top 50% 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

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

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

9 years ago

Introducing Surface Laptop

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

9 years ago

Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)

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

9 years ago

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

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

OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

9 years ago

★ 13.5k Python GPL-3.0

NeoVim 0.2.0 released

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

9 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script

Ryzen is for Programmers

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

9 years ago

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

Red Hat OpenShift.io – Free, end-to-end, cloud-native development

https://www.openshift.io/

9 years ago

Basecamp Employee Handbook

https://github.com/basecamp/handbook

9 years ago

★ 6.5k

Startup School 8: Jan Koum of WhatsApp

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/8

9 years ago

Not Lisp again (2009)

https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

9 years ago

Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/twilio-stock-takes-a-nosedive-in-after-hours-trading-on-weak-guidance/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

9 years ago

The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)

http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-developer-is-not-myth/

9 years ago

Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself

https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison

9 years ago

★ 1.4k Python MIT

Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/discourse

9 years ago

Where oil rigs go to die

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/02/where-oil-rigs-go-to-die

9 years ago

There’s a good chance wildlife photos weren’t shot in the wild

https://qz.com/969811/game-farm-photography-love-wildlife-photos-theres-a-good-chance-they-werent-shot-in-the-wild

9 years ago

The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run

https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/04/lhc-has-restarted-its-2017-run

9 years ago

Digging in the Trash

http://bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy

9 years ago

‘Reined-In’ N.S.A. Still Collected 151M Phone Records in 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/nsa-phone-records.html?_r=0

9 years ago

Storage engine design

http://akumuli.org/akumuli/2017/04/29/nbplustree/

9 years ago

Show HN: MStream – A personal music streaming server

https://github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream

9 years ago

★ 2.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0

Using NeuralNets to make smooth character animations

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/this-neural-network-could-make-animations-in-games-a-little-less-awkward/

9 years ago

GCC 7.1 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-05/msg00017.html

9 years ago

Soma Water Filters Are Worthless

http://tylermw.com/soma-water-filters-are-worthless-how-i-used-r-to-win-an-argument-with-my-wife/

9 years ago

GUI Architectures (2006)

https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html

9 years ago

Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

https://blog.docker.com/2017/05/introducing-docker-new-ceo/

9 years ago

Proposed “Internet Freedom Act” permanently guts net neutrality authority

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/gops-internet-freedom-act-permanently-guts-net-neutrality-authority

9 years ago

Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991)

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html

9 years ago

Ask HN: Who is firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14247701

9 years ago

Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats

https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats

9 years ago

I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/02/facebook-executive-advertising-data-comment

9 years ago

Major routing issues on the Internet

http://status.pingdom.com/incidents/0n95zvcxb19m

9 years ago

Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21649050-badly-educated-men-rich-countries-have-not-adapted-well-trade-technology-or-feminism

9 years ago

The Ferocious Complexity of the Cell

https://rbharath.github.io/the-ferocious-complexity-of-the-cell/

9 years ago

Exploiting the TOR-Browser

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/761-Exploiting-the-TOR-Browser.html

9 years ago

What if we made video conferencing work?

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2017/05/01/just-made-video-conferencing-work/

9 years ago

The Amazing Shortcut Keypad

http://www.theamazingshortcutkeypad.com/

9 years ago

C++ Language Interface Foundation (CLIF)

https://github.com/google/clif

9 years ago

★ 980 C++ Apache-2.0

Show HN: R8 Processor

http://www.hasaranga.com/R8/

9 years ago

Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them

https://mortoray.com/2017/05/02/fix-your-crappy-ads-and-ill-stop-blocking-them/

9 years ago

To deflate the cryptocurrency token bubble, fix the market cap indicator

https://blog.sia.tech/want-to-deflate-the-token-bubble-fix-the-market-cap-indicator-d50f7f1e1ec4

9 years ago

The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over

https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/05/the-new-suburban-crisis/521709/?utm_source=SFTwitter

9 years ago

Test Results for AMD Ryzen

http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=838

9 years ago

How enthusiasts designed a powerful desktop PC with an ARM processor

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3184230/computers/the-anatomy-of-a-powerful-desktop-with-an-arm-chip.html

9 years ago

Why did Mac OS 7 perform poorly with virtual memory enabled?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2804/why-did-mac-os-7-perform-poorly-with-virtual-memory-enabled

9 years ago

Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?

9 years ago

Why website body text should be bigger

https://blog.marvelapp.com/body-text-small

9 years ago

Vigilantes are working hard to infect IoT devices with the Hajime botnet

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/a-vigilante-is-putting-huge-amount-of-work-into-infecting-iot-devices/

9 years ago

Science to Retract Study on Fish and Microplastics

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/01/remarkable-ever-accepted-says-report-science-retract-study-fish-microplastics/

9 years ago