top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-18

Let them paste passwords

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords

9 years ago

694 upvotes – 365 comments

One Step Closer to a Closed Internet

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/05/18/one-step-closer-closed-internet/

9 years ago

542 upvotes – 215 comments

PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1749/

9 years ago

507 upvotes – 166 comments

Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page

https://slashcrypto.org/2017/05/17/5k_Error_Page/

9 years ago

486 upvotes – 135 comments

Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/kotlin/

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 233 comments

Swift is like Kotlin

http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 329 comments

Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366070

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 513 comments

Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1369_en.htm

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 168 comments

America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-17/america-s-cars-are-all-fast-and-furious-these-days?cmpid=BBD051717_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170517&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 515 comments

Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 78 comments

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video]

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-731/

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 105 comments

Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-18/the-barbarians-are-at-etsy-s-hand-hewn-responsibly-sourced-gates

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 226 comments

Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces

https://segment.com/blog/spotting-a-million-dollars-in-your-aws-account/

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 74 comments

Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week

https://www.amazon.com/charts

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 108 comments

The FCC voted to start the process of eliminating net neutrality rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/net-neutrality-goes-down-in-flames-as-fcc-votes-to-kill-title-ii-rules/

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 82 comments

Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/05/18/microsoft-deliver-microsoft-cloud-datacenters-africa/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 110 comments

Why Harvard Business School Is Under Fire

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/05/economist-explains-8

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 108 comments

Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silicon-valley-on-hbo-ed-mcmanus/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 109 comments

Startup School 13: How to Find Product Market Fit – Peter Reinhardt [video]

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/13

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 18 comments

Flang – A Fortran compiler targeting LLVM

https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang

9 years ago

★ 853 C
176 upvotes – 103 comments

Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

https://www.getboost.io/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 109 comments

Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets (2014)

http://license.umn.edu/technologies/20120016_iron-nitride-permanent-magnet-alternative-to-rare-earth-and-neodymium-magnets

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 124 comments

Biology needs more staff scientists

http://www.nature.com/news/biology-needs-more-staff-scientists-1.21991

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 101 comments

Nasa’s Van Allen Probes Find Human-Made Bubble Shrouding Earth

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nasa-space-weather-earth-cocoon-van-allen?utm_source=mbtwitter

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

Writing a Lisp: Continuations

http://reinvanderwoerd.nl/blog/2017/05/16/writing-a-lisp-continuations

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 85 comments

Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available

https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-ci-now-available

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 63 comments

Android to launch TensorFlow Lite for mobile machine learning

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/17/android-launches-tensorflow-lite-for-mobile-machine-learning/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

Lockheed Knee-Stress Relief Device

http://breakingdefense.com/2017/05/k-srd-exoskeleton-gives-overburdened-troops-a-leg-up-literally/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

To Become a Better Investor, Think Like Darwin

http://nautil.us/blog/to-become-a-better-investor-think-like-darwin

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Zomato security breach: 17M email addresses and hashed passwords leaked

http://blog.zomato.com/post/160791675411/security-notice

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 67 comments

Fidget Spinners: Why Being Interesting Can Do More for You Than Being Useful

https://betterthansure.com/the-ecommerce-of-fidget-spinners-why-being-interesting-can-do-more-for-your-brand-than-being-f059dbb8c17b

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 143 comments

Syria from Space

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/syria_from_space_english

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm

http://baesystemsai.blogspot.com/2017/05/wanacrypt0r-ransomworm.html

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 65 comments

BBC Says It May Contact Your Boss If You Post Comments It Finds Problematic

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170517/15232937397/bbc-says-it-may-contact-your-boss-if-you-post-comments-it-finds-problematic.shtml

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 95 comments

Launchpad: JSFiddle for GraphQL servers

https://launchpad.graphql.com/new

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 5 comments

Hey Startups, It’s Your Duty to Fight for Net Neutrality

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/hey-startups-duty-fight-net-neutrality/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-factory-workers-detail-grueling-conditions-fremont-2017-5

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

Using GraphQL to manage open source repositories

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/05/16/using-graphql-to-manage-open-source-repositories/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

What Does the Met’s New Online Collection Mean for Art Students?

https://medium.com/@wendymac/what-does-the-mets-new-online-collection-mean-for-art-students-5d957b09aaf8#.89safkn7b

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Kotlin support in Spring Framework 5.0

https://spring.io/blog/2017/01/04/introducing-kotlin-support-in-spring-framework-5-0

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

Disclosure of a Major Bug in CryptoNote Based Currencies

https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments
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