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Archives for 17 May 2016
  1. A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare
    (228 points | Comments)

  2. Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
    (233 points | Comments)

  3. Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley
    (117 points | Comments)

  4. Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good
    (109 points | Comments)

  5. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
    (419 points | Comments)

  6. Reason: A new interface to OCaml
    (603 points | Comments)

  7. Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems
    (107 points | Comments)

  8. Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
    (206 points | Comments)

  9. Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review
    (241 points | Comments)

  10. Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications
    (122 points | Comments)

  11. Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
    (224 points | Comments)

  12. Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
    (150 points | Comments)

  13. Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
    (606 points | Comments)

  14. Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
    (223 points | Comments)

  15. New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
    (164 points | Comments)

  16. Google applying to patent deep neural network (LSTM) for machine translation
    (133 points | Comments)

  17. You're Gonna Need a License for That
    (131 points | Comments)

  18. How Typography Can Save Your Life
    (102 points | Comments)

  19. Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector
    (187 points | Comments)

  20. Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
    (251 points | Comments)

  21. IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough
    (121 points | Comments)

  22. Cops Cuffed Me for Selling My Own Mac
    (105 points | Comments)

  23. Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
    (338 points | Comments)

  24. From Node.js to Go
    (168 points | Comments)

  25. Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
    (145 points | Comments)

  26. The Road to Artificial Intelligence
    (116 points | Comments)

  27. Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial
    (173 points | Comments)

  28. One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats
    (279 points | Comments)

  29. Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food
    (202 points | Comments)

  30. In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time
    (195 points | Comments)

  31. First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese
    (115 points | Comments)

  32. Cool URIs don't change (1998)
    (297 points | Comments)

  33. Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
    (132 points | Comments)

  34. Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha
    (142 points | Comments)

  35. Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says
    (266 points | Comments)

  36. Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks
    (136 points | Comments)

  37. LMFDB, a catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them
    (136 points | Comments)

  38. Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces
    (103 points | Comments)

  39. High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
    (444 points | Comments)

  40. Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries
    (120 points | Comments)

  41. Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208
    (209 points | Comments)

  42. JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
    (509 points | Comments)

  43. Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
    (190 points | Comments)