top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-01

Section 215 Expires For Now

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/section-215-expires-now

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 158 comments

Dear Paul

http://zedshaw.com/2015/06/01/dear-paul/

11 years ago

469 upvotes – 168 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639001

11 years ago

429 upvotes – 777 comments

Is ReactJS really fast?

http://blog.500tech.com/is-reactjs-fast/

11 years ago

409 upvotes – 186 comments

Securing Email Communications from Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protecting-the-graph/securing-email-communications-from-facebook/1611941762379302

11 years ago

399 upvotes – 164 comments

Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys-altera-for-16-7-billion-as-chip-deals-accelerate

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 140 comments

Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-buys-german-to-do-list-startup-6wunderkinder-1433177558?mod=yahoo_hs&ref=yfp

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 132 comments

How Is Critical Life or Death Software Tested?

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-is-critical-life-or-death-software-tested

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 154 comments

Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/06/01/hello-world-windows-10-available-on-july-29/

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 234 comments

PicoC: A very small C interpreter

https://github.com/zsaleeba/picoc

11 years ago

★ 1.4k
164 upvotes – 50 comments

TSA failure: Investigators able to smuggle weapons past checks in 95% of tests

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/national/tsa-failure-investigators-able-to-smuggle-weapons-past-airport-checks-in-95-percent-of-tests

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639011

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 269 comments

Go channels, goroutines and GC available in Nim

http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1278

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 83 comments

PyPy 2.6.0 released

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/06/pypy-260-release.html

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

The Next Feature Fallacy

http://andrewchen.co/the-next-feature-fallacy-the-fallacy-that-the-next-new-feature-will-suddenly-make-people-use-your-product/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Real time bidding in Erlang (2012)

http://ferd.ca/rtb-where-erlang-blooms.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer

http://nicroto.github.io/viktor/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

High Frequency Trading Strategies

http://jonathankinlay.com/index.php/2015/05/high-frequency-trading-strategies/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: The first websynth that's 100% mappable to a MIDI controller

http://github.com/stevengoldberg/juno106

11 years ago

★ 528 JavaScript
122 upvotes – 46 comments

Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling (2013)

http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

Cure for cancer one step closer after 'spectacular' breakthrough

http://europe.newsweek.com/cure-cancer-one-step-closer-after-spectacular-breakthrough-328039

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments

The programming talent myth

https://lwn.net/Articles/641779/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 133 comments

TIS-100 Tessellated Intelligence System

http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Vim's speed is not really the point (2013)

https://wrongsideofmemphis.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/vim-speed-is-not-really-the-point/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 132 comments

Your Employer Is Not Your Friend, and Young People Know It

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/your-employer-isnt-your-friend-and-millennials-know-it.html/?a=viewall

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

My Favorite Algorithm: Metropolis-Hastings

http://flynnmichael.com/2015/06/01/my-favorite-algorithm-metropolis-hastings/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot challenge

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/01/amazon-picking-challenge-winner/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

China’s stock market bubble: A goring concern

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21652337-economic-dangers-chinas-manic-bull-market-goring-concern

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Measuring data structures: Firefox (C++) vs. Servo (Rust)

http://njn.valgrind.org/measuring.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

How necessary are var, let, and const?

http://raganwald.com/2015/05/30/de-stijl.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

Mesos, Omega, Borg: A Survey

http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2015/mesos_omega_borg_survey.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Carnegie Mellon Reels After Uber Lures Away Researchers

http://on.wsj.com/1AH8LnY

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 104 comments

Sand Hill Exchange Fined $20,000 by SEC

http://blog.sandhill.exchange/post/120465743273/sand-hill-exchange-fined-20-000-by-sec

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 117 comments

Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/31/net-of-insecurity-part-2/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Don't Learn C the Wrong Way

http://hentenaar.com/dont-learn-c-the-wrong-way

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Operational PGP

https://gist.github.com/grugq/03167bed45e774551155

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Taste for Makers (2002)

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Writing code on whiteboards is hard

http://ericlippert.com/2015/06/01/writing-code-on-whiteboards-is-hard/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32811866

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Snap: Programming for Everyone

https://blog.miosoft.com/2015/02/snap-programming-for-everyone/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639007

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 129 comments

The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 83 comments

Strncpy() is not a “safer” strcpy()

http://the-flat-trantor-society.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-strncpy-is-not-safer-strcpy.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 70 comments

Web Decay Graph

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/05/25/URI-decay

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

Mondo – A “Full Stack” Mobile-First Bank

https://getmondo.co.uk/blog

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Windows 10, coming July 29, free to Win7 and 8.1 users

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-10-faq

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Streaks, a todo list that helps you form good habits

http://streaksapp.com

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking the nervous system

http://mosaicscience.com/story/hacking-nervous-system

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Solar Impulse forced to land in Japan

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32955880

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong (2014)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Korean is virtually two languages, which is a problem for North Korean defectors

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-05-19/korean-today-virtually-two-languages-and-thats-problem-north-korean-defectors

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 59 comments

He’s fired. Who’s next?

http://www.macleans.ca/work/jobs/hes-fired-whos-next/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 76 comments

Iran’s ‘Generation Normal’

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b110ec2e-04b0-11e5-95ad-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3blsvzkKF

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments
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