top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-06-04

On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return

http://erikrood.com/Posts/college_roi_.html

9 years ago

739 upvotes – 640 comments

A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

https://github.com/karan/Projects

9 years ago

★ 47.6kMIT
483 upvotes – 57 comments

Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 105 comments

UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway

http://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.html

9 years ago

407 upvotes – 221 comments

Cryptoeconomics 101

https://thecontrol.co/cryptoeconomics-101-e5c883e9a8ff

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 112 comments

Dolphin Emulator Progress Report

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/06/03/dolphin-progress-report-may-2017/

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 23 comments

SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0

https://medium.com/@homakov/securelogin-forget-about-passwords-c1bf7b47f698

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 186 comments

FlexBox Cheatsheet

http://vudav.github.io/flexbox-cheatsheet/

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482988

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 315 comments

The Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs [pdf]

http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 15 comments

Rewrite Linux Kernel in Rust?

https://dominuscarnufex.github.io/cours/rs-kernel/en.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 129 comments

Identifying the dimensions used by the primate brain to decode faces

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/science/facial-recognition-brain-neurons.html?_r=0

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 39 comments

The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier

http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/05/30/the-wonderful-wifi232-bbsing-has-literally-never-been-easier/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 23 comments

A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust

https://danielkeep.github.io/practical-intro-to-macros.html

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 24 comments

Differences between Tmux vs Screen (2015)

https://wtanaka.com/node/8136

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 88 comments

Using select(2) the right way

http://aivarsk.github.io/2017/04/06/select/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 37 comments

Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after London terror attack

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-internet-regulated-london-bridge-terror-attack-google-facebook-whatsapp-borough-security-a7771896.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 219 comments

Getting Hacked, Lessons Learned

http://avc.com/2017/06/getting-hacked-lessons-learned/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 99 comments

TeX Live 2017 released

https://www.tug.org/texlive/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 62 comments

ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered

http://electronconf.com

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 314 comments
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