top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-05-27

View Counting at Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2017/05/24/view-counting-at-reddit/

9 years ago

489 upvotes – 112 comments

A Year of Google and Apple Maps

https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps

9 years ago

449 upvotes – 118 comments

Too many prisons make people worse

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21722654-world-can-learn-how-norway-treats-its-offenders-too-many-prisons-make-bad-people

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 238 comments

Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1

http://johnmathews.eu/blockchain-introduction.html

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 36 comments

How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)

https://brohrer.github.io/how_bayesian_inference_works.html

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 47 comments

AlphaGo's next move

https://deepmind.com/blog/alphagos-next-move/

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 172 comments

British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 246 comments

What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080324-00/?p=23033

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 89 comments

Our understanding of the way the body handles salt may be wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effects.html?mc=adintl&mcid=keywee&subid=pay&subid1=nordicEU&ad-keywords=auddevgate&kwp_0=413855&kwp_4=1523157&kwp_1=662103

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 86 comments

Better than Free (2008)

http://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 52 comments

Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/26/google-gender-discrimination-case-salary-records

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 192 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14431315

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 82 comments

Jupiter surprises scientists in Juno’s first flybys

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-juno-jupiter-surprises-20170525-story.html

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 20 comments

Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python

https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine

9 years ago

★ 4.5kPythonMIT
170 upvotes – 38 comments

Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (2012)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312355/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 136 comments

Gollvm from Google

https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database

http://www.agensgraph.com/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Cryptocurrency Bubble

http://continuations.com/post/161091248805/some-lessons-i-learned-from-the-dotcom-bubble-for

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 89 comments

Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2017/05/26/aadhaar-isnt-progress/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 223 comments

VisUAL: A highly visual ARM emulator

https://salmanarif.bitbucket.io/visual/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments
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