top 50% 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

Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs

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

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 73 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

Ask HN: How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357379

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 158 comments

Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14358120

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool

https://3dc.io/app/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 71 comments

ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 84 comments

Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

http://mavo.io/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

Apache Allura — Open source project hosting platform

http://allura.apache.org/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/further-hardening-glibc-malloc-against.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)

https://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song/louie-louie-the-song/view

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 142 comments

Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/pink-slips-galore-wipro-infosys-tech-mahindra-cognizant-cut-india-jobs-117051100156_1.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/17/ibm-quantum-q-experience-qubits-most-powerful-processor-yet/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

Nim Programming Language v0.17.0 released

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/05/17/version-0170-released.html?source=hn

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 42 comments

How the wrong cat litter took down a nuclear waste repository

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i20/wrong-cat-litter-took-down.html?h=-472621416

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go

https://github.com/lovoo/goka

9 years ago

★ 2.5kGoBSD-3-Clause
105 upvotes – 10 comments

UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting

http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/April/05152017Ren-Water-Catalyst.php

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 100 comments

Self-Hosted “SQL-Not-required” Data Analytics and BI Tool. Inspired by Looker

https://github.com/mariusandra/insights

9 years ago

★ 1.1kJavaScriptMIT
102 upvotes – 23 comments

Android O Beta Program

https://www.google.com/android/beta

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple has started production of iPhone SE in India

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/17/iphone-made-in-india-2/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

FastMail lifetime member plans to be discontinued

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?p=599512

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

Psychopathy: A new clinical approach offers hope

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution

https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-now-available/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Anchor Physics Simulator in JavaScript

http://pjama.github.io/projects/anchor-physics/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break into Mar-A-Lago

https://www.propublica.org/article/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

UK Police Charge Activist for Refusing to Hand Over Passwords

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uk-police-charge-activist-under-terrorism-law-for-refusing-to-hand-over-passwords

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments
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