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Stories from May 17, 2015
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1. Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos (washington.edu)
408 points by doh on May 17, 2015 | 36 comments
2. UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity (arstechnica.co.uk)
348 points by escapologybb on May 17, 2015 | 179 comments
3. How I do my computing (stallman.org)
334 points by fs111 on May 17, 2015 | 327 comments
4. Yum is dead, long live DNF (baseurl.org)
192 points by tvvocold on May 17, 2015 | 124 comments
5. Multiprocess Firefox (developer.mozilla.org)
286 points by ValentineC on May 16, 2015 | 164 comments
6. Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C (kore.io)
271 points by api on May 17, 2015 | 170 comments
7. Start doing more things alone (washingtonpost.com)
199 points by dlib on May 17, 2015 | 107 comments
8. Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction (corbellini.name)
238 points by onestone on May 17, 2015 | 38 comments
9. About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key (hboeck.de)
231 points by hachiya on May 17, 2015 | 33 comments
10. Learning C with gdb (recurse.com)
238 points by luu on May 17, 2015 | 24 comments
11. Amazing Source Code Related Easter Egg in Ex Machina (moviecode.tumblr.com)
244 points by jgrahamc on May 17, 2015 | 57 comments
12. AEADs: getting better at symmetric cryptography (imperialviolet.org)
128 points by dochtman on May 17, 2015 | 11 comments
13. Inside a $34 smartphone (projectgus.com)
169 points by zdw on May 17, 2015 | 94 comments
14. No Longer Wanting to Die (nytimes.com)
181 points by hudibras on May 17, 2015 | 100 comments
15. Bamboo Mathematicians (nationalgeographic.com)
81 points by robrenaud on May 17, 2015 | 13 comments
16. Learning the Cello as an Adult (1997) (ethanwiner.com)
92 points by JoeAcchino on May 17, 2015 | 29 comments
17. Sniffing GSM Traffic with HackRF (z4ziggy.wordpress.com)
95 points by evilsocket on May 17, 2015 | 20 comments
18. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (csail.mit.edu)
89 points by octatoan on May 17, 2015 | 20 comments
19. Transistor-level simulation of the Atari 2600 (2014) (visual6502.org)
81 points by mariuz on May 17, 2015 | 10 comments
20. How a drug dealer’s IP was found out by package tracking (arstechnica.com)
93 points by r721 on May 17, 2015 | 60 comments
21. Linux kernel initialization, part 9: RCU initialization (github.com/0xax)
70 points by 0xAX on May 17, 2015 | 2 comments
22. Projects from the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon West (stupidhackathon.github.io)
97 points by bahro on May 17, 2015 | 12 comments
23. A Dutch City Makes Room for Its River and a New Identity (citylab.com)
66 points by solidangle on May 17, 2015 | 26 comments
24. Cryptographic Data Structures (bren2010.io)
62 points by bren2013 on May 17, 2015 | 2 comments
25. First Class Statements (jle.im)
48 points by tel on May 17, 2015 | 13 comments
26. The dangers of letting algorithms make decisions in law enforcement (slate.com)
87 points by smil on May 17, 2015 | 38 comments
27. MicroPython: Python for microcontrollers (micropython.org)
103 points by bootload on May 17, 2015 | 19 comments
28. Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern (2014) (chadfowler.com)
108 points by xvirk on May 16, 2015 | 52 comments
29. My notes on Amazon's EC2 Container Service, aka Docker on AWS (jpetazzo.github.io)
51 points by amos6224 on May 17, 2015 | 23 comments
30. Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior (nytimes.com)
61 points by joshrotenberg on May 16, 2015 | 42 comments

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