top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-06-03

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github?

8 years ago

2873 upvotes – 1436 comments

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgId=1

8 years ago

1736 upvotes – 455 comments

Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17217210

8 years ago

542 upvotes – 558 comments

Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount

http://ekeler.com/game-boy-camera-canon-ef-mount/

8 years ago

492 upvotes – 30 comments

American tech giants are making life tough for startups

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/02/american-tech-giants-are-making-life-tough-for-startups

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 161 comments

The Psychology of Money

http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-money/

8 years ago

444 upvotes – 115 comments

NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]

http://www.governmentattic.org/28docs/NSAsecurityPosters_1950s-60s.pdf

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 111 comments

The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/?single_page=true

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 269 comments

Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker

https://medium.com/byteconf/stripe-is-building-a-ruby-typechecker-d6cd7cee6abf

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 183 comments

How I Came to Write D (2014)

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/how-i-came-to-write-d/240165322

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 188 comments

Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/05/31/ruby-2-6-0-preview2-released/

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 134 comments

Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes

https://twitter.com/guieevc/status/1002494428748140544

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 93 comments

Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/03/nearly-half-of-bay-area-residents-say-they-want-to-leave/

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 417 comments

Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/02/611082566/why-children-arent-behaving-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 287 comments

Ask HN: What companies are using probabilistic programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220861

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 33 comments

Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/06/03/inside-firefoxs-doh-engine/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 130 comments

How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-team-microbes-survive-rooms-contaminate.html

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 67 comments

A diary written on castle floorboards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44265475

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 25 comments

After 10 Years, Nathan Myhrvold's $3B of Private Equity Funds Show Big Losses

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10-years-nathan-myhrvolds-3-billion-of-private-equity-funds-show-big-losses/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 59 comments

Rice grown using seawater in Dubai’s deserts

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2148684/coming-plate-near-you-soon-rice-grown-chinese-scientists-using

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 69 comments
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