top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-24

The largest Git repo

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/

9 years ago

1053 upvotes – 402 comments

Little Things I Like to Do with Git

https://csswizardry.com/2017/05/little-things-i-like-to-do-with-git/

9 years ago

656 upvotes – 103 comments

NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years

http://circa.com/politics/barack-obamas-team-secretly-disclosed-years-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans

9 years ago

474 upvotes – 209 comments

Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/23/hacked-in-translation/

9 years ago

467 upvotes – 224 comments

Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices

https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/istio/

9 years ago

443 upvotes – 116 comments

Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-ads-tracking-20170523-story.html

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 243 comments

Workspaces for Mac 1.0

http://www.apptorium.com/workspaces

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 140 comments

What was Syria like before the war

https://searchingforsyria.org/en/what-was-syria-like-before-the-war/

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 204 comments

Readable Clojure

http://tonsky.me/blog/readable-clojure/

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

https://notational.co/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo

https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 108 comments

Kkrieger – A 96KB first person shooter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 75 comments

SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-24/softbank-said-to-take-4-billion-stake-in-u-s-chipmaker-nvidia

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 142 comments

Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (2008) [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/wowcs08.pdf

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 30 comments

China Can’t Sustain Its Debt-Fueled Binge, Moody’s Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/business/moodys-downgrades-china-economy-debt.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170524&nl=dealbook&nl_art=5&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 253 comments

Grenade: Deep Learning in Haskell

https://github.com/HuwCampbell/grenade

9 years ago

★ 1.4k Haskell BSD-2-Clause
199 upvotes – 27 comments

I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month?

https://wtfismyengineertalkingabout.com/2017/03/11/i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 121 comments

Imzy is shutting down

https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/imzy_is_shutting_down

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 247 comments

Bringing back the Somali shilling

https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 162 comments

What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies

http://observer.com/2017/05/apple-facebook-google-amazon-secrets-dream-job/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 217 comments

Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of web applications

http://lea.verou.me/2017/05/introducing-mavo-create-web-apps-entirely-by-writing-html/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 43 comments

Cloak and dagger – a new kind of attacks for Android

http://cloak-and-dagger.org/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 52 comments

If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native

https://hackernoon.com/if-it-werent-for-apple-hybrid-app-development-would-be-the-clear-winner-over-native-ae64fa37ad48

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 283 comments

The Nature of Code (2012)

http://natureofcode.com/book/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 16 comments

When the Patient Is a Gold Mine: The Trouble with Rare-Disease Drugs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-24/when-the-patient-is-a-gold-mine-the-trouble-with-rare-disease-drugs

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 102 comments

Official Keybase extension for Chrome

https://keybase.io/docs/extension

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

https://www.browseemall.com/Blog/index.php/2017/05/23/creating-a-cross-plattform-net-ui-application/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 49 comments

Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store

https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-for-ios-back-on-the-app-store

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/business/google-deepmind-alphago-go-champion-defeat.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 132 comments

Faster Command Line Tools in D

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/24/faster-command-line-tools-in-d/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Choosing font combinations with deep learning

https://github.com/Jack000/fontjoy

9 years ago

★ 1.4k MIT
121 upvotes – 18 comments

The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/the-a-eon-amiga-x5000-reviewed-the-beloved-amiga-meets-2017/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 63 comments

MicroPython running “bare metal” in the browser via unicorn.js

https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3402

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Samba 3.5.0+ vulnerability: Remote code execution from a writable share

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-7494.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: C to Go Assembly

https://github.com/minio/c2goasm

9 years ago

★ 1.3k Go Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 11 comments

New release of Self programming language

https://blog.selflanguage.org/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

Istio: A robust service mesh for microservices

https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 1 comments

The Challenge of Flying Below Sea Level

http://www.avgeekery.com/challenge-flying-sea-level/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments

Ksonnet: Simplify working with Kubernetes configurations

https://blog.heptio.com/ksonnet-intro-43f6183a97a6

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Biboumi – An XMPP-to-IRC gateway

https://biboumi.louiz.org/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Mapping 50 Years of Melting Ice in Glacier National Park

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/24/climate/mapping-50-years-of-ice-loss-in-glacier-national-park.html

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments
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