top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-08

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

8 years ago

1875 upvotes – 750 comments

You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/you-can-now-run-linux-apps-on-chrome-os/

8 years ago

585 upvotes – 321 comments

iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2018/05/ios-11-4-to-disable-usb-port-after-7-days-what-it-means-for-mobile-forensics/

8 years ago

544 upvotes – 370 comments

Android P

https://www.blog.google/products/android/android-p/

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 306 comments

How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2018/05/08/mapbox-maps-developers/#79431e78164d

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 111 comments

Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 193 comments

A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)

https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 50 comments

Fonts for Complex Data

https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data

8 years ago

323 upvotes – 63 comments

Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login

https://www.yubico.com/2018/04/yubico-and-microsoft-introduce-passwordless-login/

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 211 comments

Amazon’s Fake Review Economy

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 122 comments

A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-recycled-ip-address-caused-me-to-pirate-390000-books-by-accident

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 98 comments

Amazon Froze My Account and I Still Don’t Know Why

https://bardsandsages.com/juliedawson/2018/05/06/amazon-froze-my-account-and-i-still-dont-know-why/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 125 comments

Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

https://wellbeing.google/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 110 comments

Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/subject-write-emails-faster-smart-compose-gmail

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 190 comments

Mozilla Global Sprint 2018

https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/milestone/1

8 years ago

★ 154CSSMIT
214 upvotes – 44 comments

I was a corporate restaurant consultant

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/bjp9xv/how-chain-restaurant-menus-get-made

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 213 comments

Google’s ML Kit makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/googles-ml-kit-makes-it-easy-to-add-ai-smart-to-ios-and-android-apps/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 23 comments

Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support

https://dev.office.com/blogs/azure-machine-learning-javascript-custom-functions-and-power-bi-custom-visuals-further-expand-developers-capabilities-with-excel

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17023693

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 123 comments

The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games

https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 20 comments

Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers [pdf]

http://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/files/MCL/Zvonkin.pdf

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startups from hiring remote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17021655

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 135 comments

The world split into 7 equal areas of population

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/993772391200411648

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 71 comments

Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts

http://blog.mass.gov/masslawlib/legal-history/the-law-against-lying-and-false-news-in-colonial-massachusetts/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 202 comments

Mindfulness may have been over-hyped

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180502-does-mindfulness-really-improve-our-health

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 207 comments

How to Find Investors and Get Email Intros

https://www.atrium.co/blog/how-to-find-meet-investors/

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 39 comments

Everything old is new again: Microservices

https://blogs.dxc.technology/2018/05/08/everything-old-is-new-again-microservices/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 139 comments

CSE 392 – Programming Challenges (2012)

http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/392/

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 10 comments

Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/technology/bitcoin-new-york-stock-exchange.html

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 120 comments

Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/google-announces-a-new-generation-for-its-tpu-machine-learning-hardware/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 114 comments

Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 174 comments

Dynimize: Speed Up MySQL with CPU Performance Virtualization

https://dynimize.com/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/000119312518154706/d583804dex991.htm

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-duplex-will-call-salons-restaurants-and-pretend-to-be-human-for-you/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 98 comments

Google I/O 2018 codelabs

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/io2018

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 11 comments

The Ulam Spiral of Primes (2010)

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/06/22/the-surprises-never-eend-the-u/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 88 comments

LispKit: framework for Lisp-based extension/scripting languages for macOS apps

https://github.com/objecthub/swift-lispkit#swift-lispkit

8 years ago

★ 423SchemeApache-2.0
99 upvotes – 30 comments

Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2002)

http://www.isreview.org/issues/24/anarchists_spain.shtml

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Stewart Brand Changed the World, Twice

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Jackal – XMPP server in Go

https://github.com/ortuman/jackal/releases/tag/0.2.0

8 years ago

★ 1.4kGoApache-2.0
91 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: What keeps you going?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17024023

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

Building a Progressive Web App in React, using Firestore for offline support

https://blog.truthlabs.com/building-a-progressive-web-app-in-react-11c77a7fccb3

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17020564

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Introducing Google AI

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-ai.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Publishing JSON-LD for Developers

https://datalanguage.com/news/publishing-json-ld-for-developers

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments
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