top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-31

NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331

12 years ago

425 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch

http://www.mysliderule.com/web-dev

12 years ago

368 upvotes – 107 comments

How the Most Expensive Game Jam Crashed And Burned in a Single Day

http://indiestatik.com/2014/03/31/most-expensive-game-jam/

12 years ago

351 upvotes – 124 comments

Square Market Accepts Bitcoin

http://corner.squareup.com/2014/03/square-market-accepts-bitcoin.html

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 129 comments

Quake III bounty: we have a winner

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6561

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 82 comments

You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/you-got-your-web-browser-in-my-compiler/

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 71 comments

Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarchitecture-detailed

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 112 comments

NSA blows its own top secret program in order to propagandize

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/31/nsa-worlds-blows-top-secret-program/

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-markets-hft-flashboys-idUSBREA2U03D20140331

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 192 comments

MariaDB 10

https://blog.mariadb.org/the-mariadb-foundation-announces-general-availability-of-mariadb-10

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 66 comments

Generational GC has landed in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/03/31/generational-gc-has-landed/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 48 comments

OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox

http://www.okcupid.com/home

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 390 comments

Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io

http://blog.lizdenys.com/2014/03/31/refusing-to-verify-myself/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 103 comments

The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/the-surprisingly-large-cost-of-telling-small-lies/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Maps now lets you find and catch wild Pokémon

http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/can-now-find-catch-wild-pokemon-inside-google-maps/

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 76 comments

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2001)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 30 comments

DigitalOcean not destroying droplets securely, data is completely recoverable

https://gist.github.com/agh/d0e2b115de77b1bcb902

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 66 comments

Pkgr.io: Easy way to get a Debian package out of any app

https://pkgr.io/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/31/microsoft-azure-innovation-quality-and-price.aspx

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: I can't do this anymore, I need help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7499035

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 132 comments

How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type

http://creditcardjs.com/credit-card-type-detection

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 65 comments

Linux 3.14 out

http://lwn.net/Articles/592543/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

Coinbase design allows for mass, targeted phishing of its users

http://blog.shubh.am/full-disclosure-coinbase-security/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

Battle of Brothers: A Video Game Programming Duel

http://battleofbrothers.com

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 39 comments

Macaw V1 Released

https://secure.macaw.co/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 80 comments

Movie Recommendations with k-Nearest Neighbors and Cosine Similarity

http://gist.neo4j.org/?8173017

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 23 comments

Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

https://helloworldopen.com/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 82 comments

Chicken Scheme internals: the garbage collector

http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters

http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Evil.js: A JavaScript library for thwarting hot-linkers

https://github.com/kitcambridge/evil.js

12 years ago

★ 116 JavaScript
109 upvotes – 66 comments

Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

http://worldbackupday.com

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

How Everyone Got the Top 1% Wrong

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/how-you-i-and-everyone-got-the-top-1-percent-all-wrong/359862/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 115 comments

Turing's sunflower

http://jacquerie.github.io/sunflower/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

Against Intellectual Property (1995)

http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/95psa.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Drag-and-drop library for 2D, resizable and responsive lists

https://github.com/ubervu/grid

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Intel invested $740 million to buy 18% of Cloudera

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-intel-cloudera-idUSBREA2U0ME20140331

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments

Hide this in your coworkers' JavaScript code tomorrow

https://gist.github.com/cfj/9857886

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Against Intellectual Monopoly

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: ffjson: faster json serialization in Go

https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2014/03/31/ffjson-faster-json-in-go/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

4chan demands 4chan.com domain name

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/03/28/4chan-demands-4chan-com-domain-name/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

Speak Up - Contact Your Senators to Fight Patent Trolls

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/speak-up-contact-your-senators-to-fight-patent-trolls/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

AWS Responds with Price Cuts: Google vs AWS Pricing Round 2

http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/aws-responds-price-cuts-google-vs-aws-pricing-round-2

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Germany bans managers from calling or emailing staff after work hours

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/germany-bans-managers-from-calling-or-emailing-staff-after-work-hours/461070-79.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly

http://www.worthingtonassembly.com/2014/03/31/circuithub-partnership/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/bitcoin-slips-in-the-wake-of-the-irss-tax-decision/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

Why does 1Password need to see all of Dropbox?

http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/dropbox-permission-request.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

A Tool Will Let You See Anyone’s Email Address on LinkedIn

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/this-sneaky-tool-will-let-you-see-anyones-email-on-81301057402.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments
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