top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-05-20

Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/

9 years ago

969 upvotes – 462 comments

Engineering management lessons (2014)

http://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html

9 years ago

517 upvotes – 109 comments

Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulated by government

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html?amp

9 years ago

347 upvotes – 211 comments

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 245 comments

Design principle: IKEA effect

https://uxplanet.org/design-principle-ikea-effect-2d908b2de81

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 90 comments

The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D

http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2017/05/the-making-of-freeciv-webgl-3d/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 27 comments

Postgres performance analysis resulted in a 10x improvement in CPU use

https://blog.heapanalytics.com/basic-performance-analysis-saved-us-millions/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 22 comments

A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter

http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/the-physicist-who-denies-dark-matter

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 171 comments

Asm-Dom – WebAssembly Virtual DOM

https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom

9 years ago

★ 2.8k C++
158 upvotes – 51 comments

‘The Wire’ – Game Day

https://theundefeated.com/features/the-wire-oral-history-game-day/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 97 comments

Vulkan and OpenCL will merge into a single API

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/105895-vulkan-opencl-will-merge-single-api

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 54 comments

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (2011)

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 5 comments

NIST advises services to not require that passwords be changed periodically

http://www.ibtimes.com/my-password-secure-nist-advises-against-periodically-changing-passwords-2541293

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 64 comments

Coinlist

http://avc.com/2017/05/funding-friday-coinlist/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

Writing a lexer in Go with Lexmachine (2016)

http://hackthology.com/writing-a-lexer-in-go-with-lexmachine.html

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 3 comments

When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flight Dining

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/19/528508054/photos-when-the-hindenburg-was-the-height-of-luxe-in-flight-dining

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 93 comments

Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/05/17/concurrent-gc-news/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/polygon-center/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US

http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

https://github.com/janten/keypad-layout

9 years ago

★ 485 Objective-C MIT
109 upvotes – 36 comments
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