top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-05

The Horror in the Standard Library

https://www.zerotier.com/blog/2017-05-05-theleak.shtml

9 years ago

830 upvotes – 216 comments

The Rust Libs Blitz

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/05/libz-blitz.html

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 122 comments

Build Yourself a Redux

https://zapier.com/engineering/how-to-build-redux/

9 years ago

395 upvotes – 155 comments

The Patek Philippe Caliber 89 and Horology’s Easter Problem

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/patek-philippe-caliber-89-easter-problem

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 188 comments

My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39422660

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 112 comments

Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 151 comments

Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surveillance

http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-document-reveals-uk-plans-for-wider-internet-surveillance/

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 149 comments

Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aspirin-may-prevent-cancer-from-spreading-new-research-shows/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 117 comments

Stop the Daily Standup Meeting

http://devteams.at/stop_the_daily_standup_meeting

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 251 comments

Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-iceland-drills-km-volcano-energy.html

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 163 comments

Leaving Apple Inc

http://minimaxir.com/2017/05/leaving-apple/

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 93 comments

Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack

https://www.totaljs.com/messenger

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine

https://github.com/pirate/pocket-archive-stream

9 years ago

★ 27.2k Python MIT
217 upvotes – 68 comments

How Scratch teaches kids to follow the hacker ethic

https://backchannel.com/the-kids-computer-language-that-became-a-mind-bomb-for-the-hacker-ethic-a0b7e42c229d

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 115 comments

The Turds Who Voted to Sell Out Your Online Privacy Get Their Faces Plastered

http://gizmodo.com/the-turds-that-voted-to-sell-out-your-online-privacy-ge-1794899911

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14271819

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 138 comments

How does Docker affect energy consumption?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01176

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 86 comments

Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t

https://backchannel.com/thousands-of-veterans-want-to-learn-to-code-but-cant-7ed60c167a61

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 254 comments

Why Is the TSA Scanning Paper?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/05/why_is_the_tsa_.html

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 124 comments

Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2017/language-shapes-how-the-brain-perceives-time/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 107 comments

Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access

https://github.com/cdgriffith/Box

9 years ago

★ 2.8k Python MIT
145 upvotes – 115 comments

Generating all permutations, combinations, and power set of a string (2012)

http://exceptional-code.blogspot.com/2012/09/generating-all-permutations.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

Science Fiction Interfaces

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 59 comments

Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability

https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vulnerability

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 91 comments

Facebook Is Shutting Down VR Content Division Oculus Story Studio

https://uploadvr.com/facebook-shutting-down-oculus-story-studios/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 97 comments

Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 242 comments

Apple’s China Problem

https://stratechery.com/2017/apples-china-problem/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 180 comments

Patton's sword and the future of work

https://abe-winter.github.io/change/2017/05/05/pattons-sword.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

Spatial Audio in VR

https://developers.google.com/vr/concepts/spatial-audio

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 14 comments

18 months after discovery, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is finally working

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/success-the-nintendo-playstation-prototype-is-fully-functional/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable

https://github.com/pmq20/node-compiler

9 years ago

★ 3k C++ MIT
115 upvotes – 82 comments

A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meroe-pyramids-sudan-photography

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

What does $100 Ether mean?

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/what-does-ether-100-mean-bb58522f781e

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 103 comments

TLS verification vulnerability in LibreSSL 2.5.1-2.5.3

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/145

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts

https://www.outsideonline.com/2168646/how-does-entire-shipwreck-disappear-bolts-and-all

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

Mods keep 'Sins of a Solar Empire' PC game vibrant five years on

http://alist.ly/2p5jZ5M

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

T3X – a minimal procedural language

http://t3x.org/t3x/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 51 comments

An Open Letter to the JCP Executive Committee

http://mreinhold.org/blog/to-the-jcp-ec

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Salt Ponds of the San Francisco Bay

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15439018/new-blackberry-keyone-review-2017-phone-keyboard

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 102 comments

Clones of the Apple II

http://tedium.co/2017/05/04/apple-ii-clones-franklin-vtech/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

[WTF] Go Unicode Hack to Get Pseudo-Generics

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_enjarify_in_go_and_rust/dcsgk7n/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Intel AMT vulnerability: Silent Bob is Silent [pdf]

https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Some Notes on Haskell Pedagogy

https://medium.com/@sjsyrek/some-notes-on-haskell-pedagogy-de43281b1a5c

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Fidget spinner craze inventor struggles to make ends meet

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/03/fidget-spinner-inventor-patent-catherine-hettinger

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

2 Years of monitoring sensitive information pastebin dumps - @dumpmon (2015)

http://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/05/26/two-years-of-at-dumpmon/

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Milpitas BART Station to Open in December, VTA Says

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/04/27/milpitas-bart-station-to-open-in-december-vta-says/

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

A Theory of Consciousness Can Help Build a Theory of Everything

http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/a-theory-of-consciousness-can-help-build-a-theory-of-everything

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 85 comments
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