top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-11

What Is Code?

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

11 years ago

1384 upvotes – 356 comments

Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship

http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882

11 years ago

475 upvotes – 117 comments

Oculus Rift

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/

11 years ago

430 upvotes – 370 comments

Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/

11 years ago

413 upvotes – 260 comments

Creating a language using only assembly language

https://speakerdeck.com/nineties/creating-a-language-using-only-assembly-language

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 65 comments

Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 40 comments

Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 352 comments

What's the third most common element?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-s-the-third-most-common-element-e31790e3638

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 65 comments

Computer scientists prove that a 40-year-old algorithm is optimal

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/algorithm-genome-best-possible-0610

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 63 comments

Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-11/oracle-sales-eroded-as-startups-embrace-souped-up-free-software

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 137 comments

Experimental Dependency Vendoring in Go 1.5

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/74zjMON9glU/4lWCRDCRZg0J

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 47 comments

19 days to build a 57-storey tower

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-3cca82c0-af80-4c3a-8a79-84fda5015115

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 111 comments

Tarsnap GUI for the desktop

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg01123.html

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 52 comments

Trine – A utility library for functional programming in JavaScript

https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/trine

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript ISC
159 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

http://deepstream.io/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 41 comments

Announcing Apache Spark 1.4

http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/11/announcing-apache-spark-1-4.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

MicroPython and the European Space Agency

http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=744

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network

http://elnn.snucse.org/sandbox/music-rnn/#hn

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

FTC goes after board game campaign gone wrong in first crowdfunding case

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/the-ftcs-first-crowdfunding-enforcement-is-over-a-failed-board-game-on-kickstarter/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 83 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 38 comments

Law Enforcement’s “Warrior” Problem

http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/law-enforcements-warrior-problem/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 151 comments

The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-vagus-nerve-a-back-door-for-brain-hacking/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=061115

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

Reassessing Airport Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_air.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 105 comments

Fermented foods, neuroticism, and social anxiety: An interaction model

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25998000

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Things We Still Don’t Know About Water

http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/five-things-we-still-dont-know-about-water

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

PolyConf 2015 – A multi-disciplinary conference for polyglot programmers

http://polyconf.com/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 84 comments

Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/11/christopher-lee-dies-at-the-age-of-93-dracula

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 7 comments

Lost Brother in Yosemite

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/sports/dean-potter-final-yosemite-jump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenBazaar Is Entering a New Phase with Funding

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-entering-a-new-phase-with-funding/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Kevin Rose Moves on from Silicon Valley to Watches

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/kevin-rose-moves-on-from-silicon-valley-to-watches/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

https://gist.github.com/pixeltrix/e2298822dd89d854444b

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Collateral Damage

http://textslashplain.com/2015/06/10/collateral-damage/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

How Mt. Gox Imploded

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-mt-gox-imploded

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Reviving Lisp for smaller programmable machines

http://picolisp.com/wiki/!download?-A300

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Bond crash across the world as deflation trade goes wrong

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11666355/Bond-crash-across-the-world-as-deflation-trade-goes-horribly-wrong.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Performance Comparison Between ArangoDB, MongoDB, Neo4j and OrientDB

https://www.arangodb.com/2015/06/performance-comparison-between-arangodb-mongodb-neo4j-and-orientdb/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Crawling Billions of Pages: Building Large Scale Crawling Cluster, part 1

http://engineering.bloomreach.com/crawling-billions-of-pages-building-large-scale-crawling-cluster-part-1/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Launching javOSize the next generation of java profiler

http://www.javosize.com/gettingStarted/nextGenProfiler.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

The Unkillable Demon King

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13035450

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

Open-Sourcing Pinot: Scaling the Wall of Real-Time Analytics

http://engineering.linkedin.com/pinot/open-sourcing-pinot-scaling-wall-real-time-analytics

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

InfluxDB v0.9.0 released with developer and production support

http://influxdb.com/blog/2015/06/11/InfluxDB-v0_9_0-released-with-developer-and-production-support.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

China’s Troubling Robot Revolution

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/chinas-troubling-robot-revolution.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

The New M4 Instance Type

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-new-m4-instance-type-bonus-price-reduction-on-m3-c4/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-Held Video

http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/121197583491/dynamic-3d-avatar-creation-from-hand-held-video

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

https://gist.github.com/ohanhi/0d3d83cf3f0d7bbea9db

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Scala development in Vim

https://advancedweb.hu/2015/06/11/vim-scala/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

ClojureScript de Jong Attractor

https://github.com/cjlarose/de-jong

11 years ago

★ 81 Clojure
53 upvotes – 10 comments

Xray and Dask: Out-Of-Core, Labeled Arrays in Python

http://continuum.io/blog/xray-dask

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple pushes HTTPS for 3rd-party apps, will they take their own advice?

https://bgentry.io/blog/2015/06/11/apple-app-transport-security-https

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

The Life of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/the-sad-strange-life-of-a-tyrants-daughter/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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