top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-20

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44543286

7 years ago

822 upvotes – 406 comments

Certificates for localhost

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/

7 years ago

684 upvotes – 152 comments

European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44546620

7 years ago

675 upvotes – 390 comments

YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html

7 years ago

673 upvotes – 394 comments

Keybase Exploding Messages

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-exploding-messages

7 years ago

413 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353854

7 years ago

331 upvotes – 276 comments

Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon

https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/20/surgeon-atul-gawande-selected-ceo-amazon-partners/

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 139 comments

Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/

7 years ago

262 upvotes – 268 comments

Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

https://transfer.sh/

7 years ago

260 upvotes – 113 comments

PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should

https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-features.html?h=

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 89 comments

Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484030/tesla-sues-employee-hacking-theft-leaking

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 172 comments

Functional Data Structures

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/FDS/

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 16 comments

Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait

https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that-all-genes-affect-every-complex-trait-20180620/

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 120 comments

Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge

https://medium.com/@yoelblum_45935/demand-for-ruby-on-rails-is-still-huge-ea4434926c57

7 years ago

242 upvotes – 244 comments

Erlang OTP 21.0 is Released

http://www.erlang.org/news/123

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 17 comments

MySQL High Availability at GitHub

https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-github/

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 53 comments

How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 156 comments

A Beginner's Guide to Firewalling with pf

http://srobb.net/pf.html

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 40 comments

Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1

https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-release-preview-1-943a9b6ee65a

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 82 comments

Facial Recognition Cameras Do Not Belong in Schools

https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/facial-recognition-cameras-do-not-belong-schools

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 107 comments

Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool

https://github.com/symless/synergy-core

7 years ago

★ 227C++GPL-2.0
162 upvotes – 89 comments

Using Unix as an IDE (2012)

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/?

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 54 comments

Projects to Help You Learn React (2017)

https://daveceddia.com/react-practice-projects/

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 2 comments

The state of type hints in Python

https://www.bernat.tech/the-state-of-type-hints-in-python/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 144 comments

Kazuo Kashio, a Founder of Casio Computer, Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/obituaries/kazuo-kashio-founder-casio-computer-dies-at-89.html

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 18 comments

Towards a fully reproducible Debian

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/757118/f2f894279576c348/

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

Japanese Writing After Murakami

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/japan-cultural-life-kelts/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

Rust Traits Deep Dive, Part 2

https://newrustacean.com/show_notes/e024/index.html

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 41 comments

People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study

https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 91 comments

Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable

http://nautil.us/blog/scavenging-russias-rocket-graveyard-is-dangerous-and-profitable

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: How to start working as a contractor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359145

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 77 comments

Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (1963) [pdf]

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 26 comments

People are recycling too much garbage, and it's threatening the industry

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-recycle-garbage-economics-20180620-story.html

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 174 comments

A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to Limit Sales of Cellphone Location Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/verizon-att-cellphone-tracking.html

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace

https://medium.com/feature-creep/the-software-engineer-s-guide-to-asserting-office-dominance-ddea7b598df7

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 59 comments

Desperate Coinbase customers turn to SEC with allegations of fraud

https://mashable.com/2018/06/20/sec-coinbase-complaints-fraud/#KY6gkAueAiqI

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 64 comments

China-based campaign breached satellite, defense companies: Symantec

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-cyber/china-based-campaign-breached-satellite-defense-companies-symantec-idUSKBN1JF2X0

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

Particle physics experiments have stopped answering to grand theories

https://aeon.co/essays/has-the-quest-for-top-down-unification-of-physics-stalled

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

A Git protocol parser written in Go

https://github.com/google/gitprotocolio

7 years ago

★ 399GoApache-2.0
97 upvotes – 13 comments

'Facebook is taking everything': rising rents drive out Silicon Valley families

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/facebook-silicon-valley-housing-crisis-families-pushed-out

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 119 comments

The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006)

https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 166 comments

Ask HN: Has Google search becomes particularly poor in past few months?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17357055

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 81 comments

Go-benchmark: Golang benchmarks used for optimizing code

https://github.com/cornelk/go-benchmark

7 years ago

★ 329GoApache-2.0
82 upvotes – 45 comments

SEC issues warning against John McAfee’s crypto shilling

https://itsblockchain.com/john-mcafee-crypto-shilling/

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how to invest and build wealth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359102

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

GitHub and Medium take down database of ICE employee LinkedIn accounts

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17480912/github-ice-linkedin-scraping-employees

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

AMC unveils answer to MoviePass

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/amc-moviepass-2-1202851877/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: MRuby-Zest – A Scriptable Audio GUI Framework

http://log.fundamental-code.com/2018/06/16/mruby-zest.html

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments
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