top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-14

John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories

https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825593223&id=100006735798590

8 years ago

1075 upvotes – 366 comments

EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME

https://efail.de/

8 years ago

718 upvotes – 288 comments

I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/05/i-dont-know-how-to-waste-time-on-the-internet-anymore.html

8 years ago

451 upvotes – 328 comments

Docker is a dangerous gamble

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/docker-is-a-dangerous-gamble-which-we-will-regret

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 247 comments

Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067144

8 years ago

404 upvotes – 78 comments

How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code

http://troubles.md/posts/the-power-of-compilers/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 60 comments

Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-easymesh

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 83 comments

A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 255 comments

Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix

https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/enter-the-matrix/

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 95 comments

Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/14/australian-regulator-investigates-google-data-harvesting-from-android-phones

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 187 comments

Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to its creator Ron Gilbert

https://www.change.org/p/disney-please-sell-the-rights-to-monkey-island-back-to-its-creator-ron-gilbert

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 105 comments

Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI

8 years ago

254 upvotes – 76 comments

Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

https://deepmind.com/blog/prefrontal-cortex-meta-reinforcement-learning-system/

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 29 comments

Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 200 comments

Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/jails-are-replacing-in-person-visits-with-video-calling-services-theyre-awful/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 267 comments

Full Guide to Developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

https://blog.sourcerer.io/full-guide-to-developing-rest-apis-with-aws-api-gateway-and-aws-lambda-d254729d6992

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R

http://tylermw.com/throwing-shade/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 47 comments

Gödel and the unreality of time

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/05/godel-and-unreality-of-time.html

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 129 comments

Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 190 comments

Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney

http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/j-r-r-tolkien-expressed-a-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.html

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 168 comments

Learning to See in the Dark

http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~cchen156/SID.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 34 comments

An Analysis of vgo

https://sdboyer.io/vgo/intro/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 68 comments

Is Prefix of String in Table? a Journey into SIMD String Processing

http://trent.me/is-prefix-of-string-in-table/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: I built an open source event-management system

https://github.com/iyanuashiri/meethub

8 years ago

★ 461 JavaScript MIT
175 upvotes – 31 comments

What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates

https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/what-tech-recruiters-want-from-engineering-candidates

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 205 comments

Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2361-tromelin-island-castaways

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle long-running workflows at your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064730

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini robot in 2019

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/11/boston-dynamics-will-start-selling-its-dog-like-spotmini-robot-in-2019/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 162 comments

US Supreme Court strikes down federal law prohibiting sports gambling

http://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/23501236/supreme-court-strikes-federal-law-prohibiting-sports-gambling

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 156 comments

Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm

https://www.ft.com/content/faccc538-56f9-11e8-bdb7-f6677d2e1ce8

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 58 comments

US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 23 comments

Rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with techno-utopian ideologies

https://longreads.com/2018/02/15/blockchain-just-isnt-as-radical-as-you-want-it-to-be/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 111 comments

Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3738031,00.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 192 comments

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 113 comments

Tesla CEO Musk Says Company Is Flattening Management Structure in Reorganization

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-ceo-musk-says-company-is-flattening-management-structure-inreorganization-1526308678

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 109 comments

A free XMPP server powered by green energy and hosted in Germany

https://trashserver.net/en/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 55 comments

Traditional TV Is in Trouble

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/media/television-advertising.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 135 comments

Responses to strftime and %G

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/05/13/dates/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

AquilaOS: Posix Compliant/mostly ISA Transparent Operating System

http://aquilaos.com/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API changes for data streams

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/favstar-twitter/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 62 comments

The Morris Worm source code in C – decompiled version

https://github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm

8 years ago

★ 659 C
81 upvotes – 10 comments
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