top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-05-27

All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020

http://english.eu2016.nl/latest/news/2016/05/27/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020

10 years ago

1167 upvotes – 133 comments

Crying

http://www.robinwe.is/explorations/cry.html

10 years ago

672 upvotes – 242 comments

Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/05/26/gchat_was_the_future_of_messaging_why_did_google_make_other_chat_products.html

10 years ago

452 upvotes – 284 comments

Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/apple-microsoft-google-hold-nearly-quarter-u-s-corporate-cash/

10 years ago

409 upvotes – 156 comments

Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)

https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf

10 years ago

341 upvotes – 81 comments

Apps made for one OS shouldn't insist on aping the design elements of another

http://www.macworld.com/article/3075537/ios/google-is-making-the-same-mistake-now-that-microsoft-did-in-the-90s.html

10 years ago

296 upvotes – 232 comments

FBI raids dental software researcher who discovered patient data on FTP server

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/justin-shafer-fbi-raid/

10 years ago

259 upvotes – 163 comments

Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus

http://uploadvr.com/valve-shared-vr-oculus/

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 137 comments

Thinking in React

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/thinking-in-react.html

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 52 comments

W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160527203200

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 69 comments

How I turned “Street Sharks” into an online social experiment

http://www.geek.com/news/how-i-used-lies-about-a-cartoon-to-prove-history-is-meaningless-on-the-internet-1656188/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 109 comments

I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb

https://medium.com/@rodiggedy/i-read-about-this-phenomenon-of-black-people-being-rejected-on-airbnb-f36dd3ab0375#.442h75fsq

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 262 comments

Harvey OS – A Fresh Take on Plan 9

http://harvey-os.org/

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 79 comments

Sorting algorithms visualizer

http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

10 years ago

221 upvotes – 39 comments

Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-wants-to-help-sell-every-ad-on-the-web-1464321603

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 136 comments

Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/27/125-experts-say-olympics-must-be-moved-or-postponed-because-of-zika/

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 136 comments

Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cellphone-cancer-link-found-in-government-study-1464324146

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 157 comments

I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool

https://arcan-fe.com/2016/05/27/i-wrote-a-lua-programmable-display-server-arcan-a-desktop-environment-durden-and-a-nifty-debuggingreversing-tool-senseye/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 46 comments

Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)

http://blog.scalyr.com/2014/05/searching-20-gbsec-systems-engineering-before-algorithms/

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 36 comments

Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/26/secret-text-in-senate-bill-would-give-fbi-warrantless-access-to-email-records/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 44 comments
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