top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-11

2048 AI

http://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/

12 years ago

1040 upvotes – 189 comments

Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

http://time.com/18867/popcorn-time-is-so-good-at-movie-piracy-its-scary/

12 years ago

624 upvotes – 410 comments

Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-birdman-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-speaks-out-20140311

12 years ago

570 upvotes – 228 comments

Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/cia-accused-of-illegally-searching-computers-used-by-senate-committee.html?hp&_r=0

12 years ago

449 upvotes – 192 comments

Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

http://getpopcornti.me/?hn

12 years ago

421 upvotes – 373 comments

Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough

https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/

12 years ago

362 upvotes – 203 comments

How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game

http://ncase.github.io/sight-and-light/

12 years ago

305 upvotes – 45 comments

Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database

http://bas.bosschert.nl/steal-whatsapp-database/

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 131 comments

Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

12 years ago

261 upvotes – 114 comments

Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

12 years ago

★ 2k C++
247 upvotes – 106 comments

Evicted in San Francisco

http://priceonomics.com/evicted-in-san-francisco/

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 252 comments

Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/03/10/stanford-bioengineer-develops-a-50-cent-paper-microscope/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 58 comments

Crytek jumps on Steam Machine hype train, announces Linux support

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/03/crytek-jumps-on-steam-machine-hype-train-announces-linux-support/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 64 comments

The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/opinion/the-cia-torture-cover-up.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 57 comments

Incubators are Bullshit

http://www.craftsmanfounder.com/incubators-are-bullshit/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 93 comments

Stream Torrents Instantly From XBMC

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Clojure to die for

http://cjohansen.no/clojure-to-die-for

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 73 comments

Massive Twitter Botnet

http://cryptome.org/2014/03/massive-twitter-botnet.htm

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 69 comments

Ideas We'd Like to Fund

http://rockhealth.com/2014/03/ideas-wed-like-fund/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 54 comments

HTML Command Line Utilities

http://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/README

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 33 comments

Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/11/feinstein-cia-searched-intelligence-committee-computers/?hpid=z1

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open source code

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/microsoft-reveals-its-server-designs-and-releases-open-source-code/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

How times have changed for PostgreSQL

http://opensource.com/business/14/3/postgresql-ugly-no-more

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 100 comments

My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Cheap

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/my-life-as-a-retail-worker-nasty-brutish-and-cheap/284332/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 138 comments

Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html?release

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 26 comments

How we validated our SaaS product without building it

http://blog.sendwithus.com/how-we-validated/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

Habits of a Happy Node Hacker

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/3/11/node-habits

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Microservices

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#hn

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Sales for Hackers

https://stormpath.com/blog/sales-for-hackers

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

What I learned about online-to-offline

http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

Writing OOP using OOP

http://raganwald.com/2014/03/10/writing-oop-using-oop.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Introducing HelloSign for Google Docs

https://www.hellosign.com/google-docs-add-on

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Physicist proposes a new type of computing at SXSW

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/10/physicist-proposes-a-new-type-of-computing-at-sxsw-check-out-orbital-computing/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: World Population with D3

http://www.roadtolarissa.com/population-division-fullscreen.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Nanobar.js – Lightweight progress bars

http://nanobar.micronube.com/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Reddit's Satoshi Nakamoto Skeptics

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/03/reddits-satoshi-nakamoto-skeptics.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

WTF Delaware?

http://joshliptzin.svbtle.com/wtf-delaware

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 83 comments

Tesla Faces New Jersey Challenge as Rule Change Looms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-11/tesla-says-new-jersey-may-force-its-stores-to-close-correct-.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 92 comments

Is Twitter down for anyone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381006

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 75 comments

Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/03/06/1321202111.short

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 67 comments
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