top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-05-17

A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d

9 years ago

952 upvotes – 497 comments

Chelsea Manning released from prison

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/chelsea-manning-release/index.html

9 years ago

629 upvotes – 258 comments

The Boring Company FAQ

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq

9 years ago

624 upvotes – 451 comments

Android now supports Kotlin

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/17/android-now-supports-the-kotlin-programming-language/

9 years ago

620 upvotes – 216 comments

Google.ai

https://google.ai

9 years ago

611 upvotes – 222 comments

Machine Learning

https://xkcd.com/1838/

9 years ago

546 upvotes – 128 comments

Kotlin Is Better

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-than-whatever-dumb.html

9 years ago

538 upvotes – 213 comments

A Case of Stolen Source Code

https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/

9 years ago

527 upvotes – 215 comments

JSON Feed

https://jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing_json_feed

9 years ago

486 upvotes – 215 comments

Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39943267

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 235 comments

Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/introducing-tensorflow-research-cloud.html

9 years ago

364 upvotes – 63 comments

Transform Data by Example [video]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/transform-data-by-example/

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 87 comments

Google I/O 2017

https://google.com/io

9 years ago

344 upvotes – 275 comments

Elf Hello World

http://www.cirosantilli.com/elf-hello-world/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 30 comments

An Indian village addicted to chess

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170511-the-indian-village-addicted-to-chess

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 144 comments

US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/dealbook/household-debt-united-states.html?_r=0&hn=true

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 418 comments

Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH

https://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-research-to-present-focal-surface-display-discovery-at-siggraph/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 101 comments

Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/carnegie-mellon-offers-new-masters-degree-product-management

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 135 comments

Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/chelsea-manning-is-expected-to-leave-prison-28-years-early.html

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 178 comments

Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/open-sourcing-firebase-sdks.html

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 73 comments
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