top 50% 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

★ 1.7k Python BSD-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

Debian port for RISC-V 64-bit

https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2017/20170422_debian-gnulinux-port-for-risc-v-64-bit-riscv64/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 47 comments

A Facebook bot purge clobbered USA Today

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/facebook-usa-today.php

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the DMCA

http://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/drm-eschatology.html

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 116 comments

How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03855

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 31 comments

A Foray into Go Assembly Programming

https://blog.sgmansfield.com/2017/04/a-foray-into-go-assembly-programming/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14176191

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 100 comments

Imitating people’s speech patterns precisely could bring trouble

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21721128-you-took-words-right-out-my-mouth-imitating-peoples-speech-patterns

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

Rooby: a Ruby-like object oriented language written in Go

https://github.com/rooby-lang/rooby

9 years ago

★ 3.5k Go MIT
122 upvotes – 66 comments

Scientists hope they've found a drug to stop neurodegenerative brain diseases

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39641123

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

Tree Oriented Programming [pdf]

http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/pub/Swierstra/ResearchTalks/tree-oriented-programming-slides.pdf

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Njalla – A privacy-aware domain registration service

https://njal.la/blog/opening/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/apple-releases-a-bit-of-code-to-let-you-put-live-photos-on-your-sites

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

Xmonad from Coq: Programming a Window Manager with a Proof Assistant (2012) [pdf]

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004/Publications/XmonadInCoq.pdf

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 7 comments

Thinking critically about and researching algorithms [pdf]

http://futuredata.stanford.edu/classes/cs345s/handouts/kitchin.pdf

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Stack: tiling WM for Windows

https://losttech.software/stack.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Curse of knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying on Students

http://news.softpedia.com/news/eff-says-google-chromebooks-are-still-spying-on-students-515015.shtml

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Google is Crushing the Internet

http://theweek.com/articles/693488/google-monopoly--crushing-internet

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments
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