top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-06

Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

https://monicahq.com

9 years ago

1097 upvotes – 568 comments

Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/05/531584651/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

9 years ago

928 upvotes – 495 comments

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

9 years ago

586 upvotes – 210 comments

WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps

http://blog.openbloc.fr/webassembly-first-steps/

9 years ago

573 upvotes – 150 comments

Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html

9 years ago

525 upvotes – 409 comments

Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker

http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html?m=1

9 years ago

478 upvotes – 211 comments

iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users

https://twitter.com/tfoil2/status/872169336319782912

9 years ago

458 upvotes – 183 comments

Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills

https://www.wsj.com/articles/exclusive-test-data-many-colleges-fail-to-improve-critical-thinking-skills-1496686662

9 years ago

396 upvotes – 311 comments

Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/uber-said-to-fire-more-than-20-employees-in-harassment-probe

9 years ago

394 upvotes – 265 comments

APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unicode normalisation issues

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/04/06/apfs-is-currently-unusable-with-most-non-english-languages/

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 180 comments

YC will accept 10k new companies into its new online Startup School

https://qz.com/987043/y-combinator-will-back-10000-startups-to-prove-theres-nothing-magical-about-silicon-valley/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 121 comments

An Introduction to the CAN Bus: How to Programmatically Control a Car

https://news.voyage.auto/an-introduction-to-the-can-bus-how-to-programmatically-control-a-car-f1b18be4f377

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 104 comments

Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda

http://normal-extensions.com/2017/05/05/simple-recurring/

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 124 comments

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/be-careful-celebrating-googles-new-ad-blocker-heres-whats-really-going-on/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 165 comments

GnuPG Fundraising Rally

https://gnupg.org/donate

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 27 comments

GitHub was down

https://status.github.com/?dupe=no

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 176 comments

Pinterest Raises $150M at 2015 Share Price

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/pinterest-raises-150-million-at-2015-share-price

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 101 comments

Bugger: Maybe spies aren't very good at their jobs (2013)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 134 comments

Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Linear-Algebra-Refresher-Eigenvalues-and-Eigenvectors

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 71 comments

Assembling WebAssembly

https://webkit.org/blog/7691/webassembly/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 86 comments

Did the Intercept bungle the NSA leak?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/06/06/did-the-intercept-bungle-nsa-leak/

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 226 comments

Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the ability to read NFC tags

https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/nfc-ios-reading-nfc-tags/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 115 comments

The asymmetry in storytelling between math and the other sciences

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/math-has-no-god-particle/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 93 comments

Ask HN: How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14502233

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 98 comments

Cloud Firewalls

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/cloud-firewalls/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 112 comments

Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/05/531250084/before-silicon-valley-new-jersey-reigned-as-nations-center-of-innovation

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: A Browser-based Blockchain

https://nimiq.com/betanet

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 136 comments

Core ML: Integrate machine learning models into your app

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 40 comments

July 12th: Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

Linux Bridge – How it works

http://goyalankit.com/blog/linux-bridge

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501564

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 163 comments

Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01427

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 13 comments

Chrome 59 stable released

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 79 comments

Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental health

https://qz.com/993258/dirt-has-a-microbiome-and-it-may-double-as-an-antidepressant/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 62 comments

Colorado doesn’t need to replicate Silicon Valley

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2404

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 115 comments

How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs

https://qz.com/999209/how-some-people-stay-motivated-and-energized-at-work-even-when-they-dont-love-their-jobs/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Why MLB hitters are suddenly obsessed with launch angles

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/sports/mlb-launch-angles-story/?utm_term=.bf67cdee5d05

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 91 comments

UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/06/five-years-ipv6-whither-next-five/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 175 comments

How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City From the Nazis

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-typhus-epidemic-saved-a-polish-city-from-the-nazis

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments
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