top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-31

Gnome has moved to GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab/

8 years ago

640 upvotes – 201 comments

America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-31/america-s-teens-are-choosing-youtube-over-facebook

8 years ago

435 upvotes – 353 comments

Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/telegram-apple-russia.html

8 years ago

413 upvotes – 245 comments

A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/

8 years ago

400 upvotes – 134 comments

Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features

https://www.evonide.com/side-channel-attacking-browsers-through-css3-features/

8 years ago

368 upvotes – 78 comments

The real power of Linux executables

https://ownyourbits.com/2018/05/23/the-real-power-of-linux-executables/

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 53 comments

WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

https://github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf

8 years ago

★ 16.8k Go MPL-2.0
334 upvotes – 116 comments

Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/obituaries/ted-dabney-dead-atari-pong.html

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 23 comments

Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store

https://adguard.com/en/blog/goodbye-amazon/

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 292 comments

Canon has sold its last film camera

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/31/canon-has-sold-its-last-film-camera/

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 158 comments

Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely

https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 191 comments

The TSA has a watch list of people who present “challenges” to screening

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/new-watch-list-tsa-screeners-.html

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 158 comments

Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video]

https://laughingsquid.com/romeo-juliet-recited-in-original-shakespeare-accent/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 107 comments

Windows gifski.exe with a digital signature

https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski/releases/tag/0.8.3

8 years ago

★ 5.4k Rust
230 upvotes – 100 comments

Logo design trends of 2018

https://www.logolounge.com/articles/2018-logo-trends

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 48 comments

How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-24/how-not-to-negotiate-a-6-1-billion-deal

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 96 comments

Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet

https://www.fastcompany.com/40579141/microsoft-is-now-worth-more-than-google

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 178 comments

A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013)

http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 80 comments

China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/even-more-money-for-senstime-ai-china/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 113 comments

Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)

https://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteasers-were-completely-useless-for-hiring/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 151 comments

High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (2010)

https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/are-high-quality-schools-enough-increase-achievement-among-poor-evidence-harlem-c

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 218 comments

Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs

http://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 160 comments

Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch18.pdf

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 39 comments

Insider Attack Resistance

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/insider-attack-resistance.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney

https://torrentfreak.com/michael-jackson-estate-turns-the-fair-use-table-on-disney-180531/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

WAMP – Web Application Messaging Protocol

https://wamp-proto.org

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 65 comments

The Never-Ending War on Fake Reviews

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-never-ending-war-on-fake-reviews

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

SoftBank Will Invest $2.25B in Cruise

http://fortune.com/2018/05/31/softbank-invest-billion-gm-self-driving-car-unit-cruise/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

Katran: A high-performance layer 4 load balancer

https://github.com/facebookincubator/katran

8 years ago

★ 5.2k C GPL-2.0
105 upvotes – 20 comments

Why America Is the World’s First Poor Rich Country

https://eand.co/why-america-is-the-worlds-first-poor-rich-country-17f5a80e444a

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 81 comments

Revisiting the Arcan Project

https://arcan-fe.com/2018/05/31/revisiting-the-arcan-project/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 3 comments

FDA permits marketing of AI algorithm for detecting wrist fractures

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm608833.htm

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

Let’s Repair an Ancient Macintosh SE/30, Part 2

https://spun.io/2018/05/28/lets-repair-an-ancient-macintosh-se-30-part-2-what-the-hell-is-a-simasimac/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 65 comments

Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-In Authentication

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/built-in-authentication-in-alb/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/02/can-a-new-mayor-fix-san-franciscos-housing-and-homelessness-problems

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 251 comments

The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in 30 years

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/31/17413356/low-birthrate-millennials-economy

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 121 comments

In the World of Cryptocurrency, Even Good Projects Can Go Bad

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/envion-initial-coin-offering.html

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Maid – Markdown driven task runner

https://github.com/egoist/maid

8 years ago

★ 2k JavaScript MIT
83 upvotes – 37 comments

Scientists find 'friendliness' genes that distinguish dogs from wolves

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dog-friendliness-genes-20170719-story.html

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Judge Dismisses Kaspersky Suit Challenging Software Ban

https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-dismisses-kaspersky-suit-challenging-software-ban-1527711772

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Airport Security

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333332&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

Uber CEO says Uber and Alphabet are discussing working together on self-driving

https://www.recode.net/2018/5/31/17390030/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-code-conference-interview

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Simone Giertz is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased

https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/1002036156752543746

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

A Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Steam Client

https://www.contextis.com/blog/frag-grenade-a-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-the-steam-client

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

OpenBSD's httpd gets URL rewrite

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=152761257806283&w=2

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: JavaScript/WebGL webcam face swap with color correction

https://jeeliz.com/demos/faceFilter/demos/faceReplacement/faceSwap/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

Parallel Programming in Futhark

https://futhark-book.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Introduction to the Pony programming language

https://opensource.com/article/18/5/pony

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 72 comments

Job Ads You Can’t See on Facebook If You’re Older (2017)

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/facebook-job-ads

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Postmortem Analysis of Dead Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch

https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/05/30/sonoff-th16-wireless-switch-dead-postmortem-analysis/

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Modern Fertility (YC S17) is a proactive way to test fertility at home

https://modernfertility.com/blog/launch/

8 years ago

67 upvotes – 38 comments
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