top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-12

In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 428 comments

All the lonely people

http://www.ucobserver.org/society/2016/06/lonely_people/

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 199 comments

Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust

http://blog.adamperry.me/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 176 comments

Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards

http://www.walmartcanada.ca/newsroom/press-releases/2016/06/11/walmart-canada-statement-regarding-visa-credit-card-purchases

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 324 comments

A SoundCloud client in React and Redux

http://www.robinwieruch.de/the-soundcloud-client-in-react-redux/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 69 comments

Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with link to Scottish police

http://www.thenational.scot/news/us-whistleblower-snowden-reveals-gchq-spy-programme-with-secret-link-to-scottish-police.18661

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 63 comments

How to spy on a Ruby program

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/12/a-weird-system-call-process-vm-readv/

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 27 comments

Machine learning for financial prediction

http://robotwealth.com/machine-learning-financial-prediction-david-aronson/

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 82 comments

Implementing your own recommender systems in Python

http://online.cambridgecoding.com/notebooks/eWReNYcAfB/implementing-your-own-recommender-systems-in-python-2

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 24 comments

United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 229 comments

Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/12/toronto-is-poised-to-become-the-next-great-producer-of-tech-startups/

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 286 comments

Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4660/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code/

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 61 comments

Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)

http://www.nature.com/news/wild-flower-blooms-again-after-30-000-years-on-ice-1.10069

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 57 comments

Light Pollution Masks the Milky Way for a Third of the World’s Population

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/science/milky-way-light-pollution-dark-skies.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

Natural Language for Developers

https://wit.ai/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 56 comments

The End of Reflection

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/fashion/internet-technology-phones-introspection.html?pagewanted=all

10 years ago

177 upvotes – 123 comments

Distributed Systems in Haskell

http://yager.io/Distributed/Distributed.html

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 18 comments

Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/bernerslee_warns_of_spying

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 80 comments

Replacing Celery with Elixir in a Python Project

https://klibert.pl/statics/python-and-elixir/

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

Introducing Runway, a distributed systems design tool

https://medium.com/salesforce-open-source/runway-intro-dc0d9578e248#.snpyhtmki

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 10 comments

Blood of world’s oldest woman hints at limits of life

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25458-blood-of-worlds-oldest-woman-hints-at-limits-of-life

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

Go stack traces and the errors package

http://dave.cheney.net/2016/06/12/stack-traces-and-the-errors-package

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 89 comments

Online ambient atmosphere generator for roleplay games

http://defonic.ovh/?role

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

How bad is the Windows command line really?

http://blog.nullspace.io/batch.html

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 104 comments

‘Worms’ or bust: Britain’s most tenacious indie games company

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/history-of-team17-and-worms/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 51 comments

Test Driving New York City's New Micro Apartments

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/realestate/testing-the-first-micro-apartments-in-new-york-city.html

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 116 comments

Open-source geo is really something right now

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/open-source-geo-is-really-something-right-now-f8e310c5f57a#.wbks9g5ea

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 14 comments

Bitcoin crosses $10B market cap again

http://coinmarketcap.com/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

The U.S. has ‘worst elections of any long-established democracy,’ report finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/21/the-u-s-has-worst-elections-of-any-long-established-democracy-report-finds/?postshare=781465681940400&tid=ss_fb

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 82 comments

Perceptrons – the most basic form of a neural network

https://appliedgo.net/perceptron/

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 19 comments

Stack Overflow and Discouraging Beginners

http://sonyaellenmann.com/2016/06/failures-learning-failures-teaching.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 114 comments

Building a SuperH-compatible CPU from scratch [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGHbMS882w

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Humans Who See Time (2010)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/04/02/the-rare-humans-who-see-time-have-amazing-memories/#.V1uC7-bpFav.facebook

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 53 comments

Reddit censored/removed comments on Orlando shooting: watch live

https://r.go1dfish.me/r/news/comments/4nql8f/orlando_nightclub_shooting_megathread/?sort=new

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889575

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native

https://m.signalvnoise.com/debunking-android-myths-webviews-suck-so-make-everything-native-cea5f8a8db87?source=latest

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 60 comments

Big data and poker-playing bots are blurring the line between man and machine

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/16861/poker-bots-risk-gambling-big-data-adam-kucharski/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I'm taking a long startup investing vacation

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/10/29/startup-vacation-2/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

The Squirrel Programming Language

http://www.squirrel-lang.org/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) in OpenBSD [pdf]

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan2016-bfd.pdf

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Bash aliases for Harry Potter enthusiasts

https://gist.github.com/graceavery/01ec404e555571a4a668c271c8f62e8b

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Unique fingerprint due to 3-year-old bug in Firefox

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4nq56v/you_have_a_unique_fingerprint_due_to_3_year/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: A JavaScript emulator of the Synthi A synthesizer

http://alexnisnevich.github.io/synthi-js/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Backpropagation explicitly showing all the calculations for a full sized network [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317210621/https://www4.rgu.ac.uk/files/chapter3%20-%20bp.pdf

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 1 comments

Isomorphic JavaScript, let’s make it easier

https://medium.com/@pierceydylan/isomorphic-javascript-it-just-has-to-work-b9da5b0c8035

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Aspiring to a Higher Plane: “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” (2011)

http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/19/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Amazon Web Services terms of use: run far away, run fast

http://epiclaw.net/node/81

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Feck: Swearing from the first F to the 21st C

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/feck-a-history-of-swearing-from-the-very-first-f-to-the-21st-c-1.2676617

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

The Stunning and Expected End of Gawker

http://calacanis.com/2016/06/11/the-stunning-and-expected-end-of-gawker/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 68 comments
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