top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-30

SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/15-1189

9 years ago

884 upvotes – 303 comments

Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webassembly.html

9 years ago

655 upvotes – 343 comments

How to Improve a Legacy Codebase

http://jacquesmattheij.com/improving-a-legacy-codebase

9 years ago

653 upvotes – 293 comments

Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/technology/uber-anthony-levandowski.html?_r=0

9 years ago

611 upvotes – 280 comments

Node v8.0.0 Released

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.0.0/

9 years ago

531 upvotes – 177 comments

Tad, a tabular data viewer

http://tadviewer.com/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 111 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)

http://blog.notdot.net/2009/12/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Log-structured-storage

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 34 comments

Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

https://www.essential.com/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 241 comments

Someone forged my resignation letter

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91643/someone-forged-my-resignation-letter

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 156 comments

Mossberg Final Column: The Disappearing Computer

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/25/15689094/mossberg-final-column

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 61 comments

Trickle-down workaholism in startups

https://m.signalvnoise.com/trickle-down-workaholism-in-startups-a90ceac76426

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 58 comments

Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex-bringing-18core-hcc-silicon-to-consumers-for-1999

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 221 comments

Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthquake disaster [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwQSCStRaw

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

https://buildmyvocab.in/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 88 comments

Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests

http://www.industryweek.com/energy/electric-cars-soon-will-cost-less-gasoline-autos-research-shows

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 317 comments

As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/us/computer-science-cheating.html

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 293 comments

Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or side projects

http://upstart.me/?ups

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 56 comments

Early Linux filesystem reliability

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/009935.html

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446516

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 123 comments

My Portfolio

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 39 comments

Mosaic: processing a trillion-edge graph on a single machine

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/30/mosaic-processing-a-trillion-edge-graph-on-a-single-machine/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 11 comments

Imperative Haskell

http://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2017/05/29/imperative-haskell/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 69 comments

Anti-AI AI: A device that notifies the wearer when a synthetic voice is detected

https://rnd.dt.com.au/anti-ai-ai-a-wearable-ai-device-244900e4d71c

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments

MySQL 8.0: Retiring Support for the Query Cache

http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-retiring-support-for-the-query-cache/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 83 comments

Golden Carrots

https://medium.com/@mpesce/golden-carrots-1b496d032f21

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

The woman who could 'draw' music

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: What job did you leave IT for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14444075

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 105 comments

Counting Clojure Code

http://aaroniba.net/counting-clojure-code

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

Crack in CRISPR Facade After Unanticipated in Vivo Mutations Arise

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/crack-in-crispr-fa-ade-after-unanticipated-in-vivo-mutations-arise/81254419?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=GEN+Daily+News+Highlights&utm_content=02&utm_campaign=GEN+Daily+News+Highlights_20170530

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 63 comments

The browser bugs and edge cases of HTTP/2 push

https://jakearchibald.com/2017/h2-push-tougher-than-i-thought/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

Nile.js – A Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming Library built on WebTorrent

https://hackernoon.com/introducing-nile-js-81d83a31cfe3

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/30/yandexs-on-demand-taxi-service-debuts-its-self-driving-car-project/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies

https://www.mpg.de/11317890/genome-ancient-egyptian-mummies

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Programming with Escher

https://mapio.github.io/programming-with-escher/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

https://anyroom.io

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

Scandalous Weird Old Things About The C Preprocessor (2015)

http://blog.robertelder.org/7-weird-old-things-about-the-c-preprocessor/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Pokémon Go Is Shadow Banning Cheaters

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/pokemon-go-cheaters-shadowban/?mbid=synd_digg

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 98 comments

Notes on debugging Clojure code

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/notes-on-debugging-clojure-code/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

How to read more: Simple three-step system

https://deanyeong.com/read-more-books/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Annotated Algorithms in Python

https://github.com/mdipierro/nlib

9 years ago

★ 1.3k Python
90 upvotes – 2 comments

India’s Bad Debt Is Looking Better to Investors

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/business/dealbook/indias-bad-debt-is-looking-better-to-investors.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

Interprocedural optimization in GCC

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/05/interprocedural-optimization-in-gcc.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

Mutable vals in Kotlin

http://blog.danlew.net/2017/05/30/mutable-vals-in-kotlin/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Pinecone – Build your own genetically-encoded tools

https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

WannaCry Sinkhole, Two Weeks and 16M Averted Ransoms Later

https://blog.kryptoslogic.com/malware/2017/05/29/two-weeks-later.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Moving forward at PhoneGap

https://blog.phonegap.com/moving-forward-6b583dcd007

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 61 comments

Will Robots Take My Job?

https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 52 comments

The printing of titles on book spines

http://cognitionandculture.net/blog/dans-blog/tilting-tilted-titling

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments
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