top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-08

Net neutrality is in jeopardy again

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/05/08/next-10-days-critical-internets-future/

9 years ago

928 upvotes – 374 comments

Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS

https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

9 years ago

692 upvotes – 247 comments

Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an overrated ideology

https://projectm-online.com/investing/why-maintenance-means-more-to-peoples-lives-than-innovation/

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What's your working day like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290518

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 415 comments

Things to Use Instead of JSON Web Tokens

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/things-to-use-instead-of-jwt/

9 years ago

376 upvotes – 195 comments

Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4838

9 years ago

351 upvotes – 204 comments

Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)

http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

9 years ago

350 upvotes – 145 comments

Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist

https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide

9 years ago

★ 5.6kMIT
321 upvotes – 65 comments

Repl.it – React Native mobile apps in browser

https://repl.it/site/react_native

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 61 comments

Gallery of programming UIs

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bEgysfDmb8PDV6iCAjH5JIvaI/preview?slide=id.g1da0625f1b_0_56

9 years ago

316 upvotes – 76 comments

MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database

https://www.mapd.com/blog/2017/05/08/mapd-open-sources-gpu-powered-database/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 49 comments

Sinatra 2.0 released

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/tree/v2.0.0

9 years ago

★ 12.4kRubyMIT
259 upvotes – 72 comments

Authentication Techniques for APIs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAX5ZJzluilhoYKjra-uHbMCZraaQkqIHl3RIQ8mVkM/edit#gid=0

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 57 comments

EPA dismisses half of its scientific advisers on key board

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 76 comments

U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/08/u-s-life-expectancy-varies-by-more-than-20-years-from-county-to-county/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_life-expectancy-11am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 141 comments

The Etiquette of the Victorian Ballroom: Twenty Tips for Single Gentlemen

https://mimimatthews.com/2017/05/08/the-etiquette-of-the-victorian-ballroom-twenty-tips-for-single-gentlemen/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 121 comments

Writing a Very Fast Hash Table with Tiny Memory Footprints

http://www.idryman.org/blog/2017/05/03/writing-a-damn-fast-hash-table-with-tiny-memory-footprints/

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 51 comments

There is little research into the long-term effects of using antidepressants

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/06/dont-know-who-am-antidepressant-long-term-use

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 156 comments

Why Elm? [pdf]

http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/files/why-elm.pdf

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 128 comments

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and net neutrality

http://www.businessinsider.com/mathias-dopfner-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-interview-2017-5

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 46 comments

'Civilization' Creator Sid Meier: “I Didn't Really Expect to Be a Game Designer”

http://www.glixel.com/interviews/civilization-creator-sid-meier-i-didnt-really-expect-to-be-a-game-designer-w480988

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 77 comments

FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/the-fccs-comment-system-targeted-by-ddos-attacks-during-filing-period-for-net-neutrality/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 72 comments

Startup CTO – Premature Scaling

https://medium.com/@mike_93443/startup-cto-premature-scaling-cabf02c54060

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 100 comments

Walmart's effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-to-trick-people-into-saving-money/521421/?single_page=true

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 213 comments

Quest-driven OpenStreetMap editing for Android

https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete

9 years ago

★ 4.5kKotlinGPL-3.0
156 upvotes – 52 comments

Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 47 comments

Reed-Solomon coder computing one million ECC blocks at 1 GB/s

https://github.com/Bulat-Ziganshin/FastECC

9 years ago

★ 423C++Apache-2.0
151 upvotes – 37 comments

How billions vanish into the security industry

https://thecorrespondent.com/6229/how-billions-vanish-into-the-black-hole-that-is-the-security-industry/303333613-52f43e22

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus service in London

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/08/transport-app-citymapper-trials-its-own-smart-bus-and-transport-service-in-london/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 76 comments

3D scanning like a pro

http://kurokesu.com/main/2017/05/08/3d-scanning-like-a-pro/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

Bringing up 802.11ac on FreeBSD

https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2017/04/bringing-up-80211ac-on-freebsd.html

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 18 comments

Dell Takes Venture Arm Out of Stealth, Aims to Spend $100M Annually

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/dell-takes-venture-arm-out-of-stealth-aims-to-spend-100-million-annually

