top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-12

Snowden Document Search

https://search.edwardsnowden.com/

11 years ago

421 upvotes – 84 comments

Let's Encrypt Overview

http://www.cryptologie.net/article/274/lets-encrypt-overview/

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 114 comments

1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat and AC

http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 264 comments

Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful

http://www.jasq.org/just-another-scala-quant/inverting-binary-trees-considered-harmful

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 216 comments

PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS

https://github.com/purifycss/purifycss

11 years ago

★ 9.8k JavaScript MIT
231 upvotes – 64 comments

NixOS Linux

http://nixos.org/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Retroospect – How was your work week?

http://www.retroospect.com/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 112 comments

“An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 transit provider”

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/bzknm1t91kjq

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 100 comments

European Parliament TTIP vote postponed ‘because of huge public pressure’

http://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2015/06/10/european-parliament-ttip-vote-cancelled-because-of-huge-public-pressure-say-green-meps/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 109 comments

Financial Indicators for Startups at Different Stages

http://mattermark.com/important-financial-indicators-for-startups-at-every-stage-of-growth/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web

http://readlang.com/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 83 comments

When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/lost-hands-making-flatscreens-no-help

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 47 comments

Being Sneaky in C

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/being-sneaky-in-c

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 88 comments

What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming

http://statspotting.com/what-the-next-generation-needs-is-math-not-programming/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 146 comments

Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 81 comments

California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/california-announces-restrictions-on-water-use-by-farmers.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 211 comments

Show HN: A Repo of JavaScript Coding Challenges

https://github.com/kolodny/exercises

11 years ago

★ 4.2k JavaScript
127 upvotes – 31 comments

ES6 in Depth – Symbols

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/es6-in-depth-symbols/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents

http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 68 comments

Ornette Coleman Has Died

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/music/ornette-coleman-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-85-obituary.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Node9: Inferno kernel with LuaJIT instead of the Dis virtual machine

https://github.com/jvburnes/node9/blob/master/doc/node9-hackers-guide.txt

11 years ago

★ 420 C MIT
116 upvotes – 21 comments

Plans for Redis 3.2

http://antirez.com/news/89

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Introducing the San Francisco system font

https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 82 comments

How Estonia became a leader in technology

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/economist-explains-21?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/howdidestoniabecomealeaderintechnology

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

Etcd Clustering in AWS

http://engineering.monsanto.com/2015/06/12/etcd-clustering/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: A DOM text-selection highlight renderer

http://bowlingx.github.io/marklib/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Working at Microsoft (2004)

http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_microsoft.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup

http://www.wagonhq.com/blog/first-two-weeks-haskell-wagon

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Procedural graphics generation in C

http://blog.noctua-software.com/noc_turtle.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may not be legal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 89 comments

Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/zimbabwe-offers-new-exchange-rate-1-for-35000000000000000-old-dollars

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 92 comments

Boxing journeymen: sport's biggest losers or unappreciated artists?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/boxing/29520846

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Use pay phone to contact Australian Secret Intelligence Service recruitment

https://www.asis.gov.au/About-Us/Contact-us.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

After Water

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/06/02/after-water/?share=1

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

A venture capital firm says it invests in people “pre-idea, pre-team”

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/12/no-team-no-idea-no-problem-this-vc-will-fund-your-startup-anyway/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Ruins of forgotten empires: APL Languages (2013)

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/politics/obamas-trade-bills-face-tough-battle-against-house-democrats.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

What Broke the Magic Online Economy?

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/what-broke-the-magic-online-economy/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: How do you version control your microservices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705098

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

On Disliking Poetry

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n12/ben-lerner/diary

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/09/pico-iyer-the-open-road-dalai-lama/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: 'git inject' – amend commits other than HEAD

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705690

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 36 comments

Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining support in Switzerland

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/swiss-consider-welfare-overhaul-guaranteed-minimum-income/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 90 comments

The CEO of a $1 billion 'unicorn' startup admits we're in a bubble

http://www.businessinsider.com/1-billion-unicorn-ceo-yes-its-a-tech-bubble-2015-6

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 80 comments

Deuterium – Fully typed SQL query builder for Rust

https://github.com/deuterium-orm/deuterium

11 years ago

★ 170 Rust MIT
66 upvotes – 13 comments

Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and the End of Pets

http://blog.factual.com/docker-mesos-marathon-and-the-end-of-pets

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

Second-order logic explained in plain English

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5170

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Driverless Trucks to Hit Alberta’s Oilsands

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/06/driverless-truck-to-hit-albertas.html#sTWYpF5ihhk57RvP.99

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice (2014)

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-a-german-soda-became-hackers-fuel-of-choice

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

Haskell for OCaml programmers

http://science.raphael.poss.name/haskell-for-ocaml-programmers.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments
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