top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-17

From Asm.js to WebAssembly

https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/

11 years ago

897 upvotes – 331 comments

DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke

http://technical.ly/philly/2015/06/16/duckduckgo-cnbc/

11 years ago

636 upvotes – 245 comments

Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-deemed-employees-by-california-labor-commission/

11 years ago

580 upvotes – 593 comments

Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/17/apple_hosed_boffins_drop_0day_mac_ios_research_blitzkrieg/

11 years ago

501 upvotes – 139 comments

ECMAScript 2015 Approved

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 105 comments

Early vs. Beginning Coders

http://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-coders/

11 years ago

414 upvotes – 173 comments

AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/17/att-just-got-hit-with-a-100-million-fine-after-slowing-down-its-unlimited-data/

11 years ago

367 upvotes – 155 comments

Projects the Hard Way – Coding Projects for Early Coders

http://projectsthehardway.com/

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer

http://blog.ustunozgur.com/javascript/programming/books/videos/2015/06/17/how_to_be_a_great_javascript_software_developer.html

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 164 comments

Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731111

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 232 comments

Algorithmic surrealism: A slow-motion guide to high-frequency trading

http://suitpossum.blogspot.com/2015/06/high-frequency-trading-guide.html

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 33 comments

Aneurysm

http://lithub.com/aneursym/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9729916

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 284 comments

A Look inside Google’s Data Center Networks

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-Googles-Data-Center-Networks.html?m=1

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership and Internal Structure

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/microsoft-shakes-up-its-leadership-and-internal-structure-as-its-fiscal-year-comes-to-a-close/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 106 comments

The 100-year-old scientist who pushed the FDA to ban artificial trans fat

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/06/16/the-100-year-old-scientist-who-pushed-the-fda-to-ban-artificial-trans-fat/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 86 comments

Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2015

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

A reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pebP891V0c

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 83 comments

My Position On The Disney Layoffs

https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 140 comments

The Final ES2015 (ES6) Draft

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts#final_draft

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 72 comments

Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-worse.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

An Insider’s Guide to Shenzhen Manufacturing

http://makezine.com/magazine/making-in-shenzhen/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/africa-dwarfs-china-europe-and-the-u-s/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

Hackpad released as opensource, then nothing

https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1

11 years ago

★ 189 Java
117 upvotes – 27 comments

Hacking Elixir's Syntax

http://blog.heldscal.la/elixir-hacking.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 6 comments

Why do you not make the code available under a 'source code repository'?

http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#no-source-code-repository

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 92 comments

Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals

http://blog.codeship.com/following-a-select-statement-through-postgres-internals

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 6 comments

In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/in-turnabout-disney-cancels-tech-worker-layoffs.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 67 comments

The Increasing Scarcity of Helium

http://www.priceonomics.com/the-increasing-scarcity-of-helium/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Welcome Amy, Susan, Colleen, and Steven

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-amy-susan-colleen-and-steven

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Exceptional results: error handling in C# and Rust

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2015/06/17/exceptional-results-error-handling-in-csharp-and-rust

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What are the best tools for analyzing large bodies of text?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9733883

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on Mac OS X and iOS

http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06836

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Inside an Official GameBoy Dev Cartridge

http://hentenaar.com/gb-dev-cart

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Add bytecode cache to Ruby

https://github.com/github/ruby/pull/27

11 years ago

★ 199 Ruby
75 upvotes – 46 comments

Flocker 1.0: Container Data Management for Docker

https://clusterhq.com/2015/06/17/flocker-1-0/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Coinbase Launches Instant Exchange

https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/06/17/instant-exchange/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Tell HN: Kevin will be on Show HN again this Friday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735139

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Comparing Node.js with Tcl

http://pietersz.co.uk/2015/06/beating-node-js

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/in-turnabout-disney-cancels-tech-worker-layoffs.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

Instacat – the kitten delivery service

http://www.instacat.info

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

Mapbox raises $52M Series B

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/series-b/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

YubiKey – Making secure login easy

https://www.yubico.com/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Unicorns

https://stratechery.com/2015/unicorns/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/science/retractions-coming-out-from-under-science-rug.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Kindle Paperwhite

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OQVZDJM

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 68 comments

How to Lose Money on Paid Marketing

http://jamiequint.com/how-to-lose-money-on-paid-marketing/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

Fully Homomorphic Encryption Without Bootstrapping [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/474.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Internetarchive.bak

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK&hn

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments
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