top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-17

Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

http://wavepot.com

12 years ago

625 upvotes – 132 comments

Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw

12 years ago

380 upvotes – 356 comments

Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car

http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-experiment-horizon

12 years ago

380 upvotes – 108 comments

Dear Marc Andreessen

https://al3x.net/2014/06/17/dear-marc-andreessen.html

12 years ago

352 upvotes – 186 comments

The Abstinence Method – Dutch farmers say no to antibiotics for livestock

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/abstinence-method/

12 years ago

295 upvotes – 99 comments

UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance

https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/uk-intelligence-forced-to-reveal-secret-policy-for-mass-surveillance-of-residents

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 143 comments

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself (2013)

http://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-saves-you-from-yourself/?single=1

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 139 comments

Om Sweet Om: functional front-end engineering with ClojureScript and React

http://blog.getprismatic.com/om-sweet-om-high-functional-frontend-engineering-with-clojurescript-and-react/

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 68 comments

Literally worse than EA

http://notch.net/2014/06/literally-worse-than-ea/

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 138 comments

The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highest-paid-ceos-are-the-worst-performers-new-study-says/

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 136 comments

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte

http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte/

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 109 comments

YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 113 comments

Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/16/sherlock-public-domain-court-doyle-estate-copyright

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 51 comments

Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/scoop-a-glimpse-into-the-nytimes-cms/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 71 comments

OpenXcom 1.0

http://openxcom.org/2014/06/openxcom-1-0/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 50 comments

SolarCity has signed an agreement to acquire Silevo

http://blog.solarcity.com/silevo/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 45 comments

Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/17/this-new-bill-would-force-the-fcc-to-ban-internet-fast-lanes/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 104 comments

RethinkDB 1.13: pull data via HTTP, push data via changefeeds

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.13-release/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 52 comments

Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos

http://www.sling.me/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 152 comments

World Cup data in JSON

http://worldcup.sfg.io/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 47 comments

JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful

http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 140 comments

Where the term "Zero Day" comes from

http://markmaunder.com/2014/06/16/where-zero-day-comes-from/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

Not So Much ‘New York Poor’ as ‘Pittsburgh Rich’

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/talent-migration-work-creative-much-new-york-poor-pittsburgh-rich-82894/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 201 comments

Nokia 'paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago'

http://www.timminspress.com/2014/06/17/nokia-paid-millions-to-software-blackmailers-six-years-ago-tv

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 43 comments

Say Hello to Our New Web API

http://news.spotify.com/uk/2014/06/17/say-hello-to-our-new-web-api/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

VersionPress – Version Control Plugin for WordPress

http://versionpress.net/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD)

http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

Authentication for Single Page Apps

http://madhatted.com/2014/6/17/authentication-for-single-page-apps

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Switchboard – open-source email processing in Erlang

http://switchboard.spatch.co

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

How I started BetaList

https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/248083eb0c34

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application

https://github.com/hummingbird-me/hummingbird

12 years ago

★ 2.1k HTML Apache-2.0
91 upvotes – 39 comments

Managing Pricing

http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2013-07-16-michael-dearing

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

The Sorry State of Emacs Lisp Package Archives

http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2014/06/the-sorry-state-of-emacs-lisp-package.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

How does a soccer ball swerve?

https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/explained-how-does-soccer-ball-swerve-0617

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Artoo, the client-side scraping companion

http://medialab.github.io/artoo/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Lattice's $24.99 FPGA Evaluation Kit

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319267

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

In Defense of Recruiters

http://blog.42floors.com/in-defense-of-recruiters/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

A Rare Peek Inside Amazon’s Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/inside-amazon-warehouse/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet

http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-4k-monitor-doesnt-exist/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 86 comments

Meet the New Filepicker Team

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/89024877982/meet-the-new-filepicker-team

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#intro

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/jonathan-ive-on-apples-design-process-and-product-philosophy/?rref=technology&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&pgtype=article

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Building Better Bananas (2012)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Building-Better-Bananas

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 60 comments

Delivering Breaking Bad on Netflix in Ultra HD 4K

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/06/delivering-netflix-in-ultra-hd-4k.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

What Instacart taught us

http://blog.garrytan.com/what-instacart-taught-us-dont-be-a-dreamer-be-a-creator

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Announcing Unicode 7.0

http://unicode-inc.blogspot.com/2014/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-70.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 86 comments

Report: Chinese phone comes preloaded with spyware

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-chinese-phone-comes-preloaded-spyware-153543708--finance.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments
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