top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-05-15

A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/cia-tip-off-led-to-jailing-of-mandela-9mwcsdq9c

10 years ago

435 upvotes – 282 comments

Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/05/updating-a-classic.html

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 280 comments

“I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there”

https://twitter.com/chromakode/status/731942777131425792

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 28 comments

A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-small-london-company-that-makes-the-worlds-most-beautiful-globes

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 46 comments

Linux 4.6 is out

https://lwn.net/Articles/687511/

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 83 comments

Programming from the Ground Up [pdf]

http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 54 comments

Regular expressions you can read: a visual syntax and UI

https://medium.com/@savolai/regular-expressions-you-can-read-a-new-visual-syntax-526c3cf45df1

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 63 comments

All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]

http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/all-of-statistics/index.html

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 52 comments

Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AmIReallyADeveloperOrJustAGoodGoogler.aspx

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 157 comments

Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor

http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-economy-silicon-valley

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 150 comments
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