top 50% 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

A new Curl logo

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 109 comments

Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever

http://www.nature.com/news/two-hundred-terabyte-maths-proof-is-largest-ever-1.19990

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 66 comments

Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/microsoft_clarifies_upgrade_trick/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 196 comments

One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/24/the-reason-cable-companies-wont-willingly-compete-against-each-other/?tid=sm_fb

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 117 comments

UBER ATC is disguising research as fake job interviews?

https://imgur.com/gallery/owJrB25

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 31 comments

.NET Core Is Boiling the Ocean

http://www.aaronstannard.com/dotnetcore-boil-ocean/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/google-backed-magic-leap-alleges-workers-stole-its-secrets-1.2920529

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

Mars may be emerging from an ice age, according to a new study

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/26/11772702/mars-ice-age-climate-change

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Same-site Cookies

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies-07

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Call for a Temporary Moratorium on “The DAO”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10kTyCmGPhvZy94F7VWyS-dQ4lsBacR2dUgGTtV98C40/mobilebasic

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage has landed (again)

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/736313075385540608

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

JVM JIT optimization techniques

https://advancedweb.hu/2016/05/27/jvm_jit_optimization_techniques/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

WordPress is now 13 years old

https://wordpress.org/news/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments

The Persian Rug May Not Be Long for This World

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/world/middleeast/end-of-an-art-form-the-persian-rug-may-not-be-long-for-this-world.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 74 comments

Who really gets hurt when startups blow up, and what to do about it

https://medium.com/@stuartawillson/therohnos-who-really-gets-hurt-when-startups-blow-up-and-what-to-do-about-it-2110330d7880

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36400365

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhappy at work?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/05/new-utopias?fsrc=permar|image3

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Assembly to C code Decompiler

http://www.decompiler.org/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’: The Pirate Bay founder

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/27/mark-zuckerberg-is-dictator-of-facebook-nation-the-pirate-bay-founder.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

After Tens of Thousands of Pigeons Vanish, One Comes Back

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/26/after-tens-of-thousands-of-pigeons-vanish-one-comes-back/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Pre-sale of Cyborg implant for sensing North

http://www.cyborgnest.net

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 84 comments

Swift and Dynamism

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2016/05/pimp-my-code-book-2-swift-and-dynamism.html

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

The GRIM test – a method for evaluating published research

https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for-evaluating-published-research-9a4e5f05e870

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

How the ArXiv Decides What’s Science

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-holy-grail-of-crackpot-filtering.html

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Is Everything Wrestling?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wrestling.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

Pulsed terawatt lasers have surprising effects when shone through the air (2006)

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2006/2/filaments-of-light/99999

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

What should we learn from past AI forecasts?

http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/what-should-we-learn-past-ai-forecasts

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Common Lisp: The Untold Story (2008)

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Finally, Private Unemployment Insurance. But Will Anyone Buy It?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/your-money/finally-private-unemployment-insurance-but-will-anyone-buy-it.html?_r=0

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 68 comments

Dijkstra: My Recollections of Operating System Design (2001) [pdf]

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1303.PDF

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

The 'Tootsie Pop' Model for Unsafe Rust Code

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/27/the-tootsie-pop-model-for-unsafe-code/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Copyright Doesn't Mean Unlimited Control

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/copyright-doesnt-mean-unlimited-control

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments
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