top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-10

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but...

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

11 years ago

1257 upvotes – 654 comments

I quit the tech industry

http://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/

11 years ago

1017 upvotes – 548 comments

The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/06/a-blow-for-mobile-advertising-the-next-version-of-safari-will-let-users-block-ads-on-iphones-and-ipads/

11 years ago

494 upvotes – 409 comments

Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/10/duolingo-raises-45-million-series-d-round-led-by-google-ventures-now-valued-at-470m/

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 181 comments

Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33076527

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 165 comments

How We Designed for Performance and Scale

http://nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-we-designed-for-performance-scale/

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 62 comments

Generating Magic cards using deep, recursive neural networks

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/creativity/custom-card-creation/612057-generating-magic-cards-using-deep-recursive-neural

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 67 comments

JavaScript Cold War simulation

https://simonswain.com/coldwar

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 72 comments

ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/adp-sues-zenefits-for-defamation

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 169 comments

Google Launches Sidewalk Labs

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LarryPage/posts/M1twDYHaui3

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 180 comments

Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=831

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 72 comments

Musk files to provide Internet service from space

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/spacex-founder-files-with-government-to-provide-internet-service-from-space/2015/06/09/db8d8d02-0eb7-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 121 comments

iOS 8.3 Mail.app inject kit

https://github.com/jansoucek/iOS-Mail.app-inject-kit/tree/master

11 years ago

★ 356 PHP MIT
200 upvotes – 38 comments

Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33083050

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Clojure by Example

http://kimh.github.io/clojure-by-example/#hello,-world!!

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 35 comments

ADP Begins to Roll Out a Zenefits Competitor

http://blog.zenefits.com/adp-2/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 92 comments

If I Knew Then

http://hbs1963.com/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 32 comments

Unreal Engine 4.8 Released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-48-released

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 98 comments

Don't download software from SourceForge if you can help it

http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

The Logic of Stupid Poor People (2013)

http://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 118 comments

How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go

http://blog.parse.com/uncategorized/how-we-moved-our-api-from-ruby-to-go-and-saved-our-sanity/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 60 comments

Duqu 2.0 Hits Kaspersky Lab

https://securelist.com/blog/research/70504/the-mystery-of-duqu-2-0-a-sophisticated-cyberespionage-actor-returns/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 57 comments

To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Next to Rivals

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3047102/to-end-soccer-riots-this-brazilian-club-forces-fans-to-sit-next-to-rivals#2

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 53 comments

Indian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets a Cease and Desist from Injectors

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/10/indian-programmer-exposes-code-injection-gets-a-cease-and-desist-from-the-injectors/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 120 comments

NASA releases detailed global climate change projections

http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2293/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 136 comments

Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin)

http://popehat.com/2015/06/10/two-kinds-of-freedom-of-speech-or-strangeloop-vs-curtis-yarvin/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 189 comments

Taarof

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

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 83 comments

Frag: A Quake3 engine in Haskell

https://wiki.haskell.org/Frag

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 17 comments

A Tale of Two File Names: deconstructing the checksum in Windows 8.3 file names

https://usn.pw/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

Five Years of Google Closure

http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2015/06/five-years-of-google-closure.ashx

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Bitbucket announces Connect platform

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/06/10/atlassian-connect-for-bitbucket-a-new-way-to-extend-your-workflow-in-the-cloud/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 37 comments

Java Micro Frameworks

http://blog.takipi.com/java-micro-frameworks-the-new-trend-you-cant-ignore/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

Model-Based Machine Learning

http://www.mbmlbook.com/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 5 comments

Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep

http://blog.silentsignal.eu/2015/06/10/poisonous-md5-wolves-among-the-sheep/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 52 comments

The Death of the Von Neumann Architecture

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-death-of-the-von-neumann-architecture

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 75 comments

What Happened with Lego (2013)

http://www.realityprose.com/what-happened-with-lego/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 76 comments

Java 8: Replace traditional for loops with IntStreams

http://www.deadcoderising.com/2015-05-19-java-8-replace-traditional-for-loops-with-intstreams/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 117 comments

A video game contributed to Unix Development

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~lib215/reference/history/spacetravel.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Goodbye Sweden

http://swedenreport.org/2015/06/02/goodbye-sweden/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

Bicycle Parking Guidance System in Utrecht

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/bicycle-parking-guidance-system-in-utrecht/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Open-Sourced Kubernetes to Boost Its Cloud

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-kubernetes-says-future-cloud-computing/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Fear of Macros

http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

How Google Got Design

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046512/how-google-finally-got-design

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

Why I'm Breaking Up with the Apple Watch

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/fashion/why-im-breaking-up-with-the-apple-watch.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 82 comments

No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioactive Water

http://nautil.us/blog/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-fukushimas-endless-tanks-of-radioactive-water

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 135 comments

Moog Music Gives Employees More Control

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/arts/music/moog-music-gives-employees-more-control.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Spotify raises $526M at a $8.5B valuation

http://tech.eu/brief/teliasonera-spotify-funding/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 81 comments

Grace: Graceful restart for Go servers

https://github.com/facebookgo/grace

11 years ago

★ 4.8k Go MIT
74 upvotes – 34 comments

The Mystery of the Brand-New Bay Bridge's Corroded Steel

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/mystery-brand-new-bay-bridges-corroded-steel/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Writing a Non-Blocking JavaScript Quicksort

http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2015/06/writing-a-non-blocking-javascript-quicksort/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

VPC Flow Logs – Log and View Network Traffic Flows

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/vpc-flow-logs-log-and-view-network-traffic-flows/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Falsely Attributed: Famous quotes and the people who didn’t say them

http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/charts-graphs/falsely-attributed

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

Levenshtein Automata (2010)

http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levenshtein-Automata

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

Magma: Extending C with macros

https://github.com/eudoxia0/magma

11 years ago

★ 343 C
57 upvotes – 14 comments

Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa (2014)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/she-bought-a-sofa-on-installment-payments-now-its-straining-her-life/?src=longreads

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 67 comments

The Story of Microsoft's Surface Hub

http://www.fastcompany.com/3046819/the-untold-story-of-microsofts-surface-hub

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Six Days in North Korea

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-photos-video.html?_r=0

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments
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