top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-14

Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

https://www.demandrush.com

9 years ago

1100 upvotes – 451 comments

SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

9 years ago

612 upvotes – 202 comments

IISc Bangalore scientists are doing seed bombing with drones to plant a forest

https://factordaily.com/iisc-bangalore-drones-seeds-forests-karnataka/

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 127 comments

The Konami exodus

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/The-Konami-exodus?page=1

9 years ago

391 upvotes – 291 comments

Bugs You'll Probably Only Have in Rust

https://gankro.github.io/blah/only-in-rust/

9 years ago

367 upvotes – 83 comments

Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell

http://xion.io/post/programming/rust-into-haskell.html

9 years ago

358 upvotes – 212 comments

Is Arduino no longer open-source?

http://lists.oshwa.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-June/002127.html

9 years ago

358 upvotes – 147 comments

Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page

https://robinmoisson.github.io/staticrypt

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 149 comments

The Old Are Eating the Young

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-13/the-old-are-eating-the-young

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 448 comments

New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

http://www.asmeurer.com/python3-presentation/slides.html#1

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 256 comments

Show HN: Vexlio – Create precise, beautiful diagrams

https://vexlio.com/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 130 comments

How I Found a 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/how-i-found-20-year-old-linux-kernel-bug.html

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 40 comments

Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/06/14/susan-fowlers-uber-expose-should-win-a-pulitzer/#4a2a8c862230

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14555935

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 189 comments

We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style

http://blog.interviewing.io/what-really-matters-in-technical-interviews-we-analyzed-thousands-of-interviews-on-everything-from-language-to-code-style-heres-what-we-found/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 170 comments

Things that Idris improves things over Haskell

https://deque.blog/2017/06/14/10-things-idris-improved-over-haskell/

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 154 comments

Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)

http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word

https://www.simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/version-control-for-microsoft-word

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 115 comments

The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-blockchain-paradox-why-distributed-ledger-technologies-may-do-little-to-transform-the-economy/

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 339 comments

“Someone was typing in a URL and WhatsApp was fetching it off my server”

https://twitter.com/mulander/status/874370124932943874

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 65 comments

Go 1.9 Beta 1 release notes

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.9

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 54 comments

Dr. Bronner's Soap Is Investing Millions into MDMA Research

https://www.inverse.com/article/32376-mdma-ptsd-ptsd-therapy-dr-bronners-soap

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 74 comments

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10986

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 62 comments

The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-the-largest-ever-virtual-universe-inside-a-supercomputer

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 61 comments

The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-14/the-machine-of-tomorrow-today-quantum-computing-on-the-verge

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554044

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 61 comments

React v15.6.0 Released

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/06/13/react-v15.6.0.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 81 comments

Scientists make plastic from a sugar and carbon dioxide

http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2017/06/12/scientists-make-plastic-from-sugar-and-carbon-dioxide

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 38 comments

Firefox 54 goes multi-process, eight years after work began

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/06/firefox-multiple-content-processes/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

Another Case of Obscure CPU Nondeterminism

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/another-case-of-obscure-cpu.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 20 comments

TLS 1.3 at Apple

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/38hn9mRARfDpNdwVKXSpCFhRXs4

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the Public [pdf]

https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/white_papers/wp-fake-news-machine-how-propagandists-abuse-the-internet.pdf?_ga=2.117063430.1073547711.1497355570-1028938869.1495462143&utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=1f1e1358fb-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-1f1e1358fb-154451305

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 128 comments

Deal or no deal? Training AI bots to negotiate

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

Nutella 'Hired' an Algorithm to Design New Jars. And It Was a Sell-Out Success

https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/can-robots-do-the-job-of-designers-nutella-gives-it-a-whirl.html

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here

http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-11-0/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

The Hidden Cost of Privatization

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-business-of-government

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 168 comments

Syberia – Make R a production-ready language for deployable machine learning

http://syberia.io/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

Z-Berry: Z-80 computer

https://sites.google.com/site/zberrysbc/home

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

Creating a Computer Science Canon (2003) [pdf]

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/pubs/sigcsecanon.pdf

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

David Bonderman Resigns from Uber Board

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/david-bonderman-resigns-from-uber-board-after-sexist-remark.html

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

Subutai – Primary military strategist of Genghis Khan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

A 12-Month Campaign of Fake News to Influence Elections Costs $400K

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-12-month-campaign-of-fake-news-to-influence-elections-costs-400-000/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments
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