The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2015

1

Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules nytimes.com · _hv99 · 26 Jun 2015

1.9k pts 1.2k comments

2

What Is Code? bloomberg.com · 1wheel · 11 Jun 2015

1.4k pts 356 comments

3

“Swift will be open source later this year” apple.com · brbcoding · 8 Jun 2015

1.3k pts 548 comments

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Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but... twitter.com · syrusakbary · 10 Jun 2015

1.3k pts 654 comments

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Atom 1.0 blog.atom.io · mrbogle · 25 Jun 2015

1.1k pts 442 comments

6

I quit the tech industry eev.ee · jaimebuelta · 10 Jun 2015

1k pts 548 comments

7

How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1 quora.com · ekianjo · 18 Jun 2015

934 pts 247 comments

8

Philae comet lander wakes up bbc.co.uk · DangerousPie · 14 Jun 2015

922 pts 155 comments

9

From Asm.js to WebAssembly brendaneich.com · fabrice_d · 17 Jun 2015

897 pts 331 comments

10

To Apple, Love Taylor taylorswift.tumblr.com · milen · 21 Jun 2015

891 pts 512 comments

11

Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell blogs.msdn.com · BryantD · 2 Jun 2015

828 pts 390 comments

12

Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks googleresearch.blogspot.com · neurologic · 18 Jun 2015

797 pts 156 comments

13

Let Snowden Come Home newyorker.com · donohoe · 3 Jun 2015

785 pts 296 comments

14

Safari is the new IE nolanlawson.com · nolanl · 30 Jun 2015

753 pts 356 comments

15

What's Really Warming the World? bloomberg.com · cjdulberger · 24 Jun 2015

750 pts 523 comments

16

Tota11y khan.github.io · chrtze · 29 Jun 2015

747 pts 91 comments

17

Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development johndcook.com · speg · 22 Jun 2015

742 pts 276 comments

18

Megaprocessor megaprocessor.com · waterlesscloud · 22 Jun 2015

728 pts 125 comments

19

Stripe Is the New PayPal disappointeddev · 18 Jun 2015

679 pts 303 comments

20

DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke technical.ly · wnm · 17 Jun 2015

636 pts 245 comments

21

It's the Future blog.circleci.com · ctoth · 9 Jun 2015

583 pts 139 comments

22

Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission techcrunch.com · uptown · 17 Jun 2015

580 pts 593 comments

23

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard techcrunch.com · yurisagalov · 22 Jun 2015

577 pts 120 comments

24

SSD Prices in a Free Fall networkcomputing.com · nkurz · 22 Jun 2015

570 pts 328 comments

25

Goodbye Marco gnome.org · SnaKeZ · 8 Jun 2015

567 pts 57 comments

26

Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob bugs.debian.org · fractalcat · 16 Jun 2015

550 pts 176 comments

27

LastPass Security Notice blog.lastpass.com · jwcrux · 15 Jun 2015

544 pts 305 comments

28

How to receive a million packets per second blog.cloudflare.com · _jomo · 16 Jun 2015

542 pts 86 comments

29

MonolithFirst martinfowler.com · r4um · 3 Jun 2015

539 pts 188 comments

30

Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears rocknrollnerd.github.io · anglerfish · 20 Jun 2015

530 pts 109 comments

31

Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox own-mailbox.com · yannski · 29 Jun 2015

529 pts 256 comments

32

New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies techcrunch.com · maelito · 29 Jun 2015

528 pts 248 comments

33

I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed vox.com · anu_gupta · 23 Jun 2015

526 pts 588 comments

34

Show HN: Free Company Logo API blog.clearbit.com · maccman · 30 Jun 2015

525 pts 152 comments

35

FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’ washingtonpost.com · icpmacdo · 4 Jun 2015

519 pts 319 comments

36

Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband facebook.com · dknecht · 4 Jun 2015

518 pts 214 comments

37

Asciinema asciinema.org · jmduke · 21 Jun 2015

513 pts 90 comments

38

Tmux has left SourceForge github.com · anishathalye · 4 Jun 2015

504 pts 180 comments

39

Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News waybackhn.com · dubin · 19 Jun 2015

503 pts 76 comments

40

Show HN: Universal Pause Button github.com · RyanRies · 9 Jun 2015

501 pts 169 comments

41

Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X theregister.co.uk · moe · 17 Jun 2015

501 pts 139 comments

42

The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads niemanlab.org · IBM · 10 Jun 2015

494 pts 409 comments

43

Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups autopsy.io · tilt · 5 Jun 2015

493 pts 186 comments

44

Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality blog.benjojo.co.uk · benjojo12 · 2 Jun 2015

490 pts 177 comments

45

Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account seclists.org · netw0rksec · 3 Jun 2015

484 pts 196 comments

46

We need to rethink employee compensation aaronkharris.com · katm · 24 Jun 2015

481 pts 404 comments

47

How to Make Almost Anything fab.cba.mit.edu · skbohra123 · 13 Jun 2015

477 pts 35 comments

48

Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship code.facebook.com · cristianoc · 11 Jun 2015

475 pts 117 comments

49

Section 215 Expires For Now eff.org · DiabloD3 · 1 Jun 2015

471 pts 158 comments

50

Dear Paul zedshaw.com · barbs · 1 Jun 2015

469 pts 168 comments

51

The Art of Command Line github.com · zalzal · 15 Jun 2015

466 pts 133 comments

52

GitFlow considered harmful endoflineblog.com · edofic · 19 Jun 2015

464 pts 335 comments

53

U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On? a16z.com · randomname2 · 15 Jun 2015

464 pts 190 comments

54

A Constructive Look at TempleOS codersnotes.com · kayamon · 8 Jun 2015

463 pts 169 comments

55

ECMAScript 2015 Approved ecma-international.org · espadrine · 17 Jun 2015

461 pts 105 comments

56

What happens when you stop relying on resumes blog.alinelerner.com · appamatto · 25 Jun 2015

448 pts 188 comments

57

Wooden combination lock woodgears.ca · chaosmachine · 21 Jun 2015

439 pts 58 comments

58

Management things I learned at Imgur medium.com · jasoncartwright · 21 Jun 2015

437 pts 219 comments

59

Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative mattermost.org · aviv · 24 Jun 2015

432 pts 216 comments

60

Oculus Rift oculus.com · aaronbrethorst · 11 Jun 2015

430 pts 370 comments