top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-11

Google YOLO clickjacking

https://blog.innerht.ml/google-yolo/

8 years ago

1304 upvotes – 229 comments

Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/pyre-fast-type-checking-for-python/2048520695388071/

8 years ago

640 upvotes – 516 comments

Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home

https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/a-2-year-stanford-study-shows-astonishing-productivity-boost-of-working-from-home.html

8 years ago

583 upvotes – 295 comments

Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045790

8 years ago

513 upvotes – 374 comments

Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%

https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia-reduced-grid-service-cost/

8 years ago

441 upvotes – 134 comments

Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225

8 years ago

434 upvotes – 49 comments

Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement

https://www.gwern.net/Complement#2

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 148 comments

Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60

https://www.morbo.org/2018/05/linux-sandboxing-improvements-in_10.html

8 years ago

401 upvotes – 76 comments

The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s

https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 230 comments

Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047736

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 160 comments

Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence

https://github.com/olistic/warriorjs

8 years ago

★ 9.5kTypeScriptMIT
293 upvotes – 52 comments

Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions

https://asciinema.org

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 60 comments

FCC fines robocaller record $120M

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/10/fcc-slaps-robocaller-with-record-120m-fine-but-its-like-emptying-the-ocean-with-a-teaspoon/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

https://github.com/j4p3/strimpack

8 years ago

★ 370MIT
249 upvotes – 53 comments

On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-winners-keep-winning-4e7f221f5b84

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 137 comments

Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?

http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 238 comments

The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2016-ICSE-ProgEvol/html/SLK16.pdf

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 124 comments

Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always)

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/05/09/mozilla-fights-for-net-neutrality-this-may-and-always/

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 175 comments

CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning

https://www.eecs189.org/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 22 comments

The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story

http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 81 comments

All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election

https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/russian-ads/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 122 comments

The Bloom Programming Language

http://bloom-lang.net/index.html

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 28 comments

Münchhausen trilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 77 comments

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 36 comments

Nerves v1.0 Released

https://embedded-elixir.com/post/2018-05-03-nerves-v1.0.0/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 7 comments

$1M to build decentralized social networks

https://www.requestforsocialnetworks.com/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 129 comments

Rare wooden escalators lead down into a staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-annas-tunnel

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's DUNE

https://www.gwern.net/dune#genetics-and-eugenics-in-frank-herberts-dune

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)

https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2016/11/haskells-missing-concurrency-basics

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

Sononym: Machine Learning Sample Organizer for Musicians

https://www.sononym.net/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/11/youtube-rolls-out-new-tools-to-help-you-stop-watching/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 129 comments

Rick Toone, Luthier

http://ricktoone.com/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

The Sound of Madness

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/the-sound-of-madness/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

System76 and LVFS

http://blog.system76.com/post/173801677358/system76-and-lvfs-what-really-happened

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

Is capitalism a threat to democracy?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 216 comments

Emacs for Writers (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Math problems that challenge the world

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-toughest-math-problems-that-challenge-the-world-1805.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: What’s helpes you build a successful SaaS business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048621

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Klout shutting down

https://twitter.com/ssxio/status/994656459895001090

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/11/17344318/facebook-cryptocurrency-token-blockchain-report-david-marcus

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments
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