top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-23

How SSH got port number 22

https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port

9 years ago

1034 upvotes – 207 comments

Uber CEO Plays with Fire

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html

9 years ago

559 upvotes – 492 comments

The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News

http://digiday.com/media/guardian-pulls-facebooks-instant-articles-apple-news/

9 years ago

474 upvotes – 201 comments

Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/20/want-to-rescue-rural-america-bust-monopolies/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 335 comments

Fewer mallocs in curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22/fewer-mallocs-in-curl/

9 years ago

392 upvotes – 130 comments

Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA tools, researchers say

https://www.cyberscoop.com/fast-thousands-computers-now-compromised-leaked-nsa-tools-researchers-say/

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 165 comments

Stanford Lecture Notes on Probabilistic Graphical Models

https://ermongroup.github.io/cs228-notes/

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking

https://github.com/overshard/timestrap

9 years ago

★ 1.7kPythonBSD-2-Clause
264 upvotes – 75 comments

OpenLara – Web-based classic Tomb Raider engine remake

http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 47 comments

Websites people say have changed their lives

http://kottke.org/17/04/these-websites-could-change-your-life

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 71 comments

Google: My interview experience

http://gilvegliach.it/?id=17

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 157 comments

VK9: Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan

https://github.com/disks86/VK9

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

All about java.util.Date

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2017/04/23/all-about-java-util-date/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 90 comments

Reproducing Go binaries byte by byte

https://blog.filippo.io/reproducing-go-binaries-byte-by-byte/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and Macbooks

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 142 comments

Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Bengaluru, India

https://qz.com/963225/julia-an-indian-computer-scientist-built-a-new-programming-language-from-bengaluru/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 46 comments

From Monads to Machine Code

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/monads_machine_code.html

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 33 comments

Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch

https://fabxc.org/blog/2017-04-10-writing-a-tsdb

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 38 comments

The creators of This is Spinal Tap have been paid almost nothing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-20/this-is-spinal-tap-s-400-million-lawsuit

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 27 comments

[ -z $var ] works unreasonably well

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=576

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 95 comments
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