top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-06-16

Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909

11 years ago

550 upvotes – 176 comments

How to receive a million packets per second

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets/

11 years ago

542 upvotes – 86 comments

KeePass – questionable security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727297

11 years ago

366 upvotes – 221 comments

Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a record

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/microscopic_footage_of_a_needle_moving_across_the_grooves_of_a_record

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 60 comments

When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid

https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 118 comments

Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive

http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/16/optimizing-an-important-atom-primitive.html

11 years ago

294 upvotes – 90 comments

Y Combinator growth equity fund?

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645142/000164514215000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 67 comments

U.S. Bans Trans Fat

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-16/u-s-bans-trans-fat-in-a-boost-for-palm-oil-and-a-blow-for-pie

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 324 comments

Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk

http://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-special-type-of-ja-1711008881

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 109 comments

Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/16/lets-encrypt-launch-schedule.html

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724031

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 69 comments

Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK

https://github.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 2.2k
216 upvotes – 169 comments

Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS

http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 78 comments

Raspberry Pi Official Case

https://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-official-case/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 96 comments

Linode turns 12, transitions from Xen to KVM

https://blog.linode.com/2015/06/16/linode-turns-12-heres-some-kvm/comment-page-1/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 49 comments

Building Street Fighter II in Ruby [video]

http://nikolay.rocks/2015-06-16-building-streetfighter

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans

https://medium.com/@InertialLemon/apple-s-bitcode-telegraphs-future-cpu-plans-a7b90d326228

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 98 comments

Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/baseball/st-louis-cardinals-hack-astros-fbi.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 114 comments

Why Learn Basic Electronics? [video]

http://www.eevblog.com/2015/05/27/eevblab-10-why-learn-basic-electronics

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple's new not-quite-favicon syntax causing problems in other browsers

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2015Jun/0011.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 48 comments
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