top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-20

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/empzeal-superhydrophobic-leaf/

12 years ago

What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel

https://thewinnower.com/discussions/what-happened-when-we-tried-to-publish-a-real-paper-investigating-time-travel

12 years ago

Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care

http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-teaching-class/

12 years ago

The first stable release of PyPy3

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/06/pypy3-231-fulcrum.html

12 years ago

8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-part-1/

12 years ago

Euclid: The Game

http://euclidthegame.org/

12 years ago

Webkit.js

http://trevorlinton.github.io/

12 years ago

Valuations

http://blog.samaltman.com/valuations

12 years ago

Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/cops-hid-use-of-phone-tracking-tech-in-court-documents-at-feds-request/

12 years ago

Java Pain

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/06/20/Hating-Java-in-2014

12 years ago

On Mining

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/06/19/mining

12 years ago

Mario Maker: Create Your Own Super Mario Levels

http://e3.nintendo.com/games/wiiu/mario-maker/

12 years ago

Boring SSL

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/20/boringssl.html

12 years ago

Tell your ISP to stop retaining your data

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/tell-your-isp-to-stop-retaining-your-data

12 years ago

Will 7nm And 5nm Really Happen?

http://semiengineering.com/will-7nm-and-5nm-really-happen/

12 years ago

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0035.002/10

12 years ago

Servo – Render in parallel

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/2609

12 years ago

★ 36.5k Rust MPL-2.0

CGrep: a context-aware grep for source codes

http://awgn.github.io/cgrep/

12 years ago

EBay Valet

http://ebay.com/valet

12 years ago

The Joy of Typing

https://medium.com/message/the-joy-of-typing-fd8d091ab8ef

12 years ago

Videos from Startup School NY are now online

http://blog.ycombinator.com/videos-from-startup-school-ny-are-now-online

12 years ago

Interesting Swift Features

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2014-06-20-interesting-swift-features.html

12 years ago

The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/magazine/its-official-the-boomerang-kids-wont-leave.html?hp

12 years ago

Run Your Own Massive Distributed Honeypot System

http://threatstream.github.io/mhn

12 years ago

Annyang.js – Let visitors control your site with voice commands

https://www.talater.com/annyang/

12 years ago

A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua

https://github.com/rxi/lovedos

12 years ago

★ 700 C MIT

Fun with Python bytecode – Generate and modify it using evolutionary algorithms

http://multigrad.blogspot.com/2014/06/fun-with-python-bytecode.html

12 years ago

House Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/house-of-representatives-passes-amendment-to-cut-off-funding-for-nsas-backdoor-searches/

12 years ago

Patent Trolls Are Mortally Wounded

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

12 years ago

EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-lofgren-amendment-passing-house

12 years ago

Sex, Lies, And Quantum Computers

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/sex-lies-and-quantum-computers/

12 years ago

Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Review and meta-analysis

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412014001354

12 years ago

Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

http://sndtst.com/

12 years ago

C++: Vector of Objects vs. Vector of Pointers

http://www.bfilipek.com/2014/05/vector-of-objects-vs-vector-of-pointers.html#.U6R__rdSBXc.hackernews

12 years ago

Maverick forerunner of artificial life and animation remains largely unknown

http://m.nautil.us/issue/14/mutation/meet-the-father-of-digital-life

12 years ago

Myths About Apple Design, From An Ex-Apple Designer

http://fastcodesign.com/3030923/4-myths-about-apple-design-from-an-ex-apple-designer

12 years ago

Uber plays hardball with early shareholders

http://fortune.com/2014/06/20/uber-plays-hardball-with-early-shareholders/

12 years ago

Typeracer – Improve/test typing speed via online typing races

http://play.typeracer.com/

12 years ago

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/index.html

12 years ago

Unmanned Aircraft to be Prohibited in America’s National Parks

http://home.nps.gov/news/release.htm?id=1601

12 years ago

Yo App Allegedly Hacked By College Students

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/yo-app-allegedly-hacked-by-college-students/

12 years ago

The Supreme Court doesn't understand software

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/20/5824426/the-supreme-court-doesnt-understand-software-and-thats-a-problem

12 years ago

Last day to apply for Startup School Europe

http://blog.ycombinator.com/last-day-to-apply-to-startup-school-europe

12 years ago

Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

https://zlauncher.com/

12 years ago

SpaceX launch webcast

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?#

12 years ago

Stormforger – Cloud-based Load Testing as a Service

https://stormforger.com/

12 years ago