top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-16

How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TI4hjfb5cbEMTaY2vMsG--nlhQkH5N_aKWVGBGGmOuA/edit?usp=sharing

12 years ago

556 upvotes – 435 comments

Penny Arcade – Surface Pro 3 update

http://penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/16/surface-pro-3-update

12 years ago

517 upvotes – 244 comments

The Pivot

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_pivot/

12 years ago

516 upvotes – 117 comments

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/starbucks-to-provide-free-college-education-to-thousands-of-workers.html?_r=0

12 years ago

489 upvotes – 194 comments

11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

https://blog.linode.com/2014/06/16/11th-linode-birthday-10-linode-plan/

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 133 comments

How to Fold a Julia Fractal

http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 47 comments

No Money, No Time

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/no-clocking-out/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 89 comments

Solar plant has generated “supercritical” steam

http://csironewsblog.com/2014/06/03/our-solar-team-sets-a-hot-and-steamy-world-record/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 74 comments

Architecting a Machine Learning System for Risk

http://nerds.airbnb.com/architecting-machine-learning-system-risk/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments

The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever

https://bikeindex.org/blogs/providing-the-largest-and-most-effective-bicycle-registry---ever

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 58 comments

Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-killer patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reveals-microsofts-secret-list-of-android-killer-patents

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 89 comments

An even slimmer pdf.js

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/06/16/an-even-slimmer-pdf-js/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 72 comments

Rust’s documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 47 comments

Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/06/16/announcing-internet-explorer-developer-channel.aspx

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 92 comments

Brand engagement is plummeting on Facebook

http://contently.com/strategist/2014/06/12/new-report-reveals-just-how-drastically-brand-engagement-is-plummeting-on-facebook/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 98 comments

Rum Deal: America’s booze laws are terrible

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/06/america_s_booze_laws_worse_than_you_thought.html

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 192 comments

Headerless Train Announcements

http://www.windytan.com/2014/06/headerless-train-announcements.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 8 comments

FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/06/flatbuffers-memory-efficient.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 62 comments

Eris: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization Framework

https://eris.projectdouglas.org/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

KnightOS, a third party OS for TI z80 calculators

https://github.com/KnightOS/KnightOS

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Assembly
123 upvotes – 39 comments

Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/microsoft-fpga/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 63 comments

Ki – A lisp for your JavaScript

http://ki-lang.org/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Azure – Machine Learning as a Service

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/machine-learning/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

The history of Android: The endless iterations of Google’s mobile OS

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Bannerman (YC S14) Delivers Bouncers On Demand

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/16/bannerman-lets-you-get-a-bouncer-for-your-events-on-demand/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)

https://blog.box.com/2014/06/box-acquiring-streem-bringing-the-cloud-to-your-desktop/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

IsoPlex: Popcorn time alternative maintained by Isohunt

http://isoplex.isohunt.to/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 60 comments

The Disruption Machine

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

Why don't you want to be a full time employee?

http://blog.vidutis.com/why-i-dont-want-to-be-full-time

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

GitHub Octicons

http://octicons.github.com/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

The 12 step process to download Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20140616/the-12-step-process-to-download-microsoft-sql-server-express-2014/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Hamlet – Simple and powerful reactive templating

http://hamlet.coffee/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator

http://jakewharton.com/android-needs-a-simulator/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Help MuckRock crowd-FOIA Stingray usage around the country

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jun/16/help-foia-how-police-across-country-are-watching-u/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

$4 ARM PSoC prototyping kits

http://www.cypress.com/?rID=92146

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

SanDisk to buy Fusion-io to boost flash storage business

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/16/us-sandisk-deals-idUSKBN0ER1A620140616

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27836293

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Planleaf – Manage tasks completely over email

http://www.planleaf.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

FOI Request: leet speak (FBI)

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/leet-speak-fbi-10154/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

George Orwell: Why I Write (1946)

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part47.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

New Aluminum-Air Battery Powered Car Travels 1,800 Kilometers Without a Recharge

http://www.21stcentech.com/aluminum-air-battery-powered-car-travels-1800-kilometers-recharge/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Hexo+: Autonomous Aerial Camera

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sqdr/hexo-your-autonomous-aerial-camera

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Linode has a $10 plan

https://www.linode.com/pricing

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Founders and mental health

http://blog.zactownsend.com/founders-and-mental-health

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Japan's Abe is the world's best leader right now?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-11/japan-s-abe-is-the-world-s-best-leader

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 83 comments

Freelance Inbox

https://freelanceinbox.com/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Goals Gone Wild: Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (2009)

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/09-083.pdf

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

The Browser Hacker's Handbook

https://browserhacker.com/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore/?

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Obtain a GitHub user's public keys

https://github.com/jimweirich.keys

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27868703

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

Quantum Randomness

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16217,y.2014,no.4,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

How America became uncompetitive and unequal

http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-america-became-uncompetitive-and-unequal/2014/06/13/a690ad94-ec00-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html?hpid=z3

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 68 comments
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