top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-16

My Family’s Slave

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/?single_page=true

9 years ago

1419 upvotes – 606 comments

Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

https://maruos.com/#/

9 years ago

652 upvotes – 251 comments

“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story

https://marco.org/2017/05/15/mp3-isnt-dead

9 years ago

650 upvotes – 290 comments

Not Hotdog App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521?mt=8

9 years ago

621 upvotes – 131 comments

Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

https://slackhq.com/screen-sharing-comes-to-slack-video-calls-cd9afe732014

9 years ago

566 upvotes – 171 comments

Web Developer Security Checklist

https://simplesecurity.sensedeep.com/web-developer-security-checklist-f2e4f43c9c56

9 years ago

548 upvotes – 244 comments

Robots that learn

https://blog.openai.com/robots-that-learn/

9 years ago

481 upvotes – 96 comments

Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End

https://www.graph.cool/

9 years ago

413 upvotes – 118 comments

DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign

https://trust.docusign.com/en-us/personal-safeguards/

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 137 comments

A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 429 comments

Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

http://blog.atom.io/2017/05/16/git-and-github-integration-comes-to-atom.html

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 106 comments

U.S. Senate staff can now use Signal

http://www.zdnet.com/article/in-encryption-push-senate-approves-signal-for-encrypted-messaging/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 85 comments

Cloud Spanner is now production-ready

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Cloud-Spanner-is-now-production-ready-let-the-migrations-begin.html

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 151 comments

Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/business/hyundai-south-korea-whistle-blower-recall.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_dk_20170516&nl=dealbook&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 100 comments

A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab

https://lwn.net/Articles/722870/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 202 comments

Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228348

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 123 comments

Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive

https://jix.one/pushing-polygons-on-the-mega-drive/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 45 comments

Tips for Building High-Quality Django Apps at Scale

https://blog.doordash.com/tips-for-building-high-quality-django-apps-at-scale-a5a25917b2b5

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 120 comments

AMD Unveils “EPYC” CPUs Featuring Up to 32 Cores and 64 Threads for the Datacenter

http://wccftech.com/amd-unveils-epyc-cpus-32-cores-64-threads-datacenter/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 107 comments

Sending Jobs Overseas

http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/sending-jobs-overseas/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 159 comments

How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0&feature=youtu.be

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 63 comments

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)

http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/40-000-year-old-bracelet-from-extinct-human-species-discovered/article/432798

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 63 comments

Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly

http://whatusersdo.com/blog/make-websites-age-friendly/

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 114 comments

SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite

http://www.space.com/36852-spacex-launches-inmarsat-5-f4-satellite.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 95 comments

Working at Netflix 2017

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-16/working-at-netflix-2017.html

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 153 comments

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/?single_page=true

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 169 comments

William Gibson’s Never-Filmed Aliens Sequel

http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/william-gibsons-never-filmed-alien-iii-script-a-history.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 88 comments

Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/rich-retirees-are-hoarding-cash-out-of-fear?cmpid=BBD051617_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170516&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 306 comments

Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics

https://aeon.co/essays/what-plato-knew-about-behavioural-economics-a-lot

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-scientists-evidence-habitable-region-saturn.html

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

Nvidia Is Building Its Own TensorFlow Processor Unit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2017/05/15/why-nvidia-is-building-its-own-tpu/#45aef903347f

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

https://dotdev.co/voten-public-beta/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 210 comments

Open Science Framework: A scholarly commons to connect the entire research cycle

https://osf.io/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

Ardour 5.9 released

https://community.ardour.org/node/14850

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is returning to the company

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/twitter-co-founder-biz-stone-is-returning-to-the-company/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

HPE unveils The Machine, a single-memory computer with 160 terabytes of memory

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/16/hp-enterprise-unveils-single-memory-160-terabyte-computer-the-machine/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 55 comments

SHRDLU (1971)

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

One month with React Native

https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/one-month-with-react-native/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Uber board director and CTO under pressure in sexual harassment investigation

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/16/15616024/uber-sexual-harassment-work-hostility-investigation-executive-turnover

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Tor Browser 7.0a4 is released

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70a4-released

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security

http://news.wisc.edu/internet-atlas-maps-the-physical-internet-to-enhance-security/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Lisp 1.5 Primer (1967) [pdf]

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/Weismann_LISP1.5_Primer_1967.pdf

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

1.9M Bell customer email addresses stolen by 'anonymous hacker'

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/bell-data-breach-customer-names-phone-numbers-emails-leak-1.4116608

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

The Sinking of HMS ‘Victoria’ Led the Royal Navy Astray

http://warisboring.com/the-sinking-of-hms-victoria-led-the-royal-navy-astray/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

https://openreview.net/forum?id=r1Ue8Hcxg&noteId=r1Ue8Hcxg

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments
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