top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-05-31

Fireflies

http://ncase.me/fireflies/

9 years ago

1243 upvotes – 89 comments

Kubernetes by Example

http://kubernetesbyexample.com/

9 years ago

612 upvotes – 132 comments

Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive

https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/en/?page_id=747

9 years ago

560 upvotes – 336 comments

Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530929307/ohio-sues-5-major-drug-companies-for-fueling-opioid-epidemic

9 years ago

491 upvotes – 349 comments

The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-s-has-forgotten-how-to-do-infrastructure

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 542 comments

On Conference Speaking

https://hynek.me/articles/speaking/

9 years ago

400 upvotes – 117 comments

Build an 8-Bit Computer from Scratch

https://eater.net/

9 years ago

392 upvotes – 41 comments

Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/paul-allen-showed-off-his-new-rocket-launching-plane-today-it-is-big/

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 160 comments

Going for the 5 hour workday

http://code.krister.ee/going-for-the-5-hour-workday/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 186 comments

Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/tectonic-a-complete-modernized-self-contained-tex-latex-engine/11053

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 92 comments

Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-posts-708-million-loss-as-finance-head-leaves-1496272500

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 228 comments

Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report [pdf]

http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 113 comments

Maybe Skip SHA-3

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/05/31/skipsha3.html

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 182 comments

The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/30/the-turing-tumble-lets-you-and-your-kids-build-real-mechanical-computers/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 54 comments

What Comes After SaaS?

https://hackernoon.com/what-comes-after-saas-1f71ec40de45

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 92 comments

Career Monogamy: The Awkward Tech Sin of Longevity

https://nemhouse.com/career-monogamy-the-awkward-tech-sin-of-longevity-59ac7fe8de47

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 57 comments

GitHub Major Service Outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452011

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 81 comments

Compiler Optimizations are Awesome

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1515

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 149 comments

Self-Interruption and Distraction

http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/are-you-a-self_interrupter

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 34 comments

All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11482/amd-cpu-updates-threadripper-64-pcie-lanes-epyc-june-20th

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 139 comments

DNS Infrastructure at GitHub

https://githubengineering.com/dns-infrastructure-at-github/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 21 comments

A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints

http://www.tylerlhobbs.com/writings/watercolor

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 7 comments

Interleaving and varying your study location are good learning strategies (2012)

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/everything-about-learning/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 26 comments

Older Adults Learning Programming: Motivations and Frustrations

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/217281-older-adults-learning-computer-programming-motivations-frustrations-and-design-opportunities/fulltext

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452969

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108659

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 150 comments

Brave raises $35M in 1 min with ICO

https://twitter.com/BrettShear/status/869932977492459520

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 128 comments

Skylake now GA on GCE

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Compute-Engine-updates-bring-Skylake-GA-Extended-Memory-and-more-VM-flexibility.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 63 comments

Inside the quietest place on Earth

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170526-inside-the-quietest-place-on-earth

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood

http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

The Exquisitely English (and Lucrative) World of London Clerks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-23/the-exquisitely-english-and-amazingly-lucrative-world-of-london-clerks

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Europeana Collections, a Portal of 48M Free Artworks, Books, Videos, Artifacts

http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/europeana-collections-a-portal-of-48796394-artworks-books-videos.html

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 8 comments

Liquid fun (2014)

http://google.github.io/liquidfun/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Qt 5.9 LTS released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/31/qt-5-9-released

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

At Amazon’s Bookstore, No Coffee but All the Data You Can Drink

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/opinion/sunday/at-amazons-bookstore-no-coffee-but-all-the-data-you-can-drink.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 82 comments

Yuji Oshimoto: Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4+ or Explorer 4+

http://www.04.jp.org/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Unprotected AWS S3 Bucket

http://gizmodo.com/top-defense-contractor-left-sensitive-pentagon-files-on-1795669632

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Real-Time Music Visualization on the iPhone GPU

https://deezer.io/real-time-music-visualization-on-the-iphone-gpu-579d631272d3

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

How many replacement characters?

https://hsivonen.fi/broken-utf-8/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

RISC-V Pros and Cons

http://semiengineering.com/risc-v-pros-cons/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Goldman Buys $2.8B Worth of Venezuelan Bonds, and an Uproar Begins

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/business/dealbook/goldman-buys-2-8-billion-worth-of-venezuelan-bonds-and-an-uproar-begins.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 109 comments

With chemical tweaks, an old antibiotic is now more potent and resistant

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/killer-antibiotic-now-25000x-more-potent-and-resistant-to-drug-resistance/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Don't use deep learning when your data isn't that big

https://simplystatistics.org/2017/05/31/deeplearning-vs-leekasso/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

The New York Times Is Eliminating Its Public Editor Role

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-times-public-editor_us_592ec472e4b0e95ac1956706

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 106 comments

Technology is making the world more unequal; only technology can fix this

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/31/technology-is-making-the-world-more-unequal-only-technology-can-fix-this-cory-doctorow

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

The Race to 10/7nm

https://semiengineering.com/racing-to-107nm/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

English is weirdly different from other languages

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 115 comments

The Plot to Steal Soviet Planetary Data

http://astronomy.com/bonus/secret

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-31/apple-said-to-ready-siri-speaker-in-bid-to-rival-google-amazon

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 164 comments

Going underground: the Moscow metro

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/going-underground-the-moscow-metro

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

NSQ – A realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale

https://github.com/nsqio/nsq

9 years ago

★ 25.7kGoMIT
70 upvotes – 55 comments
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