top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-05-23

1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/05/18/introducing-travel-mode-protect-your-data-when-crossing-borders/

9 years ago

1004 upvotes – 521 comments

Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/

9 years ago

775 upvotes – 473 comments

Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8

http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2017/iriden

9 years ago

674 upvotes – 159 comments

Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

9 years ago

598 upvotes – 352 comments

New Surface Pro

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-pro/overview

9 years ago

405 upvotes – 598 comments

The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet

https://blockstack.org/blog/introducing-the-blockstack-browser-a-gateway-to-a-new-decentralized-internet

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 159 comments

Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/science/52-genes-human-intelligence.html?mabReward=CTM4&recp=6&_r=0

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 352 comments

The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo

https://events.google.com/alphago2017/

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 281 comments

I’ve become worse at programming

http://fascinatedbox.blogspot.com/2017/05/ive-become-worse-not-better-at.html

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/uber-said-it-shortchanged-nyc-drivers-will-pay-out-millions

9 years ago

342 upvotes – 225 comments

Who Owns England?

http://map.whoownsengland.org/

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 237 comments

Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

9 years ago

★ 4.4kCGPL-2.0
325 upvotes – 40 comments

Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015)

http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398868

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 177 comments

22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/22yearold-lidar-whiz-claims-breakthrough

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 151 comments

Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/history-of-business-casual/526014/?single_page=true

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 473 comments

Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers

https://quiz.triplebyte.com/

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 228 comments

Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

https://www.phys.org/news/2017-05-scientists-million-year-old-pre-human-balkans.html

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 111 comments

Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies

https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrencies/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 166 comments

Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-17/why-did-a-chinese-peroxide-company-pay-1-billion-for-a-talking-cat

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 81 comments
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