top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-05-01

A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

7 years ago

2195 upvotes – 363 comments

Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

https://d4stiny.github.io/Remote-Code-Execution-on-most-Dell-computers/

7 years ago

876 upvotes – 306 comments

World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later

https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10-years-later

7 years ago

663 upvotes – 278 comments

Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2018/11/housing-cant-both-be-a-good-investment-and-be-affordable/574813/

7 years ago

544 upvotes – 487 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797594

7 years ago

488 upvotes – 1009 comments

Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48111464

7 years ago

460 upvotes – 314 comments

Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/nasa-says-aluminum-fraud-caused-700-million-satellite-failures

7 years ago

450 upvotes – 213 comments

Unraveling the JPEG

https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/

7 years ago

399 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/books/review/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing.html

7 years ago

345 upvotes – 137 comments

Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/citrix-internal-network-breach/

7 years ago

328 upvotes – 118 comments

Intermediate Vim

https://dn.ht/intermediate-vim/

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 126 comments

System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

https://blog.system76.com/post/184439321333/system76-news-platinum-luxury-bonus-april-edition

7 years ago

244 upvotes – 138 comments

Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix

https://www.rocketleague.com/news/psyonix-is-joining-the-epic-family-/

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 243 comments

Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-that-alleges-autopilot-caused-crash/

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 466 comments

Don't Waste Time on User Onboarding

https://greaterdanorequalto.com/dont-waste-time-on-onboarding/

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 112 comments

Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/facebook-s-zuckerberg-preaches-privacy-but-evidence-is-elusive

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 115 comments

L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/college-admissions-scandal.html

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 277 comments

Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/try-not-to-get-bitten-by-a-snake-it-could-cost-you-143000/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 181 comments

Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/rails-6-b-sides-and-rarities

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 44 comments

Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 33 comments
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