563
188
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/998660806005768192
8 years ago
555
291
Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
https://getstream.io/blog/winds-2-0-its-now-time-to-revive-rss/
457
118
The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
342
245
Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/technology/amazon-facial-recognition.html
320
41
Deconstructing Kitty
https://wp.josh.com/2018/05/07/deconstructing-kitty/
303
162
Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp/
★ 19.2k JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
287
58
FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-repeatedly-overstated-encryption-threat-figures-to-congress-public/2018/05/22/5b68ae90-5dce-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html
286
158
DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/tree/master/dm/src/dmc
★ 334 D – 8 years ago
283
227
Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/charging-electric-scooters-is-a-cutthroat-business/560747/?single_page=true
281
156
We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
http://nautil.us/blog/-forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets
262
128
Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for beans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/coffee-waste-is-now-fetching-a-480-premium-over-coffee-itself
248
100
Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/technology-sneak-peek-real-time-ray-tracing-with-unreal-engine
239
54
Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-web-encryption-letter-to-dod-cio.pdf
238
145
Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/22/1510151/0/en/Computer-History-Museum-Makes-the-Eudora-Email-Client-Source-Code-Available-to-the-Public.html
223
294
40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-household-finances/index.html
209
85
Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17128513
202
97
Recursive Common Table Expressions in Postgres
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/05/15/fun-with-sql-recursive-ctes/
201
66
The end of Iridium flares?
https://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumDemise.aspx
198
67
Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01631
189
110
My favorite principle for code quality
http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/02/making-bugs-impossible-illustrating.html
184
Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17128443
183
51
Why it's hard to answer “when to raise a series A”
https://blog.ycombinator.com/when-to-raise-a-series-a/
182
79
Comcast is leaking the names and passwords of customers’ wireless routers
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/21/comcast-is-leaking-the-names-and-passwords-of-customers-wireless-routers/
154
76
Ask HN: What is good business advice for independent mobile app developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17123412
151
147
Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/science/mosaicism-dna-genome-cancer.html
142
63
The Verge Hack, Explained
https://blog.theabacus.io/the-verge-hack-explained-7942f63a3017
139
18
Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology
https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c
131
8
General Thinking Tools: Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems
https://www.fs.blog/general-thinking-tools/
126
Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/congress-passes-dodd-frank-rollback-for-smaller-banks.html
57
Plaid in Canada
https://blog.plaid.com/plaid-in-canada/
124
90
Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/silicon-valley-pastor-gregory-stevens-wealth-liberals
120
48
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elm
http://azer.bike/journal/elm/?
119
77
Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grayscale-the-web-save-si/mblmpdpfppogibmoobibfannckeeleag
Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/are-triggers-really-that-slow-in-postgres/
113
YubiKey comes to the iPhone with Mobile SDK for iOS and LastPass support
https://www.yubico.com/2018/05/yubikey-comes-to-iphone-with-mobile-sdk-for-ios-and-lastpass-support/
111
19
Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/scientists-reclaim-the-long-lost-economic-history-of-rome/560339/?single_page=true
39
Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38224564
107
86
Facebook management moves around but people don’t leave
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/22/17340694/facebook-hiring-executive-management-team-mark-zuckerberg
106
13
Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08166
44
Talos II Lite
https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html
102
29
GCP and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kafka service
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2018/05/google-cloud-platform-and-confluent-partner-to-deliver-a-managed-apache-kafka-service
101
Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Customers
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracles-aggressive-sales-tactics-are-backfiring-with-customers
9
EFF's Fair Use Petition to the Copyright Office
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-presents-mur-laffertys-science-fiction-story-about-our-fair-use-petition
27
SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp
https://github.com/bradleyjensen/shcl
82
31
Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks Is Now Done to Mainstream Reporters
https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/virtually-everything-the-government-did-to-wikileaks-is-now-being-done-to-mainstream-us-reporters/
81
Tesla needs to sell more expensive Model 3s so the company doesn’t ‘die’
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17376136/tesla-performance-model-3-specs-price-base-model
1
Generative Adversarial Examples [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07894
78
72
Donor Advised Funds get big tax breaks but little oversight
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/silicon-valley-community-foundation-philanthropy/560216/?single_page=true
Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/05/21/microsofts-commitment-to-gdpr-privacy-and-putting-customers-in-control-of-their-own-data/
Several species of flatworm have made a home in metropolitan France
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/22/giant-predatory-worms-invaded-france-but-scientists-just-noticed-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a5944aa5283
Prison without guards or weapons in Brazil
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44056946
53
A 20-year Follow-Up to an Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Jamaica
https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/20-year-follow-early-childhood-stimulation-program-jamaica
52
Ask HN: What are some technical topics I can blog about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17125864
75
How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (1997)
http://fermatslibrary.com/s/how-many-objects-can-be-juggled
73
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Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April
https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-3/2017/long-term-road-test/2017-tesla-model-3-monthly-update-for-april-2018.html