top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-06-20

Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears

http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html

11 years ago

530 upvotes – 109 comments

Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-with-their-blood-10310101.html

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 110 comments

How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 126 comments

You Draw It: Family Income vs. College Attendence

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/28/upshot/you-draw-it-how-family-income-affects-childrens-college-chances.html?WT.mc_id=2015-JUNE-FB-PROPENSITY_EDUCATION-AUD_DEV-0616-0630

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 62 comments

X86 mov is turing complete: mov-only compiler

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

11 years ago

★ 10.1k C
238 upvotes – 54 comments

Stealing keys from PCs using a radio: cheap electromagnetic attacks

http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 44 comments

Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi password to strangers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9750797

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 103 comments

No Time to Be Nice at Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/is-your-boss-mean.html

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 128 comments

Answer to a 150-Year-Old Math Conundrum Brings More Mystery

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/answer-150-year-old-math-conundrum-brings-mystery/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 33 comments

GNU social and GNU FM

https://gnu.io/

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption

https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 42 comments

Racket v6.2

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/AOnzfwcYyV0

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 44 comments

How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/20/wikileaks-jacob-appelbaum-google-investigation/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

Bruce Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/course-china-russia-snowden-documents

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/european-copyright-madness-court-strikes-down-law-allowing-users-rip-their-own-cds

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 71 comments

Protest ICANN's Proposal to Kill WHOIS Privacy

https://respectourprivacy.com

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 47 comments

Learn ECMAScript6 by doing it

http://es6katas.org/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Leaked Saudi Arabia Cables

http://time.com/3928584/wikileaks-saudi-arabia-cables/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments

The Hunt for the Financial Industry's Most-Wanted Hacker

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-18/the-hunt-for-the-financial-industry-s-most-wanted-hacker

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 3 comments

EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist

http://www.ebayinc.com/node/7885

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments
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