top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-23

I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-broken

11 years ago

526 upvotes – 588 comments

The man with 1,000 klein bottles under his house [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

11 years ago

386 upvotes – 122 comments

Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days

http://blog.triplebyte.com/three-hundred-programming-interviews-in-thirty-days

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 237 comments

Happy 10th birthday to us

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/06/happy-10th-birthday-to-us-celebrating.html

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 104 comments

Fourier series

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/jPGJMK

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 47 comments

Commit messages are not titles

http://antirez.com/news/90

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 167 comments

The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/the-way-humans-get-electricity-is-about-to-change-forever

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 232 comments

Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio

http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/06/play-music-ad-supported.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 177 comments

A world without work

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/?single_page=true

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: Hypatia 0.2, a 2D adventure game engine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763870

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience

https://code.facebook.com/posts/397706937084869/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 72 comments

Apple's Indies

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/6/23/apples-indies

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 112 comments

Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 72 comments

Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram

http://www.fastcompany.com/3047642/tech-forecast/do-the-simple-thing-first-the-engineering-behind-instagram

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 30 comments

Second U.S. Agent Agrees to Plead Guilty to Bitcoin Theft

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/second-u-s-agent-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-bitcoin-theft

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

Interview with James Simons, Billionaire Mathematician [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 63 comments

Tell HN: I wish “we use cookies” messages could be globally turned off

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764003

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 133 comments

Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/21/dollar-shave-club-valued-at-615-million/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 203 comments

Who'll be the next president – Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=who%27ll+be+the+next+president

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 145 comments

Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9765771

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 46 comments

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1471

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 69 comments

Emacs for Data Science

http://www.insightdatascience.com/blog/emacs_for_data_science.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon Echo Released

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X4WHP5E/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 183 comments

Top mathematical achievements of the last 5ish years, maybe

http://richardelwes.co.uk/2015/06/18/the-top-10-mathematical-achievements-of-the-last-5ish-years-maybe/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

How Akka Streams can be used to process the Wikidata dump in parallel

http://engineering.intenthq.com/2015/06/wikidata-akka-streams/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

C Puzzles

http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Implementing a Virtual Machine in C

http://www.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Drat – Ruby has a double splat

https://dev.firmafon.dk/blog/drat-ruby-has-a-double-splat/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Software companies are leaving the UK because of government’s surveillance plans

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/software-companies-are-leaving-the-uk-because-of-governments-surveillance-plans/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook and the media: united, they attack the web

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/media-websites-vs-facebook/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Credit Karma Has Raised $175M on a Valuation of $3.5B

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/credit-karma-has-raised-175m-on-a-valuation-of-3-5b/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 95 comments

Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Searches of Hotel Records

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-warrantless-searches-hotel-records-reaffirms-fourth

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?

http://www.autodidacts.io/binaural-beat-openbci-eeg-experiment/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 48 comments

MapD: Massive Throughput Database Queries with LLVM on GPUs

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mapd-massive-throughput-database-queries-llvm-gpus/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Young, Vegetarian, Non-Smoking Indians Are Struggling With Heart Disease

http://desinutritionauthority.com/2015/06/why-young-slim-vegetarian-non-smoking-indians-are-struggling-with-cardiac-blockages-heart-attacks-and-diabetes/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 96 comments

Fast Reed-Solomon Coding in Go

http://blog.klauspost.com/blazingly-fast-reed-solomon-coding/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Regexes: The Bad, the Better, and the Best

https://www.loggly.com/blog/regexes-the-bad-better-best/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

A tale of two cultures (2010)

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/tale-of-two-cultures.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

Why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/classics-for-the-people-ancient-greeks

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/australian-senate-passes-controversial-antipiracy-websiteblocking-laws-20150622-ghuorh.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

What really happened on Mars? (1997)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Authoritative_Account.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Gravity Time’s Archer?

http://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/200

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

X86 Machine Code Statistics

http://www.strchr.com/x86_machine_code_statistics

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Stack 0.1 – A new build tool for Haskell

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/06/stack-0-1-release

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

Ioke is a folding language

https://ioke.org/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn/ceres-spots-continue-to-mystify-in-latest-dawn-images

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/22/top-ceo-pay-isnt-driven-by-talent-new-study-says/?mod=trending_now_3

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 55 comments

Project Zero: Analysis and Exploitation of an ESET Vulnerability

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/06/analysis-and-exploitation-of-eset.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33223511

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth

http://www.weather.com/science/space/news/geomagnetic-storm-hits-earth-june

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Robin – OpenTable for your office

https://robinpowered.com/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

The 50th Anniversary of Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/06/22/revolutionary-methodological-preliminaries/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

DeepMind uses the Daily Mail as a huge training corpus for text comprehension

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538616/google-deepmind-teaches-artificial-intelligence-machines-to-read/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 45 comments

A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-tube-map-of-the-london-underground-thats-far-more-useful-than-the-official-one-10289941.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 44 comments

Mawww's experiment for a better code editor

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

11 years ago

★ 10.8k C++ Unlicense
47 upvotes – 15 comments

New Study Shows A Rise In Cord Cutting

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/new-study-shows-a-rise-in-cord-cutting-8-2-percent-ditched-pay-tv-in-2014-up-1-3-yoy/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 76 comments
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