top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-29

Tota11y

http://khan.github.io/tota11y/

11 years ago

747 upvotes – 91 comments

Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox

http://www.own-mailbox.com/

11 years ago

529 upvotes – 256 comments

New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/new-wikileaks-documents-reveal-nsa-spied-on-top-french-companies/

11 years ago

528 upvotes – 248 comments

Energy

http://blog.samaltman.com/energy

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 277 comments

Should I Work for Free?

http://shouldiworkforfree.com/

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 245 comments

Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/experiment-confirms-quantum-theory-weirdness

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 239 comments

Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/yc-backed-livecoding-tv-is-the-twitch-tv-for-coding/

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 137 comments

Squib: A Ruby DSL for prototyping card and board games

http://andymeneely.github.io/squib/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 44 comments

Could dark matter not exist?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-94-could-dark-matter-not-exist-de5cd810e446

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 99 comments

Why ClojureScript Matters

http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/why-clojurescript-matters.html

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 116 comments

What is C in practice?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes50-2015-05-24-survey-discussion.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 106 comments

Alleged $7.5B fraud in online advertising

https://moz.com/blog/online-advertising-fraud

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002)

http://www.ymeme.com/why-wolfram-(mathematica)-did-not-use-lisp.html

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 140 comments

Back to SF After the U.S. Digital Service

https://insouciant.org/tech/back-to-sf-after-usds/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 160 comments

React.js koans

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans

11 years ago

★ 3.2k JavaScript MIT
160 upvotes – 30 comments

The Man Who Saved Southwest Airlines with a '10-Minute' Idea

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/28/418147961/the-man-who-saved-southwest-airlines-with-a-10-minute-idea

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 111 comments

DataLake

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (2012)

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/11/15/165143816/why-coke-cost-a-nickel-for-70-years

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 95 comments

Elixir 1.0.5 released

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/3eb938a0ba7db5c6cc13d390e6242f66fdc9ef00/CHANGELOG.md#v105-2015-06-29

11 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0
133 upvotes – 28 comments

When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/technology/when-a-company-goes-up-for-sale-in-many-cases-so-does-your-personal-data.html

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Uber Acquires Part of Bing’s Mapping Assets

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-acquires-part-of-bings-mapping-assets-will-absorb-around-100-microsoft-employees/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds

http://digitalnature.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/2015/06/fairy-lights-in-femtoseconds/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of bare metal assembly

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/3bg21j/we_made_doom_1993_on_the_raspberry_pi_9800_lines/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

A Walk Around Chernobyl [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWnjcSo9J0

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 45 comments

Supreme Court denies review of Google v. Oracle API copyright case [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062915zor_4g25.pdf

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 106 comments

With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-28/with-61-seconds-in-a-minute-markets-brace-for-trouble

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 105 comments

DragonFly BSD 4.2 released

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release42/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Pando (tree)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Fred Dibnah – Steeplejack (1979) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQrcKF5_rA

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Vassal: Engine for building and playing online board games and card games

http://www.vassalengine.org/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft’s Ad Business, Swaps Google Search for Bing

http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/06/29/aol-takes-over-majority-of-microsofts-ad-business-swaps-google-search-for-bing/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

UT Austin provides free access to more than 22,000 images of library materials

http://blog.hrc.utexas.edu/2015/06/29/open_access_reveal/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Nuon, the gaming chip that nearly changed the world but didn’t

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/before-the-ps2-nuon-famously-tried-and-failed-to-combine-dvd-and-game-consoles/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

How Primedice was exploited for $1M in Bitcoin

https://medium.com/@Stunna/breaking-the-house-63f1021a3e6d

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

Oslo creates world's first 'highway' to protect endangered bees

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/25/oslo-creates-worlds-first-highway-to-protect-endangered-bees

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

High-Profile Study Turns Up the Antitrust Heat on Google

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-29/high-profile-study-turns-up-the-antitrust-heat-on-google

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

London: the city that ate itself

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/28/london-the-city-that-ate-itself-rowan-moore

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 91 comments

Amartya Sen: The economic consequences of austerity

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/06/amartya-sen-economic-consequences-austerity

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 81 comments

Reviewing the Bitcoin Piñata

https://mirage.io/blog/bitcoin-pinata-results

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Oracle API Case

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles%5C14-410.htm

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 81 comments

CRS-7 Launch Update

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/06/28/crs-7-launch-update

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 81 comments

Hitler’s Flak Towers Were Anti-Aircraft Castles

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/hitlers-flak-towers-were-anti-aircraft-castles-4da8c423b725

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Era of Distraction

http://www.raymundtamayo.com/2014/09/era-of-distraction.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Two Uber managers detained in France over 'illicit' low-cost service

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/29/uber-managers-detained-france

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 82 comments

Samsung Exynos 7420 Deep Dive – Inside a Modern 14nm SoC

http://anandtech.com/show/9330/exynos-7420-deep-dive

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

String Interning – Trie vs. Hash Table Deathmatch

http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/string-interning/benchmark

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Headphones are the new walls for people in open-plan offices

http://www.zdnet.com/article/headphones-are-the-new-walls-for-people-in-open-plan-offices/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Speedsums

http://www.speedsums.com

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

SaaS Pricing: Our Big Free Plan Mistake

http://blog.hubstaff.stfi.re/saas-pricing-free-plan-mistake/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

http://qz.com/437793/coloring-is-now-a-normal-adult-activity/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 50 comments

The first port of Unix (1998) [pdf]

http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@inf/@scsse/documents/doc/uow103747.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 2 comments

Making Great VR: Lessons Learned from “I Expect You to Die”

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JesseSchell/20150626/247113/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Printing images in the terminal with 9 lines of Ruby

http://radek.io/2015/06/29/catpix/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Lmctfy – Let Me Contain That for You

https://github.com/google/lmctfy

11 years ago

★ 3.4k C++
52 upvotes – 23 comments

Replete: A Standalone iOS CLJS REPL

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-06-27-replete-a-standalone-ios-cljs-repl.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 0 comments

Whispererly

http://whispererly.weebly.com/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments
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