top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-05-22

My time with Rails is up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749203

10 years ago

716 upvotes – 438 comments

$12M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in 2 hours

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160522/p2g/00m/0dm/044000c

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 194 comments

Nigerians Dominate Scrabble Tournaments Using Five-Letter Word Strategy

http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-nigerian-scrabble-stars-short-tops-shorter-1463669734

10 years ago

295 upvotes – 80 comments

So You Wanna Buy a Telescope: Advice for Beginners (2015)

http://www.scopereviews.com/begin.html

10 years ago

289 upvotes – 97 comments

Two Bytes to $951M

http://baesystemsai.blogspot.com/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.html

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 77 comments

How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf]

https://github.com/ptresearch/me-disablement/blob/master/How%20to%20become%20the%20sole%20owner%20of%20your%20PC.pdf

10 years ago

★ 288
254 upvotes – 121 comments

Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/autonomous-mini-rally-car-teaches-itself-to-powerslide

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 45 comments

Balde: a microframework to develop web applications in C

https://balde.rgm.io/

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 80 comments

Cling: An Interactive C++ interpreter

https://root.cern.ch/cling

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 50 comments

Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/snowden-whistleblower-protections-john-crane

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 70 comments

Generation Nintendo

http://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 55 comments

How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 62 comments

Hiroshima (1946)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 187 comments

Deoptimizing a C++ program

http://stackoverflow.com/q/37361145/563941

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

Interactive Algorithm Visualizer

http://jasonpark.me/AlgorithmVisualizer

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 9 comments

Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996)

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-lessons.html

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 20 comments

TOTP SSH port fluxing

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ssh-port-fluxing-with-totp

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

ZFS, BTRFS, XFS, EXT4 and LVM with KVM – A Storage Performance Comparison (2015)

http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/virtualization/47-zfs-btrfs-xfs-ext4-and-lvm-with-kvm-a-storage-performance-comparison.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 82 comments

Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets Suspended Sentence

http://news.softpedia.com/news/student-who-found-flaws-in-police-communication-protocol-gets-prison-sentence-504333.shtml

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 46 comments

Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account

http://antipersona.co

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments
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