top 50% 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

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

Building Street Fighter II in Ruby [video]

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

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 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

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

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

Read-only deploy keys

https://github.com/blog/2024-read-only-deploy-keys

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-28/the-mac-app-store-won-t-make-you-rich

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 123 comments

EFF and Eight Other Privacy Orgs Back Out of NTIA Face Recognition Talks

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/eff-and-eight-other-privacy-organizations-back-out-ntia-face-recognition-multi

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 73 comments

To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/upshot/to-lose-weight-eating-less-is-far-more-important-than-exercising-more.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 227 comments

Academic publishers reap huge profits as libraries go broke

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publishers-reap-huge-profits-as-libraries-go-broke-1.3111535

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/shock-european-court-decision-websites-are-liable-for-users-comments/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde

http://mortada.net/drafts/the-traveling-tesla-salesman.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 36 comments

Exception Monitoring and Response

http://githubengineering.com/exception-monitoring-and-response/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Profile of Linus Torvalds

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-16/the-creator-of-linux-on-the-future-without-him

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

Gabriel's Horn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/06/what-its-like-to-have-severe-lyme-disease.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 65 comments

Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe

https://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes/190351/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

The Yuri Gadyukin Wikipedia Hoax (2013)

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/13362/greatest-wikipedia-hoax-ever

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter Admits He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150615/11565531344/reporter-who-wrote-sunday-times-snowden-propaganda-admits-that-hes-just-writing-what-uk-govt-told-him.shtml

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Python's Web Framework Benchmarks

http://klen.github.io/py-frameworks-bench/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Emacs IPython Notebook

http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

PredictionIO – an open-source ML stack built on Spark, HBase, and Spray

https://prediction.io/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powered web content

http://www.cloudstitch.io

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Bing Moving to Encrypt Search Traffic by Default

https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2015/06/15/bing-moving-to-encrypt-search-traffic-by-default/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

US Navy Soliciting Zero Days

https://threatpost.com/us-navy-soliciting-zero-days/113308

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

La Ruche qui dit Oui

http://avc.com/2015/06/la-ruche-qui-dit-oui/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Scaling Raft

http://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/scaling-raft/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

CVE-2015-1328: incorrect permission checks in overlayfs, Ubuntu local root

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/717

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Clojure Repl in Excel

https://github.com/whamtet/Excel-REPL

11 years ago

★ 322 Clojure
75 upvotes – 13 comments

Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33144515

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726492

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: CandyJS – transparent bridge between Go and JavaScript

https://github.com/mcuadros/go-candyjs

11 years ago

★ 452 Go MIT
72 upvotes – 15 comments

The Curious Phenomenon of Stochastic Resonance

https://medium.com/the-craftsman/the-curious-phenomenon-of-stochastic-resonance-b263449486eb

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Alchemist v1.0 is released – Elixir Tooling Integration Into Emacs

http://erlangcentral.org/alchemist-v1-0-is-released-elixir-tooling-integration-into-emacs/#.VX_e5GYeCT8.hackernews

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

The average American woman now weighs 166 pounds – as much as a 1960s man

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/8784389/america-weight-gain

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724759

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

The Wetsuitman

http://www.dagbladet.no/spesial/vatdraktmysteriet/eng/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Why the Return Trip Feels Shorter Than the Way There

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/06/why-the-trip-back-always-feels-shorter/395714/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

One Year with Node.js

https://www.joyent.com/blog/one-year-with-nodejs

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

Bootstrap 3.3.5 released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2015/06/15/bootstrap-3-3-5-released/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Classical mechanics worked problems book

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

A First Course in Linear Optimization (2013)

https://umich.app.box.com/s/aov81sye5qxlx0yyonhy23itstsjp4t4

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Go vs. Rust: Productivity vs. Performance (2014)

http://joshitech.blogspot.com/2014/11/go-vs-rust-productivity-vs-performance.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 64 comments

HUD Tenant: software vs. homeless in IOS

https://itunes.apple.com/sr/app/hud-tenant/id533650377?mt=8

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Progressive Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul

https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

NSA Research Papers

https://www.nsa.gov/research/publications/index.shtml

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

The creation of the modern laptop

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/06/from-laptops-that-needed-leg-braces-to-laplets-engineering-mastery

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment

http://scarlet.macaw.co/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

Singapore Rising: The Plot to Be the Next Big Tech Hub

http://recode.net/2015/06/16/singapore-rising-the-plot-to-be-the-next-big-tech-hub/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 60 comments
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