top 50% 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

823 upvotes – 276 comments

Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

https://fast.com/

10 years ago

631 upvotes – 360 comments

Google Home

http://home.google.com/

10 years ago

577 upvotes – 457 comments

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

530 upvotes – 204 comments

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

401 upvotes – 184 comments

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

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

10 years ago

389 upvotes – 157 comments

The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle

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

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 196 comments

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

340 upvotes – 180 comments

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

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

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 212 comments

Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit

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

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 37 comments

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

276 upvotes – 255 comments

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

258 upvotes – 254 comments

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

254 upvotes – 101 comments

This Biology Book Blew Me Away

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

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 103 comments

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

212 upvotes – 47 comments

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

201 upvotes – 138 comments

Ethereum Contracts Are Going to Be Candy for Hackers

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

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 81 comments

Qanat

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

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

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

183 upvotes – 108 comments

The Day the Moon Blew Up

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

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/18/russias-new-findface-app-identifies-strangers-in-a-crowd-with-70-percent-accuracy/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 150 comments

I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth

http://narrative.ly/i-went-to-the-hospital-to-give-birthand-tested-positive-for-meth/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 244 comments

Fast.com, a New Tool to Check Your Internet Speed

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/now-available-globally-fast-com-a-new-tool-to-check-your-internet-speed

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 7 comments

Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay Area changes

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2016/05/brown-affordable-housing-development-approval-ceqa.html

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 117 comments

Nebraska's civil forfeiture reform

http://journalstar.com/legislature/a-positive-step-forward-both-sides-find-good-in-nebraska/article_0185c306-4211-5b42-b372-98364b98b8ae.html

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Do startups have a drinking problem?

https://backchannel.com/do-startups-have-a-drinking-problem-920139d132a7#47af.5tfoynx3p

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 157 comments

I Satisfied My Passion for Software Dev and Open-Source by Doing a Part-Time PhD

http://omerio.com/how-i-satisfied-my-passion-for-software-development-and-open-source-by-doing-a-part-time-phd/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

I love my Amazon Workspace

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/i-love-my-amazon-workspace/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 111 comments

Google I/O 2016 Live Keynote

https://events.google.com/io2016/?

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 162 comments

I worked on Facebook's Trending team

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/facebook-trending-news-team-curators-toxic-work-environment

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 91 comments

Bots Are Hot (1996)

http://www.wired.com/1996/04/netbots/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

Fitbit Acquires Coin

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/18/fitbit-buys-coin/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 109 comments

Tor developer dodges FBI, leaves US

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/17/technology/tor-developer-fbi/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 94 comments

React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition

https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate/blob/master/Changelog.md

10 years ago

★ 29.5k JavaScript MIT
112 upvotes – 94 comments

Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

http://vindinium.org/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160510-loneliness-center-in-the-brain/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Surface-Only Liquids

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/surfaceliquids/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Sysdig: Behavioral Activity Monitor With Container Support

http://www.sysdig.org/falco/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Karma-Duped: A Cautionary Tale About the Murky World of Venture Lending

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-selkoe/karmaduped-a-cautionary-t_b_9860368.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

In Search for Cures, Scientists Create Multispecies Embryos

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/18/478212837/in-search-for-cures-scientists-create-embryos-that-are-both-animal-and-human

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

OpenAI Gym

https://openai.com/blog/openai-gym-beta/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Kolmogorov Complexity (2014) [pdf]

http://informationtheory.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/6/2/24624554/kolmogorov_complexity.pdf

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Microsoft offloads Nokia feature phone business to Foxconn for $350M

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/microsoft-offloads-nokia-feature-phone-business-to-foxconn-for-350m/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 78 comments

How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Parkinson’s research

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/medical-mystery-how-tainted-drugs-froze-young-people-but-kickstarted-parkinsons-research/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments
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