872
334
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
744
443
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/
558
34
Chuck Thacker has died
https://cacm.acm.org/news/218536-in-memoriam-charles-p-chuck-thacker-1943-2017/fulltext
548
84
NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
https://www.numfocus.org/blog/numpy-receives-first-ever-funding-thanks-to-moore-foundation/
372
323
Pistol sights
http://yarchive.net/blog/gun/pistol_sights.html
368
The future of education is plain text
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/06/13/the-future-of-education-is-plain-text/
335
167
Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/firefox-54-e10s-webextension-apis-css-clip-path/
311
170
The most accurate map for August 21’s total solar eclipse
https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12458
294
213
The Holder Report on Uber
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/13/technology/document-The-Holder-Report-on-Uber.html
277
166
Money can be stolen from an Uber account
https://unlikekinds.com/t/your-money-can-be-stolen-from-your-uber-account
263
65
Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production
http://heap.engineering/running-10-million-postgresql-indexes-in-production/
259
70
Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors
http://www.tinmith.net/wayne/blog/2017/06/immersive-flight-sim-4.htm
245
180
Uber CEO to take leave
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/uber-ceo-to-take-leave-diminished-role-after-workplace-scandals
240
102
The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/health/liver-bodily-function.html
215
76
Program FPGAs with Go
https://reconfigure.io/
210
19
Writing a Unix Shell – Part II
https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/writing-a-unix-shell-part-2/
207
109
Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs
https://www.servethehome.com/password-cracking-with-8x-nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-gpus/
200
Basic Principles of Visual Design
https://blog.prototypr.io/10-basic-principles-of-visual-design-55b86b9f7241
188
73
Tails 3.0 Released
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.0/index.en.html
182
57
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
181
88
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness
http://quillette.com/2017/05/26/paradoxes-probability-statistical-strangeness/
178
36
MNIST for ML Beginners: The Bayesian Way
https://alpha-i.co/blog/MNIST-for-ML-beginners-The-Bayesian-Way.html
175
148
Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes) (1995) [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf
174
156
Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/cook-says-apple-is-focusing-on-making-an-autonomous-car-system
164
115
Apple Mac computers targeted by ransomware and spyware
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40261693
157
137
Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/
67
What is the oldest living organism on the planet?
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40224991
56
Securing your API: a modern alternative to CSRF tokens
https://mixmax.com/blog/modern-csrf
143
30
GitHub adds support for nested organization teams
https://github.com/blog/2378-nested-teams-add-depth-to-your-team-structure
114
8
Generating executable files from scratch
https://github.com/cameronswinoga/yabfc/wiki/Generating-executable-files-from-scratch
★ 282 C – 9 years ago
112
40
Learning Node.js and React while building a product
https://javascriptkicks.com/articles/147418/ramp-receipts-learning-node-js-and-react-while-building-a-product
110
111
Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/06/13/june-2017-security-update-release/
Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)
https://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html
108
28
Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=894
105
Daisy: A private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, in Go
https://github.com/ivoras/daisy
★ 600 Go – 9 years ago
104
44
Chrome 60 Beta
https://blog.chromium.org/2017/06/chrome-60-beta-paint-timing-api-css.html
80
Bankrupt Mt. Gox may soon be able to pay its creditors
https://qz.com/1003609/bitcoins-soaring-price-means-mt-gox-could-pay-its-debts-and-drw-wants-to-help/
100
31
The Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cornell-chicken-barbecue-sauce-upstate
95
1
Firefox 54 Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/54.0/releasenotes/
93
86
An excerpt from “The One Device” – origin story of the iPhone
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt
91
14
Security First [videos]
https://advocacyassembly.org/en/partners/securityfirst/
90
12
The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (2009)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/
89
22
Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new function type syntax
http://news.dartlang.org/2017/06/dart-124-faster-edit-refresh-cycle-on.html
85
50
10x engineers take long naps
https://medium.com/@rudyrigot/10x-engineers-take-long-naps-ed2ca00a953
47
Uber board member cracks ‘inappropriate’ joke about women at company event
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/13/a-top-uber-board-member-just-cracked-a-joke-about-women-at-the-worst-possible-time/?tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&pushid=5940571c658e691d00000044
81
13
KARL – kernel address randomized link (OpenBSD)
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149732026405941&w=2
Show HN: HNfavorites – Explore the community's favorite content
http://www.hnfavorites.com
29
Cosmic voids
http://www.askamathematician.com/2017/06/q-where-is-the-middle-of-nowhere/
78
7
Learning from Human Preferences
https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-human-preferences/
92
Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
https://www.jobgen.io/
A new trick for calculating Jacobian vector products
https://j-towns.github.io/2017/06/12/A-new-trick.html
6
Minimizing FPGA Resource Utilization
http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/06/12/minimizing-luts.html
72
11
Why Events Are a Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) (2003) [pdf]
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/threads-hotos-2003.pdf
71
Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
https://theconversation.com/cars-overwhelmingly-cause-bike-collisions-and-the-law-should-reflect-that-78922