top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-15

AI Playbook

http://aiplaybook.a16z.com/

9 years ago

Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/technology/lyft-waymo-self-driving-cars.html

9 years ago

Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13089/why-do-so-many-textbooks-have-so-much-technical-detail-and-so-little-enlightenme

9 years ago

Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi

https://thesizzle.com.au/blog/get-dell-optiplex-fx160-instead-raspberry-pi/

9 years ago

Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ attack

http://bgr.com/2017/05/15/wannacry-ransomware-apple-ios-tim-cook/

9 years ago

Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/15/doxing-hero-stopped-wannacry-irresponsible-dumb/

9 years ago

Why Amazon is eating the world

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/

9 years ago

Two years of Rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/15/rust-at-two-years.html

9 years ago

The Dark Side of Doctoring

https://ericlevi.com/2017/05/13/the-dark-side-of-doctoring/

9 years ago

Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries

https://github.com/kshvmdn/fsql

9 years ago

★ 3.9k Go MIT

Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update

https://www.troyhunt.com/dont-tell-people-to-turn-off-windows-update-just-dont/

9 years ago

Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cage-director-faces-jail-over-refusal-disclose-password-during-airport-interrogation-681177289

9 years ago

Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262514293_Creative_Commons_Edition.pdf

9 years ago

What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-self-learn-programming-before-Stack-Overflow?share=1

9 years ago

Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

https://blog.openai.com/roboschool/

9 years ago

An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/abridged-cartoon-introduction-webassembly/#

9 years ago

Osquery

https://osquery.io/

9 years ago

HTTP security headers

https://blog.appcanary.com/2017/http-security-headers.html

9 years ago

Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/judge-orders-uber-not-to-use-technology-taken-from-waymo/

9 years ago

Nearly 1 in 3 drugs have a significant safety issue after FDA approval

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-drugs-safety-20170509-story.html

9 years ago

Dangerous Skyscrapers Channel Wind and Sun, Topple Pedestrians and Start Fires

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dangerous-skyscrapers-channel-wind-sun-topple-pedestrians-start-fires/

9 years ago

The iPad Mystery

https://mondaynote.com/the-ipad-mystery-54efb0a7c224

9 years ago

Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters

https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z4sbqvckkdgq4w9?pf_rd_p=79452266-7a91-43dc-8636-64371e9eb082&pf_rd_r=X2S7QHBXMCC2PV463WFJ

9 years ago

Eliminating the Human

http://davidbyrne.com/journal/eliminating-the-human

9 years ago

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem?s=MH

9 years ago

WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine

https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/863359375787925505

9 years ago

AMD 16-Core ThreadRipper Enthusiast CPUs to Reportedly Utilize 4094 Pin Socket

http://hothardware.com/news/amd-16-core-threadripper-cpus-to-utilize-4094-pin-socket

9 years ago

Show HN: Nginx Sysguard – throttle requests by load, average request time, etc.

https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-sysguard/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 571 C BSD-2-Clause

Access codes for United cockpit doors accidentally posted online

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/access-codes-for-united-cockpit-doors-accidentally-posted-online/

9 years ago

China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomware Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/business/china-ransomware-wannacry-hacking.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_dk_20170515&nl=dealbook&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1

9 years ago

String.intern()

https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/10-string-intern/

9 years ago

UploadVR sued over ‘rampant’ sexual behavior in workplace, wrongful termination

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/uploadvr-sued-over-rampant-sexual-behavior-in-the-workplace-and-wrongful-termination/

9 years ago

Next.js 3.0 Preview: Static Exports and Dynamic Imports

https://zeit.co/blog/next3-preview

9 years ago

Google Cloud Prediction API End of Life

https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs/end-of-life-faq

9 years ago

Intel’s Mark Bohr on the push into multi-chip solutions and issues at 5nm/7nm

https://semiengineering.com/intel-inside-the-package/

9 years ago

Launching Ignition and TurboFan

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-and-turbofan.html

9 years ago

US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-government-fears-a-monday-explosion-of-the-ransomw-1795208518

9 years ago

Ask HN: Has the HN entry about Sam Altman running for office just been removed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342474

9 years ago