top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-06-08

iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks

https://twitter.com/fredericjacobs/status/475601665836744704

12 years ago

442 upvotes – 260 comments

Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.

http://stilldrinking.org/nobody-understands-punctuation

12 years ago

418 upvotes – 149 comments

Fake Friends with Real Benefits

https://medium.com/i-data/fake-friends-with-real-benefits-eec8c4693bd3

12 years ago

310 upvotes – 107 comments

Call me maybe: RabbitMQ

http://aphyr.com/posts/315-call-me-maybe-rabbitmq

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 42 comments

Valve sponsors Mesa development

http://lunarg.com/glassymesa/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 28 comments

Turing Test Success

http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 134 comments

Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 54 comments

How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS

http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/how-mistakes-can-save-lives

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality

http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 47 comments

Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-surveillance-state-beyond-imagination-being-created-one-freest

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 78 comments

The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host

http://narrative.ly/couch-surfing-capers/secret-life-obsessive-airbnb-host/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 30 comments

In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer

http://meyerweb.com/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 69 comments

PythonJS now faster than CPython

http://pythonjs.blogspot.com/2014/05/pythonjs-now-faster-than-cpython.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 60 comments

Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/colleges_are_full_of_it_behind_the_three_decade_scheme_to_raise_tuition_bankrupt_generations_and_hypnotize_the_media/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 101 comments

Code that will only execute once

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/28672/code-that-will-only-execute-once

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/monarch-butterfly-decline-linked-to-spread-of-gm-crops-1.2665131

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

MIT at center of political power play over campus fusion reactor

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/06/07/mit-used-lobbying-influence-restore-nuclear-fusion-dream-after-white-house-sought-stop-funding/T5Q9esYqbZsxIbXUpnEHFN/story.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

Myths about ElementaryOS

http://elementaryos.org/journal/5-myths-about-elementary

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Engineering the Extinction of 40 Species of Mosquitoes

http://rockstarresearch.com/engineering-the-extinction-of-40-species-of-mosquitoes/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Swift impressions

http://www.evanmiller.org/swift-impressions.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments
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