top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-06-13

How is GNU `yes` so fast?

https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/6gxduc/how_is_gnu_yes_so_fast/?st=j3v3iw3c&sh=5651ea3c

9 years ago

872 upvotes – 334 comments

Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/verizon-closes-4-5b-acquisition-of-yahoo-marissa-mayer-resigns-memo/

9 years ago

744 upvotes – 443 comments

Chuck Thacker has died

https://cacm.acm.org/news/218536-in-memoriam-charles-p-chuck-thacker-1943-2017/fulltext

9 years ago

558 upvotes – 34 comments

NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation

https://www.numfocus.org/blog/numpy-receives-first-ever-funding-thanks-to-moore-foundation/

9 years ago

548 upvotes – 84 comments

Pistol sights

http://yarchive.net/blog/gun/pistol_sights.html

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 323 comments

The future of education is plain text

https://simplystatistics.org/2017/06/13/the-future-of-education-is-plain-text/

9 years ago

368 upvotes – 334 comments

Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/firefox-54-e10s-webextension-apis-css-clip-path/

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 167 comments

The most accurate map for August 21’s total solar eclipse

https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12458

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 170 comments

The Holder Report on Uber

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/13/technology/document-The-Holder-Report-on-Uber.html

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 213 comments

Money can be stolen from an Uber account

https://unlikekinds.com/t/your-money-can-be-stolen-from-your-uber-account

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 166 comments

Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production

http://heap.engineering/running-10-million-postgresql-indexes-in-production/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 65 comments

Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors

http://www.tinmith.net/wayne/blog/2017/06/immersive-flight-sim-4.htm

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 70 comments

Uber CEO to take leave

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/uber-ceo-to-take-leave-diminished-role-after-workplace-scandals

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 180 comments

The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/health/liver-bodily-function.html

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 102 comments

Program FPGAs with Go

https://reconfigure.io/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 76 comments

Writing a Unix Shell – Part II

https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/writing-a-unix-shell-part-2/

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 19 comments

Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs

https://www.servethehome.com/password-cracking-with-8x-nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-gpus/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 109 comments

Basic Principles of Visual Design

https://blog.prototypr.io/10-basic-principles-of-visual-design-55b86b9f7241

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 34 comments

Tails 3.0 Released

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.0/index.en.html

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 73 comments

Tesla Model X Is First SUV to Achieve 5-Star Crash Rating in Every Category

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-model-x-5-star-safety-rating

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments
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