top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-28

SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 335 comments

U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s

http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/fracking-manufacturing-costs/

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 160 comments

ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2015/06/27/icanns-assault-on-personal-and-small-business-privacy/

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 91 comments

The NoScript Misnomer

http://thehackerblog.com/the-noscript-misnomer-why-should-i-trust-vjs-zendcdn-net/

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 66 comments

Hacking Super Mario World to Warp to the Credits [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAHXK2wut_I

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 25 comments

Why do ten Chicken McNuggets cost the same as twenty?

http://randomdirections.com/chicken-mcnuggets/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 172 comments

Mario running in Unreal Engine 4 [video]

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

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 25 comments

Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google

http://www.paulkuehnel.com/full-google-project-fi-review-a-multiple-cell-phone-network/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 93 comments

What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?

https://80000hours.org/2015/06/whats-the-best-way-to-spend-20000-to-help-the-common-good/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 181 comments

Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-28/running-out-of-cash-greece-counts-on-ecb-to-avert-black-monday

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 162 comments

Comparison of Erlang Runtime System and Java Virtual Machine [pdf]

http://ds.cs.ut.ee/courses/course-files/To303nis%20Pool%20.pdf

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

From Haskell to Hardware [video]

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-06-28-haskell-to-hardware.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

SpaceX CRS-7 Launch, Count Down

http://spacexstats.com/mission.php?launch=24

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 1 comments

Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

http://www.brython.info/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 60 comments

You don't need to daemonize

http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/systemd-house-of-horror/daemonize.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 77 comments

Man shoots downs neighbor’s hexacopter

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/man-shoots-downs-neighbors-hexacopter-in-rural-drone-shotgun-battle/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

R at Microsoft

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/06/r-at-microsoft.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Who's looking for a cofounder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795503

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 121 comments

Git from the inside out

https://github.com/maryrosecook/essays/blob/master/gitfromtheinsideout/essay.md

11 years ago

★ 197
100 upvotes – 6 comments

Jellyfish WebGL demo

http://akirodic.com/p/jellyfish/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/magazine/my-parents-were-home-schooling-anarchists.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 87 comments

Porting the Unity Editor to Linux: Stuff I Wish We’d Done Then

http://natoshabard.com/post/122670082502/porting-the-unity-editor-to-linux-stuff-i-wish

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 110 comments

Breakdown of the NSA spying on French leaders

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/06/wikileaks-publishes-some-of-most-secret.html#methods

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

How Rust Achieves Thread Safety

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/30/how-rust-achieves-thread-safety/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted stack-based programming language

https://github.com/Drahflow/Elymas

11 years ago

★ 200 Perl
86 upvotes – 23 comments

Letters to the Editor: Misleading Mathematicians [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/201506/rnoti-p613.pdf

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Rats Dream About the Places They Want to Explore

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/06/26/rats-dream-places/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective

http://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-user-perspective.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Rate-limiting State: The edge of the Internet is an unruly place

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2578510

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Handling Leap Seconds the OpenBSD Way

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150628132834

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

C++'s Rule of Zero

https://turingtester.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/cs-rule-of-zero/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Perth engineer invents robotic bricklayer

http://www.perthnow.com.au/realestate/news/robot-brickie-perth-engineer-invents-worlds-first-robotic-bricklayer/story-fni0ckzf-1227414734482

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Greece debt crisis: ECB 'to end' bank emergency lending

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33303105

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 100 comments

The Chirp Distributed Filesystem

http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/chirp/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

What is a shell and how does it work?

http://experiments.oskarth.com/unix01/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Hedging Against Getting Paid in Stock

http://barisser.com/2015/06/getting-paid-in-stock-hedging-as-an-individual/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

When Is “ACID” ACID? Rarely (2013)

http://www.bailis.org/blog/when-is-acid-acid-rarely/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments
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