top 50% 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

Tisp: Time is space programming language

https://github.com/raviqqe/tisp

9 years ago

★ 413 Go MIT
106 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack

https://github.com/hypertrack/hypertrack-live-android

9 years ago

★ 727 Java MIT
103 upvotes – 40 comments

LZ4_8088 – Fast LZ4 decompression for the 8088/8086 CPU

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/lz4_8088

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which may hurt publishers

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/5/19/15596050/amazon-buy-box-publishing-controversy

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 107 comments

Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage

http://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year-survey-data-show-millions-of-workers-are-paid-less-than-the-minimum-wage-at-significant-cost-to-taxpayers-and-state-economies/?utm_content=buffer9befa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

How to Opt Out of Twitter's New Privacy Settings

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/how-opt-out-twitters-new-privacy-settings

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Notes from an Emergency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrLjb3k1II

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Do you keep a developer diary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14382965

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

Startup School 14: How to Think About PR – Sharon Pope

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/14

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

Language-agnostic schemas based on Haskell's type system

https://github.com/seagreen/plate

9 years ago

★ 129 Haskell
80 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple WWDC 2017 Conference Scholarship Recipient Denied Entry to the US

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/865439089117589504

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Beyond Streets and Avenues: Simple Visual Guide to Different Types of Roads

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-streets-avenues-simple-visual-guide-different-types-roads/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

AmiKit X – An emulator engine to run Amiga on Windows or Mac

https://www.amikit.amiga.sk

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments
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