top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-05-02

Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum

https://www.harshsikka.me/self-studying-the-mit-applied-math-curriculum/

7 years ago

714 upvotes – 96 comments

Use mmap with care

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/use-mmap-with-care

7 years ago

607 upvotes – 213 comments

Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub

7 years ago

587 upvotes – 262 comments

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

7 years ago

566 upvotes – 190 comments

GNU Guix 1.0

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/

7 years ago

478 upvotes – 126 comments

JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/23/in-this-twitter-exchange-jetb.html

7 years ago

409 upvotes – 229 comments

Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-will-soon-let-you-automatically-scrub-your-location

7 years ago

395 upvotes – 243 comments

Android App Reverse Engineering 101

https://maddiestone.github.io/AndroidAppRE/

7 years ago

380 upvotes – 32 comments

TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat

https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-turbotax-h-r-block-gutted-free-tax-filing-internal-memo

7 years ago

355 upvotes – 143 comments

Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html

7 years ago

354 upvotes – 697 comments

Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust

https://m.stopa.io/risp-lisp-in-rust-90a0dad5b116

7 years ago

314 upvotes – 84 comments

Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company

7 years ago

310 upvotes – 342 comments

Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/02/gitlab-journey-from-azure-to-gcp/

7 years ago

310 upvotes – 128 comments

GitHub Learning Lab

https://lab.github.com/

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 45 comments

Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows

7 years ago

279 upvotes – 103 comments

Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48118558

7 years ago

277 upvotes – 119 comments

Creating a Great Team Culture, and Why It Matters

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3323993

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 33 comments

UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told

https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-2019-us-military-tic-tac-pentagon-navy-unidentified-aerial-1412272

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 320 comments

ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719337356/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 64 comments

Bored Lonely Angry Stupid

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 126 comments
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