top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-06-29

TDD did not live up to expectations

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2017/06/22/notdd/

9 years ago

586 upvotes – 433 comments

Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued

https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html

9 years ago

581 upvotes – 184 comments

The .feedback scam

http://everythingsysadmin.com/2017/06/the-feedback-scam.html

9 years ago

559 upvotes – 160 comments

Thoughts on Insurance

https://blog.ycombinator.com/thoughts-on-insurance/

9 years ago

518 upvotes – 413 comments

Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once

https://segment.com/blog/exactly-once-delivery/

9 years ago

492 upvotes – 133 comments

Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ssdp-100gbps/

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 107 comments

Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/appeals-court-public-defender-lacks-standing-in-dispute-over-court-software/

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: A good primer on cryptocurrencies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659775

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 72 comments

EFF's Letter to Zillow on Behalf of McMansion Hell [pdf]

https://www.eff.org/files/2017/06/29/wagner_eff_letter_to_zillow_-_2017.06.29.pdf

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 122 comments

Pattern-defeating quicksort

https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort

9 years ago

★ 2.4kC++Zlib
280 upvotes – 72 comments

Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 303 comments

The Common Lisp Cookbook

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 199 comments

The Rise of the Thought Leader

https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 148 comments

John Carmack Archive – Interviews [pdf]

http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/doom3/pdfs/johnc-interviews.pdf

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: VisiData – vi for data

http://github.com/saulpw/visidata

9 years ago

★ 9kPythonGPL-3.0
221 upvotes – 23 comments

Deconstructing the Google Analytics tracking script

https://billfranklin.svbtle.com/deconstructing-the-ga-script

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 81 comments

Learn to Read Code

https://kylesletten.com/2017/06/26/learn-to-read-code.html

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

Computer Architecture for Network Engineers

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/18

9 years ago

★ 566
186 upvotes – 6 comments

Fantastic DSLs and where to find them

http://serce.me/posts/29-06-2017-fantastic-dsls/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 140 comments

How Much Sleep Do Fitbit Users Really Get?

https://blog.fitbit.com/sleep-study/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 118 comments
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