top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-09

Get started making music

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

9 years ago

2106 upvotes – 461 comments

CPU Utilization is Wrong

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html

9 years ago

624 upvotes – 91 comments

Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1252&desc=5

9 years ago

594 upvotes – 180 comments

President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

9 years ago

594 upvotes – 297 comments

The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)

http://labs.ig.com/code-coverage-100-percent-tragedy

9 years ago

534 upvotes – 340 comments

SQL Notebook

https://sqlnotebook.com/

9 years ago

459 upvotes – 102 comments

Making a Game in Rust

https://michaelfairley.com/blog/i-made-a-game-in-rust/

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 121 comments

Amazon Echo Show

https://www.amazon.com/echoshow

9 years ago

390 upvotes – 443 comments

BBR, the new kid on the TCP block

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/05/09/bbr-new-kid-tcp-block/

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 47 comments

JDK 9 modules voted down by EC

https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5959

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 184 comments

Thunderbird’s Future Home

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 124 comments

A novel approach to neural machine translation

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1978007565818999/a-novel-approach-to-neural-machine-translation/

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 44 comments

Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/business/dealbook/09dealbook-sorkin-warren-buffett.html

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 336 comments

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/alphabet-s-sidewalk-labs-eyes-toronto-for-its-digital-city

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 140 comments

How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-privacy-became-a-commodity-for-the-rich-and-powerful.html

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 97 comments

Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected

https://medium.com/@jasonyuan/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 120 comments

U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/us-census-director-resigns-amid-turmoil-over-funding-of-2020-count/2017/05/09/8f8657c6-34ea-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 137 comments

Bitcoin surges to all-time high above $1,700

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-forex-bitcoin-idUSKBN1852DL

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 205 comments

How to Create a Neural Network in JavaScript [video]

https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 42 comments

Bills before the California Legislature would crack down on NIMBYs

https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/05/californias-legal-assault-on-nimbys-begins/525840/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 316 comments

Turning Plastic to Oil, U.K. Startup Sees Money in Saving Oceans

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-05/turning-plastic-to-oil-u-k-startup-sees-money-in-saving-oceans

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 45 comments

The Pain of Real Linear Types in Rust

https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Security Update for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4022344

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 83 comments

Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE

http://cewing.github.io/training.codefellows/assignments/day01/sublime_as_ide.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 147 comments

Fearless concurrency in your microcontroller

http://blog.japaric.io/fearless-concurrency/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 51 comments

Lasp: a little further down the Erlang rabbithole

https://notamonadtutorial.com/lasp-a-little-further-down-the-erlang-rabbithole-febba29c8d0c

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 23 comments

How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-homeownership-became-the-engine-of-american-inequality.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 209 comments

Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/05/quantum-up-close-what-is-a-browser-engine/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 4 comments

Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain in the Dead of Winter

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/sports/polish-climbers-to-scale-deadly-k2-peak-in-winter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 35 comments

Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)

https://priceonomics.com/impulsive-rich-kid-impulsive-poor-kid/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

Printed Electronics (2016)

http://thinfilm.no/technology-printed-electronics/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-and-messages-on-all-echo-devices-with-alexa-calling/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 134 comments

DigitalGlobe satellite imagery launch for OpenStreetMap

http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/digitalglobe-satellite-imagery-launch-for-openstreetmap/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 31 comments

The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop

https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/2022

9 years ago

★ 37.8kC#MIT
124 upvotes – 119 comments

An employee who exposed Rothenberg Ventures to the SEC

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-09/he-blew-the-whistle-on-a-silicon-valley-highflier-then-came-the-blowback

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

Kivy 1.10.0 released

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kivy-users/2zusmq8NXPE/5hfqtIoACAAJ

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14302762

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 49 comments

What We Learned Raising $1.5M on Kickstarter in 2017

https://www.shopmoment.com/momentist/the-complete-guide-to-succeeding-on-kickstarter-in-2017-everything-we-learned-in-raising-1-5m

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Lecture Notes on General Relativity (1997)

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

Teacher spends two days as a student (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/teacher-spends-two-days-as-a-student-and-is-shocked-at-what-she-learned/?utm_term=.89d6b4dd1d71

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 103 comments

Zip Files All the Way Down (2010)

https://research.swtch.com/zip

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

President Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/09/527663050/president-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 22 comments

Julia 0.6.0-rc1 new language features

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.6.0-rc1/NEWS.md

9 years ago

★ 48.6kJuliaMIT
90 upvotes – 28 comments

What's Reasonable to Qualcomm Isn't to Apple

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-08/what-s-reasonable-to-qualcomm-isn-t-to-apple

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

Lisp Meta-Programming for C++ Developers: First Macros

https://deque.blog/2017/05/09/lisp-meta-programming-for-c-developers-first-macros/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

How Heat Kills Cells

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-heat-kills-cells/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

New Method of Microbial Energy Production Discovered

http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2017/41803

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Type-safe Datalog in OCaml

https://github.com/c-cube/datalog/blob/master/README.rst

9 years ago

★ 279PrologBSD-2-Clause
80 upvotes – 4 comments
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