top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-23

IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson

http://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-about-Watson-and-AI

10 years ago

481 upvotes – 173 comments

Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview

http://clojure.org/about/spec

10 years ago

474 upvotes – 153 comments

GitLab Container Registry

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/23/gitlab-container-registry/

10 years ago

449 upvotes – 118 comments

Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/get-ready-for-summer-on-netflix-us

10 years ago

425 upvotes – 255 comments

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 84 comments

Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

https://twitter.com/holman/status/734842346278244352

10 years ago

342 upvotes – 69 comments

We Only Hire the Best

https://m.signalvnoise.com/we-only-hire-the-best-c711c330fc2e#.yty4hjlla

10 years ago

333 upvotes – 198 comments

AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time

https://www.datawire.io/3-reasons-aws-lambda-not-ready-prime-time/?utm_content=buffer5d2eb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 137 comments

Hyper-Reality [video]

https://vimeo.com/166807261?ref=fb-share

10 years ago

301 upvotes – 108 comments

Universal.css

https://github.com/marmelab/universal.css

10 years ago

★ 1.2k CSS WTFPL
289 upvotes – 112 comments

Why do we have allergies?

http://mosaicscience.com/story/why-do-we-have-allergies

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 171 comments

So You Wanna Go On-Prem

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2016/05/15/so-you-wanna-go-onprem-do-ya/

10 years ago

256 upvotes – 102 comments

Spark as a Compiler: Joining a Billion Rows per Second on a Laptop

https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/23/apache-spark-as-a-compiler-joining-a-billion-rows-per-second-on-a-laptop.html

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty (2015)

http://www.demos.org/blog/12/2/15/why-education-does-not-fix-poverty

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 187 comments

Roundcube Webmail 1.2.0 released with PGP support

https://roundcube.net/news/2016/05/22/roundcube-webmail-1.2.0-released

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 67 comments

How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru

http://priceonomics.com/how-an-ad-campaign-made-lesbians-fall-in-love-with/

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 87 comments

A 54-year-old custodian just graduated from the college he cleaned at night

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/05/18/this-54-year-old-custodian-just-graduated-from-the-college-he-cleaned-at-night/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

The Secret of Billions

https://medium.com/@jaltucher/the-secret-of-billions-4a42b256eb7#.1b5xc3lr0

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 111 comments

N.F.L. Tried to Influence New Concussion Research, Congressional Study Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/sports/football/nfl-tried-to-influence-concussion-research-congressional-study-finds.html

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

Hanami – web framework for Ruby

http://hanamirb.org/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 43 comments

Visual Basic Turns 25

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/05/20/happy-25th-birthday-vb/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 145 comments

There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/upshot/sorry-theres-nothing-magical-about-breakfast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 181 comments

Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1

https://dotdev.co/upcoming-changes-in-php-7-1-76ebea53b820?gi=72c111144946#.gdl1ig553

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: Passive Income Suggestions 2016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11755036

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 99 comments

FBI Wants to Exempt Its Biometric Database from Some Federal Privacy Rules

http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2016/05/fbi-wants-exempt-its-massive-biometric-database-federal-privacy-rules/128051/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 41 comments

Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3r49XXRw4

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 118 comments

India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-22/modi-s-mini-shuttle-set-to-blast-into-elon-musk-s-race-for-space

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 53 comments

A Forgotten Moment in ASCII Art History

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/the-ascii-mystery-face/483698?single_page=true

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

The Dark Art of Mastering Music

http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 102 comments

A Current List of Use Cases for Ethereum

https://medium.com/@AroundTheBlock_/a-current-list-of-use-cases-for-ethereum-b8caa5807553#.cr70q67b2

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

The Elixir of concurrency

http://cfenollosa.com/blog/the-elixir-of-concurrency.html

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Illustrio – Search, customize and download illustrations

https://app.illustrio.com/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

For some, meditation has become more curse than cure

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-knight-of-the-souls/372766/?single_page=true

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: I built a bot to automatically apply to jobs

https://github.com/jmopr/job-hunter

10 years ago

★ 384 Ruby
109 upvotes – 86 comments

Related: Pure Ruby Relational Algebra Engine

https://github.com/seansellek/related

10 years ago

★ 146 Ruby
102 upvotes – 29 comments

Machine Bias

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

My Quantum Circuit Simulator: Quirk

http://algorithmicassertions.com/2016/05/22/quirk.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Introducing clojure.spec

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/5/23/introducing-clojurespec

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Rich Programmer Food (2007)

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

99-problems in Java 8, Scala, and Haskell

https://github.com/shekhargulati/99-problems

10 years ago

★ 3.2k Java MIT
89 upvotes – 23 comments

Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19

https://opensource.com/life/16/5/19-years-later-cathedral-and-bazaar-still-moves-us

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust

https://github.com/esphen/wsta/

10 years ago

★ 632 Rust GPL-3.0
85 upvotes – 13 comments

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/3-ways-small-modular-reactors-overcome-existing-barriers-to-nuclear/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Export HN saved links (upvotes) as JSON or CSV

https://github.com/amjd/HN-Saved-Links-Export

10 years ago

★ 63 Python
82 upvotes – 16 comments

China's Science Revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-0192822d-14f1-432b-bd25-92eab6466362

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Project Murphy – An imaginative bot answering “What-if” questions

http://www.projectmurphy.net/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Type-based aliasing in C

http://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/05/type-based-aliasing-in-c.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/what-good-is-grandma

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

The college debt crisis is worse than it seems

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/05/18/hopes-dreams-debt/fR60cKakwUlGok0jTlONTN/story.html

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 108 comments
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