top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-19

Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39973864

9 years ago

538 upvotes – 375 comments

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

9 years ago

464 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375014

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 376 comments

Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+

https://github.com/spacejam/tla-rust

9 years ago

★ 1k TLA
374 upvotes – 94 comments

WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP

https://github.com/aguinet/wannakey

9 years ago

★ 1k C++ GPL-3.0
317 upvotes – 90 comments

Let's Encrypt is down

https://letsencrypt.status.io/?170519

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 160 comments

Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime

http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/19/Adding-a-new-Bytecode-Instruction-to-the-CLR/

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 28 comments

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

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 225 comments

Bootsnap: Optimizing Ruby App Boot Time

https://engineering.shopify.com/235340559-bootsnap-optimizing-ruby-app-boot-time

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 74 comments

Hacker News Readers as Progressive Web Apps

https://hnpwa.com/

9 years ago

275 upvotes – 70 comments

P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/p-programming-language-asynchrony/

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 40 comments

Introducing zetcd

https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-zetcd

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 34 comments

Let employees work from home

http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2017/05/employers-let-people-work-home/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 220 comments

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

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 139 comments

Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/theresa-may-wants-to-regulate-the-internet

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 179 comments

The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017

https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go-may.slide#1

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 154 comments

What's New in Create React App

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/05/18/whats-new-in-create-react-app.html

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 114 comments

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/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 148 comments

Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection

http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 145 comments

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

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 161 comments

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

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 143 comments

Learning to break ciphers

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/so-you-want-to-learn-to-break-ciphers/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 8 comments

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

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 27 comments

Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser

http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/05/19/scastie.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 33 comments

Hauberk – A web-based roguelike written in Dart

https://github.com/munificent/hauberk

9 years ago

★ 2.1k Dart
165 upvotes – 32 comments

New paint colors invented by neural network

http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

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

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 35 comments

The Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dwiggins-lost-typefaces

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 25 comments

Kotlin is the hero Android needs

https://10clouds.com/blog/kotlin-android/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 167 comments

Making a Neural Synthesizer Instrument

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-instrument

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/may/3-d-printed-ovaries-offspring/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 51 comments

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

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

JVM Anatomy Park – 11: Moving GC and Locality

https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/11-moving-gc-locality/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

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/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Haret: A strongly consistent distributed coordination system implemented in Rust

https://github.com/vmware/haret

9 years ago

★ 460 Rust
128 upvotes – 8 comments

SketchRNN model released in Magenta

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/sketch_rnn

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 10 comments

OxyContin's 12-hour problem (2016)

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 86 comments

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

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App

https://githubengineering.com/how-four-native-developers-wrote-an-electron-app/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 172 comments

AAC Licensors

http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

The Heroin Business Is Booming in America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-11/the-heroin-business-is-booming-in-america

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 184 comments

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

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 70 comments

Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram

https://telegram.org/blog/video-messages-and-telescope

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

How army rations helped change food

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170515-how-army-rations-helped-change-food

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Interactively explore different map projections

http://mjmdavis.com/showing/2017/05/16/how-to-read-maps.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

Get Started with Kotlin on Android

https://developer.android.com/kotlin/get-started.html

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 15 comments

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

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

How RNA formed at the origins of life

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-rna-life.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 1 comments

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

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 142 comments

Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-more-powerful-dumping-yahoo.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

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/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

How Etsy Ships Apps

https://codeascraft.com/2017/05/15/how-etsy-ships-apps/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 7 comments

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

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 116 comments

Ask HN: Which websites do you visit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14378536

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14373868

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 134 comments

Twilio Sued by Authy (YC W12) Founder Over Merger Compensation

https://www.bna.com/twilio-sued-authy-n73014451236/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments
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