top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-14

Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/13/hidden-microphones-exposed-as-part-of-government-surveillance-program-in-the-bay-area/

10 years ago

A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

https://github.com/nlp-compromise/nlp_compromise

10 years ago

★ 12k JavaScript MIT

Germany plans to remove owner liability for piracy on open Wi-Fi hotspots–report

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/05/german-open-wi-fi-storehaftung-law-repealed/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11694277

10 years ago

Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch

https://github.com/saiprashanths/dl-setup

10 years ago

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A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

https://www.nayuki.io/page/a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86-assembly-programming

10 years ago

Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue

http://blog.skylight.io/introducing-helix/

10 years ago

ZFS lands in Debian contrib

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux

10 years ago

Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet

http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/529/why-i-havent-fixed-your-issue-yet

10 years ago

An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-an-old-idea-revived-starve-cancer-to-death.html

10 years ago

Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (2007)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352

10 years ago

Lambda expression comparison between C++11, C++14 and C++17

http://maitesin.github.io//Lambda_comparison/

10 years ago

Generative Art in HTML5 Canvas

https://color-wander.surge.sh/

10 years ago

The Truth about Linux 4.6

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4476

10 years ago

Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/folding-paper-with-a-hydraulic-press-c858f3d12a58#.avsqgrswc

10 years ago

How I found a data leak of a company during a college lecture

http://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/937-how-i-found-a-huge-data-leak-of-a-company-during-a-college-lecture

10 years ago

Germany to Give €1B Electric Car Subsidy

http://www.electric-vehicle.co/2016/04/germany-to-give-1-billion-electric-car.html

10 years ago

New Common Lisp website

http://lisp-lang.org/

10 years ago

How to Center in CSS

http://howtocenterincss.com/#

10 years ago

Vulkan Tutorial

http://av.dfki.de/~jhenriques/development.html

10 years ago

Google Chrome 51 disables HTTP/2 on most Linux distros due to old OpenSSL

https://ma.ttias.be/day-google-chrome-disabled-http2-nearly-everyone-may-15th-2016/

10 years ago

GNU's advanced distro and transactional package manager

http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

10 years ago

A Lincoln High teacher gets all his students to pass the AP Calculus exam

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0103-lopez-yom-teacher-20160201-column.html

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How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/elon-musk-rocket-defense-223161?href

10 years ago

Show HN: Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine

http://julianrosenblum.com/sharp11-client/

10 years ago

Americans have stopped using the Internet the way they used to

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/13/new-government-data-shows-a-staggering-number-of-americans-have-stopped-basic-online-activities/

10 years ago

SQLite with Richard Hipp [audio]

https://changelog.com/201/

10 years ago

Driverless buses hit the streets of Sion

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/hop-on-board_driverless-buses-hit-the-streets-of-sion/41846698

10 years ago

Ask HN: Who productively writes code on their smartphone? How?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697029

10 years ago

When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/technology/personaltech/when-websites-wont-take-no-for-an-answer.html

10 years ago

Thngs – a place for every thing

https://thngs.co/

10 years ago

Finite state machines with Akka

http://codurance.com/2016/05/10/finite-state-machines-with-akka/

10 years ago

Qb: Database toolkit for Go

https://qb.readme.io

10 years ago

Effect of Acute Exercise on Prostate Cancer Cell Growth (2013)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067579

10 years ago

A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)

https://blog.jacius.info/2012/05/29/a-personal-lisp-crisis/

10 years ago

‘Facebook is everything to us’: How Little Things grew to 50M users in 3 years

http://digiday.com/publishers/digiday-podcast-little-things/

10 years ago

Evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/the-wisdom-of-the-aging-brain

10 years ago

Upgrading a 20 Year Old PDA

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/01/upgrading-a-20-year-old-pda/

10 years ago

Flatpak: Standalone apps for Linux

https://jimmac.github.io/xdg-app-website/

10 years ago

Beware the UIKit Visitors

http://blog.benjamin-encz.de/post/disassembling-uikit-tintcolor-visitor/

10 years ago

Show HN: Neural Network Evolution Playground with Backprop NEAT

http://blog.otoro.net/2016/05/07/backprop-neat/

10 years ago