The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2016

1

UK votes to leave EU bbc.co.uk · dmmalam · 24 Jun 2016

3.1k pts 2.5k comments

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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B news.microsoft.com · whatok · 13 Jun 2016

2k pts 833 comments

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Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video] youtube.com · egb · 8 Jun 2016

1.6k pts 400 comments

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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today alankay · 20 Jun 2016

1.4k pts 893 comments

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Defending Our Brand letsencrypt.org · alexbilbie · 23 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 263 comments

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The Daredevil Camera ribbonfarm.com · zdw · 29 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 153 comments

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My First 10 Minutes on a Server codelitt.com · codelitt · 15 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 290 comments

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How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters unicodepowersymbol.com · adamnemecek · 23 Jun 2016

1.2k pts 413 comments

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Apple File System developer.apple.com · sirn · 13 Jun 2016

1.1k pts 393 comments

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VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks plus.google.com · archon810 · 14 Jun 2016

1k pts 392 comments

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“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files” seafile.de · zolder · 21 Jun 2016

1k pts 340 comments

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The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields troyhunt.com · TheAuditor · 26 Jun 2016

911 pts 442 comments

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New Cities blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 27 Jun 2016

889 pts 695 comments

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Spaceship Generator github.com · mnem · 18 Jun 2016

850 pts 128 comments

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Show HN: New calendar app idea oneviewcalendar.com · petermolyneux · 6 Jun 2016

825 pts 197 comments

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A Grain of Salt teslamotors.com · dwaxe · 10 Jun 2016

803 pts 283 comments

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Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail themacro.com · craigcannon · 9 Jun 2016

795 pts 192 comments

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Samsung Acquires Joyent joyent.com · yunong · 16 Jun 2016

787 pts 236 comments

19

ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification teletext.zaibatsutel.net · Kubuxu · 5 Jun 2016

762 pts 196 comments

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Show HN: I made a database of remote companies remotebase.io · stockkid · 13 Jun 2016

747 pts 114 comments

21

The Monaco Code Editor microsoft.github.io · algorithmsRcool · 20 Jun 2016

724 pts 170 comments

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Announcing .NET Core 1.0 blogs.msdn.microsoft.com · runesoerensen · 27 Jun 2016

717 pts 314 comments

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Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity teslamotors.com · runesoerensen · 21 Jun 2016

708 pts 389 comments

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Muhammad Ali has died nbcnews.com · aaronbrethorst · 4 Jun 2016

674 pts 171 comments

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Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook stallman.org · phantom_oracle · 26 Jun 2016

670 pts 353 comments

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Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat npr.org · nradov · 21 Jun 2016

667 pts 452 comments

27

Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more weblog.rubyonrails.org · tenderlove · 30 Jun 2016

664 pts 219 comments

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How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013) stackoverflow.com · yurisagalov · 17 Jun 2016

652 pts 138 comments

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Why I turned down $500K and shut down my startup medium.com · jason_tko · 9 Jun 2016

648 pts 175 comments

30

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016) whoishiring · 1 Jun 2016

644 pts 1k comments

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The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web spectrum.ieee.org · jonbaer · 19 Jun 2016

644 pts 228 comments

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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited boingboing.net · cylo · 16 Jun 2016

641 pts 271 comments

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It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app hueniverse.com · cdnsteve · 9 Jun 2016

629 pts 304 comments

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Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO journals.aps.org · specialp · 15 Jun 2016

621 pts 174 comments

35

Investing Returns on the S&P500 github.com · minimaxir · 29 Jun 2016

618 pts 340 comments

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Salary Negotiation kalzumeus.com · gk1 · 3 Jun 2016

609 pts 410 comments

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Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards news9.com · jonstokes · 8 Jun 2016

607 pts 504 comments

38

Another Update voxelquest.com · shawndumas · 14 Jun 2016

605 pts 115 comments

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Hello, Tensorflow oreilly.com · lobsterdog · 20 Jun 2016

596 pts 41 comments

40

Buffer Layoffs open.buffer.com · aarondf · 16 Jun 2016

593 pts 406 comments

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Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order politico.com · textdog · 14 Jun 2016

591 pts 262 comments

42

Coursera shuts access to old platform courses reachtarunhere.github.io · reachtarunhere · 11 Jun 2016

590 pts 266 comments

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Languages Which Almost Became CSS eager.io · zackbloom · 28 Jun 2016

586 pts 133 comments

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Lenin was a mushroom en.wikipedia.org · Smaug123 · 22 Jun 2016

574 pts 178 comments

45

Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger techcrunch.com · prostoalex · 4 Jun 2016

568 pts 496 comments

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Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free linuxjourney.com · indatawetrust · 2 Jun 2016

565 pts 75 comments

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Mastering Programming: An Outline prod.facebook.com · KentBeck · 7 Jun 2016

562 pts 123 comments

48

Contextual Identities on the Web blog.mozilla.org · ronjouch · 16 Jun 2016

555 pts 135 comments

49

How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · nnx · 29 Jun 2016

553 pts 179 comments

50

Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability blog.ethereum.org · tasti · 17 Jun 2016

550 pts 601 comments

51

Google Fonts Redesigned fonts.google.com · uptown · 14 Jun 2016

550 pts 258 comments

52

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery quantamagazine.org · DiabloD3 · 22 Jun 2016

550 pts 139 comments

53

Program your next server in Go talks.golang.org · rjammala · 7 Jun 2016

538 pts 375 comments

54

Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet highon.coffee · adamnemecek · 25 Jun 2016

530 pts 30 comments

55

Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction wsj.com · apsec112 · 10 Jun 2016

518 pts 541 comments

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OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock techcrunch.com · tilt · 13 Jun 2016

512 pts 564 comments

57

Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now? ClintEhrlich · 30 Jun 2016

510 pts 200 comments

58

CS188 Intro to AI – Course Materials ai.berkeley.edu · BucketSort · 13 Jun 2016

506 pts 42 comments

59

How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley newyorker.com · sajid · 9 Jun 2016

504 pts 301 comments

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Typography of “Alien” (2014) typesetinthefuture.com · pareidolia · 25 Jun 2016

502 pts 66 comments