606
127
Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
http://horizon.io/#1.0-release
10 years ago
603
287
Reason: A new interface to OCaml
http://facebook.github.io/reason/
509
217
JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/d08c0304c5779223d6c468373af4815ec3ccdb84
444
202
High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3053711
419
155
“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28
338
204
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/
297
122
Cool URIs don't change (1998)
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
279
135
One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/
266
216
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/
251
71
Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/stanford-quantifies-the-privacy-stripping-power-of-metadata/
241
125
Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
233
352
Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11718197
228
50
A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/maksym-igor-popov-fbi/
224
449
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/
223
1
Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magic-mushroom-drug-lifts-depression-in-human-trial/
209
51
Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820
206
142
Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support/
Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food
https://www.infino.me/hungrybot
195
94
In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time
http://www.boredpanda.com/real-time-translator-ear-waverly-labs/
190
110
Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-source/
187
68
Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector
https://gregtinkers.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/car-speed-detector/
173
162
Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/17/magic-mushrooms-lift-severe-depression-in-clinical-trial
168
83
From Node.js to Go
http://blog.scaledrone.com/posts/nodejs-to-go
164
185
New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/17/new-evidence-about-the-dangers-of-monsantos-roundup/
150
67
Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/17/es6-modules-and-beyond/
145
222
Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-infrastructure-costs-so-much
42
Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha
https://coreos.com/blog/alpha-security-incident-subset-of-users-affected.html
136
24
LMFDB, a catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them
http://aimath.org/aimnews/lmfdb/
137
Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/17/11686912/otto-self-driving-semi-truck-startup
133
72
Google applying to patent deep neural network (LSTM) for machine translation
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2016/0117316.html
132
96
Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-face-recognition-app-end-public-anonymity-vkontakte
131
106
You're Gonna Need a License for That
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-17/you-re-going-to-need-a-license-for-that-job
38
Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications
https://github.com/Nickersoft/push.js
★ 8.6k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
121
28
IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ibm-scientists-storage-memory-breakthrough.html
120
112
Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/15/amazon-will-soon-sell-its-own-private-label-groceries/
117
77
Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717561
116
16
The Road to Artificial Intelligence
https://medium.com/snips-ai/the-road-to-artificial-intelligence-b2993424272f#.nlrhe42n8
115
60
First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese
http://www.probashionline.com/madhumala-chattopadhyay-first-friendly-contact-with-the-sentinelese-jarawa-andamans/
109
Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-apple-music-is-so-bad-when-the-iphone-is-so-good
107
25
Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems
http://ifeanyi.co/posts/understanding-consensus/
105
82
Cops Cuffed Me for Selling My Own Mac
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/17/cops-cuffed-me-for-selling-my-own-mac.html
103
Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces
https://medium.com/@tryexceptpass/a-python-ate-my-gui-971f2326ce59#.r71wrkqfq
102
31
How Typography Can Save Your Life
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-typography-can-save-your-life
97
57
The Sigmoid Function in Logistic Regression
http://karlrosaen.com/ml/notebooks/logistic-regression-why-sigmoid/
95
169
Is Hyperloop the future of travel?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36307781
73
Can Portland Avoid Repeating San Francisco’s Mistakes?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/the-real-roots-of-portlands-housing-crisis/482988/?single_page=true
92
EFF Fights for Answers About Massive Government Phone Database
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/thursday-hearing-san-francisco-eff-fights-answers-about-massive-government-phone
29
10 thousand times faster Swift
https://medium.com/@icex33/10-thousand-times-faster-swift-737b1accd973#.lk21x8xty
87
19
Is Gut Science Biased?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gut-week-global-guts-western-bias/
Ask HN: What are some rite-of-passage style projects for programmers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712198
85
12
Understanding caching in Postgres
http://madusudanan.com/blog/understanding-postgres-caching-in-depth
124
Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world?
https://www.quora.com/Where-did-we-go-wrong-Why-didnt-Common-Lisp-fix-the-world?share=1
80
ReactOS 0.4.1 Released – Activation Context, USB, UniATA, BTRFS
https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-041-released
75
University Title Generator
http://universitytitlegenerator.com/
52
A Node.js bridge for COBOL
https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node.cobol
★ 163 COBOL MIT– 10 years ago
69
Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)
http://www.nature.com/news/medical-research-if-depression-were-cancer-1.16307?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
64
Theories on the etymology of 'strawberry'
http://blog.oup.com/2015/04/strawberry-word-origin-etymology/
66
HTML5 by Default – Draft Proposal
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/106_KLNJfwb9L-1hVVa4i29aw1YXUy9qFX-Ye4kvJj-4/edit#slide=id.p
65
43
Making UX Choices Based on What You Hate About the Internet
https://thegood.com/insights/making-ux-choices-based-on-what-you-hate-about-the-internet/
Show HN: Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux
http://nn-mnist.sennabaum.com
