top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-06-29

The Daredevil Camera

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/29/the-daredevil-camera/

10 years ago

1302 upvotes – 153 comments

Investing Returns on the S&P500

https://github.com/zonination/investing/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 1.7k R MIT
618 upvotes – 340 comments

How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-compromise-enterprise-endpoint.html

10 years ago

553 upvotes – 179 comments

Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box

https://slashcrypto.org/2016/06/29/Ebay/

10 years ago

497 upvotes – 201 comments

What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016

http://xeniaschmalz.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-happens-when-you-try-to-publish.html

10 years ago

332 upvotes – 137 comments

We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 351 comments

My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project

https://runcommand.io/2016/06/26/my-condolences-youre-now-the-maintainer-of-a-popular-open-source-project/

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 127 comments

Lossless compression with Brotli

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-with-brotli/

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 63 comments

Ōryōki Web Browser

http://oryoki.io/

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 166 comments

Making open source data more available

https://github.com/blog/2201-making-open-source-data-more-available

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 24 comments

From Losing Money to a Profit Margin in 5 Months

http://nathanbarry.com/profit/

10 years ago

252 upvotes – 40 comments

Ten Year Old Girl Gets Accepted as Paris Innovation Fellow

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kat-borlongan/letter-to-the-10-year-old-girl-who-applied-to-the-paris-summer-innovation-fellow/10153524268770740

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-file-system-production-ready-in-three-regions/

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 119 comments

Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/wide-deep-learning-better-together-with.html

10 years ago

231 upvotes – 13 comments

Knuth reenacts his first Stanford lecture: The Analysis of Algorithms [video]

https://vimeo.com/161783929/dba6a42ad3

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

http://ok-google.io

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 115 comments

High Performance Browser Networking

https://hpbn.co/

10 years ago

192 upvotes – 15 comments

How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-29/how-amazon-triggered-a-robot-arms-race

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 101 comments

Judge Says IP Address Doesn't Prove Anything in Piracy Case

http://gizmodo.com/judge-says-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-in-piracy-c-1782752621?

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11999892

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

How to implement a programming language in JavaScript

http://lisperator.net/pltut/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001925

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 190 comments

Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-year-of-windows-kernel-font-fuzzing-1_27.html

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 38 comments

Palantir Buyback Plan Shows Need for New Silicon Valley Pay System

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/business/dealbook/palantir-buyback-plan-shows-need-for-new-silicon-valley-pay-system.html

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 107 comments

Beamforming in PulseAudio

https://arunraghavan.net/2016/06/beamforming-in-pulseaudio/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How do I stop myself being toxic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000694

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 138 comments

Common definitions in chip design and production

https://www.parallella.org/2016/02/18/200-chip-definitions-everyone-should-know/

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Start multi-tasking with your virtual reality headset

https://getspace.io/

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Monkberry – a JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

http://monkberry.js.org

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

What is Symbolic Computation?

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/06/symbolic-computation/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

Amazon Has Swallowed Downtown Seattle

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-06-29/prime-real-estate-amazon-has-swallowed-downtown-seattle

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 131 comments

Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for Yours

http://www.thememo.com/2016/06/29/brexit-social-media-eu-half-blamed-the-eu-for-their-problems-blame-social-media-for-yours/

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 166 comments

Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes

http://www.coindesk.com/urbit-developers-bitcoin-node/

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 169 comments

Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/000119312516636535/d68862ds1a.htm

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Goa: Design-First API Generation

http://goa.design/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Did anyone's life ever gotten more comfortable after accepting funding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000118

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

https://wallarm.com

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

Visualize Algorithms based on Backpropagation

http://neupy.com/2015/07/04/visualize_backpropagation_algorithms.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

A Natural Language User Interface is just a User Interface

https://medium.com/@honnibal/a-natural-language-user-interface-is-just-a-user-interface-4a6d898e9721

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Review of ‘Chaos Monkeys’, Silicon Valley tell-all

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/business/dealbook/review-chaos-monkeys-is-a-guide-to-the-spirit-of-silicon-valley.html?ref=dealbook

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

Today’s Renters Are Worse Off Than Their Parents

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/29/todays-renters-really-are-worse-off-than-their-parents/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 102 comments

The Godzilla of Solar Ovens

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-godzilla-of-solar-ovens#.V3QnRCuHeF8.hackernews

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Help Me to Die, O Lord

https://medium.com/century-magazine/help-me-to-die-o-lord-524aa0164b30#.rgwfa71dn

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

The Fixable Problem with Serverless

https://www.iopipe.com/2016/06/the-fixable-problem-with-serverless/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

Friends don't let friends do Java

http://www.teale.de/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-do-java.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/29/its-official-kleiner-just-pulled-off-a-1-4-billion-fundraise/amp/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Student Builds Daphne Oram’s Unfinished ‘Mini-Oramics’

http://www.gold.ac.uk/news/mini-oramics/

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

CP/M development environment setup

https://vox.space/blog/113/cp-m-development-setup

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

Universal rendering with SwiftShader, now open source

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/06/universal-rendering-with-swiftshader.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

BlindBox: Deep Packet Inspection Over Encrypted Traffic [pdf]

http://iot.stanford.edu/pubs/sherry-blindbox-sigcomm15.pdf

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Botan: Crypto and TLS for C++11

https://botan.randombit.net/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Google Cloud outage brings down Layer

http://status.layer.com/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments
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