top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-06-21

“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”

https://seafile.de/en/important-infos-about-app-seafile-de-and-licensing-purchases-through-our-web-shops/

10 years ago

Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-makes-offer-to-acquire-solarcity

10 years ago

Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/21/482322571/silicon-valley-s-bloody-plant-burger-smells-tastes-and-sizzles-like-meat

10 years ago

Elixir v1.3 released

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/06/21/elixir-v1-3-0-released/

10 years ago

“But he does good work.”

https://medium.com/@violetblue/but-he-does-good-work-6710df9d9029#.axjt9r4e2

10 years ago

A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR

http://uploadvr.com/valve-third-vr/

10 years ago

CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/cia_director_jo.html

10 years ago

Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged with Secret FBI Requests

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/21/tech-companies-fight-back-after-years-of-being-deluged-with-secret-fbi-requests/

10 years ago

Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/apple-launches-coding-camps-for-kids-in-its-retail-stores/

10 years ago

Netflix Billing Migration to AWS

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/06/netflix-billing-migration-to-aws.html

10 years ago

Web Service Efficiency at Instagram with Python

https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-instagram-with-python-4976d078e366#.s1st93t8g

10 years ago

Chasing the DAO Attacker’s Wake – A second exploit

http://pdaian.com/blog/chasing-the-dao-attackers-wake/

10 years ago

Image Hosting on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/

10 years ago

How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/06/21/pick-battles-software-team/#.V2k-lErouZc.hackernews

10 years ago

Ask HN: As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of intense doubt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944685

10 years ago

Iris: Fast back-end web framework for Go

http://iris-go.com/

10 years ago

Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists

https://medium.com/@Numerai/7b208deec5f0

10 years ago

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms

http://sebastianruder.com/optimizing-gradient-descent/

10 years ago

Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/06/20/ruby-2-4-0-preview1-released/

10 years ago

A tale of two cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and Bitcoin’s ongoing challenges

https://tonyarcieri.com/a-tale-of-two-cryptocurrencies

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