top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-15

Completely Silent Computer

https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer/

8 years ago

1087 upvotes – 489 comments

Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)

https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/

8 years ago

529 upvotes – 92 comments

Shell Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml

8 years ago

467 upvotes – 319 comments

HTTP headers we don't want

https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want

8 years ago

451 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075261

8 years ago

441 upvotes – 154 comments

I Got Catfished by a Candidate

https://www.saastr.com/catfished-by-a-candidate/

8 years ago

414 upvotes – 634 comments

NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO

https://www.wikitribune.com/story/2018/04/20/business/exclusive-nsa-encryption-plan-for-internet-of-things-rejected-by-international-body/67004/

8 years ago

405 upvotes – 195 comments

Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)

http://setosa.io/ev/eigenvectors-and-eigenvalues/

8 years ago

369 upvotes – 86 comments

Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers

https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/14/memory-transfer-between-snails-challenges-standard-theory/

8 years ago

364 upvotes – 124 comments

State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models

http://nlp.fast.ai/classification/2018/05/15/introducting-ulmfit.html

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 51 comments

Tom Wolfe Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-87.html

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 112 comments

A CLI game to learn Vim

https://www.ostechnix.com/pacvim-a-cli-game-to-learn-vim-commands/

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 52 comments

Rust at CloudFlare

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERVTXZbYBMZf-9Zk3YsWw2oV14C5j0i1PsVgGywSsAI/mobilepresent?slide=id.g244c4c34_09

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 55 comments

Introducing Surface Hub 2

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub-2?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=nOD/rLJHOac&ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-1V1lpEzo5_X6JfKOdhtdnw&tduid=(7a84a49de6e2bd145c26ef7d5726ab90)(256380)(2459594)(nOD_rLJHOac-1V1lpEzo5_X6JfKOdhtdnw)()

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 121 comments

Has wine gone bad?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/15/has-wine-gone-bad-organic-biodynamic-natural-wine

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 418 comments

Chess boxing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 110 comments

No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities

https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 27 comments

Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation

https://github.com/huangyz0918/Hackintosh-Installer-University

8 years ago

★ 4k Rich Text Format
191 upvotes – 215 comments

Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 184 comments

The Language of the Roman Empire

https://www.historytoday.com/katherine-mcdonald/language-roman-empire

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 114 comments

Uber Eliminates Forced Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/technology/uber-sex-misconduct.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 171 comments

GPU-equipped Ryzen Pros give AMD what it needs to conquer the corporate desktop

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/gpu-equipped-ryzen-pros-give-amd-what-it-needs-to-conquer-the-corporate-desktop/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Any recommended resources to learn market analysis?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17073937

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 36 comments

Airbnb's new typeface

https://airbnb.design/introducing-airbnb-cereal/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 169 comments

Coinbase releases professional trading platform for institutional clients

https://prime.coinbase.com

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 92 comments

DOSbox-CRT

https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dosbox-crt

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 81 comments

Firefox can now stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2018/05/15/firefox-can-now-stop-instagram-and-facebook-from-tracking-you-online/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 74 comments

WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2018/2018-04-18-whois-blackout-period-likely-starting-in-may

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 156 comments

A dozen Google employees quit over military drone project

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-employees-resign-in-protest-of-googlepentagon-drone-program/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 65 comments

Archive of Operating Systems

https://archiveos.org

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

A world hidden 30m below Budapest

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20180514-a-hidden-world-30m-below-budapest

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 8 comments

Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (1992) [pdf]

http://cache.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/M68000PM.pdf

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 99 comments

OpenAI Research

https://openai.com/research/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44089161

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/GCP-opens-a-third-zone-in-the-Singapore-region.html

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Great Employees Quit – Instead of Admitting They're Unhappy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2018/05/14/why-great-employees-quit-instead-of-admitting-theyre-unhappy

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Abundant water likely to exist under ‘moon rabbit,’ Japanese research team says

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/15/national/science-health/abundant-water-highly-likely-exist-moon-rabbit-japanese-research-team-says/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Rust turns three

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/05/15/Rust-turns-three.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Guide to Data Classes in Python 3.7

https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4M user Facebook data set for years

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/anyone-could-download-cambridge-researchers-4-million-user-facebook-dataset-for-years/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge

https://www.cybok.org/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests

https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04956

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks in Model 3 production

https://electrek.co/2018/05/13/tesla-hackathon-robots-model-3-production/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

The Moat Map

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-moat-map/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

On 5th anniversary of Snowden leak, Michigan effectively bans the NSA

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/on-5th-anniversary-of-snowden-leak-michigan-effectively-bans-the-nsa

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Signal-desktop HTML tag injection advisory

https://ivan.barreraoro.com.ar/signal-desktop-html-tag-injection/advisory/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

DSLs for Ethereum Contracts

https://www.michaelburge.us/2018/05/15/ethereum-chess-engine.html

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models

https://www.playsmartplaysafe.com/resource/finite-element-models/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 146 comments
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