top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-03

Alexander Shulgin has died

http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander/

12 years ago

A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS

http://www.playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/

12 years ago

End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google

https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

12 years ago

Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-June/672994.html

12 years ago

Chris Lattner on Swift

http://nondot.org/sabre/

12 years ago

Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/5785.html

12 years ago

Flappy Bird in Swift

https://github.com/fullstackio/FlappySwift

12 years ago

★ 9.6k Swift MIT

Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/

12 years ago

Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/02/how-great-would-swedens-proposed-six-hour-workday-be-this-great

12 years ago

$1.99 SSL certificates offered by Namecheap

https://www.namecheap.com/campaigns/2014/reset-the-net.aspx

12 years ago

Metal as a Service

https://maas.ubuntu.com/

12 years ago

Camlistore – open-source personal storage system for life

http://camlistore.org/?

12 years ago

The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26815298

12 years ago

Google releases stats on email encryption in transit

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/

12 years ago

Why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme/?source=newsletter

12 years ago

A high-profile fork: one year of Blink and Webkit

http://browserg.nom.es

12 years ago

24, the Monster, and quantum gravity

https://plus.google.com/101584889282878921052/posts/9sKMLRJYjna

12 years ago

Why and how to avoid hamburger menus

http://lmjabreu.com/post/why-and-how-to-avoid-hamburger-menus/

12 years ago

Visual Studio 14 Preview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/06/03/first-preview-of-visual-studio-quot-14-quot-available-now.aspx

12 years ago

I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time

http://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/

12 years ago

How Different Cultures Understand Time

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-understand-time-2014-5?IR=T

12 years ago

GCHQ spy base revealed

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/revealed_beyond_top_secret_british_intelligence_middleeast_internet_spy_base/

12 years ago

Letting go

http://mattgemmell.com/letting-go/

12 years ago

Devcards – Taking Interactivity to the Next Level

http://rigsomelight.com/2014/06/03/devcards-taking-interactivity-to-the-next-level.html

12 years ago

Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudley/2014/05/30/google-loon-balloon-crashes-near-yakima/

12 years ago

Retention is King

http://andrewchen.co/2014/06/03/retention-is-king/

12 years ago

How Do You Get a Train Moving?

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/how-do-you-get-a-train-moving/

12 years ago

(Why) I quit Hacker News (2010)

http://mattmaroon.com/2010/11/23/i-quit-hacker-news/

12 years ago

John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

12 years ago

Where are the African programmers?

http://nadjetey.github.io/2014/06/where-are-the-african-coders/

12 years ago

The YC Board of Overseers

http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-yc-board-of-overseers

12 years ago

A version-controlled object database with real-time collaborative editing

http://coreobject.org

12 years ago

Swift, the new way to build iOS Apps. Here's how

http://iosblog.co.uk/tutorials/developing-ios-apps-using-swift-part-1/

12 years ago

Making end-to-end encryption easier to use

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html

12 years ago

The 33-year-old virgin: Life without sex is only torturous if you let it be

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/02/the_33_year_old_virgin_life_without_sex_is_only_torturous_if_you_let_it_be/

12 years ago

Apple Design Awards 2014

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

12 years ago

It is my belief that Apple is working on a new language (2010)

http://waffle.wootest.net/2010/06/19/surpass/

12 years ago

Artist trademarks 'Pi' symbol, enrages the web

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/06/artist-trademarks-pi-symbol-enrages-the-web.html?cmp=fbtl

12 years ago

Change.org Petition: Tell media not to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/huffington-post-please-use-the-word-hacker-in-a-positive-sense-and-the-word-cracker-when-you-want-to-talk-about-someone-who-breaches-computer-security-for-a-wrong-purpose

12 years ago

John Lewis fined over spam emails

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/06/02/john-lewis-fined-over-spam-emails

12 years ago

Computer Science and Math

http://deanzchen.com/computer-science-education-and-math

12 years ago

Apple Ditching OpenGL?

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2014/06/03/apple-ditching-opengl/

12 years ago

What, if anything, have we learned from C++? [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Keynote

12 years ago

HTML5 Video in Safari on OS X Yosemite

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/06/html5-video-in-safari-on-os-x-yosemite.html

12 years ago

SEC Charges Bitcoin Entrepreneur For Share Offering

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sec-charges-bitcoin-entrepreneur-for-share-offering-2014-06-03?mod=latestnewssocialflow&link=sfmw

12 years ago

10 Most Common Rails Mistakes

http://www.toptal.com/ruby-on-rails/top-10-mistakes-that-rails-programmers-make?utm_source=Engineering+Blog+Subscribers&utm_campaign=cfd491c651-Blog_Post_Email_Top10RailsMistakes&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_af8c2cde60-cfd491c651-109835873

12 years ago