top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-31

Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18983493.ab

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 169 comments

Who or What Broke My Kids?

http://powersfulmath.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/who-or-what-broke-my-kids/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 198 comments

LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-adds-drones-to-arsenal-20140530-story.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 110 comments

Justin.tv ending archiving, deleting all archived videos after June 14

https://help.justin.tv/entries/41803380-Changes-to-Video-Archive-System

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 74 comments

How to get business ideas – remove steps

http://ninjasandrobots.com/how-to-get-business-ideas-remove-steps/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 71 comments

Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/universities-cant-fulfil-the-myth-but-they-cant-become-a-vocational-school-either

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010)

http://norvig.com/lispy.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 41 comments

Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy

http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

Pointers Gone Wild

http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/haskell/blog/blog/2014/05/28/pointers-gone-wild.lhs/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 65 comments

Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book

https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/bpLMka3QC7y

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Software Foundations

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-responds-to-release-of-e-mail-by-us-officials/2014/05/29/95137e1c-e781-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/05/31/attoparsec/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 11 comments

Startup vs. Corporate Life

http://blog.lawnstarter.com/post/87331474878/startup-vs-corporate-life

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

It's the Latency, Stupid (1996)

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html?HN_report=1

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Cinnamon released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2626

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

This Guy Trademarked the Symbol for Pi and Took Away Our Geeky T-Shirts

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/pi-takedown/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

http://fivestar.io

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, insufferable guys

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/30/amazon_is_killing_my_sex_life_partner/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime

http://www.dw.de/german-foreign-intelligence-agency-wants-to-access-social-media-sites-in-real-time/a-17673649

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-scariest-chart-in-mary-meekers-slide-deck-for-newspapers-has-gotten-a-little-scarier/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825376

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

A startup postmortem with a happy ending

http://fridriksson.tumblr.com/post/86584610871/a-startup-postmortem-with-a-happy-ending-in-thailand

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Mentor Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825900

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments

The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C (1993) [pdf]

http://adaptiveart.eecs.umich.edu/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/The-pocket-handbook-of-image-processing-algorithms-in-C.pdf

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Google to close Motorola smartphone factory in Texas

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27643474

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

It’s Still the Latency, Stupid (2007)

http://www.edgeblog.net/2007/its-still-the-latency-stupid/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Diversity and Feedback at GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1843-diversity-and-feedback-at-github

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Simple refined types implementation that can prevent Heartbleed

https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems/tree/master/refined_types

12 years ago

★ 1.6k OCaml Unlicense
56 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826258

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 115 comments

Subgraph OS: Adversary-resistant computing platform

https://subgraph.com/sgos/index.en.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Business School, Disrupted

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/business-school-disrupted.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

How to spot first stories on Twitter using Storm

http://micvog.com/2013/09/08/storm-first-story-detection

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Malcolm Gladwell ‘Surprised’ to Become an Amazon Bargaining Chip

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/gladwell-on-amazon-its-sort-of-heartbreaking-when-your-partner-turns-on-you/?ref=technology

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Sharpen Pencils (2012)

https://blog.etsy.com/en/2012/how-to-sharpen-pencils/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 42 comments

Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham

https://twitter.com/Support/statuses/472493972032466944

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors (2011)

http://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments
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