279793/?single_page=true

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Why the Media Fixation on “Transit Is Failing” Stories?

http://humantransit.org/2016/04/why-the-media-fixation-on-transit-is-failing-stories.html

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 66 comments

Two-Thirds of Americans Would Utilize High-Speed Rail If It Was Available

http://evobsession.com/survey-two-thirds-americans-utilize-high-speed-rail-available/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 83 comments
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