top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-10

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000

9 years ago

1450 upvotes – 522 comments

CockroachDB 1.0

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-1-0-release/

9 years ago

811 upvotes – 347 comments

Solar Roof

https://www.tesla.com/blog/solar-roof

9 years ago

690 upvotes – 438 comments

Beware of Transparent Pixels

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2017/05/09/beware-of-transparent-pixels/

9 years ago

567 upvotes – 93 comments

Visual Studio for Mac

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/

9 years ago

532 upvotes – 317 comments

Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 113 comments

Opera is Reborn

http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/05/opera-is-reborn/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 291 comments

Britecharts: D3.js based charting library of components

http://eventbrite.github.io/britecharts/

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 81 comments

Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 158 comments

Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

https://investor.snap.com/news-releases/2017/05-10-2017-210059250

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 279 comments

Git 2.13

https://github.com/blog/2360-git-2-13-has-been-released

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 76 comments

“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″

https://promarket.org/google-close-natural-monopoly-bell-system-1956/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 243 comments

Show HN: Insomnia REST Client now open-source

https://insomnia.rest/blog/open-source-announcement/

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 53 comments

How much do hedge fund traders earn?

https://80000hours.org/2017/05/how-much-do-hedge-fund-traders-earn/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 186 comments

Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/apple-acquires-sleep-tracking-company-beddit/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft Build 2017 [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 92 comments

Exploiting the Linux kernel via packet sockets

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/05/exploiting-linux-kernel-via-packet.html

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 38 comments

Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25: study

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005408

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 80 comments

The evolution of Unix architecture in two diagrams

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20170510/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 6 comments

Zillow faces lawsuit over ‘Zestimate’ tool that calculates a house’s worth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/zillow-faces-lawsuit-over-zestimate-tool-that-calculates-a-houses-worth/2017/05/09/b22d0318-3410-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 251 comments

Lost Generation: The Relay Computers

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/lost-generation-the-relay-computers/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 51 comments

Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/10/microsoft-launches-azure-database-for-mysql-and-postgressql/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 99 comments

REST Anti-Patterns (2008)

https://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-anti-patterns

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 112 comments

Google acquires Owlchemy Labs

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15614274/google-daydream-vr-owlchemy-labs-acquisition-job-simulator

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 33 comments

Reverse Engineering Apple Location Services Protocol

https://appelsiini.net/2017/reverse-engineering-location-services/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 10 comments

The Many Layers of Packaging: Why PyPI Isn't an App Store

http://sedimental.org/the_packaging_gradient.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Emacs is sexy

http://emacs.sexy/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Save Net Neutrality

https://dearfcc.org

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

Electrick: Low-Cost Touch Sensing Using Electric Field Tomography

http://yang-zhang.me/research/Electrick/Electrick.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 22 comments

Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Ora.pm – New task management service

https://ora.pm

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

PlanGrid's Playbook for Startups to Crack Big, Established Industries

http://firstround.com/review/plangrids-playbook-for-startups-to-crack-open-big-established-industries/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 29 comments

Don't overuse interfaces

http://blog.hovland.xyz/2017-04-22-stop-overusing-interfaces/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309654

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

A remotely operated vehicle livestreaming the deep sea

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/this-robot-is-livestreaming-all-the-gnarly-stuff-its-seeing-in-the-deep-sea?utm_source=mbtwitter

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 16 comments

How standard portfolio theory changes when assets are technologies

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03423

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

U.S. likely to expand airline laptop ban to Europe: government officials

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airlines-electronics-ban-idUSKBN1862QS

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 85 comments

The Science About Planet Nine, So Far

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/05/09/the-scientific-truth-about-planet-nine-so-far/#5d165fe7d84e

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Multiple Vulnerabilities in ASUS Routers

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/May/24

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Spotter – Search for copies of videos on the internet

https://dashboard.spotter.tech

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 85 comments
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