top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-25

Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0&feature=youtu.be&a

10 years ago

566 upvotes – 71 comments

Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/reddit-image-uploads/

10 years ago

501 upvotes – 398 comments

Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/return-of-incandescent-light-bulbs-as-mit-makes-them-more-effici/

10 years ago

472 upvotes – 267 comments

Today is Towel Day

http://towelday.org/

10 years ago

360 upvotes – 154 comments

Nix as OS X Package Manager

http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager.html

10 years ago

357 upvotes – 204 comments

Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 391 comments

LinkedIn called me a white supremacist because I happen to share a name with one

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/05/linkedin_called_me_a_white_supremacist.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 179 comments

A2: Analog Malicious Hardware [pdf]

http://www.impedimenttoprogress.com/storage/publications/A2_SP_2016.pdf

10 years ago

315 upvotes – 94 comments

Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/open-sourcing-twitter-heron

10 years ago

289 upvotes – 63 comments

Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?

http://news10.com/2016/05/24/is-facebook-eavesdropping-on-your-phone-conversations/

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 239 comments

An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 318 comments

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a new force of nature?

http://www.nature.com/news/has-a-hungarian-physics-lab-found-a-fifth-force-of-nature-1.19957

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 87 comments

Realm 1.0

https://realm.io/news/realm-1.0/

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 101 comments

Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley

https://blog.devcolor.org/racial-fault-lines-in-silicon-valley-390cd0e4a6dc

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 153 comments

Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS?

http://zef.me/blog/6023/who-needs-git-when-you-got-zfs

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 146 comments

Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production

http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-cutting-1000-jobs-in-finland-as-it-ends-phone-production-report-2016-5

10 years ago

192 upvotes – 162 comments

WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser

http://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/#

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

They knew it was round, damn it

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/repeat-after-me-they-knew-it-was-round-damn-it/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 78 comments

WikiLeaks releases Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) documents

https://wikileaks.org/tisa/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

https://github.com/decosoftware/deco-ide

10 years ago

★ 5.8k JavaScript AGPL-3.0
138 upvotes – 27 comments

SELinux is beyond saving

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SELinuxBeyondSaving

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 77 comments

Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet Is 1 Year Old

http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk?one_year

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 69 comments

Airbnb: Building a Visual Language, Behind the scenes of our new design system

http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

Could Alzheimer’s Stem from Infections?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/health/alzheimers-disease-infection.html

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 33 comments

OpenAI Team Update

https://openai.com/blog/team-update/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Search Bangs

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

How I designed a practical electric plane for a NASA competition

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-i-designed-a-practical-electric-plane-for-nasa

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 63 comments

How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn Yahoo Around

https://variety.com/2016/digital/features/marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo-1201781310/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 130 comments

Canary Watch, One Year Later

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-later

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/05/solomon-golomb-19322016/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

Application data caching using SSDs

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching-using-ssds.html

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

Simple Rules for Healthy Eating (2015)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-healthy-eating.html

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 85 comments

Regressive Web Apps

https://adactio.com/journal/10708

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 80 comments

Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/24/11761794/google-maps-promoted-pins-announced-ads-coupons

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 101 comments

Google will begin testing password-free login to Android apps

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-passwords-android

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments

Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/25/apple-retail-stores-in-india-waiver-denied/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 111 comments

Fable: F# to JavaScript Transpiler

http://fsprojects.github.io/Fable/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

Is the DAO going to be DOA?

https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 77 comments

Lifting a Million Pounds of Stainless Steel

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/20/477926381/how-do-you-lift-a-million-pounds-of-stainless-steel-very-carefully?

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Verdigris: Qt without moc

https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft kills what's left of the old Nokia

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-kills-whats-left-of-the-old-nokia/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Testing services on Kubernetes with Linux traffic control

https://kinvolk.io/blog/2016/05/testing-web-services-with-traffic-control-on-kubernetes/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 3 comments

Xiaomi unveils the Mi Drone

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/25/11767134/xiaomi-mi-drone-release-date-price-specs-features

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

The Bank Robber

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/herve-falcianis-great-swiss-bank-heist

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Is ‘grit’ overrated in explaining student success?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/25/is-grit-overrated-in-explaining-student-success-harvard-researchers-have-a-new-theory-and-its-not-comforting-at-all/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_gp-grit-710a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 98 comments

Is a prenup a good idea?

https://finangle.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/is-a-prenup-a-good-idea

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 126 comments

Freestanding OCaml runtime

https://github.com/mato/ocaml-freestanding

10 years ago

★ 1 C
65 upvotes – 4 comments

XCalibur – the microSD in the stone

http://devpost.com/software/xcaliber

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Twilio's new Notifiy API

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/twilios-new-notifiy-api-helps-developers-reach-users-across-sms-push-notifications-and-messaging-apps/?ncid=rss

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root

http://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-1-xsa-105-from-nobody-to-root.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

How the World Works (1993)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the-world-works/305854/?single_page=true

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments
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