top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-14

FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed

http://jeffreyfossett.com/2017/05/13/fcc-filings.html

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 144 comments

Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 282 comments

Badger – A fast key-value store written natively in Go

https://open.dgraph.io/post/badger/

9 years ago

355 upvotes – 96 comments

Eigentechno – Principal Component Analysis applied to electronic music

https://www.math.uci.edu/~isik/posts/Eigentechno.html

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 58 comments

Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/building-a-smarter-hacker-news/

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 64 comments

Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 96 comments

WannaCry – New Variants Detected

https://blog.comae.io/wannacry-new-variants-detected-b8908fefea7e

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 159 comments

How Craigslist Makes Money

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/05/03/how-does-craigslist-make-money/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 232 comments

Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook

https://medium.com/@nickkokonas/why-we-are-self-publishing-the-aviary-cookbook-lessons-from-the-alinea-book-e89236ab6ca1

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 76 comments

Intel AMT Checker for Linux

https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check

9 years ago

★ 478 C GPL-2.0
227 upvotes – 87 comments

Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim

https://manytricks.com/blog/?p=4609

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 129 comments

Netflix confirms it is blocking rooted/unlocked Android devices

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 219 comments

Data Science Workflow: Overview and Challenges

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/169199-data-science-workflow-overview-and-challenges/fulltext

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 31 comments

Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04346

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 40 comments

Intel and Samsung Gang Up on Qualcomm, Backing FTC Monopoly Suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/intel-to-add-its-support-to-ftc-lawsuit-against-qualcomm

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 118 comments

Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)

https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/google-and-paint-net-need-to-stop-misleading-users/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 105 comments

The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/the-gender-pay-gap-is-largely-because-of-motherhood.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 222 comments

Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf]

http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N37621

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 38 comments

What made Bell Labs special? (2012) [pdf]

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/bell.pdf

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 35 comments

The World’s Largest Street-Level Imagery Dataset for Teaching Machines to See

http://blog.mapillary.com/product/2017/05/03/mapillary-vistas-dataset.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 7 comments

Predictions of massive job losses to automation miss data that show the opposite

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/10/robots-arent-destroying-enough-jobs-capital-account.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 121 comments

WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history

https://blog.comae.io/wannacry-the-largest-ransom-ware-infection-in-history-f37da8e30a58

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 76 comments

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

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

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Spot a Spook (1974)

http://cryptome.org/dirty-work/spot-spook.htm

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Sam Altman Considering Run for CA Governor

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/The-man-President-Trump-fears-most-11144034.php

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Visual Studio 2017 now fully supports Python and Django

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/python/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Programmer’s guide to homogeneous coordinates

https://hackernoon.com/programmers-guide-to-homogeneous-coordinates-73cbfd2bcc65

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

London Rent vs. London Salaries

http://johnmathews.eu/london

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 157 comments

The Man Trap

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-man-trap

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 79 comments

Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it

http://www.boredpanda.com/microsoft-paint-ebook-illustrations-camp-redblood-pat-hines/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

How do self-taught developers get jobs? (2016)

http://brianknapp.me/how-do-self-taught-developers-actually-get-jobs/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

Drowsiness detection with OpenCV

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/05/08/drowsiness-detection-opencv/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Fwaf – Machine Learning Driven Web Application Firewall

http://fsecurify.com/fwaf-machine-learning-driven-web-application-firewall/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: BOOLR, a digital logic simulator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335023

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Interfacing Fortran with OCaml

http://lambda-diode.com/software/ocaml/scientific/fortran

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 0 comments

Lessons scaling from 10 to 20 people

http://josephwalla.com/lessons-scaling-from-10-to-20-people

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments
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