top 20 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

Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11718197

10 years ago

A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/maksym-igor-popov-fbi/

10 years ago

Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/05/vote-org/

10 years ago

Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magic-mushroom-drug-lifts-depression-in-human-trial/

10 years ago

Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820

10 years ago

Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support/

10 years ago

Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

https://www.infino.me/hungrybot

10 years ago

In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time

http://www.boredpanda.com/real-time-translator-ear-waverly-labs/

10 years ago

Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source

https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-source/

10 years ago