top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-12

Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet-worlds-most.html?m=1

10 years ago

A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-living-in-romanias-poison-cave

10 years ago

Artem vs. Predator

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/05/12/artem-vs-predator/

10 years ago

Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29880696/tech-layoffs-more-than-double-bay-area

10 years ago

Pennsylvania license plate reader SUV camouflaged as Google Street View vehicle

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-isnt-a-google-streetview-car-its-a-government-spy-truck

10 years ago

A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4

http://allenchou.net/2016/05/a-brain-dump-of-what-i-worked-on-for-uncharted-4/

10 years ago

I'm a fucking webmaster

https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

10 years ago

AWS IoT Button

https://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/

10 years ago

Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/gboard-search-gifs-emojis-keyboard.html

10 years ago

Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming

http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/5/11/apple-rd-reveals-a-pivot-is-coming

10 years ago

An Open Letter to Members of the W3C Advisory Committee

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/open-letter-members-w3c-advisory-committee

10 years ago

The Panic Sign

https://panic.com/blog/the-panic-sign/

10 years ago

Code reviews aren’t just for catching bugs

http://blog.fullstory.com/2016/04/code-reviews-arent-just-for-catching-bugs/

10 years ago

Python Concurrency Decorators

https://github.com/alex-sherman/deco

10 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT

California's generation of electricity from coal drops dramatically

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-coal-20160512-snap-story.html

10 years ago

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg-on-Modern-Compiler-Construction

10 years ago

Show HN: Serverless meets Microservices

https://blog.leveros.com/introducing-lever-os-d10a857f210e

10 years ago

Nikola Motor Company

https://nikolamotor.com/

10 years ago

LispY C

https://github.com/eratosthenesia/lispc

10 years ago

★ 545 Common Lisp MIT

RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper

https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser

10 years ago

★ 3.6k Python BSD-3-Clause

Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ummo/id1102924965

10 years ago

PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 1 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1668/

10 years ago

Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/announcing-certbot-new-tls-robot

10 years ago

TensorFlow – A curated list of dedicated resources

https://github.com/jtoy/awesome-tensorflow/

10 years ago

★ 17.5k CC0-1.0

Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news feed, documents show

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-trending-news-leaked-documents-editor-guidelines

10 years ago

Enterprise Sales for Hackers

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/05/enterprise-sales-for-hackers/

10 years ago

Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago

http://www.dw.com/en/konrad-zuse-and-the-digital-revolution-he-started-with-the-z3-computer-75-years-ago/a-19249238

10 years ago

Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

https://theweek.com/articles/617776/how-identify-language-glance

10 years ago

Final “STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming” Paper [pdf]

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

10 years ago

3600-year-old Swedish Axes Were Made with Copper from Cyprus

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.719125

10 years ago

Don’t invert that matrix (2010)

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-matrix/

10 years ago

Stakes Are High in Oracle v. Google, But the Public Has Already Lost

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/stakes-are-high-oracle-v-google-public-has-already-lost-big

10 years ago

Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/05/multiple-7-zip-vulnerabilities.html

10 years ago

Automattic Purchases .blog TLD for $19M

https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/

10 years ago

Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World on a home brew CPU

https://medium.com/@jackqu7/heres-to-the-systems-programmers-cba40a41b608

10 years ago

Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job

https://medium.com/tech-london/not-a-hacker-or-a-hipster-how-i-got-my-first-start-up-job-922399a7dfbb#.qaysnclo5

10 years ago

Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available

https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-19.0-rc1

10 years ago

★ 12.1k Erlang Apache-2.0

Theranos Executive to Depart Amid Regulatory Probes

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-executive-sunny-balwani-to-depart-amid-regulatory-probes-1463015943

10 years ago

If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/opinion/if-philosophy-wont-diversify-lets-call-it-what-it-really-is.html

10 years ago

Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/physics-makes-aging-inevitable-not-biology

10 years ago

The Technology Behind Making the Internet Archive into the Worlds Worst DVR

https://slifty.com/2016/05/the-technology-behind-the-worlds-worst-dvr/

10 years ago

Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2016/05/how-to-begin-a-personal-archiving-project/

10 years ago

The AMDGPU Additions for Linux 4.7 Are Enormous

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Linux-4.7-Is-Big

10 years ago

Introducing power saving mode in Opera for computers

https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/05/introducing-power-saving-mode/

10 years ago

Entanglement Made Simple

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160428-entanglement-made-simple/

10 years ago

Warren Buffett: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

10 years ago

Dark money: London’s dirty secret

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1d805534-1185-11e6-839f-2922947098f0.html

10 years ago

HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low

http://anandtech.com/show/10315/market-views-hdd-shipments-down-q1-2016

10 years ago

Show HN: Deploy Docker Image to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

https://gist.github.com/yefim/93fb5aa3291b3843353794127804976f

10 years ago

New US Army Tech Instantly Destroys Enemy Fire

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/almost-science-fiction-new-us-army-tech-instantly-destroys-16121

10 years ago

Open Knowledge Maps – A visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge

http://openknowledgemaps.org/

10 years ago

Our path to $1M in Sales (2013)

http://wiwillia.com/post/41810471731/our-path-to-1m-in-sales?hn=true

10 years ago

The Expression Problem and its solutions

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-and-its-solutions/

10 years ago

It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/business/economy/its-a-tough-job-market-for-the-young-without-college-degrees.html

10 years ago

On the hunt for Facebook’s army of fake likes

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/05/12/on-the-hunt-for-facebooks-army-of-fake-likes/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Sites that you visit daily?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684293

10 years ago

Fully automated dockerized Let's Encrypt reverse proxy

https://advancedweb.hu/2016/05/10/lets-encrypt/

10 years ago