top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-22

Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/06/18/most-important-skill-in-software/

11 years ago

742 upvotes – 276 comments

Megaprocessor

http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html

11 years ago

728 upvotes – 125 comments

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/22/docker-coreos-google-microsoft-amazon-and-others-agree-to-develop-common-container-standard/

11 years ago

577 upvotes – 120 comments

SSD Prices in a Free Fall

http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/ssd-prices-in-a-freefall/a/d-id/1320958

11 years ago

570 upvotes – 328 comments

DoJ's Gag Order on Reason Has Been Lifted

https://popehat.com/2015/06/22/dojs-gag-order-on-reason-has-been-lifted-but-the-real-story-is-more-outrageous-than-we-thought/

11 years ago

383 upvotes – 101 comments

The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go

http://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-an-alternative-to-go.html

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 131 comments

Mobile Changes Everything

http://a16z.com/2015/06/19/mobile-it-changes-everything/

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 209 comments

Going undercover as a sex worker

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/06/magazine-undercover-sex-worker-human-trafficking-150610072623672.html

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 213 comments

Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus Rift

http://cryengine.com/news/update-from-the-team-cryengine-381-is-here-adding-opengl-linux-and-oculus-rift-support

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 109 comments

Just Wear Headphones

http://www.mattblodgett.com/2015/06/just-wear-headphones.html

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 203 comments

RunC – A lightweight universal runtime container, by the Open Container Project

http://runc.io/

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 61 comments

“AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”

https://twitter.com/cue/status/612824775220555776

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 137 comments

Popular Security Software Came Under NSA and GCHQ Attacks

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 50 comments

Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, John Deere did

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/22/google-didnt-lead-the-self-driving-vehicle-revolution-john-deere-did/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 135 comments

L0pht’s warnings about the Internet drew notice but little action

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 67 comments

Building Analytics at 500px

https://medium.com/@samson_hu/building-analytics-at-500px-92e9a7005c83?hn

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 42 comments

Visa Systems Issues

http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/news/technological-systems-issue.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

Business Can Pay to Train Its Own Work Force

http://chronicle.com/article/Business-Can-Pay-to-Train-Its/231015/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 145 comments

What is Flask-Admin?

http://mrjoes.github.io/2015/06/17/flask-admin-120.html

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 40 comments

A Path to Enlightenment in Programming Language Theory

http://steshaw.org/plt/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 97 comments

Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/21/apple-music-free-trial/#.d9n1qq:0AVt

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 147 comments

The village and the girl

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-dd0e6fd5-12fc-4a4a-a0eb-4ef064900f92

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 54 comments

Greece’s Proposals to End the Crisis

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/06/18/greeces-proposals-to-end-the-crisis-my-intervention-at-todays-eurogroup/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop

http://whatsapp-desktop.com/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 81 comments

Facebook Bluetooth Beacons

https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-bluetooth-beacons

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

The Umbrella Reinvented

http://www.kazbrella.com/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

Boto3 – AWS SDK for Python

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-sdk-for-python-3-boto3/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 25 comments

Linux 4.1 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/648911/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments

Discovering the Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes

http://blog.codeship.com/discovering-computer-science-behind-postgres-indexes/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

A Neural Conversational Model [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v1.pdf

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Not OK, Google

http://fullstack.info/not-ok-google/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details (2014)

http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Lies Employers Use to Get You to Work with Them

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-lies-employers-use-trick-you-working-them-j-t-o-donnell

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 82 comments

The story of the invention that could revolutionize batteries

http://qz.com/433131/the-story-of-the-invention-that-could-revolutionize-batteries-and-maybe-american-manufacturing-as-well/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Moving Haskell processes between nodes

https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/agocorona/moving-haskell-processes-between-nodes-transient-effects-iv

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments

Announcing Docker 1.7: Multi-host networking, plugins and orchestration updates

https://blog.docker.com/2015/06/announcing-docker-1-7-multi-host-networking-plugins-and-orchestration-updates/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Is Typed Clojure worth the trouble?

http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/typed-clojure.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 60 comments

Image Processing with Go

http://www.esdrasbeleza.com/2015/04/27/image-processing-with-go

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

A persistent key-value server in 40 lines and a sad fact (2014)

http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-persistent-keyvalue-server-in-40.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

“EPIC” fail–how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/epic-fail-how-opm-hackers-tapped-the-mother-lode-of-espionage-data/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2611829

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 140 comments

Little Man Computer

http://peterhigginson.co.uk/LMC/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Why numbering should start at zero (1982)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Smyte (YC W15) Launches to Fight Online Fraud

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/22/yc-backed-smyte-launches-to-fight-online-fraud/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

A Sleep Researcher's Attempt to Build a Bank for Dreams

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-stanford-doctor-s-attempt-to-build-a-bank-for-dreams

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

30% of Servers Are Sitting “Comatose”

http://anthesisgroup.com/30-of-servers-are-sitting-comatose/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

What’s really going on in downtown Vegas?

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/20/downtown-and-out-the-truth-about-tony-hsiehs-350m-las-vegas-project

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

The Internet is running in debug mode (2014)

http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-protocols-are-messy-concept.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

http://flowingdata.com/2015/06/16/reviving-the-statistical-atlas-of-the-united-states-with-new-data

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Harvard-Stanford admissions hoax becomes international scandal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/harvard-stanford-admissions-hoax-becomes-international-scandal/2015/06/18/4abac970-156a-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html?postshare=7531434930583502

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757609

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 61 comments
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