top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-20

Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/20/google_ceo_larry_page_elon_musk_would_get_my_inheritance_over_charity.html

12 years ago

640 upvotes – 430 comments

Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/

12 years ago

576 upvotes – 415 comments

2048 Numberwang

http://louhuang.com/2048-numberwang/

12 years ago

539 upvotes – 110 comments

Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never_Hire_Brilliant_Men

12 years ago

421 upvotes – 263 comments

Tesla Can Topple the Car-Dealer Monopoly

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-20/tesla-can-topple-the-car-dealer-monopoly

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 184 comments

HN Plays 2048

https://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 86 comments

Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57620658-75/microsoft-sniffed-bloggers-hotmail-account-to-trace-leak/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Microsoft&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

12 years ago

277 upvotes – 159 comments

The MtGox 500

http://bitcoin.stamen.com/

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 40 comments

SparkFun: We Hear You

https://www.facebook.com/notes/fluke-corporation/sparkfun-we-hear-you/10151978262765592

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 153 comments

Hexagon 16384

http://rudradevbasak.github.io/16384_hex/

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 109 comments

Twitter is blocked in Turkey

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439128

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 98 comments

I Hunt Sys Admins

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/20/hunt-sys-admins/

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 113 comments

Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor

http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2014/mar/20/inside-the-guardians-cms-meet-scribe-an-extensible-rich-text-editor

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 86 comments

Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/los-angeles-cops-argue-all-cars-la-are-under-investigation

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 151 comments

900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/over-900-workers-have-already-died-building-qatars-world-cup-facilities-180950088/?no-ist&1

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 88 comments

Speaking JavaScript

http://speakingjs.com/es5/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

Elasticsearch – the definitive guide

http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-definitive-guide/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 44 comments

Liquidfun – 2D physics engine for games

https://github.com/google/liquidfun

12 years ago

★ 4.8k C++
162 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: 2048 Tetris

http://prat0318.github.io/2048-tetris/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 60 comments

2048 for physicists

http://milrivel.github.io/LHC/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 33 comments

A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback

http://geelen.github.io/x-gif

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 77 comments

Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality

http://blog.netflix.com/2014/03/internet-tolls-and-case-for-strong-net.html

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 54 comments

Sergey Brin's Home Page

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 60 comments

DirectX 12

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/p/directx12.aspx

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 107 comments

Introducing StandDesk [video]

http://standdesk.co

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 115 comments

Developing Service Oriented Architectures

http://lethain.com/lessons-from-developing-software-oriented-architectures/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

SQLite now supports recursive CTEs

http://sqlite.org/lang_with.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 256 comments

Happy Birthday Docker

http://blog.docker.io/2014/03/happy-birthday-docker/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 32 comments

Sales Hiring Guide For B2B Startup Founders

http://blog.close.io/sales-hiring-101-for-startups

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Invoice Ninja

https://www.invoiceninja.com

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 81 comments

Kotlin M7

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2014/03/m7-release-available/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotlin+%28Project+Kotlin%29

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 88 comments

Musl-libc version 1.0.0 released

http://www.musl-libc.org/download.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

NetBeans IDE 8.0

https://netbeans.org/community/releases/80

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 64 comments

How to abuse a C++ compiler?

http://mysticalprogramming.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/how-to-abuse-a-cpp-compiler/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

Indian Ocean garbage patch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_garbage_patch

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Malaysia Airlines MH370: Possible debris in Indian Ocean

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-20/abbott-says-possible-objects-found-mh370/5334314

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 88 comments

Cassandra Hits One Million Writes Per Second on Google Compute Engine

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/cassandra-hits-one-million-writes-per-second-on-google-compute-engine.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

I am burned out while still in learning phase

http://pastebin.com/iUEk8NGS

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 89 comments

Facebook VP of Engineering on Solving Hard Things Early

http://firstround.com/article/Facebook-VP-of-Engineering-on-Solving-Hard-Things-Early

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

YC nonprofit One Degree (YC W14) is breaking the cycle of poverty

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/yc-backed-one-degree-is-a-yelp-for-social-services-that-helps-low-income-families/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

The Eudyptula Challenge

http://eudyptula-challenge.org/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Bill and Melinda Gates Aren’t Leaving Their Kids Billions

http://www.wired.com/business/2014/03/bill-melinda-gates-arent-leaving-billions-kids/?mbid=social_twitter

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109265/google-to-reportedly-kill-voice-integrate-it-into-hangouts.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

What Languages Fix

http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 77 comments

Satellite photos of possible crash site of MH370

https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAFoSL9yTdmE2e4_DanfiQ5uk_dIxS6rH4LdM3m2NlzKg/12/278996766/jpeg/32x32/3/1395306000/0/2/DIGO_00718_01_14.jpg/i8-tgdryiKA-RGrF0bqZp6kq1abmJlDkQ-02XKzQQ2E?size=1280x960

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 76 comments

2x2048

http://instapainting.com/2x2048/index.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Correlate Bitcoin prices with anything

http://www.kimonolabs.com/bitcoin/correlator

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Radial NCAA Bracket in D3.js

http://billmill.org/roundbracket/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Camperoo (YC W14) Helps Parents Find and Book Summer Camps, Activities for Kids

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/camperoo-helps-parents-find-and-book-summer-camps-other-activities-for-kids/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525506/why-google-doesnt-have-a-research-lab/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

The candy weighing demonstration, or, the unwisdom of crowds

http://andrewgelman.com/2008/05/08/doing_the_candy/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments
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