538
375
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39973864
9 years ago
464
199
42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic
http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-the-42-inch-yacht-still-hoping-to-become-the-smallest-boat-ever-to-cross-the-atlantic-107559
461
376
Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375014
374
94
Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+
https://github.com/spacejam/tla-rust
★ 1kTLA–9 years ago
317
90
WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP
https://github.com/aguinet/wannakey
★ 1kC++GPL-3.0–9 years ago
312
160
Let's Encrypt is down
https://letsencrypt.status.io/?170519
287
28
Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime
http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/19/Adding-a-new-Bytecode-Instruction-to-the-CLR/
225
Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/americans-are-paying-38-to-collect-1-of-student-debt?cmpid=BBD051917_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170519&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
285
74
Bootsnap: Optimizing Ruby App Boot Time
https://engineering.shopify.com/235340559-bootsnap-optimizing-ruby-app-boot-time
275
70
Hacker News Readers as Progressive Web Apps
https://hnpwa.com/
266
40
P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/p-programming-language-asynchrony/
264
34
Introducing zetcd
https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-zetcd
261
220
Let employees work from home
http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2017/05/employers-let-people-work-home/
255
139
How we invented new ways to teach Japanese
http://making.duolingo.com/how-we-invented-a-new-way-to-teach-one-of-the-most-difficult-languages-to-learn
241
179
Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/theresa-may-wants-to-regulate-the-internet
231
154
The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017
https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go-may.slide#1
228
114
What's New in Create React App
https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/05/18/whats-new-in-create-react-app.html
202
148
Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind
http://www.jonobacon.com/2017/05/18/google-home-insight-4-year-olds-mind/
200
145
Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection
http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/
184
161
U.S. Startups Fail to Attract Expected Crowd of Small Investors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/u-s-startups-fail-to-attract-expected-crowd-of-small-investors
183
143
So You Want to Write Your Own Language (2014)
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-language/240165488
180
8
Learning to break ciphers
https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/so-you-want-to-learn-to-break-ciphers/
174
27
An open-source web platform for the new President of France
https://symfony.com/blog/an-open-source-web-platform-for-the-new-president-of-france
170
33
Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/05/19/scastie.html
165
32
Hauberk – A web-based roguelike written in Dart
https://github.com/munificent/hauberk
★ 2.1kDart–9 years ago
54
New paint colors invented by neural network
http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network
159
35
Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers
155
25
The Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dwiggins-lost-typefaces
150
167
Kotlin is the hero Android needs
https://10clouds.com/blog/kotlin-android/
147
44
Making a Neural Synthesizer Instrument
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-instrument
140
51
3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/may/3-d-printed-ovaries-offspring/
An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling
https://blog.remix.com/an-intro-to-integer-programming-for-engineers-simplified-bus-scheduling-bd3d64895e92
138
JVM Anatomy Park – 11: Moving GC and Locality
https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/11-moving-gc-locality/
130
111
Flight QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4659526/the-untold-story-of-qf72-what-happens-when-psycho-automation-leaves-pilots-powerless/
128
Haret: A strongly consistent distributed coordination system implemented in Rust
https://github.com/vmware/haret
★ 460Rust–9 years ago
124
10
SketchRNN model released in Magenta
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/sketch_rnn
86
OxyContin's 12-hour problem (2016)
http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
120
66
Fiat Chrysler to Modify 100K Vehicles After Accusations of Emissions Cheating
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/energy-environment/fiat-chrysler-diesel-emissions.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170519&nl=dealbook&nl_art=7&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0
119
172
How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
https://githubengineering.com/how-four-native-developers-wrote-an-electron-app/
116
46
AAC Licensors
http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html
115
The Heroin Business Is Booming in America
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-11/the-heroin-business-is-booming-in-america
Uber to engineer: Return stolen docs, or swear you didn't steal them
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Uber-to-engineer-Return-stolen-docs-or-swear-11158980.php
113
65
Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram
https://telegram.org/blog/video-messages-and-telescope
59
How army rations helped change food
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170515-how-army-rations-helped-change-food
109
12
Show HN: Interactively explore different map projections
http://mjmdavis.com/showing/2017/05/16/how-to-read-maps.html
99
15
Get Started with Kotlin on Android
https://developer.android.com/kotlin/get-started.html
96
Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts
1
How RNA formed at the origins of life
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-rna-life.html
91
142
Unemployment in the U.S. Is Falling, So Why Isn’t Pay Rising?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/unemployment-in-the-u-s-is-falling-so-why-isn-t-pay-rising
7
Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-more-powerful-dumping-yahoo.html
89
55
First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It
https://fuchsiatalks.com/2017/05/19/first-rule-google-fuchsia-os-not-talk/
87
How Etsy Ships Apps
https://codeascraft.com/2017/05/15/how-etsy-ships-apps/
The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf]
https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/security-center/white-papers/increased-use-of-powershell-in-attacks-16-en.pdf
84
61
Ask HN: Which websites do you visit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14378536
83
134
Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14373868
81
23
Twilio Sued by Authy (YC W12) Founder Over Merger Compensation
https://www.bna.com/twilio-sued-authy-n73014451236/
Unemployment in the U.S. Is Falling, So Why Isn’t Pay Rising?
