top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-16

Samsung Acquires Joyent

https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective

10 years ago

The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html

10 years ago

Buffer Layoffs

https://open.buffer.com/layoffs-and-moving-forward/

10 years ago

Contextual Identities on the Web

https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/

10 years ago

Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/business/dealbook/microsoft-following-the-clouds-to-offer-marijuana-tracking-software.html

10 years ago

Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM for First Time in 4M Years

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antarctic-co2-hit-400-ppm-for-first-time-in-4-million-years/

10 years ago

Git 2.9 released

https://github.com/blog/2188-git-2-9-has-been-released

10 years ago

Generative Models

https://openai.com/blog/generative-models/

10 years ago

PG Casts – Postgres Screencasts

https://www.pgcasts.com/

10 years ago

PHP Sucks

https://evertpot.com/PHP-Sucks/

10 years ago

GitHub Security Update: Reused Password Attack

https://github.com/blog/2190-github-security-update-reused-password-attack

10 years ago

The illegal city of Somerville

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/

10 years ago

Announcing Google Research, Europe

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/announcing-google-research-europe.html

10 years ago

Gone Full Unikernel

https://deferpanic.com/blog/gone-full-unikernel/

10 years ago

Ten years on, revisiting YouTube’s first viral sensation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/16/lonelygirl15-bree-video-blog-youtube

10 years ago

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

10 years ago

Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

https://www.triggerfinance.com/

10 years ago

Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent

http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474

10 years ago

Copyrighting DNA Is a Bad Idea

http://nautil.us/blog/copyrighting-dna-is-a-bad-idea

10 years ago

Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live

https://www.stockfighter.io/#jailbreak

10 years ago

Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/grandmother-nan-google-praises-search-thank-you-manners-polite

10 years ago

Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm

http://blog.demofox.org/2016/06/16/synthesizing-a-pluked-string-sound-with-the-karplus-strong-algorithm/

10 years ago

Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android

http://superpowered.com/superpowered-android-media-server

10 years ago

Qt 5.7 released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/16/qt-5-7-released/

10 years ago

Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router

http://www.gizra.com/content/faithful-elm-amazing-router/

10 years ago

Linode’s 13th Birthday

https://blog.linode.com/2016/06/16/linodes-13th-birthday-gifts-for-all/

10 years ago

Tumblr’s stumbles under Yahoo

http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915188

10 years ago

How Canada Became a Greenhouse Superpower

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/16/473526920/how-canada-became-a-greenhouse-superpower

10 years ago

The contested papyrus “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/?single_page=true

10 years ago

What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions

http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-mayers-yahoo-acqu-1781980352?utm_source=nextdraft

10 years ago

Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station

http://www.smh.com.au/world/risky-south-pole-mission-retrieve-sick-scientists-from-amundsenscott-research-station-20160616-gpl3hg.html

10 years ago

Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Project Loon

https://thestack.com/world/2016/06/16/google-accused-of-stealing-balloon-network-tech-behind-project-loon/

10 years ago

Cars are getting weird

http://kottke.org/16/06/cars-are-getting-weird

10 years ago

What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=1

10 years ago

Smart detection for passive sniffing in the Tor-network

https://chloe.re/2016/06/16/badonions/

10 years ago

Japan student held for making Puzzle and Dragons hack

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2016/06/16/japan-student-held-for-making-puzzle-dragons-hack/

10 years ago

xDedic – the shady world of hacked servers for sale

https://securelist.com/blog/research/75027/xdedic-the-shady-world-of-hacked-servers-for-sale/

10 years ago

Pin repositories to your GitHub profile

https://github.com/blog/2191-pin-repositories-to-your-github-profile

10 years ago

Leaving CMU

http://blog.smola.org/post/145983963411/leaving-cmu

10 years ago

Show HN: Scrape all posts from a Facebook Page, with individual Reaction counts

https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper

10 years ago

★ 2.1k Python

Outsmarting Go Dependencies in Testing Code

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/outsmarting-go-dependencies-testing-code/#

10 years ago

Rules for Writing Technical Documentation (2009)

http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3848981/The-7-Rules-for-Writing-World-Class-Technical-Documentation.htm

10 years ago

Ask HN: Is there a site providing example files for “all” media types?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11917206

10 years ago

With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

https://blog.addjam.com/react-native-its-not-all-sugar-and-spice-cb5d6b25eae9#.kkwvjrg7h

10 years ago

ARM Announces Mali Egil Video Processor: VP9 Encode and Decode for Mobile

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10428/arm-announces-mali-egil-video-processor

10 years ago