top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-14

VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks

https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/7jMWV7oCQpn

10 years ago

1045 upvotes – 392 comments

Another Update

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/another-update

10 years ago

605 upvotes – 115 comments

Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/court-upholds-obama-backed-net-neutrality-rules-224309

10 years ago

591 upvotes – 262 comments

Google Fonts Redesigned

https://fonts.google.com/

10 years ago

550 upvotes – 258 comments

Checked C

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/checkedc/

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 156 comments

CS 179: GPU Programming

http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs179/

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 31 comments

Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head

http://www.wsj.com/articles/steps-to-turn-off-the-nagging-self-doubt-in-your-head-1465838679

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11898992

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 197 comments

Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/dropbox-says-it-is-cash-flow-positive-in-no-rush-to-ipo/

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 165 comments

The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers

https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-navy-s-big-mistake-building-tons-of-supercarriers-79cb42029b8#.6hi87yw3z

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 341 comments

Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent

https://paul.kinlan.me/serverless-sync-in-web-apps/

10 years ago

256 upvotes – 55 comments

SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-city-in-a-box/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 31 comments

Aldi's Barcode Strategy

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/aldi-has-very-impressive-barcode-strategy

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 265 comments

PhpMyAdmin Project Successfully Completes Security Audit

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/news/2016/6/13/phpmyadmin-project-successfully-completes-security-audit/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 109 comments

Habitat — A new approach to automation

https://www.habitat.sh/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 54 comments

The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook's Paid Promos a Scam

http://www.greysquall.com/2016/06/wasting-money-advertising-on-facebook.html

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: My own C compiler (just for fun)

https://github.com/rcorcs/rcc

10 years ago

★ 115 C++
175 upvotes – 50 comments

Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records

http://www.govexec.com/defense/2016/06/computer-crash-wipes-out-years-air-force-investigation-records/129058/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 93 comments

A Simple Explanation of How Image Recognition Works

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-3-deep-learning-and-convolutional-neural-networks-f40359318721#

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 7 comments

The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-worlds-oldest-computer-is-still-revealing-its-secrets/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 66 comments

HAMNET — A large scale high speed radio network [pdf]

https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2014-TheEuropeanHAMNET-DG8NGN.pdf

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 44 comments

Checked C from Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/checkedc/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 9 comments

Analyzing Last.fm Listening History

http://geoffboeing.com/2016/05/analyzing-lastfm-history/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 26 comments

The future of agriculture

http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-06-09/factory-fresh

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

Improved Techniques for Training GANs – OpenAI's first paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03498

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 12 comments

Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160504141131.htm

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 83 comments

OS X DNS cache reset script

https://github.com/eventi/noreallyjustfuckingstopalready

10 years ago

★ 303 Shell
125 upvotes – 84 comments

Apple’s announcement on artificial intelligence is a big shift for the company

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/13/apples-big-announcement-on-artificial-intelligence-is-a-massive-change-for-the-company/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-technology%3Ahomepage%2Fcard

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 77 comments

MitM-ing Postgres

https://thusoy.com/2016/mitming-postgres

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 14 comments

Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

A Lab-Grown Diamond Is Forever

http://www.racked.com/2016/6/14/11872830/lab-grown-diamonds-synthetic

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple's emphasis on 'differential privacy'

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

P4: open-source programming language for high-performance packet switching

http://p4.org

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Unknown meteorite found in Swedish quarry

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-unknown-alien-swedish-quarry.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Team Happiness Can Be the Wrong Thing to Aim for [video]

https://vimeo.com/143894732

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Node.js Examples – How Enterprises Use Node in 2016

https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-examples-how-enterprises-use-node-in-2016/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

U.S. Appeals Court Holds Up Net Neutrality Rules in Full

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/14/471286113/u-s-appeals-court-holds-up-net-neutrality-rules-in-full?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160614

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 1 comments

Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2953944

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Order-Revealing Encryption

https://crypto.stanford.edu/ore/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

How I Ended Up in Tech by Chance

http://thewell.jopwell.com/posts/how-jopwell-cto-randy-brown-ended-up-in-tech-by-chance-paul-graham/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

A Brief History of Bog Butter

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-brief-history-of-bog-butter-180959384/?no-ist

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Measuring Polymorphism in Python Programs [pdf]

https://people.dsv.su.se/~beatrice/python/dls15_large_images.pdf

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

The email Zenefits CEO David Sacks sent employees as it lays off 9%

http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-is-laying-off-1006-more-people-heres-the-email-david-sacks-sent-employees-2016-6

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Unix for Poets (2013) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/lec/124-UnixForPoets.pdf

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

DNA-Free Dining Made Easy

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/dna-free-dining-made-easy/

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 65 comments

Getting started with OpenGL in Elixir

https://wtfleming.github.io/2016/01/06/getting-started-opengl-elixir/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

A Sticky String Quandary

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/strings.html

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

OnePlus 3

https://oneplus.net/3

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Semantic Search with Latent Semantic Analysis

http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/03/29/semantic-search-with-latent-semantic-analysis/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/technology/facebook-offers-tools-for-those-who-fear-a-friend-may-be-suicidal.html

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 86 comments
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