top 20 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

Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques

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

10 years ago

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

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

10 years ago

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

Linux 4.6 is out

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

10 years ago

Programming from the Ground Up [pdf]

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

10 years ago

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

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

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

10 years ago

Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?

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

10 years ago

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

"Another World" source code review (2011)

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php

10 years ago

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for Login and Sudo

https://www.linux.com/learn/how-set-2-factor-authentication-login-and-sudo

10 years ago

Mistakes to avoid with C++ 11 smart pointers

http://www.acodersjourney.com/2016/05/top-10-dumb-mistakes-avoid-c-11-smart-pointers/

10 years ago

Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/enabling-http2-for-dropbox-web-services-experiences-and-observations/

10 years ago

ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking

https://www.zerotier.com/

10 years ago

Advanced Ping: httping, dnsping, smtpping

http://blog.webernetz.net/2016/05/10/advanced-ping-httping-dnsping-smtpping/

10 years ago

The Hidden Workforce Expanding Tesla's Factory

http://extras.mercurynews.com/silicon-valley-imported-labor/

10 years ago

Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim

https://github.com/rbong/vim-vertical

10 years ago

★ 84 VimL

Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html

10 years ago

Embedding PyPy in a C application

http://codelle.com/blog/2016/5/embedding-pypy-in-a-c-application/

10 years ago