top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-26

Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works

https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/

9 years ago

564 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39947942

9 years ago

506 upvotes – 287 comments

PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/

9 years ago

468 upvotes – 205 comments

How to Report a Bug to Microsoft

http://www.schveiguy.com/blog/2017/05/how-to-report-a-bug-to-microsoft/

9 years ago

403 upvotes – 115 comments

Video Analysis of Erdogan's security detail brawl in Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/26/us/turkey-protesters-attack-video-analysis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 98 comments

Writing a Fast JSON Parser

https://chadaustin.me/2017/05/writing-a-really-really-fast-json-parser/

9 years ago

316 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/apple-said-to-plan-dedicated-chip-to-power-ai-on-devices

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 116 comments

NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/in-a-throwback-to-the-90s-ntfs-bug-lets-anyone-hang-or-crash-windows-7-8-1/

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 98 comments

Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++

https://twitter.com/eric01/status/867473461836263424

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 170 comments

Npm v5.0.0 released

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/161081169345/v500

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 114 comments

How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/how-to-build-your-own-vpn-if-youre-rightfully-wary-of-commercial-options/

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 108 comments

It's Never Too Early to Fire

https://a16z.com/2017/05/24/on-firing-why-when-how/

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 179 comments

AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up to DDR4-4000

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11447/amd-announces-ryzen-agesa-1006-update

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 79 comments

Declassified memos show FBI illegally shared spy data with private parties

http://circa.com/politics/declassified-memos-show-fbi-illegally-shared-spy-data-on-americans-with-private-parties

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 56 comments

UIDebuggingInformationOverlay

http://ryanipete.com/blog/ios/swift/objective-c/uidebugginginformationoverlay/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 24 comments

Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/13/teachers-neuromyth-learning-styles-scientists-neuroscience-education

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 136 comments

Lyft adds a new app for drivers

http://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-adds-scheduled-rides-new-app-for-drivers-2017-5

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 103 comments

Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates Invest Too

http://fortune.com/2017/05/26/reid-hoffman-change-org/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 97 comments

802.eleventy what? Why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/03/why-wi-fi-sucks-802-11/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 52 comments

Sprig is shutting down

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/on-demand-food-startup-sprig-is-shutting-down-today/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison

https://www.tesla.com/compare?redirect=no

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 266 comments

Jacque Fresco has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/jacque-fresco-futurist-who-envisioned-a-society-without-money-dies-at-101.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 110 comments

Sublime Text 3 Build 3132 released

https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 103 comments

How Dirty COW works from the Linux kernel’s perspective

https://chao-tic.github.io/blog/2017/05/24/dirty-cow

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments

Comcast taking action against Comcastroturf.com for trademark infringement

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6cvg82/comcast_is_trying_to_censor_our_pronet_neutrality/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

https://revolution.kunbus.com/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 73 comments

Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release

https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-jessie-announce-052517

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction

http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-right-to-attention-in-age-of.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 49 comments

Google’s AlphaGo AI defeats team of five leading Go players

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/googles-alphago-ai-defeats-team-of-five-leading-go-players/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

One year at Y Combinator Research

http://elevr.com/1-year-at-ycr/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Lost Joys of the Screen Saver

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/23/salvation-mode/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

‘Carbon Dating’ the Internet Archive with OpenTimestamps

https://petertodd.org/2017/carbon-dating-the-internet-archive-with-opentimestamps

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Imperative Functional Programs That Explain Their Work

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5436

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Using city permits to map Sonic.net fiber

https://github.com/ThatDan/sonic_fiber

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

Performance notes

https://traintimes.org.uk/notes/performance

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

“Markets Today Are Not What We Believe” – The Façade of Competition

https://promarket.org/big-data-competition/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 93 comments

Safety incidents at Tesla plant were higher than industry average in 2015

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-workplace-safety-20170524-story.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 106 comments

People killed by terrorism per year in western Europe 1970-2015

http://www.datagraver.com/case/people-killed-by-terrorism-per-year-in-western-europe-1970-2015

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 77 comments

PC DOS 1.0, but Not Quite

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-dos-1-0-but-not-quite/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/shakespeares-genius-is-nonsense-rp

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Whales, the largest animals on Earth, got so big

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-whale-evolution-20170523-story.html

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

https://www.retropatents.com

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

I took my family on the run for 19 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39849458

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

Tilt is shutting down

https://blog.tilt.com/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

Chipotle Reports Findings from Investigation of Payment Card Security Incident

https://www.chipotle.com/security

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 71 comments

68000 Tricks and Traps – Some assembly language programming guidelines (1986)

http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/doc/trick68k.htm

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

When doctors can't afford to feel

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/30/when-doctors-can-t-afford-to-feel

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

The C# compiler and ‘Lowering’

http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/25/Lowering-in-the-C-Compiler/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Value_ptr – The Missing C++ Smart-pointer

https://hackernoon.com/value-ptr-the-missing-c-smart-pointer-1f515664153e

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

Mental math pseudo-random number generators (2011)

http://blog.yunwilliamyu.net/2011/08/14/mindhack-mental-math-pseudo-random-number-generators/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

What's new in gnuplot 5.2

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/723818/dbaaa9093072d800/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments
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