top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-02

AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31901625-New-BGW-210-700-Firmware-1-5-11

8 years ago

999 upvotes – 367 comments

I've spent the last two years building a new email client

https://ivelope.com/invite/InviteHNv0914

8 years ago

874 upvotes – 593 comments

Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-receives-the-acm-software-system-award-d433b0dfe3a2

8 years ago

714 upvotes – 133 comments

Python startup time: milliseconds matter

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-May/153296.html

8 years ago

662 upvotes – 378 comments

Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

https://proton-native.js.org/

8 years ago

575 upvotes – 283 comments

Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Open-sourcing-gVisor-a-sandboxed-container-runtime.html

8 years ago

448 upvotes – 114 comments

'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wifi-nyc-mesh-new-york-city-1.4617106

8 years ago

417 upvotes – 228 comments

Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple

https://lobe.ai

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Maps Platform

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 257 comments

Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 523 comments

Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-02/china-s-tech-industry-wants-youth-not-experience

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 230 comments

Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/tesla-earnings-q1-2018/

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 172 comments

DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product

https://www.digitalocean.com/press/releases/digitalocean-introduces-kubernetes-product/

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 96 comments

PicoLisp

https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 56 comments

Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

https://nytimes.com/2018/05/02/technology/bitcoin-goldman-sachs.html

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 279 comments

GCC 8.1 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00017.html

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 45 comments

MIT lecturer Ana Bell discusses books to learn CS and programming

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/programming-computer-science-ana-bell/

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 54 comments

Rust in production at Figma

https://blog.figma.com/rust-in-production-at-figma-e10a0ec31929

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 66 comments

Adding BigInts to V8

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/05/bigint.html

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 84 comments

Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder

https://intoli.com/blog/transcoding-on-aws-lambda/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 53 comments

I am leaving llvm

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.html

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 130 comments

Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out

http://fullbit.ca/learning-web-development-stand-out/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 96 comments

Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You

https://www.workaguide.com/blog/2018/5/1/how-to-get-your-coworker-to-agree-with-you

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 109 comments

PostgreSQL's fsync surprise

https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 80 comments

Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage

https://duo.com/blog/apple-imac-pro-and-secure-storage

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

Apple is a traditional business

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-02/i-m-sorry-i-criticized-you-apple-you-win?cmpId=flipboard

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 243 comments

My OTP 21 Highlights

http://blog.erlang.org/My-OTP-21-Highlights/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 18 comments

Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt

https://bart.degoe.de/github-pages-and-lets-encrypt/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service

https://stackshare.io/posts/how-algolia-built-their-realtime-search-as-a-service-product

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 41 comments

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-came-home

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 62 comments

Rancher 2.0 GA

https://rancher.com/blog/2018/2018-05-01-rancher-ga-announcement-sheng-liang/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 25 comments

The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889

http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-hobo-ethical-code-of-1889.html

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 62 comments

Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-vs-google-how-nonstop-political-arguments-rule-its-workplace-1525190574

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks

https://github.com/hasura/skor

8 years ago

★ 1.2kCApache-2.0
133 upvotes – 37 comments

86% of CrashCrate subscribers used passwords already leaked in other breaches

https://www.troyhunt.com/86-of-passwords-are-terrible-and-other-statistics/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 143 comments

Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-program

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 18 comments

GTA V – Graphics Study (2015)

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 16 comments

Joint 3D Face Reconstruction

https://github.com/YadiraF/PRNet

8 years ago

★ 5kPythonMIT
124 upvotes – 24 comments

New Optical Form Factors for 400 Gigabit Ethernet

http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2017/12/surveying-the-new-optical-form-factors-for-400-gigabit-ethernet.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 77 comments

XKCD on Docker

https://xkcd.com/1988/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 17 comments

Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform

https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-05-02-open-source-projects-on-travis-ci-com-with-github-apps

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

When the Compiler Bites

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/01/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Emergency room patients can face steep bills even when treatment is declined

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/1/17261488/er-expensive-medical-bill

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 236 comments

Containers

https://xkcd.com/1988/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 10 comments

H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/01/h-1b-abuse-bay-area-tech-workers-from-india-paid-a-pittance-feds-say/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 142 comments

Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/amazon-said-to-offer-retailers-discounts-to-adopt-payment-system

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

C64 RPi 3 conversion

https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=567

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Learn GraphQL by querying JSON

https://www.graphql.college/practice-graphql

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

AI revives in-memory processors

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333238

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework

https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transparency-and-Consent-Framework

8 years ago

★ 930
87 upvotes – 18 comments

Eul – The language

https://eul.im/lang

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

MrWint's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version “Arbitrary Code Execution” (2017)

http://tasvideos.org/5384S.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Findings from the Imagenet and CIFAR10 competitions

http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/30/dawnbench-fastai/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

A journey along the abandoned Karachi Circular Railway

https://placesjournal.org/article/these-studies-led-to-further-studies/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Humpback Whale Baby Boom Near Antarctica

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/science/humpback-whale-antarctica.html

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments
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