top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-18

The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-code-ever-written/answer/John-Byrd-2

8 years ago

How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/how-to-come-up-with-profitable-online-business-ideas

8 years ago

GDPR: Don't Panic

https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria

8 years ago

Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles

http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/

8 years ago

An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

http://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression

8 years ago

Introducing Git protocol version 2

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-git-protocol-version-2.html

8 years ago

Solving dynamic programming interview problems

http://blog.refdash.com/dynamic-programming-tutorial-example/

8 years ago

Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story

https://m.facebook.com/JamesHBlack/posts/10156560054277932

8 years ago

Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard

https://whiteboardfree.com/

8 years ago

Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/

8 years ago

Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction

https://gking.harvard.edu/50c

8 years ago

Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/18/orrin-fucking-hatch.html

8 years ago

Data Science Is America’s Hottest Job

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-18/-sexiest-job-ignites-talent-wars-as-demand-for-data-geeks-soars

8 years ago

The Zen of Erlang (2016)

https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

8 years ago

Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-disprove-conjecture-made-to-save-black-holes-20180517/

8 years ago

Rust Qt Binding Generator

https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator

8 years ago

★ 808 Rust GPL-2.0

Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature

https://www.atyantik.com/proxy-javascript-es6-feature/

8 years ago

Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393

8 years ago

Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron

https://forum.vuejs.org/t/vuido-native-desktop-applications-using-vue-js/34538

8 years ago

Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software Again

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-enterprise-software-again/

8 years ago

Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/18/open-source-calculator-teaches-us-about-quality-documentation/

8 years ago

$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

http://www.adsensepublishersettlement.com

8 years ago

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research

https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/

8 years ago

The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)

http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models/

8 years ago

Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

https://improbable.io/games/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale

8 years ago

Counting Bees on a Raspberry Pi with a ConvNet

http://matpalm.com/blog/counting_bees/

8 years ago

Material UI v1 for React is out

https://medium.com/material-ui/material-ui-v1-is-out-e73ce13463eb

8 years ago

A tool that lets you hear both Yanny and Laurel

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Simple and comprehensive tutorials in Deep Learning using TensorFlow

https://github.com/easy-tensorflow/easy-tensorflow

8 years ago

★ 2.8k Python MIT

Vim 8.1

https://vim8.org/vim-8.1-released.php

8 years ago

Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook

https://digiday.com/media/reliable-smaller-video-publishers-see-youtube-safe-harbor/

8 years ago

Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016)

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/dagoba-an-in-memory-graph-database.html

8 years ago

Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/pie-menus-936fed383ff1

8 years ago

A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/health/genes-mutation-foxg1-brain.html

8 years ago

Fears of Larger Contagion as Ebola Spreads to Major Congo City

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo.html

8 years ago

The Developers Union

https://www.thedevelopersunion.org/

8 years ago

Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests

https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

8 years ago

Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/07/epigenetics-the-evolution-revolution/

8 years ago

Shoes – An easy little GUI toolkit for Ruby

http://shoesrb.com/

8 years ago

People crave silence, yet are unnerved by it

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/05/19/people-crave-silence-yet-are-unnerved-by-it

8 years ago

The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong

http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/the-popular-creation-story-of-astronomy-is-wrong

8 years ago

EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-update-c5-instances-with-local-nvme-storage-c5d/

8 years ago

The weirdest bug I’ve found in a compiler: MSVC 2017

https://medium.com/@ryanhaining/the-weirdest-error-ive-found-in-a-compiler-msvc-2017-ade2e9da0e20

8 years ago

How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost

http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/how-nasas-mission-to-pluto-was-nearly-lost

8 years ago

On Competing with C Using Haskell (2017)

https://two-wrongs.com/on-competing-with-c-using-haskell.html

8 years ago