top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-27

View Counting at Reddit

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

9 years ago

A Year of Google and Apple Maps

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

9 years ago

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

Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1

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

9 years ago

How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)

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

9 years ago

AlphaGo's next move

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

9 years ago

British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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

Better than Free (2008)

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

9 years ago

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

Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production?

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

9 years ago

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

Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python

https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine

9 years ago

★ 4.5k Python MIT

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

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

9 years ago

Gollvm from Google

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

9 years ago

Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database

http://www.agensgraph.com/

9 years ago

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

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

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

9 years ago

VisUAL: A highly visual ARM emulator

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

9 years ago

Libtins – High-level and multiplatform C++ network packet sniffing and crafting

http://libtins.github.io/

9 years ago

How Sharing a Bed Changed My Sleep

http://www.thedurkweb.com/how-sharing-a-bed-with-my-girlfriend-changed-my-sleep/

9 years ago

Mathematical Foundations of Computing (2015) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/notes/Mathematical%20Foundations%20of%20Computing.pdf

9 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/style/yik-yak-bullying-mary-washington.html

9 years ago

Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier

https://github.com/github/hub

9 years ago

★ 22.9k Go MIT

Doctor who fought a risky medical procedure has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/amy-reed-died-cancer-patient-who-fought-morcellation-procedure.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com&_r=1

9 years ago

GNU Smalltalk Koans

http://skim.la/gnu_smalltalk_koans/

9 years ago

Scaling Scala

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/scaling-scala

9 years ago

Exposing Python 3.6's Private Dict Version

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/05/26/exposing-private-dict-version/

9 years ago

Britain's master forger

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/27/wasnt-cock-a-hoop-fooled-experts-britains-master-art-forger

9 years ago

Show HN: Quantum Game with Photons

http://quantumgame.io/

9 years ago

Homebrew CPU Home Page (2002)

http://homebrewcpu.com/

9 years ago

Ask HN: How to stop overthinking everything in my life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428711

9 years ago