top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-02

Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

https://linuxjourney.com/

10 years ago

565 upvotes – 75 comments

Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-02/snapchat-passes-twitter-in-daily-usage

10 years ago

376 upvotes – 292 comments

Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps

http://fullstacklisp.com/

10 years ago

338 upvotes – 100 comments

Async and Await

https://zeit.co/blog/async-and-await

10 years ago

324 upvotes – 162 comments

Why is a Rust executable large?

https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html

10 years ago

324 upvotes – 110 comments

Open Source Speech Recognition

http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/06/01/open-source-speech-recognition/

10 years ago

311 upvotes – 60 comments

The truth about deep learning

http://blog.claymcleod.io/2016/06/01/The-truth-about-Deep-Learning/

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 142 comments

Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/index.html

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 226 comments

Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Letters

https://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/145258843473/yahoo-announces-public-disclosure-of-national

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons

http://reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSKCN0YO09A

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 372 comments

Apple cloud services outage

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 119 comments

One Click to Be Pro: my list of the best resources for mastering a subject

https://github.com/vic317yeh/One-Click-to-Be-Pro

10 years ago

★ 5.7k MIT
209 upvotes – 29 comments

Gordon: a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas

https://github.com/jorgebastida/gordon

10 years ago

★ 2k Python
207 upvotes – 39 comments

Linear Programming: How Does It Work?

http://jadagul.tumblr.com/post/145201618713/linear-programming-how-does-it-work

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 57 comments

The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-secret-sign-language-of-sawmill-workers

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 43 comments

Pills: A simple responsive CSS grid for humans

https://github.com/rohitkrai03/pills

10 years ago

★ 1.4k CSS MIT
190 upvotes – 98 comments

British MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450297574/MPs-private-emails-are-routinely-accessed-by-GCHQ

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

Amazon Alexa Comes to Pebble Core

https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/06/02/ks3u03/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 109 comments

SyntaxDB – Quickly look up syntax for programming languages

https://syntaxdb.com/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud

https://nextcloud.com/about/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 130 comments

How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-partial-credit-on-an-exam-of-true-false-questions/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 83 comments

Cancer therapy by RNA delivery to dendritic cells

http://www.nature.com/articles/nature18300

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 41 comments

Docker was unavailable in Ubuntu/Debian repos

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203

10 years ago

★ 71.5k Go Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 86 comments

Amazon search was down

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/02/its-not-just-you-amazon-search-is-down/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 159 comments

Can computers become conscious?: My reply to Roger Penrose

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 157 comments

Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/oil-traders-may-be-the-only-people-who-want-yahoo-to-thrive

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 108 comments

Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox

https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/738018742710460420

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 64 comments

TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/teamviewer_mass_breach_report/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 99 comments

Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/06/women-who-code/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 310 comments

No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/business/smallbusiness/no-venture-capital-needed-or-wanted.html?src=me&_r=0

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 122 comments

How a good night's sleep became a status symbol

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/sleep-habits-eight-hours-health-wellness-arianna-huffington

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 110 comments

Carts without horses

http://www.aaronkharris.com/carts-without-horses

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 26 comments

What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (2008)

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

GitHub Dark – Switch off the lights

https://cquanu.github.io/github-dark/?ref=hackernews

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Reactpack – one command to build your React front end

https://github.com/olahol/reactpack

10 years ago

★ 979 JavaScript
108 upvotes – 45 comments

Unreal Engine 4.12 released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-12-released

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

Uber’s subprime leases put drivers on road, but leave some shackled

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/ubers-subprime-leases-put-drivers-on-road-but-leave-some-shackled/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 89 comments

Minecraft sales top 100M

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11838036/minecraft-sales-100-million

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 81 comments

Google stores voice searches

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-and-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2016/06/01/lists_gathering_the_lost_superstitions_of_early_20th_century_america.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

A Conversation About Fantasy User Interfaces

https://www.subtraction.com/2016/06/02/a-conversation-about-fantasy-user-interfaces/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Qlik acquired by Thoma Bravo for $3B

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160602005740/en/Qlik-Announces-Agreement-Acquired-Thoma-Bravo-30.50

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/gadgets-on-the-go/microsoft-uses-malware-tactics-to-foist-windows-10-on-more-pcs-20160524-gp355z.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 145 comments

An introduction to Clear Containers (2015)

http://lwn.net/Articles/644675/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

A Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online

https://mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-symbol-neo-nazis-use-to-target-jews-online#.Uqsk9ObKl

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 88 comments

Does not GPU compute

http://www.alexvoica.com/does-not-gpu-compute/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

3D printing produces a curious lightweight motorcycle

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21699432-3d-printing-produces-curious-lightweight-motorcycle-alloy-angels

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 64 comments

The Born Soldier

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/05/29/ernst-juenger-war-memoir-born-soldier/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

Goto in bash (2012)

https://bobcopeland.com/blog/2012/10/goto-in-bash/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

Applied Game Theory or How to pay a dividend without paying a dividend

http://meissereconomics.com/2016/06/01/Boskalis.html#main

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 85 comments

Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/technology/why-the-world-is-drawing-battle-lines-against-american-tech-giants.html?emc=edit_dlbkam_20160602&nl=dealbook&nlid=65508833

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 165 comments

Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/twitter-is-betting-everything-on-jack-dorsey

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 83 comments

Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth of Theranos Founder to $0

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/06/01/from-4-5-billion-to-nothing-forbes-revises-estimated-net-worth-of-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes/#4b67e60d2f29

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Welcome Adora, Nicole, Elizabeth, Case and Robby

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-adora-nicole-elizabeth-case-and-robby

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Spreadsheet_server

https://github.com/robsco-git/spreadsheet_server

10 years ago

★ 138 Python GPL-2.0
64 upvotes – 29 comments

The Ecologist Who Threw Starfish

http://nautil.us/issue/37/currents/the-ecologist-who-threw-starfish-rp

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Derek Yu’s “Spelunky”

http://tinaja.computer/2016/05/21/spelunky.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

The ECHO IV Home Computer: 50 Years Later

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-echo-iv-home-computer-50-years-later/

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments
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