top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-05-17

Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB

http://horizon.io/#1.0-release

10 years ago

Reason: A new interface to OCaml

http://facebook.github.io/reason/

10 years ago

JavaScript async/await implemented in V8

https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/d08c0304c5779223d6c468373af4815ec3ccdb84

10 years ago

High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3053711

10 years ago

“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

10 years ago

Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/firefox-overtakes-microsoft-internet-explorer-edge-browsers-first-time-statcounter/

10 years ago

Cool URIs don't change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

10 years ago

One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

10 years ago

Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/05/indefinite-prison-for-not-decrypting-hard-drives-usa/

10 years ago

Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/stanford-quantifies-the-privacy-stripping-power-of-metadata/

10 years ago