top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-19

Why we’re betting against real-time team messaging

https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-team-messaging-521804a3da09

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 215 comments

NSA OSS Technologies

https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io

9 years ago

427 upvotes – 105 comments

Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 329 comments

Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform

https://www.socialcooling.com/

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS

https://github.com/decaffeinate/decaffeinate

9 years ago

★ 2.7k TypeScript MIT
361 upvotes – 219 comments

Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines

http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19/intel-discontinues-joule-galileo-and-edison-product-lines/

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 236 comments

A homeless man who turned his life around by offering book reviews

http://www.one.org/international/blog/the-homeless-man-who-turned-his-life-arround-by-offering-book-reviews-instead-of-begging

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: Algorithm Cookbook in Rust

https://github.com/EbTech/rust-algorithms

9 years ago

★ 3.9k Rust MIT
320 upvotes – 71 comments

Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-19/media-companies-are-getting-sick-of-facebook

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 167 comments

Amazon’s New Customer

https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 112 comments

The Stack Clash

https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 69 comments

Connect: behind the front-end experience

https://stripe.com/blog/connect-front-end-experience

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 60 comments

GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7

https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T

9 years ago

★ 855 TeX BSD-3-Clause
267 upvotes – 97 comments

Intro to SDR and RF Signal Analysis

https://www.elttam.com.au/blog/intro-sdr-and-rf-analysis/

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 41 comments

It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

https://theamericanscholar.org/its-complicated/#.WUgzS1LMzv0

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 177 comments

Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05085

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 165 comments

The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/18/asia/hong-kong-handover-china-uk-thatcher/index.html

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 90 comments

If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

https://medium.com/@NTDF9/if-companies-interviewed-tech-recruiters-the-way-they-interview-programmers-f18e1a980cdd

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 103 comments

Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23587916

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 361 comments

Show HN: GoldenLayout – build multi-screen webapps

http://golden-layout.com/#start

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 40 comments

Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/americas/mexico-spyware-anticrime.html

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 36 comments

Over time, leaders lose mental capacities

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/?single_page=true

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/html5-parser

9 years ago

★ 701 C Apache-2.0
169 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Nice-looking Python bindings to V8

https://github.com/tbodt/v8py

9 years ago

★ 452 C++ LGPL-3.0
166 upvotes – 37 comments

PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo15.pdf

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 82 comments

The Slants Win Supreme Court Battle Over Band's Name

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/19/533514196/the-slants-win-supreme-court-battle-over-bands-name-in-trademark-dispute

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Python bindings to the Servo HTML5 parser, html5ever

https://github.com/tbodt/htmlpyever

9 years ago

★ 65 Python
146 upvotes – 14 comments

CheerpJ Applet Viewer – Runs Java applets without a local Java installation

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-runner-bet/bbmolahhldcbngedljfadjlognfaaein

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Tested

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-skylakex-review-core-i9-7900x-i7-7820x-and-i7-7800x-tested

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 98 comments

Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours of Time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588456

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 201 comments

How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 75 comments

EventRegistry – Real-time, annotated feed of world news

http://eventregistry.org/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto

http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Macaron: a high productive and modular web framework in Go

https://go-macaron.com/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 48 comments

Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/business/dealbook/casper-mattress-target-investment-initial-public-offering.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: Rqlite v4.0 – With node-to-node encryption

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/releases/tag/v4.0.0

9 years ago

★ 17.4k Go MIT
101 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Termplay: Play videos in your terminal

https://github.com/legolord208/termplay

9 years ago

★ 548 Rust MIT
101 upvotes – 20 comments

From Disinfectors to Mush-Fakers, Photos of Real Life in Victorian London (2016)

http://www.oldlondon.net/from-disinfectors-to-mush-fakers-photographs-of-real-life-on-the-streets-of-victorian-london/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

MacOS High Sierra tech preview: A quick look at the stuff you can’t see

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/06/macos-high-sierra-tech-preview-a-quick-look-at-the-stuff-you-cant-see/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/companies-should-pay-for-conferences.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

Leveling up as a Junior Engineer

https://medium.com/masterpoint/leveling-up-as-a-junior-engineer-3f6880f8af1d

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Time Warner will spend $100M on Snapchat original shows and ads

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/time-warner-will-spend-100m-on-snapchat-original-shows-and-ads

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 82 comments

New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21723679-digital-technology-eroding-peoples-right-tinker-things-they-own-end-ownership

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Apache httpd 2.4.26 released

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Saving the last samples of dying species

https://qz.com/1007400/the-botanists-last-stand-the-daring-work-of-saving-the-last-samples-of-dying-species/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Who Holds the DEA Accountable When Its Missions Cost Lives?

https://www.propublica.org/article/who-holds-the-dea-accountable-when-its-missions-cost-lives

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Hardware is the new software

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/19/hardware-is-the-new-software/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

Search-based compiler code generation

http://jamey.thesharps.us/2017/06/search-based-compiler-code-generation.html

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments
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