top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-25

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2014/02/its_time_to_break_up.html

11 years ago

638 upvotes – 133 comments

My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

https://lmjabreu.com/post/700-billion/

11 years ago

394 upvotes – 284 comments

How to pick startup ideas

http://www.defmacro.org/2015/02/25/startup-ideas.html

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 74 comments

Google announces Android for Work

https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/02/android-is-ready-for-work.html

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 166 comments

What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?

http://paulgraham.com/altair.html

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 171 comments

Get away with Google Flights

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/get-away-with-google-flights.html?m=0

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 150 comments

Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

http://timkadlec.com/2015/02/apples-web

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 144 comments

Vivus, bringing your SVGs to life

http://maxwellito.github.io/vivus/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 34 comments

Tired of Safari

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/tired_of_safari.html

11 years ago

283 upvotes – 120 comments

Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards

http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 87 comments

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature14236.html

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 59 comments

Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design

http://nginx.com/blog/microservices-at-netflix-architectural-best-practices

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 74 comments

RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers

http://rancher.com/rancher-os/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 64 comments

Machine intelligence, part 1

http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 172 comments

Stages of learning Go, with code examples

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gopherconindia/112025389257

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 113 comments

Privatised London: the Thames Path walk that resembles a prison corridor

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/24/private-london-exposed-thames-path-riverside-walking-route

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 33 comments

A different cluetrain

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

Psychology Journal Bans Significance Testing

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-journal-bans-significance-testing/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/02/25/astronomers-find-a-shockingly-ancient-black-hole-the-size-of-12-billion-suns/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

A Tour of Go's Runtime: How a Go Binary Bootstraps Itself – Part I

http://blog.matttproud.com/2015/02/exploring-gos-runtime-how-process.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 1 comments

Higher-Order Functions in JavaScript

http://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

White House Doesn't Want You to Know the TPP's Effects on U.S. Copyright Laws

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/white-house-doesnt-want-you-know-tpp-effects-us-copyright-laws

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

What happens when Betelgeuse explodes?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astroquizzical-what-happens-when-betelgeuse-explodes-c98e4673eaed

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

YC's Female Founders Conference Doodles

http://ffc2015.startupnotes.org

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala

http://underscore.io/blog/posts/2015/03/25/creative-scala-released.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedish Navy?

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/book/homepage24/kvikkalkul/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Lisp implemented in under 1K of JavaScript

https://github.com/kanaka/miniMAL

11 years ago

★ 639 JavaScript
108 upvotes – 16 comments

Small Introduction to Markov Chains

http://blog.circuitsofimagination.com/2015/02/15/Markov-Chains.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Django 1.8 beta 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/feb/25/releases/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

Meditation and Performance

https://al3x.net/2015/02/24/meditation-and-performance.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Henry VIII's evidence to support break with Rome turns up in Cornish library

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/25/henry-viiis-evidence-to-support-break-with-rome-turns-up-in-cornish-library

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: DonglePi, a USB Stick Giving You the Raspberry Pi IOs on a PC

https://github.com/gbin/DonglePi

11 years ago

★ 152 Eagle
92 upvotes – 41 comments

The Git game: Guess who on your team wrote a commit based only on their message

https://github.com/jsomers/git-game?src=news.yc

11 years ago

★ 461 Ruby MIT
92 upvotes – 12 comments

Stop Robot Abuse

http://stoprobotabuse.com/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/097

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Sharelock – Securely share data

https://sharelock.io

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Atlas by Layer – Open Source Messaging UI Components for Layer

https://atlas.layer.com

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

PGP: There’s Life in the Old Dog Yet

https://blog.whiteout.io/2015/02/25/pgp-theres-life-in-the-old-dog-yet/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

Magic: The Story of an Accidentally Founded, Wildly Viral Startup

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/magic-the-startup/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 114 comments

Google Plans New Headquarters, and a City Fears Being Overrun

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/google-plans-new-headquarters-and-a-city-fears-being-overrun.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 128 comments

Macro-Benchmark with Django, Flask and AsyncIO

http://blog.gmludo.eu/2015/02/macro-benchmark-with-django-flask-and-asyncio.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Universities warn Congress that patent reform would harm US innovation

http://www.aau.edu/policy/article.aspx?id=15923

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 91 comments

How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Waiting for the sea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31588720

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Help the Open Rights Group, UK's EFF equivalent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9106417

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

SN 1006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Intrace – Traceroute-like application piggybacking on existing TCP connections

https://code.google.com/p/intrace/wiki/intrace

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

De-Anonymizing alt.anonymous.messages [pdf]

https://ritter.vg/p/AAM-defcon13.pdf

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

From exec to indie: One family’s wild ride ends today with debut of dream game

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/25/from-executive-to-indie-developer-one-familys-wild-ride-ends-today/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

io.js 1.4 released – featuring debuggable ES6 promises

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
64 upvotes – 21 comments

Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

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

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Why We Killed Off Code Reviews

http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 66 comments

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Meditation Driven Development (2009)

http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple stifling the work of web standard

http://timkadlec.com/2015/02/apples-web/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

Category Theory Reading Lists

http://www.logicmatters.net/categories/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

How an Undocumented Immigrant from Mexico Became a Star at Goldman Sachs

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-25/how-an-undocumented-immigrant-from-mexico-became-a-star-at-goldman-sachs

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 57 comments

Micro-Apartments, Tiny Homes Prefabricated in Brooklyn

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/realestate/micro-apartments-tiny-homes-prefabricated-in-brooklyn.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 45 comments

SourceTree now has 650,000+ MAUs

https://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2015/02/25/were-just-getting-started-with-sourcetree/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 29 comments

How leaky is shale gas production?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/how-leaky-is-shale-gas-production/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Kill the Wireless Contract, Buy Your Own Phone

http://www.wsj.com/articles/kill-the-wireless-contract-buy-your-own-phone-1424807865?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_tech

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 74 comments

How Madden Ratings Are Made

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/madden

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments
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