top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-12

Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/europe/uk-national-health-service-cyberattack.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1&referer=https://www.rt.com/news/388153-thousands-ransomeware-attacks-worldwide/

9 years ago

1248 upvotes – 478 comments

A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case

https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/

9 years ago

853 upvotes – 215 comments

Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/waymos-lawsuit-against-uber-is-going-to-trial-judge-rules/

9 years ago

483 upvotes – 268 comments

110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

9 years ago

479 upvotes – 110 comments

Treble: A modular base for Android

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes-treble-modular-base-for.html

9 years ago

419 upvotes – 219 comments

How to shoot on iPhone 7

https://www.apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/

9 years ago

376 upvotes – 200 comments

Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14322953

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 148 comments

Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 368 comments

Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp

https://www.lorankloeze.nl/2017/05/07/collecting-huge-amounts-of-data-with-whatsapp/

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 59 comments

Silicon Valley: A Reality Check

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/11/silicon-valley-a-reality-check/

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 68 comments

When Bash scripts bite

https://blogs.janestreet.com/when-bash-scripts-bite/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321498

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 107 comments

Guaranteed Minimum What?

https://granolashotgun.com/2017/05/05/guaranteed-minimum-what/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 429 comments

Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wannacry.html

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 66 comments

Windows Internals, 7th Edition

http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=335

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 24 comments

Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/11/understanding-deep-learning-requires-re-thinking-generalization/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 35 comments

Cannes Will Ban Streaming-Only Movies from Competition

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/05/10/going_after_netflix_cannes_bans_streaming_only_movies_from_competition_slots.html

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 170 comments

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Unity and AR/VR Development – Part 1

https://blog.betawave.io/a-software-engineers-guide-to-unity-and-ar-vr-development-part-1-c20ce973bf8e

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14322377

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 119 comments

Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/12/15629754/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-watch-first-route-la

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 165 comments

Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials

http://mooooo.ooo/chebyshev-sine-approximation/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 59 comments

Where have all the insects gone?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 107 comments

600 Watt, 3d-printed, Halbach Array, Brushless DC Electric Motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvMC3l3fGY

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 49 comments

Ruby on Rails 5.1

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/5_1_release_notes.html

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 32 comments

Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support on the NVIDIA Volta platform

https://caffe2.ai/blog/2017/05/10/caffe2-adds-FP16-training-support.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

NHS in England hit by 'cyber-attack' with ransomware demanding $300 in Bitcoin

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39899646

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 2 comments

Programmers Should Automate More

https://shubhamjain.co/2017/05/06/why-programmers-should-automate-more/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

https://andycloke.github.io/verb-master/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Global Audit Firms Are Lobbying to Dilute Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms

https://promarket.org/global-audit-firms-led-deloitte-using-lobbying-clout-dilute-sarbanes-oxley-reforms/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 51 comments

VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 68 comments

A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/05/12/a-lap-around-python-in-visual-studio-2017/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Minecraft arrives on the Nintendo Switch

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/12/minecraft-arrives-on-the-nintendo-switch/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 63 comments

Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/11/15625320/ubuntu-suse-linux-fedora-windows-store-microsoft-build-2017

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 92 comments

Repetitiveness and compressibility analysis in song lyrics

https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

The Soft Side of Software

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3092954

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Analyzing 10 years of startup news with Machine Learning

https://blog.monkeylearn.com/analyzing-10-years-of-startup-news-with-machine-learning/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

NHS England hit by 'cyber attack'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39899646

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 1 comments

Patching Is Hard

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2017-05/2017-05-12.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies

http://gizmodo.com/reddit-users-lose-real-money-after-meme-currency-bot-di-1795125165

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 102 comments

Dynamo, Citus, and Tradeoffs in Distributed Databases

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/05/11/dynamo-citus-and-tradeoffs-in-distributed-databases/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

GPU Open Analytics Initiative

http://gpuopenanalytics.com/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other

https://www.ceros.com/blog/meta-narrative/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Cloudflare Declares War on a Patent Troll with $50,000 Bounty

http://fortune.com/2017/05/11/blackbird-patent-troll/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Using RTL-SDR to Open Car Doors (2016)

https://anthonys.io/using-rtl-sdr-to-open-car-doors/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

How to generate Lua boilerplate with D

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/into_luad.html

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Sprint, SoftBank Said in Informal Deal Talks With T-Mobile

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/sprint-softbank-said-to-start-informal-deal-talks-with-t-mobile

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 74 comments

Nuisance call firm Keurboom hit with record fine

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39877362

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments
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