top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-01

Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2018Rome/Notes/FusionProject

8 years ago

757 upvotes – 239 comments

How to get rich without getting lucky

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002103360646823936.html

8 years ago

647 upvotes – 506 comments

Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/

8 years ago

535 upvotes – 496 comments

1.1.1.1 outage explanation

https://blog.cloudflare.com/today-we-mitigated-1-1-1-1/

8 years ago

459 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205865

8 years ago

450 upvotes – 898 comments

Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

8 years ago

426 upvotes – 552 comments

What is 1e100.net?

https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en

8 years ago

376 upvotes – 121 comments

Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/aaron-hamlin-voting-refor/

8 years ago

357 upvotes – 349 comments

YouTube’s top creators are burning out

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/1/17413542/burnout-mental-health-awareness-youtube-elle-mills-el-rubius-bobby-burns-pewdiepie

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 169 comments

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

8 years ago

332 upvotes – 191 comments

A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/31/a-64-year-old-put-his-life-savings-in-his-carry-on-u-s-customs-took-it-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 266 comments

Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/electric-scooters-are-the-cargo-shorts-of-transportation/561440/?single_page=true

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 254 comments

California approves $768M for electric vehicles

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 246 comments

Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

https://discourse.drone.io/t/shutting-down-forum-gdpr/2297/13

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 508 comments

Bypassing website anti-scraping protections

https://kb.apify.com/tips-and-tricks/several-tips-how-to-bypass-website-anti-scraping-protections

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17202615

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 122 comments

My favorite things that are coming with Julia 1.0

https://white.ucc.asn.au/2018/06/01/Julia-Favourite-New-Things.html

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 194 comments

React is the new jQuery

http://bradfrost.com/blog/link/replacing-jquery-with-vue-js-no-build-step-necessary/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 197 comments

Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?

https://www.economist.com/international/2018/06/02/can-effective-altruism-maximise-the-bang-for-each-charitable-buck

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 214 comments

Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 167 comments

Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/01/visa-card-network-crashes-and-sparks-payment-chaos

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 183 comments

Neighbourly by Google

https://neighbourly.google.com/

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 168 comments

Released and Certified: Qt Safe Renderer

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/31/function-safety-certified-qt-safe-renderer/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17204467

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 111 comments

Where did the wheel group get its name?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 46 comments

Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-privacy-in-firefox/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 124 comments

ANZ, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup face 'criminal cartel' charges

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-44326034

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 48 comments

Why read Aristotle today?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program

https://gizmodo.com/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-mave-1826488620

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 145 comments

A 'self-eating' rocket engine could put satellites in orbit more easily

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-aim-stars-rocket.html

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Plants repeatedly got rid of their ability to obtain their own nitrogen

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/plants-repeatedly-got-rid-of-their-ability-to-obtain-their-own-nitrogen/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 53 comments

Flattr now deletes your web browsing history within 3 months

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/flattr-gdpr

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 94 comments

ARM Details “Project Trillium” Machine Learning Processor Architecture

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12791/arm-details-project-trillium-mlp-architecture

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 11 comments

The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs

https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 69 comments

The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-terrifying-lessons-of-a-pandemic-simulation

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Removing Trending From Facebook

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/removing-trending/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 104 comments

Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next?

https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2018/May/31/Web-Code-is-a-solved-Problem-How-about-fixing-Web-UI-next

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

Why CarMax Makes More Money on Used Cars Than Anyone Else

https://jalopnik.com/heres-why-carmax-makes-more-money-on-used-cars-than-any-1826415410

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 113 comments

Canada hits back at 'punitive' U.S. tariffs in 'turning point' in relations

http://theprovince.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/newsalert-canada-responds-to-u-s-tariffs-with-its-own-countermeasures/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: An Almost Ideal React Image Component

https://github.com/stereobooster/react-ideal-image/blob/master/introduction.md

8 years ago

★ 3.2kJavaScriptMIT
106 upvotes – 59 comments

Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare: study

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/967289/neolithic-population-drop-brutal-warfare-y-chromosome-scientists-research

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 80 comments

Revive – Fast, configurable, extensible linter for Go

https://github.com/mgechev/revive

8 years ago

★ 5.4kGoMIT
98 upvotes – 24 comments

GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced Baseline Imager

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/goes-17-releases-%E2%80%98first-light%E2%80%99-imagery-its-advanced-baseline-imager-abi

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Dark Patterns in UI/UX Design

https://mobilejazz.com/blog/dark-patterns-in-design/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

Lottie for Android, iOS, React Native, and Web

http://airbnb.io/lottie/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-growing-emptiness-of-the-star-wars-universe

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 102 comments
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