top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-04

FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/04/fbi-official-companies-should-help-us-prevent-encryption-above-all-else/

11 years ago

519 upvotes – 319 comments

Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155617891025177&set=a.404308695176.365039.717545176&type=1&theater

11 years ago

518 upvotes – 214 comments

Tmux has left SourceForge

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/commit/d2b35e19cdd61d163d26c4babccc1550e72a9623

11 years ago

★ 44.8k C ISC
504 upvotes – 180 comments

RedditStorage

https://github.com/Rossem/RedditStorage

11 years ago

★ 833 Python
371 upvotes – 166 comments

Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement

11 years ago

361 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

https://precursorapp.com

11 years ago

334 upvotes – 105 comments

Hello World

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/hello-world/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 98 comments

OpenSesame – A device that can open fixed-code garage doors in seconds

http://samy.pl/opensesame/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 106 comments

Eight years today (2012)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.html

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 82 comments

Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/04/isrg-ca-certs.html

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 37 comments

OpenCV 3.0 released

http://opencv.org/opencv-3-0.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 39 comments

Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/technology/computer-scientists-are-astir-after-baidu-team-is-barred-from-ai-competition.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 197 comments

Pentagon Responds to FOIA with Ultimatum

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/06/02/reporter-says-pentagon-agreed-to-give-up-docs-if-he-never-submits-another-foia-request/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 30 comments

How I tracked FBI aerial surveillance

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/how-i-tracked-fbi-aerial-surveillance/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

https://mapzen.com/projects/valhalla

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 54 comments

Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

https://www.houndify.com/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

US hit by 'massive data breach'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33017310

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 148 comments

Airbnb Engineering

http://airbnb.io/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 55 comments

Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again

http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html?

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

When 100 people lift a bus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32993891

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 93 comments

How US students get a university degree for free in Germany

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32821678

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 99 comments

Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Tell HN: Things I Learned about Credit Bureaus This Week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660848

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

The Next Twenty Years of Java: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/6/4/the_next_twenty_years_of_java_where_we_ve_been_and_where_we_re_going

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Announcing GitHub Japan

https://github.com/blog/2017-announcing-github-japan

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Font Effects

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Effects

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

Cloud Haskell

http://haskell-distributed.github.io/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

How apps track your location without asking for permission

http://blog.trustlook.com/2015/06/02/how-apps-tracking-your-location-without-asking-for-permission/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Bananalert

http://52.4.212.135:4567/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments

Our perfect submission

https://www.kaggle.com/c/restaurant-revenue-prediction/forums/t/13950/our-perfect-submission

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem

http://bravenewgeek.com/distributed-systems-are-a-ux-problem/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

How US students get a university degree for free in Germany

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

Knwl.js – A JavaScript NLP

http://loadfive.com/os/knwl/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

PCRE Heap Overflow in Regex Processing Lets Users Execute Arbitrary Code

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032453

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code (2000)

http://www.salon.com/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Is the Berlin Airport ready yet?

http://istderberschonfertig.de/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Native multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases

https://www.arangodb.com/2015/06/multi-model-benchmark/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

How We Spent $500 on Tech to Ship $2.6M of Soylent

https://medium.com/@alando46/how-we-spent-500-on-tech-to-ship-2-6m-of-soylent-3abfdcebee78

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Free Code Editor for Pair Programming with Compilers and Autocomplete

https://codepad.remoteinterview.io

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

The Hacker's Diet

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 85 comments

No, you're not 'running late', you're rude and selfish

http://vitamintalent.com/vitabites/no-you-are-not-running-late-you-are-rude-and-selfish

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 132 comments

Surviving reformats by infecting the hard disk firmware

http://www.malwaretech.com/2015/06/hard-disk-firmware-rootkit-surviving.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

Emmet – a plugin for text editors which improves HTML and CSS workflow

http://emmet.io/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

The perils of programmer education in the bazaar

http://blog.practicingruby.com/2015/06/04/the-perils-of-programmer-education-in-the-bazaar/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

New Gotthard tunnel garners worldwide admiration

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/railway-under-the-alps_new-gotthard-tunnel-garners-worldwide-admiration/41463332

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: What are some important math topics every programmer should know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659608

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Redis Lua sandbox escape

http://benmmurphy.github.io/blog/2015/06/04/redis-eval-lua-sandbox-escape/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Coinbase is indefinitely suspending its business in Wyoming

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1999937-coinbase-accounts

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 89 comments

From deep in Peru’s rainforests, isolated people emerge

http://news.sciencemag.org/latin-america/2015/06/feature-deep-peru-s-rainforests-isolated-people-emerge

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Coffee farm economics

http://www.baristaguildofeurope.com/thelearningproject/2015/3/31/coffee-farm-economics

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments
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