top 50% 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

Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensive batteries

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2016/02/electric_cars_are_no_longer_held_back_by_crappy_expensive_batteries.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 169 comments

Monotonic Versioning Manifesto

http://blog.appliedcompscilab.com/monotonic_versioning_manifesto/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fed-up-with-high-dc-housing-costs-1m-will-buy-you-an-entire-w-virginia-town/2016/05/21/dfd4241e-16ce-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Do Police Body Cameras Really Work?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/do-police-body-cameras-really-work

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 75 comments

In Japan’s Slow Economy, Rare Price Rise Prompts Surplus of Remorse

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/business/international/japan-economy-deflation-prices.html?_r=0

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 105 comments

Achieving a Perfect SSL Labs Score with Go

https://blog.bracelab.com/achieving-perfect-ssl-labs-score-with-go

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Zendesk and the Art of Trademark Trolling

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/zendesk-and-art-trademark-trolling

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

How do you stop a randomized game from randomly being boring sometimes?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/stellaris-and-strategy-gamings-bad-luck-problem/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Why is it still so hard to host your own email/calendar that just works?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748036

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Family.scss – a set of 20 smart SASS mixins

http://lukyvj.github.io/family.scss/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Demon Core: The Strange Death of Physicist Louis Slotin

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin?mbid=social_twitter

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Memories of unethical actions become obfuscated over time

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/05/11/1523586113.full

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

GNU Make 4.2

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-05/msg00013.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748812

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

One Month on the World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000

https://medium.com/gone/one-month-on-the-worlds-longest-train-ride-for-1-000-a681fdaf0b6b#.1f3b2qpet

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Bideo.js – Easy Background HTML5 Videos

http://rishabhp.github.io/bideo.js/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: IPsec VPN Server in Docker Container

https://github.com/hwdsl2/docker-ipsec-vpn-server

10 years ago

★ 7k Shell
74 upvotes – 19 comments

Subterranea Britannica

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Interaction without JavaScript: common UI elements with a CSS-only pattern

http://codepen.io/ekrof/pen/YqmXdQ/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Deep biomarkers of human aging: Application of deep neural networks

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v8/n5/full/100968.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Fire-damaged Brazilian tortoise receives new 3D shell

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/05/22/12/07/fire-damaged-brazilian-tortoise-receives-new-3d-printed-shell

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Inside the Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

https://labs.bitdefender.com/2016/05/inside-the-million-machine-clickfraud-botnet/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Fall 35,000 Feet And Survive (2010)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a5045/4344036/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 64 comments

Browser as an Interactive Disassembler (2015)

http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/03/29/browser-as-an-interactive-disassembler.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Make Your Own Programming Language (2015)

http://blog.ppelgren.se/2015-01-03/DIY-Make-Your-Own-Programming-language/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evidence from Twin Study

http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/05/20/sf.sow035.abstract

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop?

http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2016/05/09/is-the-online-advertising-bubble-finally-starting-to-pop/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Double-ended vector – is it useful?

http://larshagencpp.github.io/blog/2016/05/22/devector

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Disabling paste in password boxes - why is it practiced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748092

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

GitLab 8.8 released with Pipelines

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/22/gitlab-8-8-released/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments
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