top 50% 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

10 years ago

A Perl toolchain for building micro-services at scale

https://engineering.semantics3.com/2016/06/15/a-perl-toolchain-for-building-micro-services-at-scale/

10 years ago

An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript

http://blog.klipse.tech/javascript/2016/06/20/blog-javascript.html

10 years ago

The limited value of a computer science education

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-limited-value-of-a-computer-science-education.html

10 years ago

Table-oriented programming (2002)

http://www.oocities.org/tablizer/top.htm

10 years ago

“Guccifer2”'s second release from DNC hack

https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/hillary-clinton/

10 years ago

Tencent Buys ‘Clash of Clans’ Developer Supercell for $8.6B

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tencent-agrees-to-acquire-clash-of-clans-maker-supercell-1466493612

10 years ago

Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux debacle

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-run-linux-on-your-ps3-you-could-get-55-from-sony/

10 years ago

Slack introduces message buttons

https://slackhq.com/get-more-done-with-message-buttons-5fa5b283a59#.72tct7k3b

10 years ago

Andrew Ng's New Machine Learning Book – Sign up for free draft

http://www.mlyearning.org/

10 years ago

Los Angeles is suing a landlord for evicting tenants to rent units on Airbnb

http://qz.com/712533/los-angeles-is-suing-an-apartment-owner-for-allegedly-evicting-tenants-to-rent-units-on-airbnb/

10 years ago

Show HN: Writing my first interpreter in C for fun

https://github.com/incrediblesound/huo

10 years ago

★ 210 C MIT

SPF, DMARC, and DKIM: How to Keep Your Email Out of the Spam Folder

http://www.wpsitecare.com/keep-your-email-out-of-the-spam-folder/

10 years ago

No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities

https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/no-more-rock-stars/

10 years ago

Why Do Islands Induce Dwarfism?

http://www.sapiens.org/blog/animalia/island-dwarfism/

10 years ago

Comma Separated JSON

http://www.kirit.com/Comma%20Separated%20JSON

10 years ago

Show HN: Why the most popular ways to do good in careers aren’t best

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/

10 years ago

How GNU Make is tested

http://lowlevelbits.org/system-under-test-gnu-make/

10 years ago

Twenty years of free software, part 1: Ikiwiki

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/twenty_years_of_free_software_--_part_1_ikiwiki/

10 years ago

DOT and FAA Finalize Rules for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=20515

10 years ago

Exploiting Recursion in the Linux Kernel

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/exploiting-recursion-in-linux-kernel_20.html

10 years ago

Slowly Poisoned by Energy Drinks

http://yiddish.ninja/the-hidden-cost-of-energy-drinks-they-poisoned-me/

10 years ago

Explore course: Write Pythonic Code Like a Seasoned Developer

https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_pythonic_code/write-pythonic-code-like-a-seasoned-developer

10 years ago

Tell HN: We built a solar-charging wireless backup camera for your car

https://pearlauto.com/rearvision

10 years ago

New Book: 'Relevant Search'

http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/06/21/relevant-search-published/

10 years ago

End of the road for MacNN: 21 years of changes for Apple, and for us

http://www.macnn.com/articles/16/06/20/long.time.staff.winding.up.two.decades.of.service.at.the.end.of.june.134716/

10 years ago

Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (1997)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html

10 years ago

An alternative to fat JARs

http://product.hubspot.com/blog/the-fault-in-our-jars-why-we-stopped-building-uber-jars

10 years ago

'Deleted' Yahoo Emails Led to a 20-Year Drug Trafficking Conviction

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-deleted-yahoo-emails-led-to-a-20-year-drug-trafficking-conviction

10 years ago

Scaling nodes in a Dgraph cluster

http://blog.dgraph.io/post/performance-throughput-latency/

10 years ago

Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems?

http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/66

10 years ago

Causal feedbacks in climate change

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n5/full/nclimate2568.html

10 years ago

Fedora 24 was released

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-24-released/

10 years ago

Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School?

http://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-teaching/

10 years ago

Broken Hardware, Fixes and Hacks Over 8 Years

https://hookrace.net/blog/broken-hardware-fixes-hacks-8-years/

10 years ago

Surviving Childhood Adversity

http://mosaicscience.com/story/surviving-troubled-childhood-resilience-neglect-adversity

10 years ago