top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-22

Lenin was a mushroom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom

10 years ago

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160324-in-newly-created-life-form-a-major-mystery/

10 years ago

New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160621-electron-eating-microbes-found-in-odd-places/

10 years ago

More awful IoT stuff

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/43486.html

10 years ago

Where have all the iOS games gone?

http://minotaurproject.co.uk/blog/?p=376

10 years ago

Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

https://webpass.net/blog/google-fiber-agrees-to-acquire-webpass

10 years ago

Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

http://www.erlang.org/news/105

10 years ago

Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala

http://dotty.epfl.ch/

10 years ago

India launches 20 satellites in single mission

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36593855

10 years ago

Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-385000-to-open-source-projects-as-part-of-moss-mission-partners-program/

10 years ago

How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First”

https://backchannel.com/how-google-is-remaking-itself-as-a-machine-learning-first-company-ada63defcb70#.nljh17nb5

10 years ago

Show HN: A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts

https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero

10 years ago

★ 2.4k C

Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (2011)

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/why-isnt-the-fundamental-theorem-of-arithmetic-obvious/

10 years ago

Concrete AI Safety Problems

https://openai.com/blog/concrete-ai-safety-problems/

10 years ago

Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016

https://letsencrypt.org//2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html

10 years ago

German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-fracking-idUSKCN0Z71YY

10 years ago

The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/?no-ist

10 years ago

A Stark Nuclear Warning

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/07/14/a-stark-nuclear-warning/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Nuclear%20warning%20DAFs%20photography&utm_content=NYR%20Nuclear%20warning%20DAFs%20photography+CID_cdcb323379751927b97848003ede3e76&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=A%20Stark%20Nuclear%20Warning

10 years ago

Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/20/sweden-meet-julian-assange-inside-ecuador-embassy-wikileaks

10 years ago

Typography for User Interfaces

https://viljamis.com/2016/typography-for-user-interfaces/

10 years ago

FCC to Investigate Raised RF Noise Floor

http://hackaday.com/2016/06/21/fcc-to-investigate-raised-rf-noise-floor/

10 years ago

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

10 years ago

Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28263

10 years ago

Nano is no longer a GNU project

https://nano-editor.org/news.php

10 years ago

Railway oriented programming

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/

10 years ago

Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11991302/iphone-no-headphone-jack-user-hostile-stupid

10 years ago

JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/06/22/javascript-performance-updates-anniversary-update/

10 years ago

GitLab 8.9 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/22/gitlab-8-9-released/

10 years ago

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, day 1: Power supplies and disk interface

http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html

10 years ago

A 3-generation bug

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373621#c69

10 years ago

Emacs Live (2013)

http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/

10 years ago

Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think (2014)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/krisztinaholly/2014/01/15/why-great-entrepreneurs-are-older-than-you-think

10 years ago

Senate rejects FBI bid for warrantless access to internet browsing histories

http://www.zdnet.com/article/senate-rejects-fbi-bid-for-warrantless-access-to-internet-browsing-histories/

10 years ago

Close Encounters of the Java Memory Model Kind

http://shipilev.net/blog/2016/close-encounters-of-jmm-kind/

10 years ago

Lon.gs: A URL shortener in C

http://lon.gs/

10 years ago

GNU Guile beta 2.1.3 released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg00058.html

10 years ago

A Hacker's Guide to Getting Old

http://hackaday.com/2016/06/22/a-hackers-guide-to-getting-old/

10 years ago

Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004961

10 years ago

M 122: Advanced Operating Systems (2015)

http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~mema/courses/mde518/m122.html

10 years ago

Elixir vs. Erlang, is Elixir safe bet for my time investment?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/37964709/257501

10 years ago

Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool

https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

10 years ago

US government conducted airflow tests on NYC subway to understand bioterror risk

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160621-how-to-fight-bioterrorism-on-subways

10 years ago

Apple leaves iOS 10 kernel unencrypted in developer preview

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601748/apple-opens-up-iphone-code-in-what-could-be-savvy-strategy-or-security-screwup/

10 years ago

Investors and their incentives

http://www.aaronkharris.com/investors-and-their-incentives

10 years ago

Espressif Releases ESP8285

http://hackaday.com/2016/06/21/espressif-releases-esp8266-killer/

10 years ago

Kodak's detection of atomic bomb testing

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/

10 years ago

Solar System Internet on the ISS

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-solar-system-internet-technology-debuts-on-the-international-space-station/

10 years ago

The VoltAir Project

http://google.github.io/VoltAir/doc/main/html/index.html

10 years ago

500 Internal error at YouTube

http://imgur.com/6WIgh9J

10 years ago

KatieConf

https://katieconf.xyz/

10 years ago

Moc myths debunked

https://woboq.com/blog/moc-myths.html

10 years ago

Eve Developer Diary, March — Part 1: UI

http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2016/06/22/mar1/

10 years ago

Emails: State Dept. scrambled on trouble on Clinton's server

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7006105d422740f0b4b8675c90f9a154/emails-key-security-features-disabled-clintons-server

10 years ago

Learn React.js in a weekend

https://nodecasts.io/learn-react-js-weekend/

10 years ago

TV Advertising

https://stratechery.com/2016/tv-advertisings-surprising-strength-and-inevitable-fall/

10 years ago

The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/panama-canal.html

10 years ago

A new crop of hands-on universities

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21701081-latest-push-disrupt-higher-education-new-crop-hands-universities

10 years ago

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

10 years ago

The Cloned-Consciousness-as-Continuous-Consciousness Fallacy

https://exolymph.news/2016/06/21/cloning-artificial-intelligence-death/

10 years ago

Reddit copies Quora's content blocking / forced registration feature

http://imgur.com/IjoM7D5

10 years ago

Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber

http://blog.caranddriver.com/lamborghini-is-forging-ahead-with-forged-carbon-fiber-we-visit-their-u-s-based-lab/

10 years ago

Passenger drones are hovering over the horizon

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21701080-personal-robotic-aircraft-are-cheaper-and-safer-helicopterand-much-easier

10 years ago

Art and taste in the age of the Internet

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/20/art-and-taste-in-the-internet-age

10 years ago

Even Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his webcam

http://mashable.com/2016/06/21/mark-zuckerberg-webcam-cover

10 years ago