top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-25

Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)

https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/1922-why-i-quit-being-so-accommodating/

9 years ago

866 upvotes – 316 comments

MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud

https://mediagoblin.org

9 years ago

610 upvotes – 160 comments

Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417758

9 years ago

565 upvotes – 479 comments

Chrome Won

https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/

9 years ago

466 upvotes – 560 comments

Enough with the microservices

https://aadrake.com/posts/2017-05-20-enough-with-the-microservices.html

9 years ago

408 upvotes – 216 comments

Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

https://github.com/ory/editor?branch=master

9 years ago

★ 9.5k TypeScript MIT
369 upvotes – 98 comments

Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot

https://github.com/tonybeltramelli/pix2code

9 years ago

★ 12k Python Apache-2.0
290 upvotes – 66 comments

Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/dead-people-are-posting-anti-net-neutrality-comments-to-the-fcc-website

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 74 comments

Twilio Functions – Public Beta

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/05/introducing-twilio-functions.html

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 86 comments

How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2016/12/18/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest/

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 128 comments

Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?

https://lambdaisland.com/blog/25-05-2017-simple-and-happy-is-clojure-dying-and-what-has-ruby-got-to-do-with-it

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 247 comments

DevOps is a culture, not a role

https://dev.jlelse.eu/devops-is-a-culture-not-a-role-be1bed149b0

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 136 comments

Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning

https://github.com/datproject/docs/blob/master/papers/dat-paper.md

9 years ago

★ 528 JavaScript
229 upvotes – 39 comments

OpenAI Baselines

https://blog.openai.com/openai-baselines-dqn/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 36 comments

Let's Encrypt OCSP and Issuance Outage Postmortem

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/may-19-2017-ocsp-and-issuance-outage-postmortem/34922

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 34 comments

GM accused of installing devices in diesel trucks to beat emissions tests

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-defeat-device-emissions-1.4131104

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 164 comments

Distributed Consensus – How Shared Data Is Stored

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/how-your-data-is-stored-or-the-laws-of-the-imaginary-greeks-54c569c17a49

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 8 comments

45000 years ago in Ethiopia humans built a paint workshop; used it for millennia

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/for-4500-years-stone-age-humans-returned-to-this-mysterious-cave/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 40 comments

Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell

http://ghostintheshellphilosophy.info

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 61 comments

New Zealand space launch is first from a private site

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39971843

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 54 comments

ActivityPub: a federated social web standard

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 54 comments

Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/the-perth-dog-thats-probably-smarter-than-you/news-story/a4de0d201ce420e0302c69532a399419

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 35 comments

How Social Media is Built for Addiction

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-secret-ways-social-media-is-built-for-addiction

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 105 comments

What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

http://www.optimizationtoday.com/social-media/what-i-learned-when-facebook-disabled-my-account/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 131 comments

AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/25/15689462/alphago-ke-jie-game-2-result-google-deepmind-china

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

Optimizing React Rendering

https://flexport.engineering/optimizing-react-rendering-part-1-9634469dca02

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 77 comments

Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-25/kik-messenger-app-debuts-own-digital-currency-amid-bitcoin-boom

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 117 comments

Qt Creator 4.3.0 released

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/24/qt-creator-4-3-0-released/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: µTT – A new faster MQTT broker

https://github.com/uNetworking/uTT

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What is your most impressive hackathon project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416878

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 86 comments

A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia–Molodezhi

http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tekinkia-molodezhi-russian-sci-fi-barbican-into-the-unknown-160517

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 118 comments

A New Digital Archive of 2.2M Images from Photography's First 100 Years

http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/visit-a-new-digital-archive-of-2-2-million-images-from-the-first-hundred-years-of-photography.html

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 6 comments

Scientists Crack a 50-Year-Old Mystery About the Measles Vaccine

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/07/404963436/scientists-crack-a-50-year-old-mystery-about-the-measles-vaccine

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Flamingos Are More Stable on One Leg Than Two

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/flamingos-one-leg/527781/?single_page=true

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth

http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

How Raygun increased throughput 20x with .NET Core over Node.js

https://raygun.com/blog/increased-throughput-net-core/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

Opera’s founder calls for a ban on tracking on Facebook and Google

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/jon-von-tetzchner-opera-facebook-google

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

Ammonite: Scala Scripting

http://www.lihaoyi.com/Ammonite/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

What does “my other car is a cdr” mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864795/what-does-my-other-car-is-a-cdr-mean

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

Judge orders Uber to hand over to Waymo unredacted term sheet with Otto

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/25/judge-orders-uber-to-hand-over-unredacted-term-sheet-with-otto-to-waymo/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Reagent: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript

https://reagent-project.github.io

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

OpenCrypto: Unchaining the JavaCard Ecosystem

https://dan.enigmabridge.com/black-hat-2017-usa-opencrypto-unchaining-the-javacard-ecosystem/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

The Botmakers Who Rule the Obsessive World of Streetware

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/using-bots-to-buy-supreme-limited-edition-streetwear/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

The Best Thing That Can Happen to Electric Cars Is What Happened to 1990s PCs

http://jalopnik.com/the-best-thing-that-can-happen-to-electric-cars-is-what-1795506063

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 104 comments

A hole in Finland is being prepared to contain radioactive waste for 100k years

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/olkiluoto-island-finland-nuclear-waste-onkalo

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 86 comments

Databases from finite categories

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5435

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/welcome-to-the-intertidal-zone-mapping-australias-coast-with-landsat/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Feds probing psychiatric hospitals for locking in patients to boost profits

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/top-us-psychiatric-hospital-chain-investigated-for-keeping-patients-too-long/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 86 comments
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