top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-10

A Farewell to FRP

http://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp

10 years ago

771 upvotes – 241 comments

Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11666857

10 years ago

401 upvotes – 580 comments

Why do old statues have such small penises?

https://howtotalkaboutarthistory.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/why-do-all-old-statues-have-such-small-penises/

10 years ago

393 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

https://www.bitkeeper.org/

10 years ago

384 upvotes – 306 comments

Teaching C

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1393

10 years ago

368 upvotes – 152 comments

Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000621/Introducing-WhatsApps-desktop-app

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 220 comments

Redis Loadable Modules System

http://www.antirez.com/news/106

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 60 comments

Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log service

https://github.com/twitter/distributedlog

10 years ago

★ 2.2k Java Apache-2.0
296 upvotes – 116 comments

I'm a good engineer but I suck at building stuff

http://lionelbarrow.com/2016/05/08/i-suck-at-building-stuff/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 123 comments

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 99 comments

Firefox Test Pilot

https://testpilot.firefox.com/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 149 comments

State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/279233-state-dept-claims-to-have-no-emails-from-clinton-it-aide

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 199 comments

SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ss7-attack-leaves-whatsapp-and-telegram-encryption-useless-503894.shtml

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 97 comments

Iceland’s Ghost Planes

https://warisboring.com/icelands-ghost-planes-63147a860163

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 27 comments

Time Series, the new shiny?

http://basho.com/posts/technical/time-series-the-new-shiny/

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 76 comments

The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02457

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 91 comments

A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/legendary-sites-reboot-shape-future-open-science/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 70 comments

Atlas of Mathematical Objects

http://www.lmfdb.org/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 37 comments

Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal

http://adriansieber.com/cal-display-calendar-in-terminal/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 92 comments

Tutorial On Designing/Building A PCB (Using FOSS)

https://contextualelectronics.com/gtb-kicad-4-0/

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 41 comments

Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 157 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.1 released

https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust

https://github.com/nathansizemore/hydrogen

10 years ago

★ 359 Rust MPL-2.0
154 upvotes – 46 comments

Doom on GLium, in Rust

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TjWba0CR9RHFm47rvW1nFUlmouaR55Xt235aHyLPf9U/edit#slide=id.p

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/briefingmaterials160510

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

Cargo Cult Science (1974)

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 38 comments

“Facebook has destroyed the open web”

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mark-zuckerberg-hypocrite-facebook-has-destroyed-open-web-1559298

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 87 comments

Magnets and Marbles [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9gs-5lRKc

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

Finding Similar Music Using Matrix Factorization

http://www.benfrederickson.com/matrix-factorization/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 74 comments

Nasa Releases Dozens of Patents into the Public Domain

http://technology.nasa.gov/publicdomain

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 38 comments

The Americans of the Panama Papers have been exposed

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?c=USA&cat=1&e=&j=&q=&utf8=%E2%9C%93

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669768

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 99 comments

'Panama Papers' Offshore Leaks Database

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 17 comments

Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has

https://gist.github.com/jiahao/8b19775cee3a6d51706acf0a8c0ec376

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

Rising CO2 Levels May Contribute to Die-Off of Bees

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/bee_collapse_co2_climate_change_agriculture/2991/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 56 comments

The Internet Economy

https://medium.com/@cdixon/the-internet-economy-fc43f3eff58a

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011)

http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Uber drivers, if employees, owed $730M more: U.S. court papers

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-drivers-lawsuit-idUSKCN0Y02E8

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/5/thune-seeks-answers-from-facebook-on-political-manipulation-allegations

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Robots didn't take our jobs

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/robots_didnt_take_our_jobs.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-10/amazon-targets-youtube-with-new-online-video-posting-service

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 132 comments

Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279331-paypal-co-founder-to-serve-as-trump-delegate

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 102 comments

Introducing Realm Xamarin: A Reactive Database for .NET

https://realm.io/news/introducing-realm-xamarin/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Theory and Techniques of Compiler Construction (2005) [pdf]

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 4 comments

Pachyderm (YC W15) Challenges Hadoop with Containerized Data Lakes

http://thenewstack.io/pachyderm-aims-displace-hadoop-container-based-collaborative-data-analysis-platform/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/saudia-arabia-iran-and-the-new-middle-eastern-cold-war-a-1090725.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

Someone is lying about electric cars on the Internet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/6/1524012/-Someone-is-lying-about-electric-cars-on-the-internet

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

The Descriptor Protocol and Python Black Magic

http://faingezicht.com/projects/2016/04/26/python-black-magic/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Announced their D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer Works (2015)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a18475/google-nasa-d-wave-quantum-computer/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

U.S. investigates market-making operations of Citadel, KCG

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-probe-exclusive-idUSKCN0Y11CJ

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 84 comments

Doubling Down on Protocol-Oriented Programming

http://khanlou.com/2016/05/protocol-oriented-programming/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Hyperloop Technologies, a startup trying to build the Hyperloop

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601417/the-unbelievable-reality-of-the-impossible-hyperloop/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36255749

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 108 comments

Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot

https://medium.com/teamozlo/introducing-ozlo-d5cce73d7ba5

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments
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