top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-06

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/2669690/1922352

9 years ago

598 upvotes – 110 comments

Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-the-software-side

9 years ago

514 upvotes – 92 comments

Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

https://ngrok.com/

9 years ago

468 upvotes – 187 comments

Recent version of Handbrake download infected with malware

https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=36364

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279870

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 220 comments

Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/618724/open-source-chip-mimics-linux-path-take-closed-x86-arm-cpus/

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 151 comments

Ways to Read More Books

https://hbr.org/2017/02/8-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this-year

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 117 comments

Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-facebook-make-you-miserable.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 219 comments

The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards

http://jamesclear.com/the-1-percent-rule

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 125 comments

ODrive Project – Using inexpensive brushless motors in high performance robotics

https://odriverobotics.com/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 62 comments

On Campuses Far From China, Still Under Beijing’s Watchful Eye

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-western-campuses-china-influence.html

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 175 comments

Vimflowy – A productivity tool drawing inspiration from Workflowy and Vim

https://github.com/WuTheFWasThat/vimflowy

9 years ago

★ 1.6k TypeScript MIT
204 upvotes – 47 comments

Handling bot attacks against a Tor hidden service

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/762-Attacked-Over-Tor.html

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 34 comments

More Android phones than ever are covertly listening for inaudible sounds in ads

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/theres-a-spike-in-android-apps-that-covertly-listen-for-inaudible-sounds-in-ads/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 100 comments

Why are crime victims being jailed?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39662428

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 89 comments

Decommission of Cyrus Email

https://www.cmu.edu/computing/email/cyrus/project/index.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 112 comments

Limbo – A Reasoning System for First-Order Limited Belief

https://github.com/schwering/limbo

9 years ago

★ 233 C++ MIT
143 upvotes – 26 comments

Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/technology/why-instagram-is-becoming-facebooks-next-facebook.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 138 comments

When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995

https://mmccaff.github.io/2017/05/06/when-you-accidentally-break-your-school-network-in-1995/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

http://flowdash.co/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 42 comments

When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 74 comments

How To Use 23andMe Irresponsibly (2014)

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/12/how-to-use-23andme-irresponsibly/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

How the TensorFlow team handles open source support

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-the-tensorflow-team-handles-open-source-support

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: An expense manager built using Google Sheets

https://github.com/mitul45/expense-manager

9 years ago

★ 449 JavaScript MIT
107 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript

https://k6.io

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Windows non-LAN, wormable RCE 0-day discovered

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/860681252034142208

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Detecting walking speed with wireless signals

http://news.mit.edu/2017/dina-katabi-csail-team-develop-wireless-system-to-detect-walking-speeds-0501

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Looking for the best Phoenix/Elixir/Erlang Tutorials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281093

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Campuses must combat growing zeal for censorship

https://www.city-journal.org/html/get-up-stand-up-15109.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

The Future of Ad Blocking: An Analytical Framework and New Techniques [pdf]

http://randomwalker.info/publications/ad-blocking-framework-techniques.pdf

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 70 comments

Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-body orbits

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00527

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

Measles outbreak rages after anti-vaccine groups target vulnerable community

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/measles-outbreak-rages-after-anti-vaccine-groups-target-vulnerable-community/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

Trying to make a pretty book lamp

http://sam.town/book-lamp/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

My strange journey into transhumanism

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/god-in-the-machine-my-strange-journey-into-transhumanism

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments
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