top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-22

Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

http://www.luna-lang.org

9 years ago

944 upvotes – 310 comments

Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/lawsuit-comcast-sabotaged-small-isps-network-then-took-its-customers/

9 years ago

499 upvotes – 183 comments

Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker

http://watchesbysjx.com/2017/05/portrait-masahiro-kikuno-japanese-watchmaker.html

9 years ago

437 upvotes – 106 comments

A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

400 upvotes – 241 comments

Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1

https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/217237077-Production-and-Post-Production-Requirements-v2-1

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 239 comments

Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure

http://news.mit.edu/2017/algorithm-origami-patterns-any-3-D-structure-0622

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 48 comments

Firefox 56 supports headless mode on Windows

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355150

9 years ago

345 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

https://www.sourcetrail.com/

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 117 comments

An Introduction to Support Vector Machines

https://monkeylearn.com/blog/introduction-to-support-vector-machines-svm/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 60 comments

VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

https://visualgo.net/en

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: 3D Packing for 3D Printing

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/pack3d/

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 45 comments

Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-apply-today/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 39 comments

Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/22/waymo-filing-says-ex-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-knew-engineer-had-google-info

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 134 comments

My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-from-my-biggest-mistake-f1-engineer-andrew-latham

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 68 comments

Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-board-bill-gurley.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++

https://github.com/dbartolini/crown

9 years ago

★ 28 C++
193 upvotes – 170 comments

100-year-old physics problem has been solved

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-year-old-physics-problem.html

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 38 comments

Fake online stores reveal gamblers' shadow banking system

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gambling-usa-dummies-idUKKBN19D13E

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 134 comments

How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-uber-backers-orchestrated-kalanicks-ouster-as-ceo-1498090688

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 151 comments

What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face?

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/what_challenges_and_trade_offs_do_optimising_compilers_face.html

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

GitLab 9.3 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/22/gitlab-9-3-released/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 64 comments

Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ethereum-price-crash-10-cents-gdax-exchange-after-multimillion-dollar-trade.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 119 comments

A new approach to text rendering

http://blog.atom.io/2017/06/22/a-new-approach-to-text-rendering.html

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 106 comments

Crash Bandicoot: An oral history

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/22/15820540/crash-bandicoot-an-oral-history

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: IPFessay – Publish uncensorable essays to IPFS

https://gitlab.com/stavros/IPFessay

9 years ago

★ 44 MIT
147 upvotes – 58 comments

Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverless Trucks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-22/these-truckers-work-alongside-the-coders-trying-to-eliminate-their-jobs

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 136 comments

Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/06/why-so-many-top-hackers-hail-from-russia/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 79 comments

Frame-Based Editing [pdf]

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/71018111/Frame_based_editing.pdf

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam

https://blog.emblica.fi/how-to-catch-the-saimaa-ringed-seal-7198d423e7f3

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

Clojure Newbie Guide (2015)

http://www.clojurenewbieguide.com/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 39 comments

Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/new-css-grid-layout-panel-in-firefox-nightly/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 33 comments

Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory

http://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=263800

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 44 comments

Oded Wins the Knuth Prize

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/oded-wins-the-knuth-prize/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

Price manipulation in the Bitcoin ecosystem

http://voxeu.org/article/price-manipulation-bitcoin-ecosystem

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

Against Murderism

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

The making of Exchange, a new typeface

https://frerejones.com/blog/decompiled-and-remixed-history-the-making-of-exchange

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 8 comments

The Mandelbrot Monk (1999)

http://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals/MandelSet/MandelMonk/MandelMonk.html

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf]

http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/hersh90.pdf

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 91 comments

The Wheels Come Off Uber

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/wheels-come-off-uber.html

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development research project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14610893

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Chrome 59 with TurboFan is Sometimes Slower than 58

https://www.prerender.cloud/blog/2017/06/22/chrome-59-is-sometimes-slower

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Jeff Bezos tweet seeking philanthropic ideas draws 42,000 replies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/amazon-s-bezos-disrupts-another-frontier-with-just-one-tweet

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 95 comments

A California Dream

https://mentalfloss.atavist.com/a-california-dream

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608139/new-model-of-evolution-finally-reveals-how-cooperation-evolves/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

America is now a second-tier country

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/america-is-now-a-second-tier-country

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 74 comments

SteamVR Knuckles Dev Kit

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=943406651

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Digital security and due process: A new legal framework for the cloud era

https://blog.google/topics/public-policy/digital-security-and-due-process-new-legal-framework-cloud-era/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments
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