top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-07

LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2014/physics-by-hand

12 years ago

Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge

http://www.dronehire.org/blog/drone-operators-free-to-operate-commercially-in-us-airspace-rules-federal-judge

12 years ago

Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV

12 years ago

Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

http://animatron.com

12 years ago

Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloud-breaker/id721767500?mt=8

12 years ago

Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=504715.0

12 years ago

Find your color scheme

http://colourco.de/

12 years ago

Turn a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter

http://makezine.com/projects/make-38-cameras-and-av/raspberry-pirate-radio/

12 years ago

Behind the stick of the SR-71

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview

12 years ago

Understanding IP, TCP, and HTTP

http://www.objc.io/issue-10/ip-tcp-http.html

12 years ago

Myths about /dev/urandom

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

12 years ago

Did an F-15 airplane successfully land with just one wing?

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9884/did-an-f-15-airplane-successfully-land-with-just-one-wing

12 years ago

Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360491

12 years ago

A brief introduction to Haskell, and why it matters

https://github.com/pchiusano/fpinscala/wiki/A-brief-introduction-to-Haskell,-and-why-it-matters

12 years ago

★ 5.8k Scala MIT

Show HN: Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator

http://www.metalsmith.io/

12 years ago

Open Data Stack Exchange

http://opendata.stackexchange.com/

12 years ago

Keyboard Ghosting Explained

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplained.mspx

12 years ago

Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership

12 years ago

Dot-Com IPO Insanity Returns With Coupons.com

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-07/dot-com-ipo-insanity-returns-with-coupons-com

12 years ago

PowerPointless: Digital slideshows are the scourge of higher education

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/03/powerpoint_in_higher_education_is_ruining_teaching.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font

http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/

12 years ago

WebFlow

https://webflow.com/

12 years ago

Bulletproof HTML Email Components

https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/bulletproof-html-email-components

12 years ago

How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/quarkxpress-the-demise-of-a-design-desk-darling/

12 years ago

EFF goes to court, quashes patent troll’s attempt to grab donor names

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/eff-goes-to-court-quashes-patent-trolls-attempt-to-grab-donor-names/

12 years ago

Balanced's Architecture

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanceds-architecture/

12 years ago

MoarVM

http://moarvm.com/

12 years ago

PHPUnit 4.0 Released

https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/Release-Announcement-for-PHPUnit-4.0.0

12 years ago

★ 20k PHP BSD-3-Clause

Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) (2013)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

12 years ago

Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BITCOIN_FOUNDER_DENIAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-06-19-35-06

12 years ago

Privacy groups ask FTC to block Facebook-WhatsApp deal

http://www.thegeekyglobe.com/privacy-groups-ask-ftc-to-block-facebook-whatsapp-deal.html

12 years ago

The Challenge of Relativistic Spaceflight

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/the-challenge-of-relativistic-spaceflight/

12 years ago

TrackR

http://www.thetrackr.com/Giveaway

12 years ago

Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

https://medium.com/editors-picks/26ab1e09632d

12 years ago

Why should I use a pointer rather than the object itself?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22146094/why-should-i-use-a-pointer-rather-than-the-object-itself?newsletter=1&nlcode=47931%7c9e27

12 years ago

In Tennessee, four bills seek to reverse restrictions on public broadband

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/in-tennessee-four-bills-seek-to-reverse-restrictions-on-public-broadband/

12 years ago

Why are callbacks more “tightly coupled” than promises?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21141817/why-are-callbacks-more-tightly-coupled-than-promises

12 years ago

Coalesce – Communication framework for distributed JavaScript

https://github.com/amark/coalesce

12 years ago

★ 328 JavaScript

_why's site is back up and this is the "About Me" [unclear if it is _why]

http://whytheluckystiff.net/about/

12 years ago

Dear Newsweek: RTFM

http://thoughtcrook.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/dear-mainstream-media-rtfm/

12 years ago

MIT’s Liquid Metal Stores Solar Power Until After Sundown

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-06/mit-s-liquid-metal-stores-solar-power-until-after-sundown.html

12 years ago

Featured dataset cannot be downloaded

http://www.data.gov/research/

12 years ago