top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-13

Did I just win?

https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/730903007014076416

10 years ago

950 upvotes – 129 comments

That'll do, pig, that'll do

https://medium.com/@oscargodson/thatll-do-pig-that-ll-do-8998f9df9f77#.65ygnw6fy

10 years ago

409 upvotes – 203 comments

A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/11/this-professor-stunned-his-students-when-he-revealed-the-secret-identity-of-his-teaching-assistant/

10 years ago

382 upvotes – 115 comments

“I must, sadly, withdraw my endorsement of Yubikey 4 devices”

https://plus.google.com/+KonstantinRyabitsev/posts/4a7RNxtt7vy

10 years ago

360 upvotes – 111 comments

New Sublime Text update

https://www.sublimetext.com/3

10 years ago

338 upvotes – 229 comments

Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes

http://thewirecutter.com/2016/05/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews/

10 years ago

335 upvotes – 228 comments

Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0Y404W

10 years ago

300 upvotes – 126 comments

Giving up on Julia

http://zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 230 comments

Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 23 comments

Taking Rust everywhere with rustup

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/13/rustup.html

10 years ago

259 upvotes – 87 comments

Who Pays Writers?

http://whopayswriters.com/#/results

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 93 comments

Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/why-aging-isnt-inevitable

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 137 comments

SyntaxNet in Context: Understanding Google's New TensorFlow NLP Model

https://spacy.io/blog/syntaxnet-in-context

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 32 comments

Beautiful sci-fi GIFs

http://carlburton.tumblr.com/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 32 comments

State of Starfighter

https://discuss.starfighters.io/t/state-of-starfighter-may-14th-2016/6647

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 129 comments

A Guide to Naming Variables

http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-guide-to-naming-variables.html

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 171 comments

T. Rowe Price Voted for the Dell Buyout by Accident

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-13/t-rowe-price-voted-for-the-dell-buyout-by-accident

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/engineer-and-investor-in-spat-about-wireless-charging-startup-ubeam

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 105 comments

Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/05/13/erlang-seems-really-complicated/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 39 comments

Pharo 5.0 Released

http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

“Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36276864

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

CO2 emissions from electricity generation in 2015 were lowest since 1993

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=26232

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

We Don’t Need More Blood Tests

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/theranos-is-wrong-we-dont-need-more-blood-tests/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 96 comments

Pillow-SIMD: improving the performance of image processing

https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd#readme

10 years ago

★ 2.2k Python
108 upvotes – 44 comments

Estonia – the Skype effect

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36286157

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-linkedin-with-nowhere-to-go

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 69 comments

A Eukaryote Without a Mitochondrial Organelle

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2816%2930263-9

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple stops support for WebObjects

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/04/technology/steve-jobs-apple-webobjects/index.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 76 comments

Data Brewery – Python Framework for Data Processing

http://databrewery.org/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/13/upshot/falling-middle-class.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 170 comments

Google Container-VM Image: A Container-Optimized OS Image Based on Chromium OS

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

In Udupi, India, an app development company has made millions

https://www.techinasia.com/robosoft-technologies

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Another Study Finds Link Between Pharma Money and Brand-name Prescribing

https://www.propublica.org/article/another-study-finds-link-between-pharma-money-and-brand-name-prescribing

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

Blisk – a browser for web developers

https://blisk.io/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 79 comments

Alibaba's Accounting Is as Alarming as Enron's

http://fortune.com/2016/05/12/jim-chanos-alibaba-accounting/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

TrackMania is NP-complete

https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5765

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html?_r=0

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 64 comments

New details about planet 2007 OR10, third largest dwarf planet in solar system

http://gizmodo.com/a-huge-unnamed-dwarf-planet-almost-the-size-of-pluto-1776287457

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

Scientists Hold Secret Meeting to Consider Creating a Synthetic Human Genome

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/science/synthetic-human-genome.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

Vysor is no longer available – H.264 licensing

https://plus.google.com/u/1/110558071969009568835/posts/717zTopZSWf

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 51 comments

Humans Hunted Mastodon in Florida Nearly 15,000 Years Ago

http://gizmodo.com/humans-hunted-mastodon-in-florida-nearly-15-000-years-a-1776311538

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Concord – High Performance Stream Processing with C++ and Mesos

http://concord.io/why

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Small, Modular Nuclear Plants Get Their First Chance in the U.S

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601426/small-modular-nuclear-plants-get-their-first-chance-in-the-us/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments
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