top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-03-27

The DDoS that almost broke the Internet

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

13 years ago

830 upvotes – 171 comments

Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlocking-the-power-of-the-web-as-a-platform-for-gaming/

13 years ago

504 upvotes – 214 comments

Dashing - A dashboard framework

http://shopify.github.com/dashing/

13 years ago

419 upvotes – 84 comments

21 Nested Callbacks

http://blog.michellebu.com/2013/03/21-nested-callbacks/

13 years ago

362 upvotes – 113 comments

Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative

http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin

13 years ago

319 upvotes – 194 comments

Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=224182

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 123 comments

Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 154 comments

Take pride or fuck it

http://robertheaton.com/2013/03/27/take-pride-or-f----it

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 127 comments

A lot of free ebooks

http://hackershelf.com/browse/

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 60 comments

Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem

http://joearms.github.com/2013/03/28/solving-the-wrong-problem.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 168 comments

Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack

http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/03/26/paypal-to-drop-vmware-from-80000-servers-and-replace-it-with-openstack/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 124 comments

Rails' Insecure Defaults

http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/03/27/rails-insecure-defaults/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 50 comments

DARPA gives $3M to Continuum Analytics to improve Python for big data

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/us-defense-agency-feeds-python/240151767

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 40 comments

The Positive Programmer

http://www.rdegges.com/the-positive-programmer/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 115 comments

Graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/26/21-graphs-that-show-americas-health-care-prices-are-ludicrous/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 187 comments

Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms

http://developers.memsql.com/blog/common-pitfalls-in-writing-lock-free-algorithms/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 33 comments

Everything about Java 8

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-java-8/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 179 comments

FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wants_real_time_gmail_dropbox_spying_power.html

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 70 comments

Avoiding Common Backbone.js Pitfalls

http://ozkatz.github.com/avoiding-common-backbonejs-pitfalls.html?tagref=js

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 13 comments

U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-usa-banks-spying-idUSBRE92C12720130313

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

Email: the easiest way to improve retention

https://segment.io/academy/email-is-the-easiest-way-to-improve-retention

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2013/03/the-leap-motion-controller-now-supports.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

Concurrency Models: Go vs Erlang

http://joneisen.me/post/38188396218

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 45 comments

YC Demo Day, the Morning After

http://distributionhacks.com/racehorses-gotta-run

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

GNOME 3.8 Released

https://www.gnome.org/news/2013/03/gnome-3-8-released/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 90 comments

19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2013/03/27/the-anti-yahoo-wunderkind-19-year-old-flees-america-and-skips-college-to-bootstrap-a-real-startup-thats-profitable-in-bosnia/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

Killing hackers is justified in cyber warfare, says NATO-commissioned report

http://vrge.co/11jje2R

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down…

http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf]

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/philosophy.pdf

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Attack of the Cosmic Rays

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/attack_of_the_cosmic_rays1

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

http://cdn.peerjs.com/demo/helloworld.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and Wikipedia

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipedia

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/130326/exclusive-open-software-group-files-complaint-eu-against-micros

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Don't Get Offended

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gux/dont_get_offended/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

There's a Hole in 1,951 Amazon S3 Buckets

https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2013/03/27/1951-open-s3-buckets

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Ukko Mobile From Helsinki Eliminates Data Roaming

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/03/27/one-sim-card-to-rule-them-all-ukko-mobile-from-helsinki-eliminates-data-roaming-forever

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Overloading Django Form Fields

http://pydanny.com/overloading-form-fields.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Crowd-funding Preventive Treatment for Breast Cancer

https://www.microryza.com/projects/can-we-prevent-the-transmission-of-brca-mutations

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Don't solve the solved problems

http://blog.collections.me/post/46373756896/dont-solve-the-solved-problems

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

MongoDB remote command execution vulnerability: nightmare or eye opener?

http://blog.sdelements.com/mongodb-remote-command-execution-vulnerability-nightmare-or-eye-opener

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012)

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2012/06/08/r-the-master-troll-of-statistical-languages/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

Fiber cables made of air move data at 99.7 percent the speed of light

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/fiber-cables-made-of-air-move-data-at-99-7-percent-the-speed-of-light/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser

http://tryhaskell.org/#

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Fake holidays are the new infographics

http://blog.backupify.com/2013/03/26/saint-backup-day-a-community-holiday-that-falls-the-day-after-reddits-holiday-that-i-cannot-mention-due-to-trademark/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

FireMe - Who wants to get fired?

http://fireme.l3s.uni-hannover.de/fireme.php

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Github and Stack Overflow are the wrong tools for democracy

http://www.reasonwell.com/about/Reasonwell+vs+Github+and+Stack+Overflow

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 56 comments

Meet Gabe Newell, Microsoft’s next CEO

http://whilstinarrakis.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/gabe-microsoft-ceo/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments
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