top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-21

Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386394

9 years ago

699 upvotes – 270 comments

Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

https://twitter.com/m8urnett/status/866353982217699328

9 years ago

467 upvotes – 255 comments

Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin

https://backchannel.com/the-language-that-stole-android-developers-hearts-807fdbf07c2a

9 years ago

347 upvotes – 218 comments

A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 microprocessor

http://monster6502.com/

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 44 comments

We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 133 comments

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2016)

https://blog.bufferapp.com/people-dont-buy-products-they-buy-better-versions-of-themselves

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 92 comments

TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

9 years ago

★ 2.9k Rust MIT
281 upvotes – 116 comments

A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

https://blogs.microsoft.com/transform/feature/my-god-its-better-emma-can-write-again-thanks-to-a-prototype-watch-raising-hope-for-parkinsons-disease/?utm_source=microsoft_internal&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=buildfeature_may2017&utm_term=build&https://blogs_microsoft_com/transform/feature/a-force-of-nature-ros-harvey-uses-tech-for-an-internet-of-oysters-sustainable-farming-and-better-working-conditions#sm.00001bp03yrty6eofuduw6bwr4ub4

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 101 comments

Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 168 comments

Ask HN: What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386607

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 155 comments

Q – Initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computers

https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 63 comments

Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Baby-boomers-are-making-it-harder-for-millennials-11162394.php

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 137 comments

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/?set=607909

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 163 comments

A way to make water potable using carbon dioxide

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21722159-lets-hear-it-diffusiophoresis-way-make-water-potable-using-carbon-dioxide

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 38 comments

Nasa revives 'weird life forms' trapped inside crystals for 60,000 years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/newly-discovered-weird-life-forms-may-offer-clue-life-mars/

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 68 comments

300 miles of secret UK cycle paths have been discovered [audio]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052zgp6

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 70 comments

New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools, whilst WannaCry Used Just Two

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-smb-worm-uses-seven-nsa-hacking-tools-wannacry-used-just-two/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 59 comments

On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twildenh/PowerPointTM/Paper.pdf

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 16 comments

Git Town – A high-level command line interface for Git

http://www.git-town.com/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 85 comments

Topics in Core Mathematics at Graterford Prison

http://blogs.ams.org/phdplus/2017/05/18/topics-in-core-mathematics-at-graterford-prison/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 71 comments

The Quants Run Wall Street Now

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-quants-run-wall-street-now-1495389108

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 155 comments

How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/how-the-beatles-wrote-a-day-in-the-life/527001/?single_page=true

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

JavaScript Concurrency Model and Event Loop

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

PyCon 2017 – Talk videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg/feed

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 17 comments

Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for-gopher

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/05/17/the-washington-post-is-the-first-national-news-publisher-to-debut-a-reddit-profile-page/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 138 comments

Windows 7, not XP, was the reason WCry spread so widely

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/windows-7-not-xp-was-the-reason-last-weeks-wcry-worm-spread-so-widely/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 96 comments

Microsoft’s New Patent Identifies Pirated Content: Flags Repeat Offenders

https://anonymster.com/microsofts-new-patent-identifies-pirated-content-flags-repeat-offenders/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 104 comments

How Powerful Are Microsoft Azure’s Free Jupyter Notebooks?

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=6351

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Inside Facebook's plan to eat another $350B IT market

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-facebooks-telecom-infrastructure-project-2017-5

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebook-internal-rulebook-sex-terrorism-violence

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 84 comments

The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (2010) [pdf]

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1457&context=articles

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: How do you close your side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14385251

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory DBMS

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jarulraj/pages/sigmod_2017_tutorial.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

The Ruby Module Builder Pattern

http://dejimata.com/2017/5/20/the-ruby-module-builder-pattern

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Why UX Design for Machine Learning Matters

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90124399/why-ux-design-for-machine-learning-matters

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Nightline Interview with Steve Jobs (1981) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-Y-D3-j-M

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

CUDA and CuBLAS GPU Matrices in Clojure

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/CUDA-and-cuBLAS-GPU-matrices-in-Clojure

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments

Scala: Consider syntax with significant indentation

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/2491

9 years ago

★ 6.2k Scala Apache-2.0
84 upvotes – 56 comments

GE’s new turbofan engine is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/ge-turbofan-huge-jet-engine/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev

https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/6bu3k6/made_a_phoenix_webapp_as_a_veteran_rails_dev/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments
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