top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-15

Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/

9 years ago

881 upvotes – 663 comments

Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption

https://news.fastcompany.com/telegram-founder-us-intelligence-agencies-tried-to-bribe-us-to-weaken-encryption-4040876

9 years ago

654 upvotes – 206 comments

If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

http://kottke.org/17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-simple-terms-you-dont-understand-it

9 years ago

517 upvotes – 226 comments

I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/29-years-solitary-confinement-robert-king/print

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 250 comments

Open Source Datasets

https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/open-source-datasets/

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 28 comments

Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/15/europe-mostly-ends-mobile-roaming-fees-from-today

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 340 comments

Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps

9 years ago

379 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Snips is a AI Voice Assistant platform 100% on-device and private

https://snips.ai

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 129 comments

No correlation between headphone frequency response and retail price

http://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.4984044

9 years ago

356 upvotes – 350 comments

Catfish Programmers

https://www.butternotes.com/blog/catfish-programmers

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 171 comments

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 134 comments

New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/leveraging-open-source-public-institution-new-analysis-reveals-significant-returns-investment-open

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/14/facebooks-safety-check-is-a-stress-inducing-flip-of-social-norms/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 280 comments

Ableton Live Redesign

http://nenadmilosevic.co/ableton-live-redesign/

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 93 comments

American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem, Then They Outsourced It

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-chipmakers-had-a-toxic-problem-so-they-outsourced-it

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 130 comments

AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channels, 128 PCIe lanes

http://wccftech.com/amd-epyc-7000-series-server-cpu-family-specifications-price-performance-leak/

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 93 comments

The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-nsa-has-linked-the-wannacry-computer-worm-to-north-korea/2017/06/14/101395a2-508e-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 233 comments

SSH Check – public SSH server testing tool

http://sshcheck.com

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 120 comments

Instagram Makes a Smooth Move to Python 3

https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 61 comments

Writing a MySQL storage engine from scratch (2016)

https://www.codeproject.com/articles/1107279/writing-a-mysql-storage-engine-from-scratch

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 23 comments

Air Force budget reveals how much SpaceX undercuts launch prices

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/air-force-budget-reveals-how-much-spacex-undercuts-launch-prices/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/wells-fargo-loan-mortgage.html

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 145 comments

System programming in Rust: beyond safety

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/14/system-programming-in-rust-beyond-safety/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 67 comments

C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fiction-convincing-american-kids-that-they-would-like-turkish-delight

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 125 comments

Twitter, but for Math, with Toots

http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/06/08/twitter-but-for-math-with-toots/

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 29 comments

How the .NET Runtime Loads a Type

http://mattwarren.org/2017/06/15/How-the-.NET-Rutime-loads-a-Type/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Abe Passes Controversial Bill Boosting Japan Surveillance Powers

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-15/abe-passes-controversial-bill-boosting-japan-surveillance-powers

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 84 comments

BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40276568

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 58 comments

Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/messaging-startup-slack-said-to-draw-interest-from-amazon-com

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 224 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price

http://nasdaq.com/article/snaps-share-price-sinks-trades-just-above-ipo-price-20170615-00941

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 133 comments

TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+

https://pron.github.io/posts/tlaplus_part4

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 11 comments

Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/emmanuel-macron-president-french-startup-boom-france-investment-bank-bpifrance-a7790981.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

Uber rape victim sues Uber, says execs got her medical records

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/uber-rape-victim-sues-uber-says-execs-got-her-medical-records/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 81 comments

Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hbis7/us_congress_going_full_1984_on_bitcoin_and_assets/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 93 comments

Go and Simplicity Debt

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/06/15/simplicity-debt

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Is the x86 Architecture Sustainable?

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/is-x86-architecture-sustainable.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 101 comments

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)

https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v2

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

Open source electronic lab notebook

https://scinote.net

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1

http://www.umooc.org

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Amazon is among several companies interested in buying Slack

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-interested-in-buying-slack-2017-6

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 3 comments

CouchDB vs. MongoDB

http://blog.panoply.io/couchdb-vs-mongodb

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: How can one learn to build API gateways?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14557977

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/887-Dont-leave-Coredumps-on-Web-Servers.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

Climate Impact Goals

https://blog.lyft.com/posts/2017/6/14/lyft-climate-impact-goals

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Pancreatic cancer from a different perspective

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/06/15/snapshots-of-life-a-van-gogh-moment-for-pancreatic-cancer/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Memristor – The missing circuit element (1971) [pdf]

http://www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/chua.pdf

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Canadian Tech Is Having a Moment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-14/canadian-tech-is-having-a-moment-the-trick-is-not-to-mess-it-up

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

A Look Inside James Baldwin's 1,884 Page FBI File

http://lithub.com/a-look-inside-james-baldwins-1884-page-fbi-file/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments
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