top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-01

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814828

10 years ago

644 upvotes – 1002 comments

DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

https://code.facebook.com/posts/181565595577955/introducing-deeptext-facebook-s-text-understanding-engine/

10 years ago

407 upvotes – 136 comments

Learn Docker by building a Microservice

http://www.dwmkerr.com/learn-docker-by-building-a-microservice/

10 years ago

404 upvotes – 83 comments

Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-01/michael-dell-bought-his-company-too-cheaply

10 years ago

335 upvotes – 164 comments

World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36423250

10 years ago

311 upvotes – 160 comments

Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf]

http://www.kpcb.com/file/2016-internet-trends-report

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 66 comments

Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/25208

10 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
292 upvotes – 111 comments

Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS

https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos.html

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 183 comments

Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/when-a-mafia-expert-tells-us-britain-is-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-world-its-time-to-start-a7057686.html

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 166 comments

What Urbit is

https://urbit.org/posts/overview/

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 239 comments

Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/technology/uber-investment-saudi-arabia.html

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 332 comments

King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 61 comments

Amphetamine use in America's workforce

http://daily.jstor.org/americas-workforce-narcotic-stimulants/

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 250 comments

An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/1/11820966/fable-crunch-microsoft

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 128 comments

Pragmatic Haskell for Beginners, Lecture 2 [video]

https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-06-01-pragmatic-haskell-2.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 7 comments

Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and Tiny Package

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10166/samsung-demos-its-first-bga-ssd

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 131 comments

Scalable Live Video Streaming Using NGINX and MPEG-DASH/HLS

https://www.nginx.com/blog/scalable-live-video-streaming-nginx-plus-bitmovin/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814830

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 234 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814829

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 190 comments

Path to Rust – A practical introduction

https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/the-path-to-rust/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 20 comments

Please check my quantum physics browser game for accuracy

https://linkingideasblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/learning-quantum-mechanics-the-easy-way/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 105 comments

Intel knows it's no longer inside

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/31/11817818/intel-computex-2016-keynote-report

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 124 comments

Sapper, a lightweight web framework written in Rust

https://github.com/sappworks/sapper

10 years ago

★ 618 Rust MIT
127 upvotes – 59 comments

Intel acquires Itseez, leading developer of OpenCV

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquires-computer-vision-for-iot-automotive/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

MitM Attack against KeePass 2’s Update Check

https://bogner.sh/2016/03/mitm-attack-against-keepass-2s-update-check/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

iTerm2 version 3 beta released

https://www.iterm2.com/version3.html

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 59 comments

iTerm2 v3.0 Released

https://twitter.com/gnachman/status/737747033067376640

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese

http://nautil.us/blog/alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 203 comments

Taking over Heroku accounts

http://esevece.github.io/2016/06/01/taking-over-heroku-accounts.html

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 12 comments

Abusing Privileged and Unprivileged Linux Containers

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/abusing-privileged-and-unprivileged-linux-containers/?research=Whitepapers

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Rsnapshot: filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync

http://rsnapshot.org/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments

Microsoft sells patents to Xiaomi

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-xiaomi-idUSKCN0YN2VM

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

Monitoring Cassandra at Scale

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/06/monitoring-cassandra-at-scale.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass

http://blog.hackerrank.com/the-immutability-of-math-and-how-almost-everything-else-will-pass/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

The New Space Race

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/rockets/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Introducing Our Bangalore Region

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-bangalore-region-blr1/?refcode=09ae780dba92&utm_campaign=Referral_Invite&utm_medium=Referral_Program&utm_source=CopyPaste

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

A linguistics tool to help you simplify your writing

https://foxtype.com/concise

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/technology/jeff-bezos-riding-high-defends-decision-to-buy-washington-post.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=technology&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&pgtype=article&_r=0

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 67 comments

Dalai Lama says there are 'too many refugees in Europe'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/dalai-lama-says-too-many-refugees-in-europe-a7058911.html

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 75 comments

Los Angeles Tries to Prove That It Doesn’t Necessarily Need the Car

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/los-angeles-tries-to-prove-that-it-doesnt-necessarily-need-the-car

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

The SalesForce Outage: A Nail In The Coffin For SaaS?

http://www.zerto.com/blog/dr/salesforce-outage-one-more-nail-in-the-coffin-of-i-can-trust-my-saas-provider/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8B

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/01/salesforce-buys-demandware-for-2-8b-taking-a-big-step-into-e-commerce/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Googling yourself now leads to personal privacy controls

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29964677/googling-yourself-now-leads-personal-privacy-controls

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

How Dirty Is Your Air?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601609/how-dirty-is-your-air/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

Intel Lines Up ThunderX ARM Against Xeons

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/05/31/intel-lines-thunderx-arms-xeons/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Make with Ada: ARM Cortex-M CNC controller

http://blog.adacore.com/make-with-ada-arm-cortex-m-cnc-controller

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Why I Was Wrong About Liberal Arts Majors

http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2016/06/01/why-i-was-wrong-about-liberal-arts-majors/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers

http://beta-congress-colleges-fun.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 51 comments

UK's oldest hand-written document 'at Roman London dig'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36415563

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Startup offering shares to users to create a video-based Wiki

https://www.penciltree.com

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments

An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2016/05/an-18th-century-north-african-travelling-physicians-handbook.html

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

DiffCam – demos related to motion detection with JavaScript

http://diffcam.com/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Updated RISC-V Instruction Set Manual: Version 2.1

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-118.html

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

http://almamono.com

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

When should you store serialized objects in the database? (2010)

https://www.percona.com/blog/2010/01/21/when-should-you-store-serialized-objects-in-the-database/

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 68 comments

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist

http://www.themillions.com/2016/05/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-amateur-auction-theorist.html

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments
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