top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-05-16

WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete

https://twitter.com/webkit/status/728643624464883712

10 years ago

CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs

https://certbot.eff.org/

10 years ago

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/twitter-to-stop-counting-photos-and-links-in-140-character-limit

10 years ago

The MOnSter 6502

http://tubetime.us/?p=346

10 years ago

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple

http://www.wsj.com/articles/buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-billion-position-in-apple-1463400389

10 years ago

One year of Rust

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/16/rust-at-one-year.html

10 years ago

How Intel missed the smartphone market

https://mondaynote.com/intel-culture-just-ate-12-000-jobs-305674fb1274#.8xjcs7g8b

10 years ago

Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/business/dealbook/warren-buffett-and-dan-gilbert-unite-in-bid-to-acquire-yahoo.html

10 years ago

Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/16/the-tao-of-the-dao-or-how-the-autonomous-corporation-is-already-here/

10 years ago

Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-are-a-lot-safer-than-drunk-ones-new-federal-data-show/

10 years ago

Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years

https://m.signalvnoise.com/ruby-has-been-fast-enough-for-13-years-afff4a54abc7

10 years ago

The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27186709

10 years ago

Android platform engineer on application architecture

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FXCCYxepsDU

10 years ago

Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4979

10 years ago

Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks

http://www.joelotter.com/kajero/

10 years ago

Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online

https://twitter.com/i/moments/731957349640867840

10 years ago

SSL Labs in 2016 and Beyond

https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2016/05/16/ssl-labs-in-2016-and-beyond

10 years ago

Spaces, a tool for small group sharing

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/introducing-spaces-tool-for-small-group.html

10 years ago

Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments

https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employment-construction-and-cost-of-san.html

10 years ago

Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fm-radio-cellphone-telecoms-1.3577447

10 years ago

Doctors' Secret Language for Assisted Suicide

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/doctors-secret-language-for-assisted-suicide/393968/?single_page=true

10 years ago

Shuffleboard at McMurdo

http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm

10 years ago

Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

https://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0029.html

10 years ago

Size cost of C++ exception handling on embedded platforms

https://andriidevel.blogspot.com/2016/05/size-cost-of-c-exception-handling-on.html

10 years ago

How computer programming languages for kids have evolved and where they're going

http://blog.makewonder.com/evolution-programming-for-kids/

10 years ago

Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data

http://www.aeracode.org/2016/5/16/hello-london-rising/

10 years ago

AMD releases FireRays 2.0 ray-tracing library as open source

http://gpuopen.com/firerays-2-0-open-sourcing-and-customizing-ray-tracing/

10 years ago

Tech Startups Come Up with Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/tech-startups-come-up-with-some-creative-definitions-for-profitable

10 years ago

The Bank Job – breaking a mobile banking application

https://boris.in/blog/2016/the-bank-job/

10 years ago

Bublé: a fast, batteries-included ES2015 transpiler

https://buble.surge.sh/guide/

10 years ago

Powering the Python Package Index

https://caremad.io/2016/05/powering-pypi/

10 years ago

Singular Value Decomposition Part 2: Theorem, Proof, Algorithm

https://jeremykun.com/2016/05/16/singular-value-decomposition-part-2-theorem-proof-algorithm/

10 years ago

The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet

https://lasindias.com/blockchain-is-a-threat-to-the-distributed-future-of-the-internet

10 years ago

A Plan to Flood San Francisco with News on Homelessness

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/us/san-francisco-homelessness.html

10 years ago

Soyuz 2.1a 3-Stage Launch [video]

http://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/video/2016/05/16/641182-pervoe-video-soyuz

10 years ago

Does power really corrupt?

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/does-power-really-corrupt

10 years ago

The SidToday Files

https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/

10 years ago

A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/svtour.html

10 years ago

GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development

https://github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/BoilingFrogs

10 years ago

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Raspberry Pi Zero grows a camera connector

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector/

10 years ago

Building an iOS App in Rust

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/building-an-ios-app-in-rust-part-1/

10 years ago

Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/05/09/viking-horde-a-new-type-of-android-malware-on-google-play/

10 years ago

Mr. Robot Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

https://corenumb.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/mr-robot-blind-sql-injection-vulnerability/

10 years ago

Pittsburgh as a Startup

https://medium.com/startups-and-investment/pittsburgh-as-a-startup-7afe48bc96d6#.9tonkiccm

10 years ago

NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released

https://www.microsoft.com/net/core

10 years ago

Mapping the US nuclear war plan for 1956

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/05/09/mapping-us-nuclear-war-plan-1956/

10 years ago

Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

10 years ago

★ 25 C

OmniSharp – Cross Platform .Net Development

http://www.omnisharp.net/

10 years ago

Why Big Companies Can't Innovate

https://hbr.org/2012/09/why-big-companies-cant-innovate

10 years ago

On the Nature of Creepiness [pdf]

http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/McAndrew-Koehnke-2016.pdf

10 years ago

OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/okcupid-study-reveals-perils-big-data-science/

10 years ago

US Equity crowdfunding is finally here: Steps to getting funded

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/15/equity-crowdfunding-is-finally-here-10-steps-to-getting-funded/

10 years ago

Study: Speaking Multiple Languages Staves Off Dementia

http://nautil.us/blog/speaking-multiple-languages-staves-off-dementia

10 years ago

Frend – accessible, dependency-free web components

http://frend.co/

10 years ago

How I got through Docker's censorship

https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/05/15/how-I-got-through-docker-censorship/

10 years ago

A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (2005)

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

10 years ago

Winding down the Swift 3 release

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/17276

10 years ago

Why Your Late Twenties Is the Worst Time of Your Life

https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-your-late-twenties-is-the-worst-time-of-your-life

10 years ago

Shamir's Secret Sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

10 years ago

LendingClub Loan Buyers Retreat After Shakeup; U.S. Probes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/lendingclub-receives-department-of-justice-grand-jury-subpoena

10 years ago

Robert David Steele and the Open Source Intelligence Paradigm

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy

10 years ago

Software Licenses and Failed States

http://250bpm.com/blog:82

10 years ago

Decentralised Decision Making with Initiative Circles

http://codurance.com/2016/05/13/initiative-circles/

10 years ago

I Run a GMO Company and Support GMO Labeling

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/i-run-a-gmo-company-and-i-support-gmo-labeling.html

10 years ago

Dear Mommy Blogger

http://josidenise.com/dear-mommy-blogger/

10 years ago