top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-24

CSS Diner

http://flukeout.github.io/

12 years ago

560 upvotes – 120 comments

WTF, HTML and CSS?

http://wtfhtmlcss.com/

12 years ago

485 upvotes – 111 comments

PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed

http://obartunov.livejournal.com/177247.html

12 years ago

416 upvotes – 131 comments

Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/mozilla-news/

12 years ago

396 upvotes – 524 comments

Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-342851-turkey-becomes-first-country-ever-to-ban-google-dns.html

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 144 comments

Basecamp was under network attack

https://gist.github.com/dhh/9741477

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 185 comments

Gbatteries (YC W14) Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/gbatteries-batterybox/

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 193 comments

Stripe: Marketplaces

https://stripe.com/us/marketplaces

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 91 comments

Wanelo: The First Million Users

http://www.slideshare.net/500startups/eric-koger-cofounder-ceo-modcloth

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 153 comments

Genetic Algorithms Produce Winning StarCraft II Build Order (2010)

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/11/02/genetic-algorithms-find-build-order-from-hell/

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 50 comments

Box S-1 Filing

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312514112417/d642425ds1.htm

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 96 comments

MicIO – HTML5 to MicroController Communication through a headphone jack

http://colinbookman.com/2014/03/23/micio/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 33 comments

Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace

http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/24/goodbye_firefox_marketplace/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 231 comments

The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

https://algorithms.rdio.com/post/make/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 117 comments

RPCS3: An open-source PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows written in C++

https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3/wiki/FAQ

12 years ago

★ 77 C++ GPL-2.0
164 upvotes – 48 comments

Simple recommendation system written in Ruby

http://otobrglez.opalab.com/ruby/2014/03/23/simple-ruby-recommendation-system.html

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 19 comments

1995 Vannevar Bush symposium: Closing Panel

http://worrydream.com/refs/Vannevar%20Bush%20Symposium%20-%20Closing%20Panel.html

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 45 comments

The Patriot Missile Failure

http://ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 109 comments

ErLLVM: LLVM backend for high performance Erlang

http://erllvm.softlab.ntua.gr

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 34 comments

Sandstorm Personal Cloud Platform

http://sandstorm.io/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 72 comments

Solitary confinement’s psychological effects

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/20/solitary-confinement-psychological-effects-sarah-shourd

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 69 comments

Why don’t designers take Android seriously?

https://medium.com/p/a649db399f42

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 140 comments

How To Build A Maze

http://mazeworks.com/mazegen/mazetut/index.htm

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-01-16/news/ct-flip-phone-met-20140116_1_young-adults-smartphone-ownership-smartphone-users

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 205 comments

Top Inventions at Browserling

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-10-browserling-inventions/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 18 comments

MozDef: The Mozilla Defense Platform

https://github.com/jeffbryner/MozDef

12 years ago

★ 68 Python MPL-2.0
118 upvotes – 19 comments

Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster

https://disconnect.me/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 76 comments

Building and modifying Linux Kernel with Visual Studio

http://visualkernel.com/tutorials/kernel/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

New Linux version will reduce suspend and resume times

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/new-linux-version-will-reduce-suspend-and-resume-times/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 69 comments

Disney acquires Maker Studios

http://recode.net/2014/03/24/disney-buys-maker-studios-and-youtube-investors-cheer/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

Editing binaries: easier than it sounds

http://danluu.com/edit-binary/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

CEO Aaron Levie Will Only Own 4.1% Of Box When It IPOs, Investor DFJ Owns 25.5%

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/hotshot-ceo-aaron-levie-will-only-own-4-1-of-box-when-it-ipos-investor-dfj-owns-25-5/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Startup Idea: Robot Cars

http://blog.kirigin.com/robot-cars

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 92 comments

Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/povio-the-polite-photo-app-that-students-love-joins-ycs-winter-batch/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin derivatives – call and put options

https://derivabit.com

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/mh370-chinese-plane-spots-white-objects-live-updates

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 73 comments

You appear to be advocating a new IDE. Here's why it will not succeed

https://gist.github.com/munificent/9749671

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Bonjour, Entrepreneurs – Only you can prevent French-Bashing

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/03/24/bonjour-entrepreneurs/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 59 comments

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline

http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Mozilla Leadership Changes

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/24/mozilla-leadership-changes/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 42 comments

A game based on the Havel-Hakimi algorithm

http://jacquerie.github.io/hh/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Using Scala Will Make You Less Productive

http://grundlefleck.github.io/2013/06/23/using-scala-will-make-you-less-productive.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 138 comments

Box files for $250M IPO on full-year revenue of $124M, net loss of $168M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/box-files-for-250m-ipo-on-full-year-revenue-of-124m-net-loss-of-168m/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

FSF awards: Matthew Garrett and Gnome Foundation's Outreach Program for Women

https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-award-winners-announced

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

OpenZFS on OS X

http://openzfsonosx.org/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

Microsoft: 0Day Exploit Targeting Word, Outlook

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/microsoft-warns-of-word-2010-exploit/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture

http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/03/23/richard-feynman-computer-heuristics-lecture/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla

http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

How to explain buffer overflow to a layman

http://security.stackexchange.com/q/53878/36538

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design

http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/z2/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

http://needwant.com/p/how-we-built-launched-mod-for-22450/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?

http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor-is-an-idiot-how-do-i-give-him-the-information-he-wants

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

How Algolia (YC W14) Built Their Realtime Search

http://blog.leanstack.io/how-algolia-built-their-realtime-search-as-a-service-product

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.

http://www.post.ch/en/post-swisspostbox

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Stripe Checkout: Added an option to remove the "Remember Me" checkbox

https://groups.google.com/a/lists.stripe.com/forum/#!topic/api-announce/wQBngiotH90

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

String Templating Considered Harmful

http://flippinawesome.org/2014/03/24/string-templating-considered-harmful/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments
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