top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-23

Defending Our Brand

https://letsencrypt.org//2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

10 years ago

1346 upvotes – 263 comments

How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

http://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hackernews-lead-to-4-%C2%BD-new-unicode-characters/

10 years ago

1181 upvotes – 413 comments

EU Referendum Results

http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

10 years ago

427 upvotes – 387 comments

Phoenix 1.2

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.2.0/CHANGELOG.md

10 years ago

★ 22.9k Elixir MIT
404 upvotes – 55 comments

Twilio opens trading at $23.99 per share

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/23/twilio-opens-trading/

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 168 comments

Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-23/crispr-wins-key-approval-to-fight-cancer-in-human-trials

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 85 comments

Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/

10 years ago

340 upvotes – 155 comments

The Rule of 72 (2007)

http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-rule-of-72/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 92 comments

Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/06/over-the-edge/

10 years ago

302 upvotes – 210 comments

Coconut – Pythonic functional programming language

http://coconut-lang.org/

10 years ago

259 upvotes – 130 comments

Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-there-a-reason-hillary-clintons-logo-has-hidden-notches

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 60 comments

Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry raises $9M

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/23/real-time-crash-reporting-tool-sentry-grabs-9-million-from-nea-accel

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 67 comments

Happy 20th Birthday, Quake

http://rome.ro/news/2016/6/22/happy-20th-birthday-quake

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 144 comments

Comodo CEO Forum Post on Lets Encrypt Trademark

https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anything-and-everything/shame-on-you-comodo-t115958.0.html;msg837411#msg837411

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 81 comments

AI, Apple and Google

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/6/23/ai-apple-and-google

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

Lessons from Doom (2010)

http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 89 comments

Uber Hacking: How we found out who you are, where you are and where you went

https://labs.integrity.pt/articles/uber-hacking-how-we-found-out-who-you-are-where-you-are-and-where-you-went/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 14 comments

Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocates to SF

http://betakit.com/joist-lays-off-60-employees-as-company-relocates-to-san-francisco/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 132 comments

Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data

http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 9 comments

California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exodus of residents

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30037774/greener-pastures-beckon-some-beleaguered-residents

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 307 comments

PayPal Restores Seafile's Account after File-Monitoring Row

http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/paypal-seafile-monitoring/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 82 comments

ArangoDB 3.0 Release – A Solid Ground to Scale

https://www.arangodb.com/2016/06/arangodb-3-0-a-solid-ground-to-scale/

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

Mir Spacecraft: Worst collision in the history of space flight [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36549109

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 38 comments

Time-travel queries in CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/time-travel-queries-select-witty_subtitle-the_future/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 52 comments

Blackbird, a car rig that creates photo-real CG cars [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

Russia Lights Rockets with an Oversized Wooden Match

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a19966/russia-actually-lights-it-rockets-with-a-giant-match/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

What’s up with nano?

http://www.asty.org/2016/06/23/whats-up-with-nano/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 79 comments

Cygwin library now available under GNU LGPL

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/cygwin-library-now-available-under-gnu-lesser-general-public-license

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 73 comments

APL compiler targeting a typed array intermediate language

https://github.com/melsman/apltail/

10 years ago

★ 220 Standard ML MIT
123 upvotes – 29 comments

Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BshonTqZfYcSBRA7bs4DsQ6PChdAeNRn9LV4tMgwEeo/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)

https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 2 comments

The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options

http://a16z.com/2016/06/23/options-timing/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 121 comments

Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6oELZcO_ejX2oVk20hmiBWd4lQugfFahn7OOOOyKsw

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 111 comments

College Unaffordable Even in Higher Income Brackets

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/college-unaffordable-even-in-higher-income-brackets.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 205 comments

Fire in Microgravity

https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2016/1/fire-in-microgravity/1

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 4 comments

Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go

https://gist.github.com/nathan-osman/18c2e227ad00a223b61c0b3c16d452c3

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 63 comments

C# 7.0 – What to Expect

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/csharp/1286/csharp-7-new-expected-features

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization for LLVM

http://blog.llvm.org/2016/06/thinlto-scalable-and-incremental-lto.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Hyperinflation in America: The End of Grades?

http://www.mansharamani.com/articles/hyperinflation-in-america-the-end-of-grades/

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 154 comments

The Toronto Raptors are using IBM’s Watson in the draft

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/toronto-raptors-nba-draft-day-ibm-watson

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: BBC Good Food Scraper in Go

https://github.com/sleepypikachu/still-good-food

10 years ago

★ 163 Go MIT
92 upvotes – 23 comments

Containers vs. Config Management

https://blog.containership.io/containers-vs-config-management-e64cbb744a94

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

Boring but possibly interesting audio for going to sleep

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/the-worlds-best-sleepy-time-media-abf2ec2c667c#.99hfyjsva

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Controlling the ‘referer’ header

https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/06/20/everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-and-more-about-controlling-the-referer-header/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Open source template for building static web sites with Prismic.io and AWS S3

http://futurice.com/blog/cms-done-right-vol-3

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Write Code to Rewrite Your Code: jscodeshift

http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/write-code-to-rewrite-your-code-jscodeshift?utm_content=buffer598df&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

The Artist Leaving the Googleplex

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-artist-leaving-the-googleplex/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Demovfuscator

https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator

10 years ago

★ 757 C++ BSD-2-Clause
79 upvotes – 6 comments

Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/06/rise-of-darknet-stokes-fear-of-the-insider/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Is productivity the victim of its own success?

https://growthecon.com/blog/Baumol/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

BoiledCarrot

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BoiledCarrot.html

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Rosencrantz – A Web DSL for Nim

https://github.com/andreaferretti/rosencrantz

10 years ago

★ 195 Nim Apache-2.0
69 upvotes – 28 comments

Solar Impulse completes Atlantic crossing with landing in Seville

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36598140

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

InfluxDB Clustering Beta and Data Explorer

https://influxdata.com/blog/influxenterprise-beta-clustering-monitoring-influxdb/

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Torchnet – Lighting the way to deep machine learning

https://code.facebook.com/posts/580706092103929

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

I freed an innocent man from prison. Hacker News failed him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958567

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments
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