top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-05-02

CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525001617301107

9 years ago

1455 upvotes – 239 comments

SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today

http://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/sql-43/

9 years ago

588 upvotes – 382 comments

Introducing Surface Laptop

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2017/05/02/introducing-surface-laptop-powered-by-windows-10-s/#xkgEy2SH0VVEG2dt.97

9 years ago

514 upvotes – 592 comments

Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)

http://www.saveur.com/chinatown-produce-prices?ikvwCXcYamcvbSBg.01

9 years ago

471 upvotes – 407 comments

Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/2/15522672/etsy-ceo-change-josh-silverman-chad-dickerson-layoffs

9 years ago

431 upvotes – 263 comments

Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements

https://capnproto.org/news/2017-05-01-capnproto-0.6-msvc-json-http-more.html

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 110 comments

NeoVim 0.2.0 released

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.2.0

9 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script
319 upvotes – 140 comments

OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

9 years ago

★ 13.5k Python GPL-3.0
319 upvotes – 103 comments

Ryzen is for Programmers

http://timothypratley.blogspot.com/2017/03/ryzen-is-for-programmers.html

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 272 comments

Louisiana prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk

http://thelensnola.org/2017/04/26/orleans-parish-prosecutors-are-using-fake-subpoenas-to-pressure-witnesses-to-talk-to-them/

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 137 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments