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

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/06/i_sold_my_startup_for_25_5_million_here_s_how_i_did_it.html

12 years ago

578 upvotes – 236 comments

Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything

http://kapeli.com/dash?hn=1

12 years ago

404 upvotes – 170 comments

A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-sealed-bottle-garden-thriving-40-years-fresh-air-water.html

12 years ago

340 upvotes – 138 comments

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system

http://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/

12 years ago

290 upvotes – 156 comments

Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27732743

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 179 comments

Python to OCaml: Retrospective

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-retrospective/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 71 comments

AirType

http://airtype.io/

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 107 comments

Native GUI library for Go

https://github.com/andlabs/ui

12 years ago

★ 8.3k Go
220 upvotes – 108 comments

An Important Tech Job That Doesn't Exist

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/06/the-most-important-tech-job-that-doesnt-actually-exist.html

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 51 comments

HippyVM

http://hippyvm.com/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 87 comments

The Last Line Effect

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0260/print/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 25 comments

The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites

https://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0598/grice/excerpt.html?

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

https://gonative.io/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 75 comments

Git 2.0 is here

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/06/happened-git-2-0-full-goodies/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Pseudo IPv4

http://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-the-last-reasons-to-not-enable-ipv6

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 87 comments

The security hole I found on Amazon.com

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2014/06/06/clickjacking-amazon-com/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

How to write an iOS app purely in C

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10289890/how-to-write-ios-app-purely-in-c/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

Freelancer keeps degrading the coder experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857315

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

Where have you gone, Peter Norton?

http://www.technologizer.com/2014/06/05/where-have-you-gone-peter-norton/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

From Parallel to Concurrent [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/From-Parallel-to-Concurrent

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

100-year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic (2013)

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/12/27/on-ice-100-year-old-negative-discovered-in-antarctic-ice

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

Sleep's memory role discovered

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27695144

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Stripe: Open Source Retreat Grantees

https://stripe.com/blog/open-source-retreat-grantees

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 14 comments

Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram

http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-goats-lions-and-wolves.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Silk, a profiling tool for Django

http://mtford.co.uk/blog/2/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Secrets of dispatch_once; x86 performance trickery

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2014-06-06-secrets-of-dispatch_once.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17B in New Funding

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-06/uber-sets-valuation-record-of-17-billion-in-new-funding.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 139 comments

DUI rates decline in Uber cities

http://blog.uber.com/DUIratesdecline

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

Crane: An ORM for Common Lisp

http://eudoxia0.github.io/crane/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Will Hacker News Get An Official "Show HN" Section?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857476

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

The emperor's new clothes were built with Node.js

http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/751

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Is TDD dead?

http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/#

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 93 comments

Pints in the sun

http://pintsinthesun.co.uk/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 47 comments

Flickr is removing Facebook and Google sign-in

https://accounts-flickr.yahoo.com/account/update/default/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

The Single Transistor Radio

http://www.mindtribe.com/2014/06/the-single-transistor-radio/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

What was Alan Turing really like?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27701207

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

An S.O.S. in a Saks Bag

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/06/an-sos-in-a-saks-bag.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Six governments tap Vodafone calls

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/06/us-vodafone-group-disclosure-idUSKBN0EH0UK20140606

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off

http://kotaku.com/why-game-developers-keep-getting-laid-off-1583192249

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 108 comments

The MakeGamesWithUs Online Academy

http://makegameswith.us/online-academy/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Some numbers about NSA's data collection

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/06/some-numbers-about-nsas-data-collection.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 0 comments

How I increased conversion on my checkout form

http://pud.com/post/87930228516/how-i-increased-conversion-on-my-checkout-form-by-60

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Open Source Craft Brewery

http://twbrewing.com/who

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Frustrated Scholar Creates New Way to Fund and Publish Academic Work

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/frustrated-scholar-creates-new-route-for-funding-and-publishing-academic-work/53073?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Counterparty: Peer-to-Peer Finance on Bitcoin

https://www.counterparty.co/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Favicon checker

http://realfavicongenerator.net/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

City of Seattle Data Portal

https://data.seattle.gov/browse

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Nod - Touchless Interaction

https://hellonod.com/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Blame for 'switch from hell' falls heavily on one GM engineer

http://europe.autonews.com/article/20140605/COPY/306059903

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 63 comments

How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/exclusive-how-an-fbi-informant-helped-anonymous-hack-brazil

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Fast Food for the Mind: Why I Don't Have a Facebook or Twitter Account

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sungardas/2014/04/08/fast-food-for-the-mind-why-i-dont-have-a-facebook-or-twitter-account/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 39 comments
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