top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-26

Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?emc=edit_na_20150626&nlid=63565976&ref=headline&_r=0

11 years ago

1905 upvotes – 1215 comments

Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9784008

11 years ago

407 upvotes – 238 comments

Running Lisp in Production

http://tech.grammarly.com/blog/posts/Running-Lisp-in-Production.html

11 years ago

397 upvotes – 114 comments

Fighting spam with Haskell

https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spam-with-haskell/

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 93 comments

4chan discusses HN

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/48696148/itt-we-hacker-news-now

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 95 comments

How side projects saved our startup

https://blog.crew.co/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 43 comments

‘I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/i-dont-believe-in-god-but-i-believe-in-lithium.html

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 106 comments

LLVM merges SafeStack

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/commit/7ffec838a2b72e6841d9fb993b5fe6a45f3b2a90

11 years ago

★ 4.5k LLVM
267 upvotes – 79 comments

Tell HN: Entrepreneurs, make sure you are getting guaranteed wins in life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9782083

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 78 comments

Uber's Original Blog and First Posts

http://uberexpansion.com/flashback-original-uber-blog/

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 75 comments

HN Office Hours with Kevin and Sam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785533

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 144 comments

The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/the-lonely-end/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 163 comments

Life paint

http://www.volvolifepaint.com/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 156 comments

The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

http://hyperlax.tv/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into another port? (2004)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/10/255047.aspx

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 152 comments

SpaceX CRS-6 Hard Landing – Tracking Cam

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/06/24/why-and-how-landing-rockets?

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

MirageOS v2.5 with full TLS support

https://mirage.io/blog/announcing-mirage-25-release

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page

https://www.facebook.com/UltimateGeneralStrategyGames/photos/a.597633186948895.1073741828.558492594196288/907112076001003/?type=1

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 134 comments

Why Don't Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools to Find Bugs?

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0335/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 121 comments

Metaprogramming in ES6: Symbols and why they're awesome

http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/metaprogramming-in-es6-symbols/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

Chinese stock plunge leaves investors scouring state media for clues

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-26/the-loudest-voice-in-china-s-stock-market-is-changing-its-tune

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

ThingieQuery: a SQL plugin for Excel

http://thingiequery.com/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

A Go “clone” of the great and famous Requests library

https://github.com/levigross/grequests

11 years ago

★ 2.1k Go Apache-2.0
92 upvotes – 73 comments

The performance and physics of the fish kick

http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

Two-Factor Authentication with SSH

http://sysconfig.org.uk/two-factor-authentication-with-ssh.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

What to know about encodings and character sets

http://kunststube.net/encoding/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% less latency variance

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/122520169079/mysql-performance-optimization-50-more-work-with

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

What is a “good” memory corruption vulnerability?

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-is-good-memory-corruption.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

London, it’s over, and it’s not me, it’s you

https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/london-its-over-and-its-not-me-its-you

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 171 comments

App Academy's (Real) Tuition Model

http://blog.shevagoldberg.com/post/122468162657/app-academys-real-tuition-model

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Rails 4.2.3 and 4.1.12 have been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/6/26/Rails-4-2-3-and-4-1-12-have-been-released/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Our love of technology risks becoming a quiet conspiracy against ourselves

https://theconversation.com/our-love-of-technology-risks-becoming-a-quiet-conspiracy-against-ourselves-43428

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 64 comments

Project Seen

http://projectseen.com/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

GitHub forking has one big flaw (2011)

http://zbowling.github.io/blog/2011/11/25/github/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

“Chess-Playing Excitement” in 1859

https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-78ad1034521f

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

The ‘Unfathomable’ Pursuit of Personal Tunneling

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unfathomable-pursuit-of-personal-tunneling

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla Motors

http://learnbonds.com/rise-of-the-robocar-uber-ceo-says-hell-take-500k-tesla-motors-self-driving-cars/119632/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 87 comments

As We May Think (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014)

https://www.kirsle.net/blog/entry/skype-switched-to-the-msn-messenger-protocol

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

The Nigerian Teenagers Who Built Crocodile Browser

http://www.woodencomputer.net/posts/2015/6/25/the-nigerian-teenagers-who-built-crocodile-browser

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

What Happens to a Startup When a Cofounder Dies

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/06/25/what-happens-to-a-startup-when-a-cofounder-dies-kitchit/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Kerf: a columnar tick database for Linux, OS X, BSD, iOS, Android

https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf

11 years ago

★ 36 C++ BSD-2-Clause
62 upvotes – 30 comments

Request to econ and math people: solve the Delhi University admission problem

http://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2015-06-26-matching-colleges-students.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments
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