top 50% 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

Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

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

12 years ago

Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents

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

12 years ago

Rendering Head in WebGL

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

Good Samaritan Backfire

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

12 years ago

Pass: The standard unix password manager

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

12 years ago

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

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

Git Source Code Review

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

12 years ago

Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer

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

12 years ago

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

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

https://github.com/google/pyringe

12 years ago

★ 1.6k Python

WebRTC: Not Quite Magic

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

12 years ago

Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders

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

12 years ago

Strangecoin: a proposal for a nonlinear currency

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

12 years ago

Sugar Love

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

12 years ago

In Some Ways, It's Looking Like 1999 in the Stock Market

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/business/in-some-ways-its-looking-like-1999-in-the-stock-market.html

12 years ago

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

Microchips That Shook the World

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/25-microchips-that-shook-the-world

12 years ago

Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

http://5whys.com/blog/signs-you-might-be-in-survival-mode.html

12 years ago

Tesla Motors plans to debut cheaper car in early 2015 (2013)

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/15/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-tesla-model-e-debut-2015-20131213

12 years ago

Combining the power of gdb and valgrind

http://billiob.net/blog//20140330_vgdb.html

12 years ago

The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence

http://www.thenation.com/article/178845/town-turned-poverty-prison-sentence

12 years ago

Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for preorder

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating-Edition/dp/0321968972/

12 years ago

Go and Android

http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2014/03/19/go-golang-and-android/

12 years ago

Working Ridiculously Long Hours is a Sign that Something is Wrong

http://blog.netizencorp.com/2014/03/30/working-rediculously-long-hours-is-a-sign-that-something-is-wrong/

12 years ago

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

https://sivers.org/zipit

12 years ago

The J Programming Language [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/j-language

12 years ago

Oculus Facebook deal could ignite equity crowdfunding

http://bernardlunn.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/oculus-facebook-deal-will-accelerate-equity-crowdfunding-and-change-the-world/

12 years ago

Tech startup scene starting to flourish in Oakland

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Tech-startup-scene-starting-to-flourish-in-Oakland-5360393.php

12 years ago

ARMiga – home made prototype of the next Amiga

http://www.indieretronews.com/2014/03/armiga-home-made-prototype-of-next.html

12 years ago

Univalent Foundations: New Foundations of Mathematics [video]

https://video.ias.edu/node/6365

12 years ago

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus, a letter of concern

https://medium.com/p/f8589a747d11

12 years ago

MongoDB, Better

http://go.rackspace.com/better.html

12 years ago

VIX: A New Kind of Video Editor

http://interfacelab.com/vix-a-new-kind-of-video-editor/

12 years ago

Psdash: A linux system information web dashboard using Psutils and Flask

https://github.com/Jahaja/psdash

12 years ago

★ 2.4k Python CC0-1.0

Statistical Natural Language Processing in Python

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/How%20to%20Do%20Things%20with%20Words.ipynb

12 years ago

Introduction to Theory of Computation [pdf]

http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~michiel/TheoryOfComputation/TheoryOfComputation.pdf

12 years ago

Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/03/oculus-founder-didnt-expect-so-many-death-threats-after-facebook-deal/

12 years ago