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

John Oliver pleads with viewers to revive net neutrality fight

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/8/15577800/john-oliver-net-neutrality-last-week-tonight-ajit-pai-title-ii-verizon

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 105 comments

YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/business/media/youtube-stars-feel-advertising-pinch.html?emc=edit_ca_20170508&nl=california-today&nlid=4617603&te=1&_r=0

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 171 comments

OSS-Fuzz: Five months later, and rewarding projects

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/oss-fuzz-five-months-later-and.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments

E.P.A. Dismisses Academic Scientists from Major Scientific Review Board

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 92 comments

Berkshire Hathaway Code of Business Conduct and Ethics [pdf]

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/govern/ethics.pdf

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 110 comments

Lightmap Compression in the Witness

http://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2016/09/lightmap-compression-in-the-witness/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 1 comments

IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/08/ibm-remote-working-panel/#.tnw_fGon9xiN

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 107 comments

American energy use

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/13/15268604/american-energy-one-diagram

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

European Investment Bank announces €25M funding for MariaDB

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/katainen/announcements/investment-plan-europe-eur-25-million-support-mariadbs-development-new-software_en

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 41 comments

Traceroute Mapper – Show Your Traceroute on a Map

https://stefansundin.github.io/traceroute-mapper/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Rust Memory Management

http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2017/05/rust-memory-management.html

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-more-robots-fewer-jobs/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 122 comments

Is the C++ preprocessor still needed?

http://foonathan.net/blog/2017/05/08/preprocessor.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 152 comments

Abusing Gmail to get previously unlisted e-mail addresses

https://blog.0day.rocks/abusing-gmail-to-get-previously-unlisted-e-mail-addresses-41544b62b2

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 50 comments

Luther's World: Understanding the man who was the powerhouse of the Reformation

http://www.weeklystandard.com/luthers-world/article/2007915

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Mac Pro: Failure and Future

https://mondaynote.com/mac-pro-failure-and-future-c2ad83e373c4

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 132 comments

What is so ‘scientific’ about Sanskrit?

http://smritiweb.com/navin/miscellaneous/what-is-so-scientific-about-sanskrit-seriousquestion

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Florida’s Ghost Highway: The Old Red Brick Road

http://floridatraveler.com/florida-ghost-highway/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Saudi king orders that women no longer need man’s permission to travel or study

http://www.gulf-insider.com/saudi-king-orders-women-no-longer-need-mans-permission-travel-study-make-police-complaints/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks?

https://backchannel.com/has-uber-killed-off-its-self-driving-trucks-3ebd2eb0e51

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 95 comments

Norway's Progress Party calls for ban on circumcision for boys

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Norways-Progress-Party-calls-for-ban-on-circumcision-of-boys-489982

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 184 comments

The Last Survivors of Meridian 59 (2014)

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-last-survivors-of-meridian-59

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Travis CI Security Advisory: Secured Environment Variables

https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-05-08-security-advisory

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

VCs Put $110M into Grammar-Checking Software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/vcs-put-110-million-into-grammar-checking-software

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

An LZ Codec Designed for SSE Decompression (2016)

http://conorstokes.github.io/compression/2016/02/15/an-LZ-codec-designed-for-SSE-decompression

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet-worlds-most.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

Scaling Mobile Messaging at Airbnb

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/messaging-sync-scaling-mobile-messaging-at-airbnb-659142036f06

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

If Europe is more expensive, why do Americans pay more for healthcare?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3336/if-everything-else-is-more-expensive-in-europe-why-do-we-pay-more-for-healthcare

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 127 comments

The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data

https://medium.com/plainflow/the-modern-saas-stack-and-the-unexploited-amount-of-data-6bf2e982b596

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Experimental: Syntax AI with React.js

https://blog.codebox.sh/experimental-syntax-ai-with-react-js-67a35a757fe5

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/understanding-node-js-event-driven-architecture-223292fcbc2d

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Fair Analytics: A fair and distributed alternative to Google Analytics

https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics

9 years ago

★ 743JavaScriptMIT
70 upvotes – 20 comments
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