top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-05-18

Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html

10 years ago

Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

https://fast.com/

10 years ago

Google Home

http://home.google.com/

10 years ago

Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-become-unified-app-platform.html

10 years ago

Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/tesla-announces-2-billion-public-offering-to-accelerate-model-3-ramp-up

10 years ago

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

https://threatpost.com/academics-make-theoretical-breakthrough-in-random-number-generation/118150/

10 years ago

The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle

https://majadhondt.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/googles-9-lines/

10 years ago

AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/x1-instances-for-ec2-ready-for-your-memory-intensive-workloads/

10 years ago

Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo

https://whispersystems.org/blog/allo/

10 years ago

Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit

https://blog.docker.com/2016/05/docker-mac-windows-open-source/

10 years ago

Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-dont-spend-time-modern-c-anymore-henrique-bucher-phd

10 years ago

The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security

10 years ago

Apple Sent Two Men to My House

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/17/apple-sent-two-men-to-my-house-no-they-werent-assassins/

10 years ago

This Biology Book Blew Me Away

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Vital-Question

10 years ago

SSRN sold to Elsevier

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2016/05/ssrn-sold-to-elsevier-from-open-access-to-the-worst-legacy-publisher.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+professorbainbridge%2FsheN+%28ProfessorBainbridge.com+%C2%AE%29

10 years ago

How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid-in-your-apartment.html

10 years ago

Ethereum Contracts Are Going to Be Candy for Hackers

http://vessenes.com/ethereum-contracts-are-going-to-be-candy-for-hackers/

10 years ago

Qanat

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

10 years ago

Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11683536/google-daydream-virtual-reality-announced-android-n-io-2016

10 years ago

The Day the Moon Blew Up

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Seveneves

10 years ago