top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-28

An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker

http://einaregilsson.com/an-easter-egg-for-one-user-luke-skywalker/

9 years ago

798 upvotes – 134 comments

Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/93696/26528

9 years ago

685 upvotes – 523 comments

Take Naps at Work

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html

9 years ago

523 upvotes – 277 comments

Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL

https://blog.timescale.com/analyzing-ethereum-bitcoin-and-1200-cryptocurrencies-using-postgresql-3958b3662e51

9 years ago

521 upvotes – 185 comments

My own private basic income

https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/karl-widerquist/my-own-private-basic-income

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 268 comments

2D Syntax

https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/index.html

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 86 comments

Flawed reporting about WhatsApp

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28/flawed-reporting-about-whatsapp

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions

https://hackerhunt.co

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 65 comments

Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results

http://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-this-is-what-the-result-looks-like

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 205 comments

Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14652936

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: DevOps learning resources

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14652993

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 64 comments

Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game

https://vim-adventures.com/

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 59 comments

Denied Entry

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14653564

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 192 comments

Container Isolation Gone Wrong

https://sysdig.com/blog/container-isolation-gone-wrong/

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 83 comments

Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/22/help-wanted-americans-dont-need-more-degrees-they-need-training/

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 201 comments

Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 231 comments

Zillow's second letter about McMansion Hell is still wrong

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170628/01531037682/zillow-still-doesnt-get-it-second-letter-about-mcmansion-hell-is-still-just-wrong.shtml

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 112 comments

O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 253 comments

Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-actually-working-just-fine/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 284 comments

Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn computer vision?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651665

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 57 comments

EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 98 comments

Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]

http://spw17.langsec.org/papers/chifflier-parsing-in-2017.pdf

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 49 comments

How can Ethereum systematically scale better?

https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/scaling-ethereum-to-billions-of-users-f37d9f487db1

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 161 comments

Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?

http://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/facebook-on-aws/

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 154 comments

Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability

https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3341-1/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 234 comments

Increasing Rust’s Reach

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 175 comments

Goodbye Mozilla

http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/06/28/goodbye-mozilla/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 140 comments

Commander Keen Level Maps

http://www.commander-keen.com/level-maps.php

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 62 comments

Why App Speed Matters: Revenue

https://fly.io/articles/why-fast-pages-are-important/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 53 comments

A Jordan Bookseller’s 24-Hour ‘Emergency Room for the Mind’

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amman-jordan-24-hour-bookstore

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 10 comments

The internet as existential threat

https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/06/27/the-internet-as-existential-threat/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 121 comments

USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/the-postal-service-is-losing-millions-a-year-to-help-you-buy-cheap-stuff-from-china/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 161 comments

Stanford Code From Cars That Entered DARPA Grand Challenges

https://sourceforge.net/projects/stanforddriving/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 19 comments

Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (2012)

http://newatlas.com/cellulose-nanocrystals-stronger-carbon-fiber-kevlar/23959/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)

https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/typecasting

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-ipa-speaker/jkgihpigffcfeebgedpklldebdibbnne

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

ThinScript, an experimental programming language that can compile to WebAssembly

https://github.com/evanw/thinscript

9 years ago

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119 upvotes – 76 comments

Ends, Means, and Antitrust

https://stratechery.com/2017/ends-means-and-antitrust/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Internal documents shed light on the guidelines that Facebook’s censors use

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Developing Bug-Free Machine Learning Systems with Formal Mathematics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08605

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 9 comments

The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/manhattan-project-library-charlotte-serber-oppenheimer-fbi

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Pornhub now supports interactive toys

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/pornhub-now-supports-interactive-toys-proving-porn-paves-the-way

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms

https://www.wired.com/story/wind-turbine-hack

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/333999/kids-to-learn-how-to-code-before-high-school

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 80 comments

Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons

http://benschmidt.org/Simpsons/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices and it was a big mistake

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-banned-alcohol-and-swearing-from-jets-offices-2017-6

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 124 comments

Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/switch-chrome-firefox/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 101 comments

Elon Musk's Promises and Goals for Tesla, SpaceX, and More

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 95 comments

Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-apron-chops-its-ipo-price-range-1498652104

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 172 comments

CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency

https://yokota.blog/2017/02/17/dont-settle-for-eventual-consistency/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Wikileaks reveals CIA's Elsa: a geo-location malware for WiFi / Windows

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Elsa

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft

https://medium.com/@bob_parks1/how-not-to-encrypt-a-file-courtesy-of-microsoft-bfadf2b0273d

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments
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