top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-05-24

The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)

https://blog.plover.com/tech/prudential.html

6 years ago

732 upvotes – 296 comments

H.264 is magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

6 years ago

680 upvotes – 180 comments

Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system

https://www.starlink.com/

6 years ago

533 upvotes – 359 comments

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 164 comments

Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

https://twitter.com/Jennifer__Brett/status/1131298044010483712

6 years ago

371 upvotes – 141 comments

Making a Game Boy Game in 2017

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 82 comments

Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/firefox-brings-you-smooth-video-playback-with-the-worlds-fastest-av1-decoder/

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 63 comments

Murray Gell-Mann Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-mann-died-.html

6 years ago

325 upvotes – 42 comments

The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android

https://onezero.medium.com/the-huawei-disaster-reveals-googles-iron-grip-on-android-b1ccee34504d

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 343 comments

OKRs from a development team’s perspective

https://zafulabs.com/2019/05/24/okrs-from-a-development-teams-perspective/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 120 comments

Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 204 comments

America is turning against facial-recognition software

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/25/america-is-turning-against-facial-recognition-software

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 143 comments

Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-warning-label-sugary-drinks-advances-20190523-story.html

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 257 comments

Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/23/perceptics_hacked_license_plate_recognition/

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 99 comments

Belly.io – Curated List of Programming Coding Streamers

https://belly.io/programming

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 45 comments

Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties

https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 156 comments

Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/algorithm-solves-graph-isomorphism-in-record-time-20151214/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

https://workstation.is

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 133 comments

More Productive Git

https://increment.com/open-source/more-productive-git/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 143 comments

Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 217 comments
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