top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-09

PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS

http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towards-millions-tps/

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 210 comments

“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4if65h/mod_announcement_were_considering_banning_all/

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 257 comments

Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-05/nestl-s-sugar-empire-is-on-a-health-kick

10 years ago

411 upvotes – 333 comments

Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me

http://ggr.com/why-openbsd-is-important-to-me.html

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 154 comments

Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering

https://panopticon.re/

10 years ago

353 upvotes – 83 comments

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006?rev=1462799465508

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 349 comments

The cave divers who went back for their friends

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300

10 years ago

300 upvotes – 170 comments

Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-zenefits/

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 219 comments

How Breakfast Became a Thing

http://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 193 comments

TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems

http://tmsu.org/

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 128 comments

Siri creator shows off first public demo of Viv

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/siri-creator-shows-off-first-public-demo-of-viv-the-intelligent-interface-for-everything/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 105 comments

Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682?mod=e2tw

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 92 comments

Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS

https://github.com/convox/rack?utm_campaign=explore-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=weekly

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Go
215 upvotes – 58 comments

Git-secret – store private data in a Git repo

https://coderwall.com/p/e-azzg/store-your-private-data-inside-a-git-repository

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 70 comments

Rust by Example

http://rustbyexample.com/

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 20 comments

Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software

https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39#.q7gtv9q9v

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 163 comments

Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

https://blog.filippo.io/self-host-analytics/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 89 comments

Aristotle, “On Trolling”

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=10293504&jid=APA&volumeId=-1&issueId=-1&aid=10293503&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S2053447716000099

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 84 comments

The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, by Ants

http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 33 comments

Swift Programming Language Evolution

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution

10 years ago

★ 15.8k Markdown Apache-2.0
175 upvotes – 173 comments

Neural Networks in JavaScript

http://blog.webkid.io/neural-networks-in-javascript/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch

http://www.minocacorp.com/download/

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 42 comments

Autonomous Robot Surgeon Bests Humans

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/medical-robots/autonomous-robot-surgeon-bests-human-surgeons-in-world-first#.Vy_WyXgg3Vo.hackernews

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 80 comments

LendingClub CEO Resigns Following Loan Sales Review

http://www.wsj.com/articles/lendingclub-ceo-resigns-over-sales-review-1462795070

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 151 comments

Creativity is a great motivator

http://tomrothe.de/posts/sketchbook.html

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 15 comments

Panama Papers affair widens as database goes online

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36249982

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 101 comments

End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]

http://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/2016/solutions/pdf/end-to-end-dl-using-px.pdf

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 101 comments

Software Update Destroys $286M Japanese Satellite

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/02/software-update-destroys-286-million-japanese-satellite/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 114 comments

The genomic era arrives, and this time is probably real

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21698229-genomic-era-arrives-and-time-its-probably-real-encore-une-fois

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing FBLearner Flow: Facebook's AI Backbone

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072626246134461/introducing-fblearner-flow-facebook-s-ai-backbone/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 198 comments

American Gut Project – Open-source human microbiome analysis

http://americangut.org

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 21 comments

Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Challenge

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176137/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

15-Year-Old’s 200 Vintage Apple Computers Are Now a Mac Museum

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/technology/apple-computer-museum-maine-teenager-alex-jason.html?smid=tw-share

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/ephemeral-tattoos/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 138 comments

The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#crisis

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 90 comments

Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001)

http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

Software security suffers as startups lose access to Google’s virus data

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/08/software-security-suffers-as-upstarts-lose-access-to-virus-data/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 25 comments

Umberto Eco and His Legacy in Open-World Games

https://killscreen.com/articles/umberto-eco-and-his-legacy-in-open-world-games/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

iTunes Has Slowly Destroyed My Will to Collect Music

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/05/will_apple_music_complete_itunes_destruction_of_my_will_to_collect_music.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 107 comments

Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/london-elizabeth-line-crossrail-photos-details/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Quantum swing – a pendulum that moves forward and backwards at the same time

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-quantum-swinga-pendulum.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Professional corner-cutting

http://blog.ometer.com/2016/05/04/professional-corner-cutting/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

The Pinball Wizard (2013)

http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/01/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Traveling Salesman Problem Visualization [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5CX8drAtU

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

BASIC for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rfo.basic&hl=en

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Gitsome: A Git/Shell Autocompleter with GitHub Integration

https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome

10 years ago

★ 7.6k Python
85 upvotes – 15 comments

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (2014) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Prometheus as Second Hosted Project

https://cncf.io/news/announcement/2016/05/cloud-native-computing-foundation-accepts-prometheus-second-hosted-project

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Hackchain – Continuous Bitcoin-Inspired CTF Competition

http://hackcha.in/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

95% of PHPixie Installs on Packagist Are Fraudulent

http://andrewcarteruk.github.io/programming/2016/05/09/phpixie-fraud.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

SignAloud: Gloves That Translate Sign Language into Text and Speech

http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/thomas-pryor-and-navid-azodi

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

In Cryptography, Advances In Program Obfuscation (2014)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140130-perfecting-the-art-of-sensible-nonsense/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Butteraugli – a tool for measuring differences between images

https://github.com/google/butteraugli

10 years ago

★ 1.9k C++ Apache-2.0
71 upvotes – 11 comments

Global Citizenship a Growing Sentiment Among Citizens of Emerging Economies

http://www.globescan.com/news-and-analysis/press-releases/press-releases-2016/383-global-citizenship-a-growing-sentiment-among-citizens-of-emerging-economies-global-poll.html

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 90 comments

Strange seaweed rewrites history of green plants

http://www.nature.com/news/strange-seaweed-rewrites-history-of-green-plants-1.19863

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 0 comments

If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening

http://benbobsworld.blogspot.com/2016/05/if-your-laptop-is-open-youre-not.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 63 comments
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