top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-05

Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups

http://autopsy.io/

11 years ago

493 upvotes – 186 comments

Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea

http://www.candyjapan.com/nobodys-going-to-steal-your-idea

11 years ago

424 upvotes – 196 comments

Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Pocket Integration

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 183 comments

In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 208 comments

GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/givedirectly-cash-transfers_n_7339040.html?

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 128 comments

Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 49 comments

Goodbye?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9665577

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 114 comments

Three months of Rust

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2015/06/04/three-months-of-rust/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 114 comments

Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer

http://opensource.com/life/15/6/five-linux-programs

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 105 comments

A year with Go

http://vagabond.github.io/rants/2015/06/05/a-year-with-go/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 222 comments

Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/06/05/visual-studio-online-supports-true-cross_2d00_platform-development-_2200_team-explorer-everywhere_2200_-tee-jenkins-git-xcode-mac-tfs-vso-_2200_visual-studio-online_2200_.aspx

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 151 comments

Steam Hardware pre-order

http://store.steampowered.com/hardware

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 199 comments

Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end

https://blog.wearewizards.io/using-protobuf-instead-of-json-to-communicate-with-a-frontend

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 95 comments

An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation

https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#the-memory-sinkhole-unleashing-an-x86-design-flaw-allowing-universal-privilege-escalation

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 66 comments

Giorgio Armani didn't accomplish anything until his forties

http://www.gq.com/style/celebrities/201506/giorgio-armani-interview

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 48 comments

Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg93416.html

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 83 comments

Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 44 comments

Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior

http://blog.parsely.com/post/1928/cass/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 77 comments

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple Is the New Pimco

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-05/tim-cook-is-giving-pimco-a-run-for-its-money-in-the-bond-market

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 106 comments

Joxa – A Modern Lisp for the Erlang VM

http://joxa.org/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month

http://stackshare.io/soylent/how-soylent-ships-a-trillion-calories-per-month

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 226 comments

Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib

https://github.com/Dead2/zlib-ng

11 years ago

★ 14 Zlib
100 upvotes – 45 comments

When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/upshot/when-its-a-crime-to-withdraw-money-from-your-bank.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 128 comments

Lucene: The Good Parts

http://blog.parsely.com/post/1691/lucene/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/facebook-reforms-inmate-account-takedown-process

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 70 comments

CRISPR, the Disruptor

http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-the-disruptor-1.17673?WT.mc_id=FBK_NATURE_1505_NEWSFCRISPR_PORTFOLIO

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Gary Kildall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

A 3D live map of the London Underground

http://brunoimbrizi.com/experiments/#/07

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Brunch: Replace gulp, grunt and increase your dev speed

https://github.com/brunch/brunch-guide/blob/master/content/en/chapter01-whats-brunch.md

11 years ago

★ 558 MIT
85 upvotes – 55 comments

Crossrail: The monster tunnelling under London streets

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150602-crossrail-the-monster-tunnelling-under-london-streets

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Hard-Core Career Advice For A 13-Year-Old

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/31/hard-core-career-advice-for-a-13-year-old/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 89 comments

How I became a drug cheat athlete to test the system

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32983932

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

Presentation anti-patterns

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/06/speaker-style-bingo-10-presentation.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

BlueGreenDeployment (2010)

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

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

What's Going on with the Trade in Services Agreement

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121967/whats-really-going-trade-services-agreement

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32957610

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

In Greek Debt Puzzle, the Game Theorists Have It

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/business/in-greek-debt-puzzle-the-game-theorists-have-it.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Amazon, Google race to get human DNA into the cloud

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/05/us-health-genomics-cloud-insight-idUSKBN0OL0BG20150605

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

The High Bridge from Manhattan to the Bronx will reopen after 40 years

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/nyregion/a-stunning-link-to-new-yorks-past-makes-a-long-awaited-return.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Hiccup – A subset of Clojure used for generating HTML

http://hiccup.space

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/smlbook/book.pdf

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Nodejs-Tools-for-Visual-Studio

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Andreas Gal is leaving Mozilla

http://andreasgal.com/2015/06/05/new-adventure/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Can your brain really be full?

https://theconversation.com/health-check-can-your-brain-be-full-40844

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

The Lost Man

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/somerton-man/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Movie studio takeover

http://www.cobaltix.com/project2.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

Bluntly: Serverless, NAT-breaking P2P with public keys and BitTorrent DHT

https://github.com/danoctavian/bluntly

11 years ago

★ 265 JavaScript MIT
58 upvotes – 16 comments

Aerosolve – A machine learning package built for humans

http://airbnb.io/aerosolve/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 1 comments

A fresh look at the Linux kernel's device model

http://lwn.net/Articles/645810/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 1 comments

Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/can-the-swiss-watchmaker-survive-the-digital-age.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students

https://crushpaper.com/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Free unlimited private repos from Microsoft

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/version-control-vs

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

Hunter S. Thompson on finding your purpose

http://yourfriendshouse.com/uncategorised/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Genius API

http://genius.com/developers?api=1

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments
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