top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-27

Whatever goes up, that’s what we do

http://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament

12 years ago

609 upvotes – 222 comments

Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

http://stripe.com/bitcoin

12 years ago

597 upvotes – 190 comments

Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game

http://asherv.com/threes/threemails

12 years ago

556 upvotes – 208 comments

Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunshot-victims-to-be-suspended-between-life-and-death.html#.UzNzxfBdXme

12 years ago

386 upvotes – 146 comments

Microsoft launches Office for iPad

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/03/27/microsoft-unveils-office-ipad/?utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_s3Js0

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 273 comments

“The Mill” – It just might Work

http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/2004

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 94 comments

Servo passes Acid2

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/449299846873108480

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 101 comments

Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro

http://www.rileybrandt.com/2014/03/09/photoshop-to-gimp/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 125 comments

Turkish government takes down YouTube too

http://en.webrazzi.com/2014/03/27/defiant-turkish-goverment-takes-down-youtube-too-breaking-news/

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 146 comments

Tarsnap now accepts Bitcoin

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-03-27-tarsnap-bitcoin.html

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 51 comments

Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? (2013)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6430448/why-doesnt-gcc-optimize-aaaaaa-to-aaaaaa

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 83 comments

MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code

http://www.websanova.com/blog/articles/websanova-is-tracking-mlb-com

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 135 comments

Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture

http://themetapicture.com/photographing-a-town-that-never-was/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 43 comments

Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons

http://libccv.org/post/ccv-0.6-open-sources-near-state-of-the-art-image-classifier-under-creative-commons/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 30 comments

Build Your Own Lockitron With Twilio, Arduino, and Node.js

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/03/build-your-own-lockitron-with-twilio-arduino-and-node-js.html

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 63 comments

Steve Jobs wasn't even okay with Google hiring former Apple engineers

http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/27/steve-jobs-wasnt-even-okay-with-google-hiring-former-apple-engi/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 114 comments

Experts Find Mt.Gox Only Lost 386 Bitcoins Due To Transaction Malleability

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/27/experts-found-that-mt-gox-lost-a-mere-386-bitcoin-due-to-transaction-malleability/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 70 comments

How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?

http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Jan-Gray-s-New-LUT-Math-How-many-32-bit-RISC-CPUs-fit-in-an-FPGA/ba-p/432478

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 114 comments

We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

http://news.harlembiospace.com

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 81 comments

Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind

http://news.yale.edu/2014/03/25/yale-researchers-reconstruct-facial-images-locked-viewer-s-mind

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

Pending Comments Update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 126 comments

Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/49991/should-yes-delete-it-be-red-or-green/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 103 comments

Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/apps-with-millions-of-google-play-downloads-covertly-mine-cryptocurrency/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

http://gaasedelen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/depackaging-nintendo-3ds-cpu.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice

http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 46 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5B Fund

http://a16z.com/2014/03/27/andreessen-horowitz-raises-new-fund/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/spatial-data-structures-for-better-map-interactions/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/03/27/meteor-080-introducing-blaze

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1474977139392436/webscalesql-a-collaboration-to-build-upon-the-mysql-upstream/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 28 comments

Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/25/homeopathy-contains-medicine

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 159 comments

Btapp.js: BitTorrent in the browser

http://btappjs.com/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 31 comments

Will Java 8 Kill Scala?

http://ahmedsoliman.com/2014/03/26/will-java-8-kill-scala/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down”

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 219 comments

Free software for freedom, surveillance and you [video]

http://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-freedom-surveillance-and-you/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

The Drugging Of The American Boy

http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 102 comments

Why almost everything you've been told about unhealthy foods is wrong

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/23/everything-you-know-about-unhealthy-foods-is-wrong

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 99 comments

Exercising for Healthier Eyes

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/exercising-for-eye-health/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

Was Y Combinator Worth It?

http://wiwillia.com/post/80862769673/was-y-combinator-worth-it

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 72 comments

Famo.us Demos

http://demo.famo.us/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

1930s immigrants who Americanized their names earned more

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/03/names-and-wages

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 102 comments

There was no widespread use of malleability attacks before the closure of MtGox

http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6676

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next quake?

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/27/san-francisco-live-constant-risk-next-major-quake

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments

OpenSSH 6.6 released

http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.6

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

One Human Heartbeat

http://onehumanheartbeat.com/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

CoreOS Update: btrfs, docker 0.9, add users, writable /etc, and more

http://coreos.com/blog/new-filesystem-btrfs-cloud-config/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

You will become who you choose to be around

http://kevinchau.me/becoming-those-around-you

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

The problem with self-published books

http://startupreader.net/the-problem-with-self-published-books/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

The Day I Met Jeff Bezos

http://blog.highfive.com/the-day-i-met-jeff-bezos-

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

Python Maze Generator

http://www.janthor.com/maze/index.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Sparkfun offering discounts on Arduino day

https://www.sparkfun.com/arduinoday

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

$31.71: The hourly pay it now takes to afford Silicon Valley rent

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/03/26/31-71-the-hourly-pay-it-now-takes-to-afford.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: What under $100 item would you recommend everyone buy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7478408

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 138 comments
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