top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-24

Introducing Pebble Time

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises

11 years ago

658 upvotes – 386 comments

Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken

http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/

11 years ago

608 upvotes – 140 comments

GPG and Me

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

11 years ago

588 upvotes – 249 comments

How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html

11 years ago

548 upvotes – 210 comments

Firefox 36.0 released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0/releasenotes/

11 years ago

368 upvotes – 247 comments

Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers

http://tgeonetta.com/cost-of-living-vs-salary-best-cities-for-software-developers-and-engineers/

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 262 comments

Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely

https://medium.com/@yegg/privacy-is-at-a-crossroads-choose-wisely-96bac0644ec1

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 164 comments

A Story About ‘Magic' (1994)

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 60 comments

Authy is joining Twilio

https://www.authy.com/twilio

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 66 comments

Are we really running out of helium?

http://www.quora.com/Are-we-really-running-out-of-helium?share=1

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 121 comments

Origami – Design Prototyping

http://facebook.github.io/origami/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 24 comments

The freelancer's guide to good jobs and great pay

http://thecreativeclass.io/guide/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

Unreal Engine 4.7 Released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-47-released

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 88 comments

Photographing people on the edge of a skyscraper in San Francisco

http://www.vonwong.com/blog/reallifesuperheroes/

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 75 comments

Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 111 comments

Walmart Labs: Why we run an open source program

http://todogroup.org/blog/why-we-run-an-open-source-program-walmart-labs/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 68 comments

CrowdMed: We've solved hundreds of the world's most difficult medical cases

https://www.crowdmed.com/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments

Alaska on Tuesday Will Become Third State with Legal Marijuana

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/northern-lights-alaska-tuesday-will-become-third-state-legal-marijuana-n311426

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 83 comments

Is Blockchain Really the Killer App?

http://www.joecoin.com/2015/02/crypto-20-and-other-misconceptions.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 97 comments

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman-book-review.html?pagewanted=all

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 31 comments

Fix your damned data races

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/02/24/fix-your-damned-data-races/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 28 comments

Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency

http://blog.pyston.org/2015/02/24/pyston-0-3-self-hosting-sufficiency/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 54 comments

Category theory for beginners

http://www.slideshare.net/kenbot/category-theory-for-beginners

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal

http://brettpthomas.com/online-porn-could-be-the-next-big-privacy-scandal.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 98 comments

How to Build Your Distributed Database

http://citusdata.com/blog/114-how-to-build-your-distributed-database

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Google's new CAPTCHA security login raises 'legitimate privacy concerns'

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-no-captcha-adtruth-privacy-research-2015-2?r=US

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

10Gbit/s full TX wirespeed smallest packet size on a single CPU core

http://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2014/10/unlocked-10gbps-tx-wirespeed-smallest.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

Mmap(): Now you're coding with portals

http://www.willemthiart.com/2011/09/mmap-keeping-code-elegant.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Reddit User confirms Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2wzmmr/everything_youve_ever_said_to_siricortana_has/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Overhydration and Endurance Running

http://www.irunfar.com/2012/07/waterlogged-a-dogma-shattering-book.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances

http://www.kellenmyers.org/deaths.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

10 Shapes of Dev

http://blog.workshape.io/10-shapes-of-dev-infographic/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

My life in London's houseboat slums (2014)

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/london-houseboat-slum-rents-barge

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 115 comments

The first space selfie, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966

https://twitter.com/therealbuzz/status/490293546851635201

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

Where to start up a startup

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/where-to-start-a-startup/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

'Nobody My Age Can Afford to Stay Here Forever'

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/02/nobody-my-age-can-afford-to-stay-here-forever/385852/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 113 comments

DHS Extends Eligibility for Employment to Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses

http://www.uscis.gov/news/dhs-extends-eligibility-employment-authorization-certain-h-4-dependent-spouses-h-1b-nonimmigrants-seeking-employment-based-lawful-permanent-residence

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Why digital natives prefer reading in print

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-digital-natives-prefer-reading-in-print-yes-you-read-that-right/2015/02/22/8596ca86-b871-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 109 comments

Simplicity and the ideas Go left behind

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gopherconindia/111854129512

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 88 comments

Apache HBase 1.0 released

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces72

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Students refuse to pay back loans to failed for-profit college

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/student-debt-revolt-begins

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 120 comments

U.S. OMB to release largest index of government data in the world

http://www.ire.org/blog/transparency-watch/2015/02/24/omb-release-largest-index-government-data-world/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

The Ultimate (SaaS) Churn Rate Cheat Sheet

https://chartmogul.com/blog/2015/02/the-ultimate-saas-churn-rate-cheat-sheet/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/technology/path-clears-for-net-neutrality-ahead-of-fcc-vote.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

Canadian 'freezeway' could let residents skate to work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31581592

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

Artemis is building a 4G network in SF to prove its pCell tech works

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/artemis-is-building-a-4g-network-in-sf-to-prove-its-pcell-tech-works/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Power efficiency in the violin

https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/violin-acoustic-power-0210

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theory-calls-cooperation-into-question1/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

An Exploration of ARM TrustZone Technology

http://genode.org/documentation/articles/trustzone

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Help Me HN: I am getting overwhelmed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100724

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Keymetrics/PM2 a realtime monitoring solution for Node.js

https://keymetrics.io/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

PHP at the speed of C

http://mgdm.net/weblog/php-at-the-speed-of-c/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Luka: A.I. recommending restaurants in a chat interface

https://luka.ai

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

The dark future of American space exploration

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8052365/nasa-budget-europa?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=feature-share-top

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 68 comments

New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szwabPJJc4J-igUZU4ZKprOrNRNJug2JPD8OYi3i1K0/edit?usp=sharing_eid

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Flynn (YC S14) Gamma and Meetup

https://flynn.io/blog/2015-02-24-flynn-gamma

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Perceptiv’s Shift (YC W15) Turns Drones into Smart Dollies for Filmmakers

http://blog.ycombinator.com/perceptivs-shift-yc-w15-turns-drones-into-smart-dollies-for-filmmakers

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Pulsar: Real-Time Analytics at Scale

http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2015/02/23/announcing-pulsar-real-time-analytics-at-scale/#.VOw1CFOsXi8

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Exploiting memory corruption bugs in PHP

http://www.inulledmyself.com/2015/02/exploiting-memory-corruption-bugs-in_23.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

In Hong Kong, Grandma Has to Find a Job

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-23/grandmas-vie-for-jobs-as-asia-s-worst-aging-crisis-looms-in-h-k-

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 50 comments

The College of Lost Arts

http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/02/the-college-of-lost-arts/385644/?utm_source=SFFB

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

GitLab Annex: Large Binaries with Git

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/17/gitlab-annex-solves-the-problem-of-versioning-large-binaries-with-git/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon–And Everyone Else

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/02/23/apple-is-now-more-than-double-the-size-of-exxon-and-everyone-else/?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 52 comments
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