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

Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest

http://www.underhanded-c.org/

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 44 comments

TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/ttip-explained-the-secretive-us-eu-treaty-that-undermines-democracy/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 117 comments

The Crystal Programming Language

http://crystal-lang.org/

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 171 comments

Java: Real or Not?

http://java.metagno.me/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

Distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/06/05/map-the-remarkable-distances-you-can-travel-on-a-european-train-in-less-than-a-day/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 197 comments

HTML is done

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/06/05/End-of-HTML

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 149 comments

Holding Your Breath in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/opinion/sunday/holding-your-breath-in-india.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 147 comments

Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine [video]

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2015/video/S5398.html

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

The real scars of Korean gaming

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32996009

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

Hermann Zapf (1918-2015)

http://typedrawers.com/discussion/987/hermann-zapf-8-november-1918-4-june-2015

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 26 comments

When did men stop wearing high heels?

http://qz.com/409254/why-did-men-stop-wearing-high-heels-anyway/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 92 comments

“Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-13-1.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

On Managing Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/on-managing-developers/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 62 comments

LASP: A Language for Distributed, Eventually Consistent Computations

http://lasp-lang.org

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Getting Things Done – Revised 2015

https://gettingthingsdone.com/store/product.php?productid=17035

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/the-online-privacy-lie-is-unraveling/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=143355112811564&w=2

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

Against Tulip Subsidies

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 83 comments

The Agency

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Migrating a Leiningen Project to Boot

http://blog.michielborkent.nl/blog/2015/06/06/from-leiningen-to-boot/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Kleiner Perkins says Pao is asking for $2.7M not to appeal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/kleiner-perkins-says-pao-is-asking-for-2-7-million-not-to-appeal/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 56 comments

Millionaires Who Are Frugal When They Don't Have to Be

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/your-money/skimping-on-the-splurges-even-as-a-millionaire.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 143 comments

LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible

https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt

11 years ago

★ 772 Pascal
73 upvotes – 49 comments

House Passes Amendments Blocking Funding for Undermining Encryption

http://massie.house.gov/press-release/press-release-house-passes-massie-amendment-strengthen-privacy-and-security

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

http://www.libimobiledevice.org/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Vector Clocks Are Easy (2010)

http://basho.com/why-vector-clocks-are-easy/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

The History of SEAL Team 6

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Turing Lecture: The Computer Science of Concurrency – The Early Years

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/6/187316-turing-lecture-the-computer-science-of-concurrency

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

Internet users are increasingly blocking ads, including on their mobiles

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21653644-internet-users-are-increasingly-blocking-ads-including-their-mobiles-block-shock

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 95 comments

Verified Correctness and Security of OpenSSL HMAC

http://katherineye.com/post/120638230126/verified-correctness-and-security-of-openssl-hmac

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: GraPHP, a PHP graph DB web framework

https://github.com/mikeland86/graphp

11 years ago

★ 137 PHP MIT
58 upvotes – 17 comments

JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web (2014)

http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 67 comments

JSON Labs Release: Native JSON Data Type and Binary Format

http://mysqlserverteam.com/json-labs-release-native-json-data-type-and-binary-format/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Concurrent Memory Deallocation in the Objective-C Runtime

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-05-29-concurrent-memory-deallocation-in-the-objective-c-runtime.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Some notes playing with HAProxy

https://ymichael.com/2015/06/06/some-notes-playing-with-haproxy.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (2005)

http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/list.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Seeing Networks in New York City

http://seeingnetworks.in/nyc/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Fleetzen – “Uber for moving large items”

https://fleetzen.com

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 52 comments

Overstock Will Issue a Private Bond Powered by Bitcoin Tech

https://www.wired.com/2015/06/overstock-will-issue-private-bond-powered-bitcoin-tech/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Sergey Brin's statement published as SEC filing

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312515211328/d935572ddefa14a.htm

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Open-source release of IoT app environment Calvin

http://www.ericsson.com/research-blog/cloud/open-source-calvin

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Nameko for Microservices

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/4/8/microservices-with-nameko/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 1 comments

A Crisis at the Edge of Physics

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/a-crisis-at-the-edge-of-physics.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 43 comments

AutoRefactor: Eclipse plugin to automatically refactor Java code bases

https://github.com/JnRouvignac/AutoRefactor

11 years ago

★ 176 Java
43 upvotes – 42 comments
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