top 50% 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

The Hidden Workforce Expanding Tesla's Factory

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

10 years ago

Advanced Ping: httping, dnsping, smtpping

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

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

The life’s work that proved Einstein right

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/14/the-chirp-heard-across-universe/xYC8dFRTnCyl3tT2LNuafN/story.html

10 years ago

Bubble Indemnity

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/bubble-indemnity.html

10 years ago

Love thy coworker; thy work, not necessarily

http://yosefk.com/blog/love-thy-coworker-thy-work-not-necessarily.html

10 years ago

Astrophysics Source Code Library

http://ascl.net/

10 years ago

R7RS-large kickoff, list membership, and voter registration process

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scheme-reports-wg2/N2g2zn0lb_U

10 years ago

North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreas-one-percenters-savor-life-in-pyonghattan/2016/05/14/9f3b47ea-15fa-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869_story.html

10 years ago

Worm going through unpatched Ubiquiti routers

http://community.ubnt.com/t5/airMAX-General-Discussion/Virus-attack-URGENT-UBNT/td-p/1562940

10 years ago

Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11701440

10 years ago

Building autoencoders in Keras

http://blog.keras.io/building-autoencoders-in-keras.html

10 years ago

Module Hub – The Redis Modules Marketplace

http://redismodules.com/

10 years ago

C as an Intermediate Language (2012)

http://yosefk.com/blog/c-as-an-intermediate-language.html

10 years ago

UC students suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20160513/uc-students-suit-claims-google-scanned-accounts-without-permission/1

10 years ago

The top Google result for 'blockchain' is a scam ad

http://i.imgur.com/rGgj0aX.png

10 years ago

Western Digital completes SanDisk purchase

http://www.zdnet.com/article/western-digital-completes-sandisk-purchase/

10 years ago

SpareOne: Emergency mobile phone powered by AA batteries

http://www.spareone.com

10 years ago

The Experts Have Spoken

http://www.theawl.com/2016/05/the-experts-speak-its-good-to-be-wrong

10 years ago

Winograd Schemas

https://www.cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/WS.html

10 years ago

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

10 years ago

Luxembourg's leaders have proposed a far-reaching animal rights bill

https://news.vice.com/article/luxembourg-is-set-to-become-the-most-animal-friendly-country-in-the-world

10 years ago

Canvas Cycle

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

10 years ago

Building a wearable camera

http://manoj.ninja/articles/2016/05/09/building-a-wearable-camera

10 years ago