Hacker News on 4 May 2018

• Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
• NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
• The rise of the pointless job
• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
• Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
• What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?
• Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
• Moving Fast and Securing Things
• A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
• C Primer