top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-25

Facebook acquires Oculus VR

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1

12 years ago

1449 upvotes – 837 comments

Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/03/25/minecraft-creator-cancels-talks-oculus-rift-version-facebook-creeps/

12 years ago

887 upvotes – 351 comments

Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/25/microsoft-makes-source-code-for-ms-dos-and-word-for-windows-available-to-public.aspx

12 years ago

756 upvotes – 204 comments

Virtual Reality is going to change the world

http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/

12 years ago

597 upvotes – 210 comments

Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/google-cloud-platform-live-blending-iaas-and-paas-moores-law-for-the-cloud.html

12 years ago

386 upvotes – 212 comments

We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink

http://scott.a16z.com/2014/03/24/were-fd-its-over-coming-back-from-the-brink/?utm_content=bufferc2fec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

351 upvotes – 112 comments

IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property-not-currency-in-tax-system-irs-says.html

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 303 comments

Why I like Java

http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 425 comments

Clojure 1.6 released

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md

12 years ago

★ 10.8k Java
335 upvotes – 170 comments

Oculus Joins Facebook

http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-joins-facebook/

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 177 comments

Introductions to advanced Haskell topics

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/03/introductions-to-advanced-haskell-topics.html

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

https://www.sharedrop.io/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 68 comments

How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10719304/How-British-satellite-company-Inmarsat-tracked-down-MH370.html

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 86 comments

Projects that power GitHub

https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

Could keybase.io do for crypto what GitHub did for Git?

http://www.matthew-sinclair.com/post/80668116295/could-keybase-io-do-for-crypto-what-github-did-for-git

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 139 comments

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/obama-to-seek-nsa-curb-on-call-data.html

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

Fourier transform for dummies

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1002/fourier-transform-for-dummies

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/gay-firefox-developers-boycott-mozilla-to-protest-ceo-hire/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 211 comments

Mistakes we've made

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/34-mistakes-weve-made

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

Who Needs a Boss?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/magazine/who-needs-a-boss.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

A decentralized anonymous marketplace

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2014-March/013304.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

The tourist map of flash drives

http://things.gnod.com/flashdrives/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 74 comments

Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator

http://blog.samaltman.com/startups-role-models-risk-and-y-combinator

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 50 comments

The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/the-creator-of-doom-is-now-a-facebook-employee/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Waze Co-Founder Skips Google to Try Startup World Again

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-24/waze-co-founder-skips-google-to-try-startup-world-again.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 31 comments

Mylar: A platform for building secure web applications

http://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

NIST Randomness Beacon

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Cognitive Lode – Brain gems for decision-makers

http://coglode.com/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Building and modifying Linux Kernel with Visual Studio

http://sysprogs.com/VisualKernel/tutorials/kernel/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

The Future of Europe: An Interview with George Soros

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/future-europe-interview-george-soros/?insrc=hpss

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: GPG emails for everyone, from everywhere – open sourced

https://kinko.me/tech-facts/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Firefox Dev Tools: Box model highlighter, Web Console improvements

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/03/box-model-highlighter-web-console-improvements-firefox-os-hud-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-30/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Firefox OS: Tracking reflows and event loop lags

http://paulrouget.com/e/fxoshud/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Cloud Platform Live

https://cloud.google.com/events/google-cloud-platform-live/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

IRS Rules Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/irs-rules-bitcoin-is-property-not-currency/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

2048 in sed

https://github.com/themattrix/sed2048#

12 years ago

★ 106 Shell MIT
80 upvotes – 35 comments

The Millionaire Fastlane

http://leoexplor.es/great-books/2012/09/19/the-millionaire-fastlane/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

KeyMe – Copy keys and solve lockouts

https://key.me/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 106 comments

Clever (YC S12) Confirms $10.3M Raise From Sequoia, Paul Graham

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/18k-schools-and-counting-clever-confirms-10-3m-raise-from-sequoia-paul-graham-as-it-looks-to-build-the-next-big-learning-platform/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery

http://trontium.com/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 81 comments

Nvidia Unveils First Mobile Supercomputer for Embedded Systems

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NVIDIA-Unveils-First-Mobile-Supercomputer-for-Embedded-Systems-ad8.aspx

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

"Brainstorming is a terrible way to generate good ideas"

http://www.improvides.com/2014/03/24/creativity-team-sport-interview-vincent-walsh-prof-neuroscience-ucl/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 59 comments

Y Combinator Winter 2014 Batch Rankings and Quick Reference

http://mattermark.com/app/research/y-combinator-winter-2014

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments
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