top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-03-30

Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-and-spacex-elon-musks-industrial-empire/

12 years ago

363 upvotes – 141 comments

Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

http://raganwald.com/2014/03/31/class-hierarchies-dont-do-that.html

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 240 comments

Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/abstract-ideas-dont-deserve-patents.html

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 174 comments

Rendering Head in WebGL

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 77 comments

Wrong and Right Reasons To Be Upset About Oculus – with Carmack response

http://peterberkman.tumblr.com/post/80827337212/wrong-and-right-reasons-to-be-upset-about-oculus

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 150 comments

Big data: are we making a big mistake?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xS1VXiUc

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 83 comments

How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2014/03/27/how-sleep-deprivation-drives-the-high-failure-rates-of-tech-startups/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 54 comments

Good Samaritan Backfire

https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 130 comments

Pass: The standard unix password manager

http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 77 comments

New Zealand school tossed its playground rules

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/21/when-one-new-zealand-school-tossed-its-playground-rules-and-let-students-risk-injury-the-results-surprised/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 84 comments

How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff

http://turtlapp.tumblr.com/post/81222024691/how-turtl-has-no-idea-when-youre-sharing-copyrighted

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 76 comments

Git Source Code Review

http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 37 comments

Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer

http://www.walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/03/coffeescript-isnt-the-answer/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 142 comments

Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011)

http://axisofeval.blogspot.ca/2011/01/why-lisp-is-big-hack-and-haskell-is.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 117 comments

Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes

https://github.com/google/pyringe

12 years ago

★ 1.6k Python
120 upvotes – 30 comments

WebRTC: Not Quite Magic

http://alexfreska.com/webrtc-not-quite-magic

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 56 comments

Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders

https://twitter.com/darrellwhitelaw/status/450096476060794880/photo/1

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Strangecoin: a proposal for a nonlinear currency

http://digitalinterface.blogspot.com/2014/03/strangecoin-proposal-for-nonlinear.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

Sugar Love

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2013/08/sugar/cohen-text

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/29/the-inside-story-mit-and-aaron-swartz/YvJZ5P6VHaPJusReuaN7SI/story.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments
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