top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-05-16

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

1630 upvotes – 625 comments

Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/16/17357592/net-neutrality-senate-vote-cra-reinstate-fcc-rules

8 years ago

754 upvotes – 228 comments

Too Clever by Half

http://epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/

8 years ago

704 upvotes – 244 comments

What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M

https://blog.ghost.org/5/

8 years ago

645 upvotes – 173 comments

How a domain registrar can kill your business

https://www.uptimechecker.io/blog/how-domain-registrar-can-kill-your-business

8 years ago

633 upvotes – 274 comments

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3220266

8 years ago

572 upvotes – 50 comments

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html

8 years ago

558 upvotes – 426 comments

Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5

http://demo.curious-expedition.com

8 years ago

458 upvotes – 141 comments

The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html

8 years ago

447 upvotes – 241 comments

HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

https://www.howeycoins.com/index.html

8 years ago

419 upvotes – 130 comments

A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers

https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git

8 years ago

★ 8.1kJavaScriptMIT
381 upvotes – 190 comments

The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day

https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/996736533511266304

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 189 comments

AI and Compute

https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/?

8 years ago

347 upvotes – 130 comments

JavaScript is Good, Actually

https://ashfurrow.com/blog/javascript-is-good-actually/

8 years ago

345 upvotes – 358 comments

Tarballs, the ultimate container image format

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 191 comments

Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law

https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/stories/2018/5/051618/

8 years ago

318 upvotes – 155 comments

Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper

8 years ago

★ 748JavaScriptMIT
273 upvotes – 208 comments

Statistics, Fast and Slow

http://timharford.com/2018/05/statistics-fast-and-slow/

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081900

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 71 comments

ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95

https://github.com/Baddaboo/ClassicKit

8 years ago

★ 2.1kSwift
236 upvotes – 58 comments
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