top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-13

How to Make Almost Anything

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.09/

11 years ago

477 upvotes – 35 comments

Why did Borland fail?

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail/answer/Danny-Thorpe?share=1&

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 261 comments

Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 312 comments

Why Go is doomed to succeed

https://texlution.com/post/why-go-is-doomed-to-succeed/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 313 comments

Software engineering blogs

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

11 years ago

★ 37.9k Ruby
192 upvotes – 33 comments

A YouTube built for gamers

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-youtube-built-for-gamers.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 125 comments

Why the US federal employee record breach is worse than others

http://caseysoftware.com/blog/why-this-security-breach-is-worse-than-all-the-others-combined

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 95 comments

Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks

https://www.facebook.com/dweekly/posts/10101729307500703

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 124 comments

Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause

https://backupfreak.com/2015/06/13/hack4detroit-hackathon-contract-bait-and-switch/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

A brief introduction to OCaml

http://www.lexicallyscoped.com/2015/06/06/intro-to-ocaml.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 36 comments

Announcing “Exploring ES6”

http://www.2ality.com/2015/06/announcing-exploring-es6.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 12 comments

30% of US Workforce Need License to Perform Their Job

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/01/26-time-to-examine-occupational-licensing-practices-kearney-hershbein-boddy

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 143 comments

Amazon Allowance

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=11453461011

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

68 Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2014/11/17/68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 29 comments

Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released

http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/06/12/ember-1-13-0-released.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 35 comments

The Difference Between Saying 'Thank You' in Chinese and English

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/thank-you-chinese/395660/?single_page=true

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 116 comments

HUSL – A human-friendly alternative to HSL

http://www.husl-colors.org/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers

https://www.webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

An Inside Look at Facebook’s Approach to Automation and Human Work

https://hbr.org/2015/06/an-inside-look-at-facebooks-approach-to-automation-and-human-work

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Downsides of Being Clever

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247201

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 78 comments

CiscoCloud Microservices Infrastructure

https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure

11 years ago

★ 2.9k Python Apache-2.0
81 upvotes – 11 comments

Solving Verbal Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07909v1.pdf

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Prototypes are Objects

http://raganwald.com/2015/06/10/mixins.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Paxos Explained from Scratch [pdf]

http://www.ux.uis.no/~meling/papers/2013-paxostutorial-opodis.pdf

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-dark-secret-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-age/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 118 comments

Men in committed, romantic relationships have lower testosterone

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13129483

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Tota11y – visualize and diagnose the accessibility issues on the web

http://khan.github.io/tota11y/?ref=hn

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

How to implement a neural network: Part 1

http://peterroelants.github.io/posts/neural_network_implementation_part01/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

The world of threats to the US is an illusion

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/04/11/have-seen-enemies-and-they-weak/Cho9J5Bf9jxIkHKIZvnVTJ/story.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 66 comments

Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/even-with-a-vpn-open-wi-fi-exposes-users/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

How Adulthood Happens

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/opinion/david-brooks-how-adulthood-happens.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Journey: A refugee's odyssey from Syria to Sweden

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jun/09/a-migrants-journey-from-syria-to-sweden-interactive

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: If we are in a VC bubble, how would the bust play out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9712868

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 66 comments

Tipu Sultan’s dream book

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2015/06/tipu-sultans-dream-book-io-islamic-3563.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

A Clojure library that implements the Logo programming language

https://github.com/google/clojure-turtle

11 years ago

★ 427 Clojure Apache-2.0
50 upvotes – 12 comments

California Cuts Farmers’ Share of Scant Water

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/california-announces-restrictions-on-water-use-by-farmers.html?_r=1

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 52 comments
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