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

Show HN: New calendar app idea

http://www.oneviewcalendar.com

10 years ago

825 upvotes – 197 comments

Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released

https://files.scene.org/view/resources/code/sources/rgba_tbc_elevated_source.zip

10 years ago

384 upvotes – 147 comments

John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on 'Last Week Tonight'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUAntt1z2c

10 years ago

346 upvotes – 281 comments

Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffic-weary-homeowners-and-waze-are-at-war-again-guess-whos-winning/2016/06/05/c466df46-299d-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html

10 years ago

320 upvotes – 565 comments

Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820

http://metrocosm.com/us-immigration-history-map.html

10 years ago

294 upvotes – 110 comments

Being privacy-aware in 2016

https://vox.space/blog/89/being-privacy-aware-in-2016

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 213 comments

End Geoblocking

https://endgeoblocking.eu/

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 184 comments

Safe VSP – 30 year old Commodore 64 bug demystified (2013)

http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/safevsp/index.php

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Homemade 32-bit CPU and OS (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKCLf32TB8

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 37 comments

Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/06/06/man-sued-30k-over-40-printer-he-sold-craigslist/85478168/

10 years ago

250 upvotes – 219 comments

Flow vs. Typescript

http://djcordhose.github.io/flow-vs-typescript/2016_hhjs.html#/

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 154 comments

RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay

http://blog.easydns.org/2016/06/06/riaa-to-org-registry-take-down-thepiratebay/

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 197 comments

Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 199 comments

Putting Down Elm

http://mkndrsn.com/2016/06/06/putting-down-elm/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 70 comments

Integrating Elm and Phoenix Channels via Elm-Phoenix-socket

https://www.dailydrip.com/topics/elm/drips/elm-phoenix-socket

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 74 comments

A New Theory of How Consciousness Evolved

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/?single_page=true

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 226 comments

CS 281B: Statistical Learning Theory (2014)

http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/courses/281B-spring04/

10 years ago

188 upvotes – 16 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's multi-account password was 'dadada'

https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/06/zuckerberg-dadada-linkedin-ourmine-breach/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

A Gluster developer's thoughts on Torus

http://pl.atyp.us/2016-06-torus.html

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 21 comments

Accidentally nonblocking

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/accidentally-nonblocking

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 36 comments

World’s Biggest Indoor Vertical Farm Near NYC to Use 95% Less Water

http://weburbanist.com/2016/06/05/worlds-biggest-indoor-vertical-farm-near-nyc-to-use-95-less-water/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 112 comments

Microsoft Planner

https://blogs.office.com/2016/06/06/microsoft-planner-ready-for-showtime/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 86 comments

Resignations at Cisco hint at internal power struggle

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/6/11871550/cisco-mpls-team-resigns

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

Applied Mathematical Programming (1977)

http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

100M clear text passwords stolen from Russia's biggest social network

https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/06/vk-100-million-clear-text-passwords-stolen/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Jacob Appelbaum’s response to accusations by the Tor community

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1soorlp

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 177 comments

WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype

https://github.com/AndrewScheidecker/WAVM

10 years ago

★ 2.7k C++ BSD-3-Clause
128 upvotes – 28 comments

Spiegelman's Monster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegelman%27s_Monster

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft announces major commitment to Apache Spark

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/06/06/microsoft-announces-major-commitment-to-apache-spark/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Former NASA chief unveils $100M neural chip maker KnuEdge

http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/06/former-nasa-chief-unveils-100-million-neural-computing-chip-company-knuedge/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card

http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 145 comments

Angular Material 1 will enter a maintenance mode

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ngmaterial/4ActiQp3nA0

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters (2007) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heh4OeB9A-c

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

Sad news today: systemd-resolved to be deployed in Ubuntu 16.10

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-June/014964.html

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 169 comments

Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim

http://hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262301/washburn-icse-2016.pdf

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Jaunt – A friendly Clojure fork

https://www.arrdem.com/2016/02/22/clojarr_-_a_friendly_clojure_fork/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest password was 'dadada'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/06/facebook_zuckerberg_social_media_accnt_pwnage/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Chess legend Viktor Korchnoi has died

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36464406

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

The DAO is effectively on hold to decide whether flaws exist and how to fix them

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/biggest-crowdfunding-project-ever-dao-mess/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

The Story of Tetris

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/tetris/236288/the-incredibly-weird-story-behind-tetris

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Picnic CSS relaunched, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative

http://picnicss.com/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Credibility and trust: Microsoft blows it by forcing Windows 10 on users

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3077932/windows/credibility-and-trust-microsoft-blows-it.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 144 comments

Voice Assistant? Yes please, but not in public

http://creativestrategies.com/voice-assistant-anyone-yes-please-but-not-in-public/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/06/cody-wilson-3d-guns-printing-firearms-lower-receivers

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 119 comments

Lambda crabs, part 1: A mathematical introduction to lifetimes and regions

http://ticki.github.io/blog/lambda_crabs_1/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

KeePass2 v 2.34 to fix update security problem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845517

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Ulam Spiral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

LessAccounting, the Startup That Challenged QuickBooks, Sold

https://mixergy.com/interviews/lessaccounting-allan-branch-steven-bristol/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Report: Smart contact lens and other ambitious projects at Verily are floundering

https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/06/google-star-trek-fiction/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

Excellence R Us: University Research and the Fetishisation of Excellence

https://figshare.com/articles/Excellence_R_Us_University_Research_and_the_Fetishisation_of_Excellence/3413821

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Personal flight, once a pipe dream, is within our reach

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-jetpack-movement-finally-taking-off-1465221130

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments

We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

T-Mobile is giving postpaid customers a free share of stock

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/6/11867962/t-mobile-uncarrier-promotion

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

Hacking the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV hybrid

https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/hacking-the-mitsubishi-outlander-phev-hybrid-suv/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Ke Jie will likely play AlphaGo before year's end

http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/06/05/4203s929934.htm

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments
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