top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-25

Atom 1.0

http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html

11 years ago

1096 upvotes – 442 comments

What happens when you stop relying on resumes

http://blog.alinelerner.com/what-happens-when-you-stop-relying-on-resumes/

11 years ago

448 upvotes – 188 comments

How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/24/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-head-a-mosquitos-lament/

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 79 comments

The Unix Philosophy

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 256 comments

Killing Off Wasabi

http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 301 comments

Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/06/25/Rust-1.1.html

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: Open source OCR library?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775753

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 98 comments

Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/24/google-has-quietly-launched-a-github-competitor-source-code-repositories/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 157 comments

Stop Firefox leaking data about you

https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat

11 years ago

★ 904 MIT
180 upvotes – 91 comments

Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store

http://toucharcade.com/2015/06/25/apple-removes-confederate-flag/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 217 comments

Quake in your browser

http://webquake.quaddicted.com/Client/WebQuake.htm

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 66 comments

Warner Bros Suspends Sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC Version

https://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight/m-p/575332#U575332

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 151 comments

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33149580

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

The Algebra of Algebraic data types

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/algebra-and-calculus-of-algebraic-data-types/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: A Python with Hindley-Milner-like type annotations, compiling to C

https://github.com/alehander42/hermetic

11 years ago

★ 246 Python MIT
134 upvotes – 27 comments

Profits vs. Growth

http://avc.com/2015/06/profits-vs-growth/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

Jepsen IV: Hope Springs Eternal [video]

http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/kyle-kingsbury-jepsen-iv-hope-springs-eternal

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 7 comments

How CloudFlare extracts a signal from 10 trillion log lines each month [video]

http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-10-trillion-problems-but-logging-aint-one

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Technical debt and tacking into the wind

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/technical-debt-and-tacking-into-the-wind

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Time Goes On in Erlang

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/time

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

365 days of pixel art

https://medium.com/@eigenbom/365-days-of-pixel-art-f6131f280537

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Reddit alternative – decentralized social news site, no censorship

http://get-frisbee.com/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 125 comments

How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurenorsini/2015/06/24/how-american-fans-pirated-japanese-cartoons-into-careers/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 75 comments

Bayes’ Theorem – What is it and what is it good for?

http://crucialconsiderations.org/rationality/bayes-theorem/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 34 comments

French Uber protests block airports

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33267581

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 170 comments

Parallel page rendering with Mozilla Servo

https://lwn.net/Articles/647969/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9

http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/6/24/an-hour-with-safari-content-blocker-in-ios-9

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

The Little Schemer Exercises in Elixir

https://github.com/jwhiteman/a-little-elixir-goes-a-long-way

11 years ago

★ 345 Elixir
97 upvotes – 23 comments

Proposed Info Sharing Legislation Could Worsen NSA Surveillance

https://cdt.org/702-info-sharing/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Paperboy – A community of entrepreneurs sharing handy tools for startups

http://trypaperboy.com/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Startups Finding the Best Employees Are Actually Employed

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/technology/personaltech/start-ups-finding-the-best-employees-are-actually-employed.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 64 comments

Smartphone EMF Detector

http://ledhack.org/smartphone-emf-detector/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Alexa Skills Kit Developer Preview

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Pip -t: A simple and transparent alternative to virtualenv in Python

http://blog.zoomeranalytics.com/pip-install-t/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting

http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/adobe-employee-retention/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Open source alternative to LaunchRock

https://github.com/codelitt/launchpage-rails

11 years ago

★ 322 Ruby
74 upvotes – 11 comments

Latest prototype self-driving vehicles cruising around Mountain View

https://plus.google.com/+SelfDrivingCar/posts/3NuRpigxp4e

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

Apple removes Civil War game from App Store until it removes Confederate flag

http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/our-game-has-been-removed-from-appstore

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 81 comments

What to know before debating type systems (2010)

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-07-17-what-to-know-before-debating-type-systems

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

http://griggi.com

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

The secret codes of British banknotes

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150624-the-secret-codes-of-british-banknotes

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

Wasabi: The ??? Parts

http://jacob.jkrall.net/wasabi-the-parts/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: APL family instead of R for data analysis?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9780542

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Pseudosynchronous JavaScript

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/pseudosynchronous-javascript

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (2013)

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/did-you-know-someone-else-wrote-maxwells-equations

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask a Zookeeper

http://daily.jstor.org/meaningful-work-zookeepers/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Snoop Dogg for CEO of Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/20/snoop-dogg-for-ceo-of-twitter/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Boiling frog, or when did we lose it with /etc?

http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2015/03/boiling-frog-or-when-did-we-loose-it.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 97 comments

Ark – A modern systems programming language

http://ark-lang.org/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

The Half Life of Body Hacking

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-half-life-of-body-hacking

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

A Month Designing in VR

https://medium.com/facebook-design/a-month-designing-in-vr-62474aef1f1c

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

IPv4 Depletion

https://arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 60 comments

BGP and the System of Trust That Runs the Internet, Part 2

https://blog.opendns.com/2015/06/25/bgp-and-the-system-of-trust-that-runs-the-internet-pt-2/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 1 comments

A rust podcast

http://rustyrad.io/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

A power plant for the Internet: our newest data center in Alabama

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-power-plant-for-internet-our-newest.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with after work fatigue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776200

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/opinion/why-dont-the-poor-rise-up.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 100 comments
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