top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-27

Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/june/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html

12 years ago

376 upvotes – 116 comments

Android without the mothership

https://lwn.net/Articles/602521/

12 years ago

292 upvotes – 155 comments

µg: Open-source replacements of Google Apps and API on Android

https://github.com/microg

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 43 comments

Recovering SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Ocean Landing Video

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/06/recovering-falcon-9-ocean-landing-video-done/

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 32 comments

Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954905

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 128 comments

Lisp implementation in sed

https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp

12 years ago

★ 554 Common Lisp
207 upvotes – 60 comments

World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results

http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/06/26/world-cup-follow-up-update-of-winning-probabilities-and-betting-results/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 76 comments

Django 1.7 RC1

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/jun/26/17rc1/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 107 comments

Debunking the LZ4 "20 years old bug" myth

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2014/06/debunking-lz4-20-years-old-bug-myth.html

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 14 comments

Dart 1.5

http://news.dartlang.org/2014/06/dart-15-makes-it-easier-to-develop-for.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 160 comments

Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/27/top-designers-react-to-googles-new-material-design-language/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 78 comments

Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/apple-to-cease-development-of-aperture-and-transition-users-to-photos-for-os-x/

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 130 comments

Best practices in modern web projects

http://blog.arvidandersson.se/2014/06/17/best-practices-in-modern-web-projects

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 85 comments

Undefined behavior can result in time travel

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/06/27/10537746.aspx

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 88 comments

The Ghost in the MP3

http://ryanmaguiremusic.com/theghostinthemp3.html

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 34 comments

Teenage Haskell

http://twdkz.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/teenage-haskell/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine [pdf]

https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 13 comments

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

http://grasswire.com/#/hn

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 98 comments

The Worst Programming Interview Question

http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2014/06/24/the-worst-programming-interview-question/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 184 comments

Busting Modern Hardware Myths (2013)

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/13/busting-4-modern-hardware-myths-are-memory-hdds-and-ssds-rea.html?

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 37 comments

Q&A With Mt. Gox’s Karpelès: What Went Wrong?

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/06/27/qa-with-mt-goxs-karpeles-what-went-wrong/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments

Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.abstract

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Bitstamped

https://bitstamped.io/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Is TLS Fast Yet?

https://istlsfastyet.com/?

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 113 comments

Race Conditions == Random Number Generation

https://github.com/dasmithii/RCRand

12 years ago

★ 94 C MIT
91 upvotes – 50 comments

Digital identity cards: Estonia takes the plunge

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21605923-national-identity-scheme-goes-global-estonia-takes-plunge

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 77 comments

Last day to apply to YC Hacks

http://blog.ycombinator.com/last-day-to-apply-to-yc-hacks

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Police

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/what-your-cell-phone-cant-tell-the-police.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=diggtwitter

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Goop – Dependency Manager for Go

https://github.com/nitrous-io/goop

12 years ago

★ 772 Go MIT
71 upvotes – 43 comments

When Is It Legal to Lie in Negotiations? (1991)

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-is-it-legal-to-lie-in-negotiations/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Minimal Wikipedia redesign concept

http://wikipedia.moesalih.com/Hacker_news

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

Is TDD Dead?

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

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Police Can Get Access to Your Cellphone Data Even After the Supreme Court Ruling

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/police-can-get-access-to-your-cellphone-data-even-after-the-supreme-court-ruling

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

The new bower.io

http://bower.io/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

The Case for Message Passing in Swift

http://www.buckleyisms.com/home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-message-passing-in-swift.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Billions without Buzz

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/billion_dollar_apps.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Difference in management styles of Ulrich Drepper and Linus Torvalds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7953771

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

GNOME 3.13.3

http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/06/26/gnome-3-13-3/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Install Debian packages without starting daemons

http://major.io/2014/06/26/install-debian-packages-without-starting-daemons/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET

http://praxtime.com/2013/11/25/sagan-syndrome-pay-heed-to-biologists-about-et/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

ExtJS: a dream or a nightmare? (2013)

https://www.markhamstra.com/extjs/2013/extjs-dream-nightmare-jquery/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

Hyundai’s 2015 Genesis will automatically brake for speed cameras

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185365-hyundais-2015-genesis-will-automatically-brake-for-speed-cameras-awesome-or-a-terrifying-misuse-of-technology

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 55 comments

Meteor campaign to unlock $25k for CodeNow (YC W14 nonprofit)

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/06/23/meteor-challenge-2014

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

I got this Cease and Desist for scraping someone's site

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15758821/scraping.png

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 50 comments

Go Hercule

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/go-hercule/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

San Francisco would be a much better city with twice the population

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/san_francisco_housing_policy_it_would_be_a_better_city_if_twice_as_many.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Pilot lands faulty fighter jet on a stool at sea [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28065288

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 34 comments
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