top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-19

The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/the-fathers-of-the-internet-revolution-urge-todays-pioneers-to-reinvent-the-web

10 years ago

644 upvotes – 228 comments

Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; can now watch new owner

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4ortwb/i_bought_and_returned_a_set_of_wifi_connected/

10 years ago

454 upvotes – 150 comments

We’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS

http://beets.io/blog/sqlite-performance.html

10 years ago

397 upvotes – 146 comments

When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/when-everything-else-fails-amateur-radio-will-still-be-there-and-thriving/

10 years ago

363 upvotes – 186 comments

The management myth (2006)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/304883/?single_page=true

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 155 comments

APFS in Detail

http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part1/

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 94 comments

Advanced programming languages (2009)

http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 202 comments

GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

http://status.gotomypc.com/incidents/s2k8h1xhzn4k

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 167 comments

Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129953/#

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 61 comments

Low-background steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 28 comments

“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS/PCI/PCC/SD”

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/744609239075799044

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 101 comments

QuakeWorld by John Carmack (1996)

http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 68 comments

An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/the-ai-dashcam-app-that-wants-to-rate-every-driver-in-the-world

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 105 comments

Stop saying learning to code is easy

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/StopSayingLearningToCodeIsEasy.aspx

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 99 comments

The “C Is Efficient” Language Fallacy (2006)

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/02/the-c-is-efficient-language-fa/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 102 comments

New ransomware written in JavaScript discovered

http://www.scmagazine.com/new-raa-ransomware-written-in-javascript-discovered/article/504029/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Another successful DAO attack recursive split

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/4ot3vi/warning_another_successful_attack_recursive_split/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 160 comments

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 44 comments

UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)

http://utf8everywhere.org/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 153 comments

A Meth Addict Gets Sober in Orange County Community Court

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/using-against-my-will/486203/?single_page=true

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 89 comments

GNU Screen v.4.4.0

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2016-06/msg00014.html

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

Photography is changing

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/06/19/apple-doesnt-understand-photography/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/health/birth-control-options-websites.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 96 comments

Space Mono

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space%20Mono

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

The Diderot Effect: Shopping One's Way to Financial Misery

https://businessmellow.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/the-diderot-effect-avoid-shopping-your-way-to-financial-misery/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: What projects are perfect for learning a new language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11932417

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 57 comments

What's New in Swift [video]

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/402/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/world/americas/venezuelans-ransack-stores-as-hunger-stalks-crumbling-nation.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 79 comments

The Inside of a Neutron Star

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/the-inside-of-a-neutron-star-looks-spookily-familiar

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Reflection in C++

http://donw.io/post/reflection-cpp-1/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Curry: A Tutorial Introduction [pdf]

http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/currywiki/_media/documentation/tutorial.pdf

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11933889

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Is This New Swim Stroke the Fastest Yet? (2015)

http://nautil.us/issue/37/currents/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-rp

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments
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