top 50% 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

★ 4.4k C GPL-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

Ask HN: How liquid is Bitcoin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398091

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 103 comments

Updating Logitech Hardware on Linux

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2017/05/22/updating-logitech-hardware-on-linux/

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 21 comments

UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health

https://qz.com/988765/instagram-fb-is-the-most-harmful-social-network-for-your-mental-health-but-youtube-goog-has-a-positive-effect-a-new-report-says/

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 93 comments

Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016)

https://gist.github.com/ryanflorence/8a62abea562ca2896dee

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 126 comments

How a CEO with Dyslexia and ADHD Runs His Company

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-ceo-with-dyslexia-and-adhd-runs-his-company-1494952535

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 94 comments

Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug

https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/arq-5-8-5-for-mac-fixes-a-bad-bug/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

Hardbin: secure encrypted pastebin

https://hardbin.com

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/22/529550254/at-the-dawn-of-recorded-sound-no-one-cared

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

AWS Training and Certification Portal

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-training-and-certification-portal/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

How jeans conquered the world (2012)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17101768

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 147 comments

A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically

https://github.com/chaosbot/chaos

9 years ago

★ 2.4k Python MIT
125 upvotes – 48 comments

Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/worst-nightmare-europes-last-primeval-forest-brink-collapse-logging

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

AlphaGo wins game 1

https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/866909712305995776

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 1 comments

Jamboard is now available

https://blog.google/products/g-suite/lets-jam-jamboard-now-available/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 71 comments

James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Services

https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/05/23/james-gosling-father-java-joins-amazon-web-services/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 110 comments

Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/zuckerberg-backed-data-trove-exposes-injustices-criminal-justice/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.13.0-released.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Old-fashioned malls are beating Amazon in small-town America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-only-mall-for-miles/2017/05/19/0571e478-39aa-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.d054face50e1

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 81 comments

At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/at-google-an-employee-run-email-list-tracks-harassment-and-bias-complaints

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 216 comments

Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure at Khan Academy

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/memcached-fms.htm

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jason-katz-wikileaks

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure

http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/swachh-bharat-mission-heading-failure

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

Sir Roger Moore, James Bond actor, dies aged 89

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40018422

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

Predicting Hacker News article success with neural networks and TensorFlow

https://intoli.com/blog/hacker-news-title-tool/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Sand and gravel mining “greatly exceeds natural renewal rates”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-running-out-of-sand

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

HLearn: A Machine Learning Library for Haskell (2013) [pdf]

https://izbicki.me/public/papers/tfp2013-hlearn-a-machine-learning-library-for-haskell.pdf

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401057

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 82 comments

Ford Was Unprepared for Investor Revolt and C.E.O. Change

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/business/dealbook/ford-was-unprepared-for-investor-revolt-and-ceo-change.html?emc=edit_dk_20170523&nl=dealbook&nlid=65508833&ref=dealbook&te=1&referer=

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: What is the most common security mistake you see?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401825

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

How to build your own particle detector (2015)

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/how-to-build-your-own-particle-detector

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Sketching with Math and Quasi Physics

https://kynd.github.io/p5sketches/index.html

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments
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