586
433
TDD did not live up to expectations
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2017/06/22/notdd/
9 years ago
581
184
Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html
559
160
The .feedback scam
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2017/06/the-feedback-scam.html
518
413
Thoughts on Insurance
https://blog.ycombinator.com/thoughts-on-insurance/
492
133
Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once
https://segment.com/blog/exactly-once-delivery/
352
107
Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ssdp-100gbps/
341
45
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/
328
72
Ask HN: A good primer on cryptocurrencies?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659775
307
122
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
280
Pattern-defeating quicksort
https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort
★ 2.4k C++ Zlib– 9 years ago
274
303
Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html
264
199
The Common Lisp Cookbook
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
248
148
The Rise of the Thought Leader
https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual
240
61
John Carmack Archive – Interviews [pdf]
http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/doom3/pdfs/johnc-interviews.pdf
221
23
Show HN: VisiData – vi for data
http://github.com/saulpw/visidata
★ 9k Python GPL-3.0– 9 years ago
217
81
Deconstructing the Google Analytics tracking script
https://billfranklin.svbtle.com/deconstructing-the-ga-script
195
57
Learn to Read Code
https://kylesletten.com/2017/06/26/learn-to-read-code.html
186
6
Computer Architecture for Network Engineers
https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/18
★ 566 – 9 years ago
180
140
Fantastic DSLs and where to find them
http://serce.me/posts/29-06-2017-fantastic-dsls/
173
118
How Much Sleep Do Fitbit Users Really Get?
https://blog.fitbit.com/sleep-study/
165
39
Science-based games – a collaborative list
https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list
★ 1.6k – 9 years ago
157
109
Hacks Raise Fear Over N.S.A.’s Hold on Cyberweapons
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/technology/ransomware-nsa-hacking-tools.html
152
My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love
https://themission.co/looking-for-the-one-how-i-went-on-150-dates-in-4-months-bf43a095516c
28
Skylake bug: a detective story
https://medium.com/ahrefs/skylake-bug-a-detective-story-ab1ad2beddcd
145
69
Safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Lab’s work on U.S. nuclear warheads
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/near-disaster-federal-nuclear-weapons-laboratory-takes-hidden-toll-america-s-arsenal
144
Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-29/blue-apron-may-need-to-raise-more-money-soon-after-shrunken-ipo
143
15
Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/06/28/analysis-alexa-top-1m-sites/
136
111
California solar power output sometimes exceeds predictions
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-solar/
103
Where Is Nokia Now?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-29/they-built-the-first-phone-you-loved-where-in-the-world-is-nokia-now
126
22
Generating music with expressive timing and dynamics
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/performance-rnn
121
Show HN: My Python Solver for the On-Time Arrival Problem in Traffic Congestion
https://github.com/mehrdadn/SOTA-Py/tree/master
★ 415 Python – 9 years ago
120
43
Intro to WebAssembly
https://www.codelitt.com/blog/web-assembly/
110
97
Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products
https://area120.google.com
54
The nationwide roll-out of the 911 system was a difficult endeavor
http://tedium.co/2017/06/20/911-emergency-system-history/
99
20
Researchers Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-we-save-face-researchers-crack-the-brains-facial-recognition-code/
16
New technique enables safer gene-editing therapy using CRISPR
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-technique-enables-safer-gene-editing-therapy.html
95
104
Ask HN: What happened to the ORM?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14660895
9
Brazilian site teaches journalists how to protect sources and personal data
https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-18527-brazilian-site-teaches-journalists-how-protect-sources-and-personal-data-digital-attac
91
40
What's Different about “Unicorns”
http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/whats-different-about-unicorns
66
Female Founders Conference Live Stream [video]
https://blog.ycombinator.com/watch-the-female-founders-conference-live-stream/
86
102
Cuomo Declares a State of Emergency for the Subway
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/nyregion/cuomo-declares-a-state-of-emergency-for-the-subway.html
82
Ubuntu displays advertising in /etc/motd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1701068
79
123
Launch HN: Feather (YC S17), painless furniture rental for people who move a lot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664851
77
19
Defining Environment Language for Video Games
https://80.lv/articles/defining-environment-language-for-video-games/
71
90
Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle
http://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/14/big-advance-wireless-charging-moving-electric-cars/
3
The Python Arcade Library
https://pythonhosted.org/arcade/
67
32
Peter Scholze and the Future of Arithmetic Geometry (2016)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-and-the-future-of-arithmetic-geometry-20160628
50
David Goyer and Josh Friedman Adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation for TV
http://www.syfy.com/2017-6-28/david-goyer-josh-friedman-adapting-foundation
13
An image diff is worth a thousand words
https://blog.usebutton.com/an-image-diff-is-worth-1-000-words-e03a4b682cea