top 50% 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

Argentina's voting machine system leaked?

https://github.com/prometheus-ar/vot.ar

11 years ago

★ 148 JavaScript
97 upvotes – 76 comments

Resources to learn Go

http://andygrunwald.com/blog/2015/06/20/resources-to-learn-golang/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

The Power of PCRE Regular Expressions (2012)

https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

BASIC in C++

https://github.com/rollbear/basicpp

11 years ago

★ 179 C++ Unlicense
91 upvotes – 18 comments

How I Grew My Company from $100 to $400M

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246690

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Rust for Clojurists

https://gist.github.com/oakes/4af1023b6c5162c6f8f0

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Escaping VMware Workstation Through COM1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIYgqrytPK-CFWfqDntraA_Fwi2Ov-YBgMtl5hdrYd4/mobilebasic?pli=1

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Android is a Better Platform for Startups than iOS

https://medium.com/@pents90/the-story-of-appchat-and-why-android-is-a-better-platform-for-startups-than-ios-6d0847427fb1

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

Amazon's New Plan to Pay Authors Every Time Someone Turns a Page

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/amazon-publishing-authors-payment-writing/396269/?single_page=true

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011)

http://www.tinyclouds.org/iocp-links.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us

http://www.fastcompany.com/3047462/the-humans-who-dream-of-companies-that-wont-need-them?utm_content=buffer04e59&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

Vantage.js – a new take on interactive CLI for Node

https://github.com/dthree/vantage

11 years ago

★ 3.4k JavaScript MIT
69 upvotes – 6 comments

Fun with Magic

http://justinkan.com/fun-with-magic

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 50 comments

ES6 in Depth: Collections

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/es6-in-depth-collections/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Tell ICANN: “Respect our privacy. Don't expose WHOIS data.”

https://www.respectourprivacy.com/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Help, I’m Trapped in Facebook’s Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/facebook-real-name-policy-problems/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

Gravity Kills Schrödinger's Cat

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-kills-schroedinger-s-cat/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Can Wikipedia Survive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: 入(rù-lang) – Clojurized JavaScript

http://ru-lang.org/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments
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