top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-03

Let Snowden Come Home

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/its-time-to-let-edward-snowden-come-home

11 years ago

785 upvotes – 296 comments

MonolithFirst

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

11 years ago

539 upvotes – 188 comments

Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194

11 years ago

484 upvotes – 196 comments

WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/06/02/wikileaks-offers-100000-for-details-of-obamas-trade-deal/?hpid=z2

11 years ago

426 upvotes – 214 comments

Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/apples-tim-cook-delivers-blistering-speech-on-encryption-privacy/#.s4ng9g:nsp4

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 332 comments

GitUp makes Git painless

http://gitup.co/

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 256 comments

Japanese Change Trays

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/23/reference/change-trays/#.VW8ybJ-po0t

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 170 comments

How we uncovered the identity of popular spyware makers

https://medium.com/@pnevmatico/who-are-the-hacked-spyware-peddlers-68c114c3c285

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 28 comments

Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

http://nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?referrer=

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 303 comments

What Twitter Can Be

http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft announces support for SSH

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420&mode=expanded

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 121 comments

UN Experts Condemn the Human Rights Costs of Secret Trade Agreements

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/ten-un-experts-condemn-human-rights-costs-secret-trade-agreements

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 76 comments

The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it

http://andreaspapathanasis.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-tech-arms-race-in-aaa-and-why-im.html

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: Explore 16 Years of Green Card Applications

http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Differential Equations Explained

http://lewis500.github.io/diffeq/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 75 comments

Concise electronics for geeks (2010)

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 22 comments

Cancer Doctor Leading the Attack on Astronomical Drug Prices

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/this-cancer-doctor-is-leading-the-attack-on-astronomical-drug-prices

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 111 comments

OpenFL: a hardware-accelerated cross-platform reimplementation of the Flash API

http://www.openfl.org/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment

http://www.bashton.com/blog/2015/kubernetes-future-of-deployment/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 76 comments

The Google Stack [pdf]

http://malteschwarzkopf.de/research/assets/google-stack.pdf

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

Midipix: Posix for Windows

http://midipix.org/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 88 comments

Facebook and PGP

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2015-06/2015-06-02.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 59 comments

Hound voice search NLP demo [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-of-aws-sdk-for-go-is-now-available/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Use wealthbot.io to easily setup your own portfolio management platform

https://github.com/wealthbot-io/wealthbot

11 years ago

★ 679 PHP
114 upvotes – 58 comments

Defining an Escher Drawing with Julia

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/shashi/ijulia-notebooks/blob/master/funcgeo/Functional%20Geometry.ipynb

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 5 comments

InfluxDB Clustering Design – Neither CP or AP

http://influxdb.com/blog/2015/06/03/InfluxDB_clustering_design.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

How Much Do Skyscrapers Actually Move?

http://gizmodo.com/how-much-do-skyscrapers-actually-move-1707522178

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Haunting message penned from Soviet 'slaves' found buried in Urals theatre

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0241-haunting-message-penned-in-nail-polish-from-soviet-slaves-found-buried-in-urals-theatre/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

New PayPal policy opts you into getting robocalls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/03/a-horrible-new-paypal-policy-opts-you-into-getting-robocalls/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Arrow's impossibility theorem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

College Dropouts Thrive in Tech

http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-dropouts-thrive-in-tech-1433323802

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 112 comments

Autodesk’s John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991

http://www.cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Shen-js Browser REPL

http://gravicappa.github.io/shen-js/shen.html#/.doc/welcome.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Making an Untraceable AR-15 ‘Ghost Gun’

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/i-made-an-untraceable-ar-15-ghost-gun/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Neural network OCR in JavaScript

https://github.com/mateogianolio/mlp-character-recognition

11 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 12 comments

An email template for candidates frustrated with unresponsive employers

http://blog.landing.jobs/an-email-template-for-candidates-frustrated-with-unresponsive-employers/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments

What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

Hammer.js: Add touch gestures to your page

http://hammerjs.github.io/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/fully-dressed-and-preserved-350-year-old-corpse-of-french-noblewoman-found

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Erik Satie: Velvet Gentleman

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n11/nick-richardson/velvet-gentleman

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Blackbeard's Ship Confirmed Off North Carolina (2011)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110829-blackbeard-shipwreck-pirates-archaeology-science/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/the-quest-to-save-todays-gaming-history-from-being-lost-forever/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Introduction to Concurrency

http://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/introconcurrency/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Lecture Notes on Static Analysis [pdf]

http://www.itu.dk/people/brabrand/static.pdf

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

Goodnight Dune

http://goodnightdune.com

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Skype falls victim to text chat bug

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32990725

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Running a 20 People Business from the Beach

http://blog.mobilejazz.com/running-a-20-people-business-from-the-beach/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments

AMD Launches Carrizo

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9319/amd-launches-carrizo-the-laptop-leap-of-efficiency-and-architecture-updates

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

Apple Boss Tim Cook Hits Out at Facebook and Google

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32991036

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 71 comments

Which character should represent the apostrophe? The Unicode committee is wrong

https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/which-unicode-character-should-represent-the-english-apostrophe-and-why-the-unicode-committee-is-very-wrong/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Meteor client for Android

https://github.com/delight-im/Android-DDP/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 274 Java Apache-2.0
52 upvotes – 6 comments

Category Theory for Scientists and Engineers (2013) [pdf]

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s996-category-theory-for-scientists-spring-2013/textbook/MIT18_S996S13_textbook.pdf

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

High Performance Machine Learning Through Codesign and Rooflining [pdf]

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-169.pdf

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments
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