top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-18

Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective

http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html

9 years ago

834 upvotes – 78 comments

Your own company? You can do it (2011)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/your-own-company-you-can-do-it

9 years ago

701 upvotes – 366 comments

Debian 9 Stretch released

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617

9 years ago

595 upvotes – 162 comments

Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them

https://www.makechange.aspiration.com/articles/2016/11/23/this-former-accountant-wants-you-to-stop-buying-things-and-start-borrowing-them

9 years ago

448 upvotes – 284 comments

If companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-interview-ee673bc5ef6

9 years ago

366 upvotes – 254 comments

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579080

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 317 comments

So long, farewell and goodbye

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/so-long-farewell-and-goodbye/600

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 50 comments

Dedicated to Ian Murdock

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/dedication/dedication-9.0.txt

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 39 comments

How is Ruby different in Japan?

https://appfolio-engineering.squarespace.com/appfolio-engineering/2017/5/24/how-is-ruby-different-in-japan

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 166 comments

Things to know before using AWS’s Elasticsearch Service

https://read.acloud.guru/things-you-should-know-before-using-awss-elasticsearch-service-7cd70c9afb4f

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583312

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 123 comments

How sandboxing works in Fuchsia

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/sandboxing.md

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 167 comments

Java 10 – Specification for Value Types

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/values.html

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 128 comments

Where we're going, we don't need headphones

https://rradczewski.github.io/ymmv/2017/06/Where-we-are-going-we-dont-need-headphones

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 134 comments

Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-05-cannabis-reverses-aging-brain.html

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 123 comments

Wizard Code: A View on Low-Level Programming

http://vendu.twodots.nl/wizardcode.html

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 14 comments

Goism – Use Go instead of Emacs Lisp inside Emacs

https://github.com/Quasilyte/goism

9 years ago

★ 349 Go MIT
164 upvotes – 76 comments

Real name policies and ruling the world

http://theartificialintelligenceblog.com/real-name-policies-and-mapping-the-world/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 145 comments

CoolHue – Coolest Gradient Hues and Swatches

https://webkul.github.io/coolhue/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 19 comments

An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard

https://www.wired.com/story/flight-rail-vectorr-atmospheric-railway-train

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 60 comments

The world's largest library of historical European martial arts books

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Page

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 3 comments

The Mammoth Pirates

https://www.rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

Uber loses ground in US as rival Lyft accelerates

https://www.ft.com/content/b4fb76a6-52dd-11e7-bfb8-997009366969

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 103 comments

BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

https://learnbchs.org/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 75 comments

Go and Simplicity Debt Redux

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/06/18/simplicity-debt-redux

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 152 comments

Tools from EFF’s Tech Team

https://www.eff.org/pages/tools

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 13 comments

Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2017/06/msg00017.html

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

Australia has the most expensive energy bills

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/06/straya-takes-gold-in-globes-most-costly-energy/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 182 comments

Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror

https://blog.google/topics/google-europe/four-steps-were-taking-today-fight-online-terror/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 175 comments

Metabolic Pathways

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/metabolic_pathways.png

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Ev3dev: Debian for Lego Mindstorms

http://www.ev3dev.org/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: How secure is the encryption offered by OS X's Disk Utility?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14582222

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Steven Furst’s role on Babylon 5 was a remarkable example of a sci-fi sidekick

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/18/15826064/steven-furst-babylon-5-vir-cotto-science-fiction-sidekick

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

The EU’s new roaming rules

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 94 comments

Getting Past the Dominance of the Nation State

http://continuations.com/post/161938064520/getting-past-the-dominance-of-the-nation-state

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 97 comments

Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently

https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-about-you/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Passmgr – Securely store passphrases and retrieve them via commandline

https://godoc.org/github.com/urld/passmgr/cmd/passmgr

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

Ggplot2 – The code powering all those excellent charts is 10 years old

https://qz.com/1007328/all-hail-ggplot2-the-code-powering-all-those-excellent-charts-is-10-years-old/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (2016)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 67 comments

The Decline of the Baronial C.E.O

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/business/ge-whole-foods-ceo.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 88 comments
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