top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-20

Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544

9 years ago

776 upvotes – 335 comments

How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/how-use-beyondcorp-ditch-your-vpn-improve-security-and-go-cloud/

9 years ago

441 upvotes – 155 comments

Google Jobs Search

https://blog.google/products/search/connecting-more-americans-jobs/

9 years ago

406 upvotes – 214 comments

ProtonVPN

https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-vpn-service-launch/

9 years ago

366 upvotes – 197 comments

AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/amds-future-in-servers-new-7000-series-cpus-launched-and-epyc-analysis

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 144 comments

Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?

http://evelinag.com/blog/2017/06-20-stackoverflow-tabs-spaces-and-salary/index.html

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 220 comments

Close-Up View of DNA Replication

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/close-view-dna-replication-yields-surprises

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-software/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

https://nbox.notif.me

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 204 comments

Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

https://juliacomputing.com/press/2017/06/19/funding.html

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 130 comments

Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Bars

https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 131 comments

The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

http://minimaxir.com/2017/06/imgur-decline/

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 265 comments

Bancor Is Flawed

http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/06/19/bancor-is-flawed/

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 141 comments

Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016)

https://zenhack.net/2016/12/25/why-python-is-not-my-favorite-language.html

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 389 comments

Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/help-eff-track-progress-ai-and-machine-learning

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 19 comments

Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/twitch-nabs-exclusive-streaming-deal-with-blizzard-for-20-major-esports-events

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 191 comments

Opus 1.2 Released

https://jmvalin.ca/opus/opus-1.2/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 81 comments

Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy

http://news.rice.edu/2017/06/19/freshwater-from-salt-water-using-only-solar-energy-2/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 104 comments

Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/business/dealbook/amazon-conglomerate.html

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 89 comments

Older fathers have 'geekier sons'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40340540

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 114 comments

Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/cable-lobby-tries-to-stop-state-investigations-into-slow-broadband-speeds/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 48 comments

Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing

https://medium.com/rigetti/introducing-forest-f2c806537c6d

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Upstart.me – Find newsletters to promote your startup or side projects

http://upstart.me/?ver1

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 29 comments

My Ubuntu for mobile devices post-mortem analysis

http://lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-devices-post-mortem/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 113 comments

Django project optimization guide – Part 1

http://dizballanze.com/django-project-optimization-part-1/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 17 comments

Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School

https://medium.com/@VladimirPolo/ten-weeks-with-y-combinators-startup-school-an-insider-s-view-5cc3d8e5b3f

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 18 comments

Inside D's GC

http://olshansky.me/gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-gc.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments

Cisco subdomain private key found in embedded executable

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/T6emeoE-lCU

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 62 comments

Casync – A tool for distributing file system images

http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux

https://www.rolando.cl/blog/2017/06/13/playing-with-zfs-encryption/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

http://nautil.us/blog/-the-unusual-language-that-linguists-thought-couldnt-exist

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

Copy What You Like (2006)

http://paulgraham.com/copy.html

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Uber rolls out in-app tipping

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/06/20/uber-rolls-out-in-app-tipping-for-drivers/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 353 comments

Why green olives come in jars, but black ones come in cans

https://www.marketplace.org/2014/05/05/business/ive-always-wondered/why-green-olives-come-jars-black-ones-come-cans

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

European MEPs want to ban states from backdooring encryption

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/european-meps-want-to-ban-states-from-backdooring-encryption

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Zenefits will pay $3.4M in unpaid overtime to 743 employees

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/zenefits-will-pay-3-4-million-in-unpaid-overtime-to-743-employees

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 94 comments

Working the System at a BigCo

http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/working-the-system.html

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Kyso – an easy way to share Jupyter notebooks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14596991

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Stanford students recreate 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/06/recreate-5000-year-old-chinese-beer-recipe

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 42 comments

Study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/cats-are-an-extreme-outlier-among-domestic-animals/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/amazon-prime-wardrobe

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 100 comments

Introducing Object Storage

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/object-storage/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Webpack 3: Official Release

https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-3-official-release-15fd2dd8f07b

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/Google-Cloud-Region-in-Sydney.html

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Expense Tracker as a PWA with Google Sheets backend for privacy

https://github.com/jakubgarfield/expenses

9 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT
94 upvotes – 46 comments

Is group chat making you sweat? (2016)

https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14593794

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 211 comments

AMD muscles in on Xeon’s turf as it unveils Epyc

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/amds-zen-steps-into-the-server-room-with-epyc/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Julia 0.6 is out

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.6/NEWS.md

9 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
88 upvotes – 31 comments

Storage ‘not fundamentally needed’ for future power grid, scientists say

http://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/storage-not-fundamentally-needed-for-future-power-grid-scientists-say/?utm_content=bufferda0ba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 218 comments

SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search

https://blog.demofox.org/2017/06/20/simd-gpu-friendly-branchless-binary-search/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Can the Internet Be Archived? (2015)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb?mbid=social_twitter

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Lax – Write Python to output LaTeX

https://github.com/iogf/lax

9 years ago

★ 189 Python GPL-2.0
74 upvotes – 34 comments
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