top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-11

Recovering from Burnout and Depression

https://kierantie.com/a/burnout/

9 years ago

587 upvotes – 254 comments

Noun Project – Icons for Everything

https://thenounproject.com/

9 years ago

541 upvotes – 141 comments

Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver

https://www.modzero.ch/modlog/archives/2017/05/11/en_keylogger_in_hewlett-packard_audio_driver/index.html

9 years ago

492 upvotes – 116 comments

Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/drone-uses-ai-and-11500-crashes-to-learn-how-to-fly

9 years ago

462 upvotes – 118 comments

Windows 10 on ARM

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171

9 years ago

450 upvotes – 277 comments

Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/why-self-compassion-works-better-than-self-esteem/481473/?single_page=true

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 148 comments

A plan for open source software maintainers

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-05-11-plan-for-foss-maintainers.html

9 years ago

403 upvotes – 156 comments

Keybase is out for iPhone, Android

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318754

9 years ago

388 upvotes – 111 comments

Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)

https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin-air.html

9 years ago

384 upvotes – 40 comments

Startup Graveyard – History Shouldn't Have to Repeat Itself

http://startupgraveyard.io/

9 years ago

367 upvotes – 104 comments

Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/apples-watch-can-detect-an-abnormal-heart-rhythm-with-97-accuracy-ucsf-study-says/

9 years ago

342 upvotes – 72 comments

Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/05/10/europe-is-living-under-microsofts-digital-killswitch/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 175 comments

Interactive Mind Map for learning

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map

9 years ago

★ 16.9k TypeScript
293 upvotes – 58 comments

New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/11/new-distros-coming-to-bashwsl-via-windows-store/

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 245 comments

Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

https://github.com/yandex/gixy

9 years ago

★ 8.5k Python
265 upvotes – 33 comments

Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1K-CRi_yZ0

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 53 comments

An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car location histories

https://www.andreascarpino.it/posts/how-my-car-insurance-exposed-my-position.html

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 64 comments

Quotes

http://paulgraham.com/quo.html

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 82 comments

Alan Kay at Startup School [video]

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/11

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 47 comments

Smartphones can be fooled by fake, digitally composed fingerprints

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/technology/fingerprint-security-smartphones-apple-google-samsung.html

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 108 comments

Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll

https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-breed-of-patent-troll/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 59 comments

Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-now-lets-ios-developers-deploy-run-and-test-their-apps-directly-from-windows

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 61 comments

Crash course to Amiga assembly programming

https://www.reaktor.com/blog/crash-course-to-amiga-assembly-programming/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 52 comments

UK virtual reality firm Improbable raises $500M

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39892251

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 102 comments

How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-analyzes-1m-dns-queries-per-second/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 6 comments

Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO

http://blog.sfgate.com/cmcginnis/2017/05/10/feds-searching-passenger-cell-phones-at-sfo/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 155 comments

Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surprised-to-find-no-two-neurons-are-genetically-alike/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: SQueaLy – Fast track analytics for business

https://github.com/hashedin/squealy

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments

NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-breaking-computer-project-to-entire-internet/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 61 comments

Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes

http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-can-trigger-brain-lesions-that-lead-to-strokes

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 42 comments

Neural Network-Generated Illustrations in Allo

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/neural-network-generated-illustrations.html?m=1

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 36 comments

How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/world/australia/australia-slow-internet-broadband.html?_r=0

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 182 comments

The Story of a Rust Bug

https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/the-story-of-a-rust-bug/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/10/u-s-to-ban-laptops-in-all-cabins-of-flights-from-europe?n=1

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 165 comments

Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/249149-cray-announces-new-ai-focused-supercomputers

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

Star Citizen Raised $148M from Fans, and Now It’s Raising Concerns

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/personaltech/video-game-raised-148-million-from-fans-now-its-raising-issues.html

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 176 comments

Turris Omnia

https://omnia.turris.cz/en/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments

Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Google-Cloud-Platform-launches-Northern-Virginia-region.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

We’re Bad at Death

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/upshot/were-bad-at-death-first-we-need-a-good-talk.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 110 comments

Air carriers are still failing people with disabilities

https://backchannel.com/airlines-are-letting-old-technology-abuse-their-customers-fc67011b4bdf

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 129 comments

Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/11/15615812/microsoft-fluent-design-system-project-neon-features

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 64 comments

HP laptops covertly log users’ every keystroke, researchers warn

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Ubuntu 17.04 review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/ubuntu-17-04-review-this-is-unitys-true-swan-song/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 118 comments

Uber hit by legal setback in Europe

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/technology/uber-not-tech-company-europe-court/index.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 201 comments

America has become too anti-innovation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/11/tech-innovation-silicon-valley-juicero

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 140 comments

Stripe-Backed Stellar Places a New Bet on Blockchain in the Developing World

http://fortune.com/2017/05/11/lightyear-blockchain/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments
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