top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-05-24

Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

https://www.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974

8 years ago

1314 upvotes – 710 comments

Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look

https://wiredjs.com/

8 years ago

650 upvotes – 120 comments

Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 468 comments

Cool Backgrounds

https://coolbackgrounds.io/

8 years ago

409 upvotes – 50 comments

Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/andy-rubin-s-phone-maker-essential-is-said-to-consider-sale

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 363 comments

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

8 years ago

370 upvotes – 207 comments

Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-off-the-grid-compressed-air-energy-storage.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 231 comments

U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/bitcoin-manipulation-is-said-to-be-focus-of-u-s-criminal-probe

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 215 comments

Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

https://parabola.io/

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 66 comments

StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

https://medium.com/@gc/su-is-moving-to-mix-c2c3bff037a5

8 years ago

279 upvotes – 129 comments

Netflix is now worth more than Comcast

https://www.recode.net/2018/5/23/17386696/netflix-reed-hastings-comcast-worth-more

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 138 comments

Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17387146/instapaper-gdpr-europe-access-shut-down-privacy-changes

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 366 comments

In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time

https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 137 comments

ReasonML – React as first intended

https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/reasonml-react-as-first-intended/amp/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 187 comments

Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Shipments

https://www.voicebot.ai/2018/05/23/google-home-beats-amazon-echo-in-q1-2018-smart-speaker-shipments-according-to-new-study/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 212 comments

The Egg (2009)

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 51 comments

Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/mark-zuckerberg-set-up-fraudulent-scheme-weaponise-data-facebook-court-case-alleges?CMP=share_btn_tw

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 26 comments

Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/24/pornhub-launches-vpnhub-its-own-virtual-private-network-app/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 128 comments

GDPR Hall of Shame

http://gdprhallofshame.com/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: Clippi.io lets you collect your visual inspiration from any video

https://clippi.io/

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 7 comments
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