top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-09

Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys

https://tomharrisonjr.com/uuid-or-guid-as-primary-keys-be-careful-7b2aa3dcb439

9 years ago

593 upvotes – 292 comments

SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphabet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-09/softbank-agrees-to-buy-robot-maker-boston-dynamics

9 years ago

566 upvotes – 215 comments

Reading OpenBSD source code daily

https://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/06/09/openbsd-daily.html

9 years ago

386 upvotes – 81 comments

Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Products, Shuts Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/pirate-joes-trader-joes-vancouver.html?_r=0

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 267 comments

Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns

https://github.com/gravitational/workshop/blob/master/k8sprod.md

9 years ago

★ 2kGoApache-2.0
343 upvotes – 40 comments

Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel-fires-warning-shots-at-microsoft-claims-x86-emulation-is-a-patent-minefield/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 229 comments

Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin

http://www.verelox.com/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 380 comments

Stench gas

https://everything2.com/title/Stench+gas

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 55 comments

Now UI Kit – A Bootstrap 4 UI kit

http://demos.creative-tim.com/now-ui-kit/index.html#

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522653

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 147 comments

Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331871&

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 97 comments

Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate

https://blog.openai.com/learning-to-cooperate-compete-and-communicate/?source=hn

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 36 comments

Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-uses-obscure-intel-cpu-feature-to-steal-data-and-avoid-firewalls/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14521322

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 150 comments

Plan9-9k: 64-bit Plan 9

https://bitbucket.org/forsyth/plan9-9k

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 97 comments

How Torch broke ls and made me vulnerable

https://joshumax.github.io/general/2017/06/08/how-torch-broke-ls.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 36 comments

Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

http://minimaxir.com/2017/06/r-notebooks/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business

https://blog.cronitor.io/the-aws-spend-of-a-saas-side-business-30bd5dbd91b

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 82 comments

Thursday night Mountain View power outage the result of a drone crash

http://www.mountainview.gov/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=1168&TargetID=9

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 171 comments

PyPy v5.8 released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/06/pypy-v58-released.html

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts

https://github.com/pch/welder

9 years ago

★ 1.1kShellMIT
158 upvotes – 66 comments

How Badly Must a C.E.O. Behave Before Pay Is Clawed Back?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/business/united-airlines-ceo-scandal-lawsuit.html

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 94 comments

x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-still-going-strong/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 173 comments

Neural Translation of Musical Style

http://imanmalik.com/cs/2017/06/05/neural-style.html

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 29 comments

MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011)

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 61 comments

What Amazon Teaches Us About AI and the “Jobless Future”

https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/do-more-what-amazon-teaches-us-about-ai-and-the-jobless-future-8051b19a66af

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 175 comments

Language Servers and IDEs

https://perplexinglyemma.blogspot.com/2017/06/language-servers-and-ides.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

PCIe 4.0 will be twice as fast as today's slots

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/09/pcie-4-0-twice-as-fast/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 84 comments

Astronomer claims to have solved the 40-year old mystery of the “Wow!” signal

https://futurism.com/the-40-year-old-mystery-of-the-wow-signal-was-just-solved/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 30 comments

Cancer Drug Proves to Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/health/cancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=19&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F06%2F08%2Fhealth%2Fcancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

A theory of modern Golang

http://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2017/06/09/theory-of-modern-go.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 109 comments

Making the Internet Archive’s full text search faster

http://gio.blog.archive.org/2017/05/31/making-the-internet-archive-full-text-search-faster/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 21 comments

UK election: Conservatives lose majority

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40209282

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 195 comments

Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin

http://blog.perennate.com/20170609_coinbase_stripe.html

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 86 comments

Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/09/houzz-400m-raise-4b-valuation/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 72 comments

C64 Yourself: Browser-based image converter to C64 color palette

http://c64.superdefault.com/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Can you figure out how this single part boost converter works?

https://wp.josh.com/2017/03/22/challenge-design-an-avr-controlled-boost-converter-using-only-one-part/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/05/chicago-cabbies-say-industry-teetering-toward-collapse/102524634/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 254 comments

Hedge-Fund Growth and Tax Arbitrage

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-09/hedge-fund-growth-and-tax-arbitrage

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Startup School 18: How to Raise Money and How to Succeed Long-Term [video]

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/18

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 6 comments

Surviving injuries from falling

https://mosaicscience.com/story/falling-science-injury-death-falls

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police tap the internet

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2017/06/dutch-russian-cyber-crime-case-reveals.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

Software Engineer to SaaS Founder

https://hackernoon.com/software-engineer-to-saas-founder-c16154013e12

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Sony’s New Toio Wants to Inspire a Future Generation of Robotics Engineers

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/06/02/sony-toio-robotics-engineers/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Tim Cook: Technology Should Serve Humanity, Not the Other Way Around

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608051/tim-cook-technology-should-serve-humanity-not-the-other-way-around/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments
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